Despite flooding that has killed 70, Iran’s efforts to establish an insurance fund are hampered by a lack of resources.by Maziar Motamedi10 Apr 2019 MORE ON IRAN US ‘terror’ listing: Iran vows response to ‘vicious move’yesterday Why is the US calling Iran’s Revolutionary Guard ‘terrorists’?yesterday Iran’s Rouhani defends IRGC, says US ‘terror’ label a ‘mistake’yesterday Iran responds in kind to Trump’s… Read more »
The Indian government has claimed by their measures to have electrified every single village in India. For a village to be considered to have electricity, at least ten percent of the households must have electricity and all of the major buildings such as schools, churches, and hospitals must have electricity. Although all of India’s villages now have electricity they are… Read more »
The Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, said last year that his government had reached its target of providing every village in India with electricity. “Yesterday, we fulfilled a commitment due to which the lives of several Indians will be changed forever,” Mr Modi tweeted in April 2018. In the run-up to the Indian election, which gets under way on 11… Read more »
KARACHI: A fresh case of an underage Hindu girl being abducted in Pakistan‘s Sindhprovince has come to the fore, even as uproar continued over the alleged kidnapping, forcible conversion and marriages of two teenage girls from the minority community. According to a handout issued by the Sindh Information Department, Minorities Affairs Minister Hari Ram Kishori Lal took note of a news that went viral… Read more »
At least 13 civilians were killed, mostly children, in an air strike by “international forces” in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz late last week, the United Nations said Monday.ADVERTISING The strike happened between late Friday and early Saturday in support of ground operations conducted by pro-government forces fighting against Taliban militants in the area. “Initial fact-finding indicates that 10 of those… Read more »
Southern city of Shiraz suffers extensive damage as government urges people to cancel trips amid forecast of more rains.by Saeed Jalili 7 hours ago MORE ON MIDDLE EAST Algeria army chief demands Bouteflika be declared unfit to ruletoday Why Trump recognised Israel’s claim on the Golan Heightstoday Israel-Hamas ceasefire holds amid tense calm in Gaza Striptoday Israel-Gaza tension: Violence continues despite… Read more »
The United States has engaged in talks with the Taliban in hopes of reaching a peace agreement. They were hoping in reaching an agreement this past weekend but nothing came about. Both the United States and the Taliban have said that they want to end the war. They plan to resume peace talks later this month. Although they both want… Read more »
When India conducted an air strike in Pakistani territory, Pakistan didn’t just retaliate with force: it also banned Indian film and television. It’s an easy punishment, but may just hit the wrong target, as the BBC’s Ilyas Khan and Shumaila Jaffrey report. India and Pakistan have been at loggerheads since 1947, but their shared love of Bollywood has somehow survived… Read more »
Standing guard at the gate of a madrassa on the outskirts of Islamabad was a stern-looking young man, armed with what appeared to be a powerful automatic rifle, and missing one eye. Inside, one of those involved in running the religious school acknowledged it is “said to be run by Jaish-e-Mohammad” – the militant group which claimed responsibility for last… Read more »
A prominent Iranian human rights lawyer has been sentenced to a total of 38 years in jail and 148 lashes in Tehran, her family say. Nasrin Sotoudeh was charged with several national security-related offences, all of which she denies. Rights groups strongly criticised the “shocking” sentence against the award-winning human rights activist. Ms Sotoudeh is known for representing women who… Read more »