Sardar Shaukat Ali Kashmiri, Chairman of the United Kashmir People’s National Party (UKPNP), has urged the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to take immediate action over what he described as a deteriorating human rights situation in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) and Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (PoGB). Addressing the 63rd session of the UNHRC under Agenda … Read more
The G7 Foreign Ministers have strongly condemned continued Houthi strikes in Yemen and against Saudi Arabia, including attacks affecting civilians and civilian infrastructure, and called on Iran to end its arming and support for the rebel groups. In a statement issued on Monday, the G7 Foreign Ministers said the situation in Yemen poses a threat … Read more
Nepal has formed a 15-member parliamentary special committee to study the devastating floods that hit the border of Tibet and parts of Nepal on August 26. In the House of Representatives meeting on Monday, Speaker Dol Prasad Aryal presented the proposal to form a 15-member parliamentary special committee on the impact of climate change on … Read more
The India-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (FTA) will come into force on October 20 after both countries completed the domestic procedures required to ratify the pact, paving the way for a new trade and investment framework between the two countries. The latest step follows New Zealand Parliament’s approval of the legislation on September 16, with … Read more
Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to the United States from September 23 to 25 at the invitation of Donald Trump, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday. “At the invitation of President of the United States of America Donald J. Trump, President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit … Read more
US President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani in New York on Monday (local time), ahead of the 81st United Nations General Assembly High-Level Week. According to the White House’s daily guidance and press schedule for Monday, Trump will meet Mamdani at 4:10 pm (local time) at Gracie Mansion. The meeting … Read more
The Indian Embassy in Tokyo on Monday said that IAF Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal AP Singh led a formation flight in the indigenously produced Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA). The embassy also said that the Japan Air Self-Defense Force Chief of Staff Masahiro Morita boarded the two-seater Tejas during the Japan-India joint … Read more
Moscow [Russia], September 21 : Russia’s ruling United Russia party, which backs President Vladimir Putin, is leading the country’s State Duma elections with 57. 5 per cent of the vote, according to initial results, as the parliamentary polls were held against the backdrop of the ongoing war in Ukraine. According to CNN, final results are … Read more
North Korea launched a second unidentified projectile toward the East Sea on Sunday, coming just hours after firing a short-range ballistic missile, South Korea’s military reported. According to details shared by South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and reported by Yonhap News Agency, specific parameters regarding the second missile launch were not immediately available … Read more
Former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s decision to back the Congress candidate in the Nandigram assembly bypoll marks a striking turn in the relationship between the two parties, which have been political rivals in the state for decades. The move has also come at a turbulent time for Banerjee’s faction, with the Trinamool Congress’ … Read more