Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a meeting with his Indian counterpart, External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, on Friday that reportedly lasted three hours and featured extensive Indian complaints about China’s repeated illegal incursions across the Indian border.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) that China supports “Islamic countries using Islamic wisdom to solve contemporary hotspot issues” during a meeting in Pakistan’s capital of Islamabad on Thursday.
A 50-year-old Indian Christian pastor was “brutally murdered” by an unidentified group of assailants in central India’s Chhattisgarh state last week, the Indian news website Siasat reported Monday, noting locals believe the suspects may be tied to Hindu nationalist groups.
Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday rejected as “incomplete and insufficient” India’s explanation for its firing of an unarmed missile into its neighbour’s territory last week, which New Delhi said was an “accident.”
The government of India, the world’s second-largest producer of wheat, is preparing an aggressive program to increase production and ship enough wheat to make up for the anticipated shortfall from Ukraine and Russia, Reuters claimed on Tuesday.
The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution to declare March 15 the “International Day to Combat Islamophobia.”
India on Friday officially confirmed that one of its missiles was launched into the territory of its rival Pakistan. India said the launch was “accidental” and “deeply regrettable.” Pakistan did not accept the apology, denouncing the launch as a “flagrant” offense that should be investigated with “urgency, sensitivity, and alarm.”
India’s Defense Ministry said on Friday it accidentally fired a missile into neighboring Pakistan on Wednesday due to a “technical malfunction.”
Sen. Chuch Grassley (R-IA) has reportedly asked to place a hold on the nomination of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to be U.S. Ambassador to India, as he investigates whether Garcetti knew about alleged sexual misconduct by a key aide in his office in L.A.
The fundraiser helping Alabama Republican Senate candidate Katie Britt raise money from big-dollar donors has ties to a visa program that effectively sells a pathway to naturalized American citizenship to wealthy foreign nationals who invest in United States real estate, Breitbart News has learned.
The hashtag “#IStandWithPutin,” referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin, was among the trending topics on Twitter in India on Thursday, China’s state-run Global Times reported on Friday.
Russia has warned that sanctions on its aerospace industry could result in the International Space Station (ISS) falling into an “uncontrolled deorbit” and smashing into the United States or Europe, potentially with the force of a small nuclear bomb.
Government officials in charge of Gokunte — a Christian village in southern India’s majority Hindu Karnataka state — ordered the demolition of a 20-foot tall Jesus statue in Gokunte on Tuesday.
All high schools and colleges across Southern India’s Karnataka state were shut down on Thursday as part of a three-day suspension of classes ordered by state officials after minority Muslim Karnataka students protested bans on wearing Islamic veils at Karnataka learning institutions imposed by the Hindu majority state in recent days.
A Muslim female college student arrived on campus in southern India’s Karnataka state on Tuesday and shouted “Allahu Akbar” (“God is Great” in Arabic) at a Hindu mob of young men who yelled “Jai Shri Ram (“Glory to Lord Ram” in Hindi) at her as she walked to class in footage captured by India’s News9 digital platform.
Abdallah bin Laden, the son of Osama bin Laden — the former leader of the Al-Qaeda terrorist group — allegedly traveled to Afghanistan in October 2021 to meet with the Taliban, India Today reported on Sunday citing a United Nations (U.N.) report published February 3.
Tibetan exiles and supporters of Tibetan freedom gathered outside Chinese embassies, Olympic headquarters, and NBC studios to protest the Beijing Winter Olympics, derided by critics as the “Genocide Games” because the event risks validating Communist China’s brutal suppression of minorities like the Tibetans and Uyghur Muslims.
India’s foreign ministry on Thursday announced a diplomatic “boycott” of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing in response to China’s decision to elect a Chinese soldier who fought against India in a June 2020 border skirmish as a torchbearer for the Games, India’s CNN-News18 reported.
A married woman in her 20s was allegedly gang-raped by a group — including three minor boys — in Delhi, India, on January 26, Al Jazeera reported Tuesday, noting the attack seems to have been an act of revenge by the family of a 14-year-old boy after the woman allegedly rejected his advances.
China prominently featured a soldier who participated in the 2020 Galwan Valley battle against India as an Olympics torchbearer during a relay in Beijing on Wednesday, stoking tensions with its next-door neighbor by returning the vicious brawl – which India won – to the headlines.
Rahul Gandhi — a member of India’s left-wing opposition party, the Indian National Congress (INC) — asked “When will we get back India’s territory that has been occupied by China?” in a post on Twitter Thursday considered by some to be directed toward India’s ruling, right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Asian News International (ANI) reported on Friday.
Thousands of men have rioted across the Indian state of Bihar this week — setting fire to empty passenger trains and disrupting the services of several rail lines — to express their anger over recent changes to an Indian Railways employee entrance exam they perceived as unfair, Reuters reported on Thursday.
New statistics released by India’s federal government suggest the Chinese coronavirus death toll for some states was nearly nine times greater than officially documented during a period spanning March 2020 to January 19, 2022, the Hindu reported on Sunday.
India’s two most populous cities, New Delhi and Mumbai, have recorded a sharp decrease in their coronavirus caseload and hospitalizations in recent days, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Wednesday.
A calf born with three eyes and four nostrils in east-central India’s Chhattisgarh state last week has attracted masses of people in recent days who are lining up to worship the newborn cow as an “incarnation of God,” the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported Monday.
Alexander Gintsburg, director of Russia’s Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology, claimed on Tuesday that the Sputnik V vaccine developed by his institute is at least 75% effective against the highly-contagious Omicron variant of Covid-19, and protection “will reach 100%” with a “Sputnik Light” booster shot.
India’s Gennova Biopharmaceuticals is allegedly working to develop an “omicron-specific” Chinese coronavirus vaccine candidate based on mRNA technology that could be available to the public as soon as February, Reuters reported on Monday citing an unnamed company spokesman who confirmed the development via text message.
An 84-year-old Indian man who allegedly received 11 doses of Chinese coronavirus vaccines over the past year by using multiple identification cards assigned to him has threatened to commit suicide if prosecuted for misleading the Indian Health Service, the Times of India reported on Wednesday.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) revealed in its weekly report published Tuesday that a significant spike in documented Chinese coronavirus cases around the world did not correspond to an increase in deaths attributed to coronavirus infections.
Indian officials concerned about the Omicron coronavirus outbreak are trying to cancel this weekend’s holiday swim in the Ganges River, even as thousands of Hindus line up along its banks, and their numbers could easily swell into the millions.
ROME — The Indian government has restored the Missionaries of Charity to its list of associations approved for receiving foreign funding after suspending the order’s license on Christmas.
An illegal immigrant who sexually assaulted two women in separate attacks on a packed British beach has been jailed.
China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on Friday advertised an upcoming raffle via social media in which it plans to give away a stone taken from the Galwan Valley in northern India’s Ladakh state to “10 lucky netizens,” China’s state-run Global Times reported.
Epidemiologist Prabhat Jha of the University of Toronto completed an analysis of India’s mortality data this week and concluded the true number of coronavirus deaths in the country is “substantially greater” than health officials reported.
China’s military is allegedly constructing a bridge across Pangong Tso, a lake that spans a disputed Himalayan border region between northern India’s Ladakh state and China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, the Times of India reported on Tuesday, citing unnamed Indian Army sources.
Outraged Indian media outlets accused the Chinese Communist Party on Monday of “playing mind games” and hatching a “sinister design” to colonize the country following a bizarre declaration last week in which China renamed significant parts of Arunachal Pradesh, an Indian state, with Mandarin language names.
A stampede at a Hindu temple in northern India’s Jammu and Kashmir territory on New Year’s Eve — allegedly sparked by “a fight between two groups of pilgrims” — killed 12 people and injured 16 others, India’s New Delhi Television (NDTV) reported on Monday.
The Indian state of Goa announced on Monday it will shut down schools through the end of the month and implement a curfew in response to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic – just days after video showed throngs of thousands of tourists enjoying the state’s beaches.
Global Christian persecution spread still further during 2021, according to the Christian charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN).
Apple has placed one of iPhone supplier Foxconn’s factories in southern India on probation following worker protests and alleged labor violations.
