The resignation of Pratap Bhanu Mehta from India's premier private university has rung alarm bells among scholars abroad. 'The university must be a home for fearless inquiry and criticism,' a statement endorsed by over a hundred leading academics on Friday says.

Two  police officers reportedly claimed that they heard Enforcement Directorate officials forcing Suresh, key accused in a gold smuggling case, to name chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan.

It has also estimated that the number of poor people, with incomes of $2 or less each day, has gone up by 75 million as the recession brought by the virus undid years of progress.

Lloyd J. Austin will be meeting Rajnath Singh, S. Jaishankar and Ajit Doval during his three-day visit to India starting Friday.

The United States accused China on Friday of committing genocide and crimes against humanity against Uighur Muslims and other minorities.

The Government’s decision to raise FDI in the insurance sector to 74% is irrational and bodes ill for LIC and the four publicly owned and 30 private general insurance companies in India.

The Japan Meteorological Agency warned of up to a 1-metre high tsunami in Miyagi and the first tsunami wave has already swept ashore in the city of Ishinomaki.

Eminent economist Raghuram Rajan has said free speech suffered a “grievous blow” in India with the resignations of Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Arvind Subramanian from the Ashoka University.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Afghan government and the Taliban agreed on Friday to try to accelerate peace talks, at a meeting in Moscow that followed an international conference there on the peace process, Afghanistan's top peace official and a Taliban spokesman said.

Under the 2020 Doha agreement, the Trump administration pledged to withdraw all US troops by May from Afghanistan, and the Biden administration is also considering a full withdrawal, which could repeat past catastrophes.