US insists on keeping the elite Quds Force of Iran Guards Corps on terror list
• 3 years agoTehran is demanding that the IRGC be removed from the blacklist. This push has sparked outrage from some US politicians, especially within the right-wing opposition
Voters in Serbia cast ballots in triple election, likely to set to keep populists in power
• 3 years agoOpinion surveys ahead of the vote have predicted that President Aleksandar Vucic will win another five-year term and that his right-wing Serbian Progressive Party will yet again dominate the 250-member Assembly
Russian military operation puts the spotlight on Ukraine’s neo-Nazis: What you need to know about them
Fp Explainers • 3 years agoNeo-Nazis, whose roots in Ukraine extend to their collaboration with Hitler during World War II, have a free run in the country. That may not last
At UN, India urges nations to recognise 'Hinduphobia'; calls drone attack in UAE 'blatant violation of international law'
Fp Staff • 3 years agoIndia's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador TS Tirumurti said the practice of several UN members labelling terrorism into categories such as racially motivated, violent extremism and right wing extremism, will take the world back to the pre-9/11 era
'Only Christians will celebrate Christmas': Miscreants disrupt X-mas celebration in Assam's Cachar
• 3 years agoA video uploaded on social media sites showed five to seven youth wearing saffron scarves and claiming to be from the Bajrang Dal asking the Hindus to stay away from the celebration
At least 30 arrested, dozens detained in Gurugram for disrupting Muslim prayers
• 3 years agoHindu groups have been pressuring authorities for weeks in the northern city of Gurgaon on the outskirts of New Delhi to stop Muslims offering Friday prayers in open spaces
Understanding what drives conspiracy theories, in the context of COVID-19 in India and political beliefs
Arathy Puthillam • 4 years agoWhen believing in conspiracies also makes you believe that you are unlikely to get the virus, it is indeed dangerous.
NIA files charge-sheet against two suspected to be Islamic State sympathisers under IPC, UAPA
• 4 years agoAccording to the central agency, Abdul Cader and Irfan Nasir are allegedly members of the Hizb-ut-Tahrir, an international Islamist and fundamentalist organisation, and had formed a group namely Quran Circle to allegedly further their Islamic State-related activities
The absurdity of conservatism: How enforcement of 'culture' is at odds with nation's real heritage and development
Samrat • 4 years agoWhat we are witnessing now, in the form of enforcement of taboos of food, and the push against what is called “love jihad”, is an assertion of power by those who wish to conserve the old ways.
Rush Limbaugh, US talk-radio's Conservative provocateur, dies of cancer at 70
• 4 years agoLast month, Limbaugh tried to minimise Donald Trump’s influence on his supporters who had attacked the US Capitol, saying that Democrats are 'lying'