A day after India’s big Operation Sindoor destroyed terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Member of Parliament Malik Muhammad Iqbal admitted in the Assembly that Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar was targeted in the precision strikes, a section of the Pakistani media reported on Thursday. Earlier, Azhar reportedly said that as many as 10 members…
NEW DELHI: The Indian Embassy in Beijing has strongly cautioned China’s state-run Global Times over spreading unverified claims on Indian military operations, urging the outlet to verify facts before posting on social media.“Dear @globaltimesnews, we would recommend you verify your facts and cross-examine your sources before pushing out this kind of disinformation,” the Embassy said…
Seven Pakistan Army soldiers were killed in an IED explosion on Tuesday when their vehicle was targeted in the restive southern province of Balochistan, news agency Reuters reported, citing the country’s military. At the time of writing this story, it was not known which group claimed responsibility for the attack. Further details are awaited. Tuesday’s…
Sensing imminent punitive action over the Pahalgam terror attack, Pakistan has launched a massive online disinformation operation to spread confusion and sow communal discord among the Indian armed forces, specifically targeting Sikh soldiers. Since India announced a series of diplomatic measures against Pakistan on April 24, hundreds of Pakistani social media accounts have been circulating…
NEW DELHI: Delhi high court on Thursday found Yoga guru Ramdev “prima facie in contempt”, saying he “is not in control of anyone” as it took a dim view of his defiance of an earlier undertaking and ordered him to remove within 24 hours a fresh offensive social media video targeting Rooh Afza makers Hamdard.“He…
President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order targeting college accreditors, a group of largely unknown but long-established companies that evaluate the educational quality and financial health of universities. The order, one of seven education-related measures he signed on Wednesday, was the latest move by Mr. Trump aimed at shifting the ideological tilt of the…
The US State Department on Thursday accused Chinese satellite company Chang Guang Satellite Technology of directly aiding Iran-backed Houthi rebels in targeting US warships and international vessels in the Red Sea. The company, reportedly linked to China’s military, is said to have provided imagery used in the attacks. Confirming a report by the Financial Times,…
NEW DELHI: The opposition continued its attack on BJP over the waqf bill and called the proposed legislation “unconstitutional” and aimed at targeting Muslims.Congress, TMC, DMK, RJD, AAP, Shiv Sena (UBT), SP and Left parties questioned the intent behind the bill and asked why the govt was “suddenly focusing on welfare of poor Muslims”.LoP in…
On March 9, Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish graduate student at Tufts University, sent an anxious text message to Najiba Akbar, the university’s former Muslim chaplain, with whom she had become close. “I recently learned that someone added all my information to a doxxing website called Canary Mission because of the op-ed published last March,” Ms….
Poster outside Rabri Devi’s residence (ANI) NEW DELHI: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, facing a “boycott” by Muslim groups for supporting the central government’s Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, was targeted in a poster put up outside the residence of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and Bihar’s former chief minister, Rabri Devi. The poster, put up…