India

WASHINGTON: (Web Desk) Indians are one of the fastest-growing groups of illegal immigrants to the United States, travelling thousands of miles to enter the country from Mexico, the Fox News television reported on Saturday. In 2015, US authorities caught six immigrants from India trying to cross into the US from …

NEW DELHI (Web Desk) Torrential rains and landslides killed at least 24 people in southern India on Thursday, with the authorities opening the shutters of 24 water reservoirs in an unprecedented move to prevent potentially disastrous breaches, officials said.The June-September rains in Kerala state have cost 175 lives and damaged …

SRINAGAR (Web Desk) Indian troops martyred one more Kashmiri youth in the Baramulla district on Thursday, the Kashmir Media Service reported.The youth was martyred during a during a cordon and search operation in the Rafiabad area of the district.Yesterday, four youngsters were martyred in occupied Kashmir taking the death toll …

MUMBAI (Web Desk) India is to remain one of the world’s fastest-growing major economies, the International Monetary Fund said Wednesday, in welcome news for Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of elections due next year.In a wide-ranging report on Asia’s third-biggest economy, the IMF forecast GDP growth for the fiscal year …

SRINAGAR (Web Desk) Indian occupation forces martyred five Kashmiris in Indian occupied Kashmir’s Shopian district on Saturday, according to media reports.The citizens were martyred during a cordon and search operation in Shopian district’s Killora village.The Indian army along with the police had launched a joint operation in the area on …

SRINAGAR (Web Desk) Indian troops martyred two youth in Indian occupied Kashmir’s (IoK) Sopore district on Friday, the Kashmir Media Service (KMS) reported.The youth were killed by the troops during a violent cordon and search operation in the district.The Indian occupation forces also suspended internet service and shut down educational …

NELLIE (Web Desk) Thirty-six years after losing his parents, sister and a four-year-old daughter in one of India’s worst sectarian massacres, Abdul Suban says he is still trying to prove he’s a citizen of the Hindu-majority nation.Suban is one of hundreds of thousands of Bengali-speaking Muslims categorised as “doubtful voters”, who …

MUMBAI (Web Desk) India’s registrar general said on Monday that 4,007,707 people had been excluded from a draft national register of citizens in the border state of Assam, in a move that has raised fears for the future of people in the region.Sailesh, the registrar general and census commissioner of …

ISLAMABAD (Web Desk)  The federal government has informed the Supreme Court that at least 327 Pakistani civilians are languishing in Indian jails whereas 418 Indian civilians have been detained in different prisons of Pakistan. Of the 327 Pakistanis in Indian prisons, 108 are fishermen. Of the 418 Indians in Pakistani …

NEW DELHI (Web Desk)  India has officially welcomed Pakistan’s general elections, seen as a significant but unspoken overture to the winner of the contest, and clearly marking its distance from opposition calls for a re-poll, according to news reports on Saturday. They quoted India’s foreign ministry spokesperson as hoping that …