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The Army on Friday foiled an infiltration bid by terrorists along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Macchil sector, a defence spokesman said. Read full article

This Eid-Ul-Adha, all village heads are playing a very crucial role in Jammu and Kashmir. Not only are they asking people to maintain social distance during the run up to the festival but are also... Read full article

Eid al-Adha 2020: President Ram Nath Kovind Friday greeted Muslims on the eve of Bakrid. The President urged people to follow COVID-19 guidelines while celebrating Bakrid on Saturday. President Kovind... Read full news here

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, under detention since August 5 last year, has been booked under the stringent Public Safety Act for another three months. Read full article

A team has been formed by the Kathua Collector to trace some documents related to the allotment of land to an educational trust in Jammu and Kashmir, which is under the CBI's preliminary enquiry,... Read full article

People's Conference chief Sajad Lone has been released from house arrest just five days short of a year since he was detained after the centre scrapped special status to Jammu and Kashmir and divided... Read full article

Eid al - Adha 2020: Kerala is celebrating Eid al Adha today after Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday announced that prayers can be offered in mosques of the state but COVID-19 guidelines have... Read full news here

Cale Brown, Deputy Spokesperson We are shocked, saddened, and outraged that American citizen Tahir Naseem was killed yesterday inside a Pakistani courtroom.  Mr. Naseem had been lured to Pakistan from his home in Illinois by individuals who then used Pakistan’s blasphemy laws to entrap him.  The U.S. Government has been providing consular assistance to Mr. Naseem and his family since his detention in 2018 and has called the attention of senior Pakistani officials to his case to prevent the type of shameful tragedy that eventually occurred.  We grieve with the family of Mr. Naseem. We urge Pakistan to immediately reform its often abused blasphemy laws and its court system, which  allow such abuses to occur, and to ensure that the suspect is prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

The CPI(M) on Thursday alleged that the government has "deliberately" chosen August 5 as the date of the bhoomi pujan ceremony for the Ram temple at Ayodhya as the "demolition" of Jammu and Kashmir... Read full article

The Municipal Committee Chairman of Dooru in Kashmir's Anantnag district expressed gratitude for being appreciated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his monthly radio programme, "Mann ki Baat". Read full article

As Pakistan plans to hold protests to mark one year of the scrapping of Article 370, India on Thursday said the neigbouring country indulges in such activities to divert international attention from... Read full article

At least 17 people were killed in a car bomb explosion in an Afghan city south of Kabul on Thursday, officials and a medic said, just hours before the scheduled start of a ceasefire. Read full article

For the first time since Independence, the last village along the Line of Control in north Kashmir will be able to watch the Prime Minister's 15th August speech live from the Red Fort. Read full article

A day after the Jammu and Kashmir administration told the Supreme Court that Saifuddin Soz "is not under detention", the Congress leader remained confined to his home in Srinagar and was not allowed... Read full article

Eid al-Adha/Bakrid 2020: The festive season that starts with the beginning of the monsoon continues and we look forward to Eid al-Adha, also called Bakr Eid or Bakrid in India. Muslims across the... Read full news here

The ability to strike air-to-air targets from up to 150 km away and safely hit land targets 300 km within enemy territory make India's Rafales some of the deadliest fighter jets flying in the world. Read full article

Infiltration may have dipped in Jammu and Kashmir in the last one year after the rearrangement of Jammu and Kashmir - from state to union territory - but in the coming days, infiltration attempts will... Read full article

Congress leader and former Union Minister Saifuddin Soz is "free and not under detention," the Jammu and Kashmir administration today told the Supreme Court, which is hearing a petition by the... Read full article

The Congress on Tuesday questioned the government over a Chinese company's engagement in a smart metering project of the Jammu and Kashmir government and demanded answers as to what was the... Read full article

Violence levels in Jammu and Kashmir may have come down by 35 per cent in the past year but the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is not drawing any comfort from this number and has flagged issues of... Read full article

Decisions on timing of elections can only be made by the Election Commission of India, the commission said today in a hard-hitting statement after media reports quoting Jammu and Kashmir... Read full article

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today condemned the attempts reportedly being made to convert a famous gurdwara in Pakistan's Lahore into a mosque. Read full article

Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee (DSGMC) president Manjinder Singh Sirsa met External Affairs Ministry officials and claimed that he had been assured that 600 Sikhs and Hindus in Afghanistan... Read full article

India today lodged a protest with the Pakistan High Commission over reports that attempts are being made to convert a famous gurdwara in Lahore into a mosque. Read full article

While Jammu and Kashmir remains a Union Territory, I will not be contesting any assembly elections, National Conference leader Omar Abdullah has written in a stinging piece in The Indian Express as... Read full article

A narco-terror module was busted on Sunday in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district with the arrest of three persons and seizure of 10 kgs of brown sugar along with arms and ammunition, police said. Read full article

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's phone call to his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina and a press release from Islamabad saying Mr Khan shared his concerns about Jammu and Kashmir has raised... Read full article

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's phone call to his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina and a press release from Islamabad saying Mr Khan shared his concerns about Jammu and Kashmir has raised... Read full article

As the revocation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status is set to complete one year on August 5, former Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah on Sunday called for restoration of its statehood and hoped the... Read full article

Eleven members of Sikh community from Afghanistan, who were granted short-term visas by Indian Embassy in Kabul, including Nidan Singh Sachdeva, who was kidnapped from a gurudwara in Paktia province... Read full article

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today paid tribute to the heroes of Kargil war on his monthly radio address Mann ki Baat. Kargil Diwas is celebrated every year, marking the day the Indian Army... Read full article

Kargil Vijay Diwas Updates: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh paid tributes at the National War Memorial here on Sunday on the occasion of the 21st anniversary of the country's victory over Pakistan in... Read full article

Office of the Spokesperson U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad departed on July 24 for travel to Doha, Islamabad, Kabul, Oslo, and Sofia. In Doha and Kabul, Ambassador Khalilzad will press for resolution of the remaining issues ahead of intra-Afghan negotiations, specifically final prisoner exchanges and reduced violence. In Islamabad, Ambassador Khalilzad will seek Pakistani support in the effort to advance intra-Afghan negotiations. In Oslo and Sofia, Ambassador Khalilzad will update NATO Allies on the Afghan peace process. The parties are closer than ever to the start of Intra-Afghan Negotiations, the key next step to ending Afghanistan’s 40-year long war. Although significant progress has been made on prisoner exchanges, the issue requires additional effort to fully resolve.

Saffron grown in Kashmir has received the geographical indication (GI) tag, with Lieutenant Governor G C Murmu saying that it is a major historic step in bringing the valley's brand on the global map. Read full article

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the adventurist and dangerous move by US jet fighters against Mahan Air’s Beirut-bound passenger plane, saying Tehran will not leave any hostile move unanswered. In a statement on Friday, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi said the dangerous move, for which the CENTCOM terrorist organization's spokesperson claimed responsibility, is a violation of international aviation law and a disruption of regional peace and security. He also described as ridiculous CENTCOM spokesperson's claim that the American warplanes were conducting a "standard visual inspection" of the Mahan Air passenger plane at a safe distance during their "routine air mission" near Syria's al-Tanf airbase, saying the move comprised a series of violations. "Both the presence of US troops in Syria and the air missions of their warplanes were illegal. More importantly, no one has allowed the United States ...

The new strengthened neighborhood watchmen can further monitor and suppress Erdogan's political opponents under the pretext of public security and combating crimes. Turkish parliament  passed a controversial bill  in the past weeks providing the neighborhood watchmen ( Bekci  in Turkish) with extended yet unprecedented powers, including the authority to stop and search citizens, and to carry firearms and use force whenever necessary. With the introduction of the new law, the neighborhood watchmen will have almost the same powers as the police. The new legislation elicited immediate  backlash from the civil and political opposition  in Turkey, accusing the incumbent Justice and Development Party (AKP) of attempting to establish a paramilitary force loyal to the president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Night watchmen or  Bekcis  have been a longstanding part of the policing structure in Turkey. Assigned to the neighborhood police station, the watchmen w...

Oman, like other Gulf states, has used migrant workers to achieve its development goals but has consistently failed to give back. Al Hayat International Hospital, Situated in Al Ghubra, Muscat, Oman  |  On the 50th anniversary of Sultan Qabus coming to power in a palace coup d’etat - an event often seen as the founding of the  modern Omani state  - we consider the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Oman from the perspective of ‘human security’ for Omani citizens and first and second generation foreign migrants. The  broadening of the agenda of security studies in the 1990s  moved beyond an almost exclusive state-centred concern to encompass the concept of ‘human security’. In this conceptualization the referent object of security - what or who is being threatened - was widened from the state to embrace human communities and their security from threat, including  threats to health  - a prime one being a  pandemic disease . Follow...

Recent events in Egypt show how the country’s mistreatment of women is part of a system that uses violence against women to protect its inequalities. Three major events that took place recently shed a light on the position of women in Egypt. Though they might seem like disconnected incidents, they help complete a picture. The first is  the case  of Ahmed Bassam Zaki, the son of an elite family, accused of sexual assault with over a hundred stories supporting these accusations and attesting to his behavior. His accusers are from the American University in Cairo (AUC) and the American International School (AIS). However, the recent measures taken by Egypt’s public prosecutor in the case of Zaki should not be celebrated too soon as a triumph for women’s rights but rather they might be simply a public relations tactic at a time when women are facing growing levels of violence. The second event is the wave of  arrests  that have been happening since April 2020 wi...