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Russian man whose daughter drew anti-war picture jailed for 2 years

The case has provoked an outcry among Russian human rights activists and sparked an online campaign to reunite father and daughter. (Representational Photo)
world news
Published on Mar 28, 2023 06:41 pm IST

Respect women’s autonomy

The law does not discriminate against a woman making choices in a marriage, nor does it lay down any code of conduct for women through which they can protect themselves from sexual violence. The interpretations are unnecessary when the law itself is clear
analysis
Updated on Jul 02, 2020 01:46 pm IST

Podcast: Binalakshmi Nepram on the Realities of India’s Oft-Forgotten Northeast

india news
Published on Jun 03, 2020 07:55 am IST

Arsenal’s Ozil condemns Muslim silence over Uighurs

Arsenal's Mesut Ozil
football
Updated on Dec 14, 2019 10:17 am IST

Fashion victims: Kazakh magazine apologises for murder photoshoot, critics say ‘eroticising violence against women’

The spread in Buro 24/7 Kazakhstan showed a girl in a black dress lying lifeless near a bloodied knife with her hand tied to a water pipe and a woman sprawling motionless on a bed as forensic scientists put her stiletto shoes in a plastic bag.
fashion
Updated on Sept 12, 2019 05:55 pm IST

Transgender people hope for SC intervention

Transpersons faced three main hurdles in the NRC process, where one had to prove that they, or their ancestors, were present in Assam before the cut-off date of March 25, 1971, the day war for Bangladesh’s liberation began.
india news
Updated on Sept 05, 2019 12:15 am IST

Sri Lanka’s plan to revive death row for convicts after 42 yrs, Amnesty worried

Amnesty International raised fresh concerns that Sri Lanka may soon end a 42-year moratorium on capital punishment and hang 13 men convicted of drug offences.
world news
Published on Jun 25, 2019 05:29 pm IST

Jharkhand man thrashed by mob, forced to chant ‘Jai Sri Ram’, dies

Police on Sunday, however, arrested main accused, Pappu Mandal, on charges of leading the mob which thrashed Ansari mercilessly for alleged theft of a motorcycle. (Photo by Manoj Kumar/ Hindustan Times)
india news
Updated on Jun 24, 2019 05:14 pm IST

13-year-old boy arrested for political unrest won’t be executed: Saudi Arabia

The Shi’ite-majority Eastern Province, where Qureiris is from, became a focal point of unrest in early 2011 with demonstrations calling for an end to discrimination and for reforms in the conservative monarchy.
world news
Updated on Jun 17, 2019 10:46 am IST

Despite SC ban, sand mining rampant, activists blame government

Ganga Vihar residents protest at the site where Kishore Singh was allegedly mowed down by a truck involved in illegal mining and transport of river sand.
jaipur news
Published on Jun 14, 2019 01:38 pm IST

Swiss women continue to strike for equal pay after three decades

Strikers also demand for zero tolerance for violence against women and more respect and better pay for women’s work.
world news
Published on Jun 04, 2019 12:48 pm IST

Brunei to impose death by stoning for gay sex and adultery

The tiny sultanate will implement the harsh new penal code -- which also prescribes amputation of a hand and foot for theft -- next Wednesday.
world news
Updated on Mar 29, 2019 09:52 pm IST

5 unmarried couples whipped in public in Indonesia for behaving amorously

An Indonesian woman is whipped by a member of the Sharia police in public in Banda Aceh on March 20.
world news
Updated on Mar 20, 2019 06:47 pm IST

Tokyo court grants ex-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn bail

Given the number of people involved in the complex case and their wide geographical spread, Hironaka said the case would run over a “very long time span”.
business
Updated on Mar 05, 2019 10:24 am IST

China bans foreign tourists from visiting Tibet until April

Access to the Himalayan region – one of the biggest provinces of China – is almost always restricted with special permits required to visit.
world news
Updated on Feb 20, 2019 04:52 pm IST

10 killed in poll-related violence as voting underway in Bangladesh

A Bangladeshi man walks past a photo of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in Dhaka on December 29, 2018.
world news
Updated on Dec 30, 2018 03:05 pm IST

Facebook urged to change leadership by group of 31 nonprofits

Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg leaves the Elysee presidential palace in Paris.
world news
Updated on Dec 19, 2018 11:36 am IST

S Korean fashion firm under fire for selling ‘nuke masks’ featuring Kim Jong-un

A South Korean fashion and cosmetics firm has stirred controversy with a facial mask featuring Kim Jong-un prompting many stores to pull the product of the shelves.
world news
Updated on Dec 14, 2018 09:14 am IST

Sri Lanka president weighs backing down in crisis over parliament: Reports

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena is considering dropping an attempt to dissolve parliament, sources close to the president said.
world news
Published on Dec 01, 2018 11:08 am IST

Asean must be more active in engaging with the Rohingya issue

Rohingya refugees are reflected in rain water along an embankment next to paddy fields after fleeing from Myanmar into Palang Khali, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
analysis
Updated on Nov 20, 2018 01:30 pm IST

Can’t rewrite law: Judge bars Donald Trump from denying asylum to illegal migrants

US President Donald Trump talks to the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington.
world news
Updated on Nov 20, 2018 02:26 pm IST

Want schools with toilets, hospitals in Rajasthan poll manifestos: Children

Children studying in an open classroom in a village in Rajasthan’s Barmer. (File photo)
india news
Updated on Oct 23, 2018 11:15 pm IST

China distorting facts about Xinjiang camps, says exiled Uyghur group

A Muslim man arriving at a mosque for Eid prayers in Kashgar in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. China says it is battling terrorism in the region but Uyghurs claim the government is forcing a change in their beliefs and cultures.
world news
Updated on Oct 17, 2018 06:10 pm IST

Anger over online ads in Singapore offering Indonesian maids for sale

While Indonesia regularly protests about abuse and exploitation of helpers in Malaysia and parts of the Middle East, complaints about treatment of maids in tightly-regulated Singapore are less common.
world news
Published on Sept 19, 2018 04:56 pm IST

Monitor justice for victims of 1984 ‘genocide’, Sikh group to UNHRC

Jasdev Singh Rai of London-based Sikh Human Rights Group.
others
Updated on Sept 15, 2018 09:19 am IST

‘Activists’ arrests a cynical ploy to divert attention from Sanstha’

Susan Abraham wife of Vernon Gonsalves, civil rights activist Anand Teltumbde whose residence in Goa was raided, condemn the arrest of the human rights activists in Mumbai on Wednesday.
mumbai news
Updated on Aug 30, 2018 06:27 am IST

Saudi Arabia detained more than 2000 people for months without trial: HRW

Saudi Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman, (MBS), in Moscow's Kremlin, Russia.
world news
Updated on May 06, 2018 02:13 pm IST

China changes law allowing judgements in corruption cases even without appearance of suspects

Armed civilians patrol the area outside the Hotan Bazaar where a screen shows Chinese President Xi Jinping in Hotan in western China's Xinjiang region.
world news
Published on Apr 26, 2018 12:24 pm IST

Wife of detained Chinese lawyer begins 100-km march to press for answers

Li Wenzu, wife of lawyer Wang Quanzhang, who was detained in what is known as the "709" crackdown, joins others protesting in front of the Supreme People's Procuratorate in Beijing, China July 7, 2017.
world news
Published on Apr 04, 2018 12:38 pm IST
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