Sep 13, – On Monday, police fired at a group pf protesters who set on fire a police jeep and motorbike killing one protester and wounding another in Bangalore, the capital of Karnataka state, said police officer Madhukar Narote. Incidents of looting and vandalism eased Tuesday in parts of India’s information technology hub of Bangalore […]
Aug 10, – Monday’s suicide bombing, which struck grief-stricken colleagues crowding around the body of the slain head of the provincial bar association, was the deadliest jihadist attack in Pakistan this year. Pakistani mourners flocked to funerals on Tuesday for 74 victims, most of them lawyers, of the bombing of a hospital in the southwestern […]
Jul 30, – The police barred media from publishing images of Yakub Abdul Razak Memon’s funeral, apparently fearing a backlash against the execution that many said was driven by politics. Ignoring pleas and petitions by civil society groups, India on Thursday hanged an accountant convicted of supporting the 1993 Mumbai bombings that killed 257 people […]
Dec 13, – In Kabul on Saturday, a bomb ripped through a bus carrying soldiers in Kabul, killing at least seven of them, mangling the vehicle and sending a column of black smoke over the capital. “A suicide bomber on foot detonated his explosives at the door of a bus carrying army soldiers,” said Hashmat […]
Oct 27, – The strike is aimed at forcing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to quit and form a caretaker government made up of people from outside political parties to oversee an election due by early next year. The shutdown began Sunday morning and is to continue until Tuesday night. Police and backers of Bangladesh’s ruling […]
Oct 09. – Musharraf has faced legal problems ever since his return from exile in March, in a series of cases that have undermined the once sacrosanct position of the military in Pakistani society. The cases stem from his time in office which stretched from 1999 when he took power in a coup, to 2008 […]
Oct 04, – The shutdown of the US government appeared likely to drag on for another week and possibly longer as lawmakers consumed day three of the shutdown with a stalling game and there was no end in sight until the next crisis hits Washington around October 17. Bowing to the reality that the impasse […]
June 11, AP – Fourteen people were killed at least 30 injured in the attack on Tuesday, Afghan police said. The explosion targeted minibuses carrying court staff home from work. A suicide bomber has killed more than a dozen people in an attack at the supreme court in Kabul. This comes a day after a […]
Iran’s state radio reported Sunday that authorities had executed two men by hanging, one found guilty of spying for Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad, and the other for the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Iran has executed two men found guilty for working as spies for Israel and the United States. In 2012, Iran had the […]
May 2, AP – Bae, known in North Korea as Pae Jun-Ho, was sentenced to 15 years of “compulsory labor,” KCNA reported Thursday, for “hostile acts” against the North. North Korea has sentenced a US citizen to 15 years of hard labor, the nation’s state news agency has reported. Kenneth Bae had been accused of […]
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Human Rights Observers conference on Women’s rights and Environment
Human Rights Observers an organization in special status with UN ECOSOC has organized conference on Women’s rights and Environmental awareness Speaking on the occasion prominent senior advocate smt. Venkateshwari, stated that Violence against women and girls, a gross human rights violation, devastates lives, causes untold pain, suffering and illness. She has given various examples of […]
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