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.

The writing on the wall is that sooner than later Taliban will rule over Afghanistan from the Parliament building constructed by India at a cost of $90 mn and inaugurated by PM Modi in 2015.

ISLAMABAD:The United States, Pakistan, Russia and China on Thursday urged the Afghan Taliban to refrain from launching “spring offensive” to avoid more bloodshed in the strife-torn country, as envoys huddled together with the Afghan government and the Taliban representatives in Moscow on Thursday.

To say, as a serving police officer has done in a recent op-ed, that the “self-preservation of Muslims” hinges on their ‘denunciation of cow slaughter” is akin to issuing an outright threat.

Pakistan resisted temptation to compete in arms race despite rising security challenges, says Gen Qamar.