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Union minister Kiren Rijiju said India’s Muslim population could nearly match Indonesia’s after the Census, while asserting that all citizens are equal under the Constitution.
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ADR report reveals 65% of newly elected West Bengal MLAs face criminal cases, while 61% are crorepatis. Women remain underrepresented at just 13% in the Assembly.
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BJP’s Bengal sweep gains momentum from split minority votes in key districts, weakening TMC’s stronghold. Fragmented Muslim voting and opposition divide reshape the state’s political landscape.
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BJP surges past majority mark in West Bengal, leading in 185 seats against TMC’s 91. Early trends signal a major political shift, though counting continues and results may still change.
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Iran reopens the Strait of Hormuz to shipping after a Lebanon ceasefire, easing energy market tensions and signaling fragile diplomatic progress amid ongoing US-Iran negotiations and regional uncertainty.
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Turkish cultural figures and media activists form a human chain outside a Tabriz power plant, signalling solidarity with Iran as regional tensions continue to escalate.
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CBI registers FIR in Rs 550 crore Haryana funds embezzlement case involving alleged shell firms and bank officials, after taking over probe into fraudulent transactions and diversion of public money.
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CBI registers FIR in Rs 550 crore Haryana funds embezzlement case involving alleged shell firms and bank officials, after taking over probe into fraudulent transactions and diversion of public money.
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Thousands gathered across Iran to mark 40 days since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s assassination, with processions in Tehran, religious observances, and official ceremonies held nationwide.
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US President Donald Trump halted planned strikes on Iran hours before a deadline, agreeing to a two-week ceasefire in a 40-day conflict, as Tehran claimed victory.
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Iran rejects US ceasefire, demands a permanent end to war, sanctions relief, and guarantees, warning any temporary truce would only escalate future conflict.
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US President Donald Trump warned on Tuesday that a “whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran does not meet his latest deadline for the Islamic Republic to agree to a deal.
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Senior Taliban figures confirmed on Tuesday they had released a new video showing a kidnapped American-Canadian family, including two young boys born in captivity.
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Tajikistan invited India to invest in four free economic zones that have come up in the country and thanked it for the modernisation of the Varzob-1 Hydropower Station.
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Forty-four Afghan troops visiting the United States for military training have gone missing in less than two years, presumably in an effort to live and work illegally in America.
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The Afghan Taliban urged Islamic scholars on Tuesday not to let a proposed international religious congress become a means of legitimising the Western-backed government in Kabul.
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China has offered to provide $14 million worth of small arms and fast boats to the Philippines for free, aiding President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs and fighting terrorism.
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Eleven crew members went missing after their fishing boat collided with a merchant ship and capsized off east China coast early on Tuesday, officials said.
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On Tuesday, the state-run Anadolu agency said the attacker’s mother, father, sister and two other relatives were being held in the western province of Aydin.
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A Turkish policeman crying Aleppo and revenge shot dead Russia's ambassador to Turkey at an art exhibition in Ankara on Monday, in what Moscow said was a “terrorist act”.
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Norway and China announced Monday the resumption of diplomatic relations, six years after Beijing froze ties with Oslo over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a Chinese dissident.
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Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Friday investigations are underway into the situation in Rakhine State, where many members of a Muslim minority live.
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A jailed scholar from China’s mostly-Muslim Uyghur minority was awarded the Martin Ennals Award for human rights defenders on Tuesday, a move swiftly condemned by Beijing.
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China has returned a U.S. underwater drone taken by a Chinese navy in the disputed South China Sea last week after what China's Defence Ministry said were friendly talks between the two countries.
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