Fri 03 May 2019: NEW DELHI (Reuters) – PepsiCo Inc has agreed to withdraw lawsuits against Indian potato farmers it alleged infringed a patent by cultivating a variety grown exclusively for its Lay’s potato chips. The U.S. snack food and drinks maker, which in addition to filing the lawsuit against the four farmers in April […]
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Thu 02 May 2019: Both the United Nations and the International Criminal Court consider the way civilians said they were used by the Indian army to search houses in south Kashmir to be illegal under international law, experts said. However, the soldiers involved were unlikely to have committed crimes under Indian law, they said. Many […]
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Thu 3 May 2019: Is that Tyrion Lannister serving mutton and flatbread at a Kashmiri restaurant in Pakistan? No, it’s his doppelganger Rozi Khan, but one can see why people would get so confused by the uncanny resemblance. The two practically share the same face, and are also 135 cms tall. Until a few months […]
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Thu 3 May 2019: A southern Indian state is inspecting more than 7,000 garment factories and spinning mills after the national human rights watchdog raised concerns over “miserable” working conditions. India’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) ordered authorities in Tamil Nadu to act after a report by the Thomson Reuters Foundation about female garment workers […]
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Thu 02 May 2019: NEW DELHI (Reuters) – An Indian Hindu nationalist group allied with Prime Minister Narendra Modi called on Wednesday for a ban on veils after Sri Lanka prohibited the garments worn by some Muslim women following militant bomb attacks there. Sri Lanka imposed its ban on Monday to help security forces identify […]
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Thu 3 May 2019: Chinese authorities are using a mobile app designed for mass surveillance to profile, investigate and detain Muslims in Xinjiang by labelling “completely lawful” behaviour as suspicious, a Human Rights Watch report said Thursday. Beijing has come under international criticism over its policies in the northwest region of Xinjiang, where as many […]
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Wed 01 May 2019: NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.N. Security Council committee blacklisted the head of Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) on Wednesday, after China dropped its long-held obstruction of the move, diplomats said. JeM carried out an attack in Kashmir on Feb. 14 that killed at least 40 Indian paramilitary police, making it […]
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Wed 01 May 2019: Hundreds of Indian soldiers descended on the picturesque village of Pinglan, which is surrounded by south Kashmir’s apple and apricot orchards, just before midnight on February 17. By the time they left 18 hours later, one civilian, three armed militants, and five members of the security forces were dead, a row […]
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Wed 01 May 2019: Military trolled over ‘photographic evidence’ of mythical Himalayan creature The Indian army has claimed to have found the footprints of a yeti, prompting ridicule on social media. On Monday, the army tweeted to nearly 6 million followers that it had found “mysterious footprints of [the] mythical beast”. The post added that […]
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Wed 01 May 2019: Nineteen students have taken their own lives in the Indian state of Telangana since mid-April, after the release of intermediate examination results, officials say. The state examination for 12th-graders has come under scrutiny. Hundreds of parents have protested the marking and evaluation of the test papers, which they say have resulted […]
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