India

New lockdowns, emergency states & deaths: Coronavirus keeps impacting lives

Mar 25, 2020 07:44

Around the globe, the outbreak of the new coronavirus continues to impact the lives of people, forcing governments to take measures unprecedented in peacetime.
Police clear citizenship law protest site in Indian capital, citing virus lockdown

Mar 24, 2020 12:53

Police have cleared out a long-running protest against a controversial citizenship law in the Indian capital, New Delhi, citing the a recently-announced lockdown to fight the coronavirus outbreak.
India hangs four over 2012 Delhi bus gang-rape

Mar 20, 2020 05:42

India executed four men on Friday for the gang-rape and murder of a woman on a Delhi bus in 2012 that sparked huge nationwide protests and international revulsion.
Coronavirus cases surge in South Asia as countries try to stem epidemic

Mar 18, 2020 13:35

The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the Indian subcontinent has topped 500 amid fears that inadequate health facilities could be overwhelmed in a region home to nearly 1.9 billion people.
India’s Supreme Court must use legal methods to end discrimination against Muslims: Iran’s Guardian Council

Mar 15, 2020 04:04

A member of Iran's Guardian Council, Hadi Tahan Nazif, has called on India's Supreme Court to use all legal methods and procedures to pave the way for the repeal of a discriminatory law against Muslims in the South Asian country.
Police responsible for New Delhi violence, not Muslims: Indian police admit

Mar 14, 2020 13:27

The Indian police have openly confessed to the closure of a route in the country’s capital of New Delhi that turned into a scene of deadly brutal clashes last month between Hindu nationalist mobs and Muslim protesters, a fact that members of the Muslim community in India have been insisting on since the anti-government rallies started there.
Indian pilgrims in Iran protest New Delhi’s failure to consider evacuation request

Mar 12, 2020 10:17

A group of Indian pilgrims in Iran have gathered in front of their country’s embassy in Tehran to denounce the New Delhi government’s failure to consider their demand for evacuation after more than two weeks of being stranded over fears of exposure to the new coronavirus.
Indian police involved in violence against Muslims

Mar 12, 2020 10:14

Indian police engaged in direct violence against Muslims and helped Hindu mobs in their atrocities against Muslims, or just stood aside watching, as Hindu extremists targeted the Muslim minority in the capital, New Delhi, last month, a new report shows.
Iran's Assembly of Experts urges India to stop violence against Muslims

Mar 11, 2020 04:59

Iran’s Assembly of Experts has denounced the massacre of Muslims and the destruction of mosques and religious places at the hands of pro-government Hindu mobs in India, urging New Delhi to take swift action to end the crimes.
India ingratiating itself with US through anti-Muslim violence: Iranian MP

Mar 09, 2020 02:30

Spokesman for the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Seyyed Hossein Naqavi Hosseini condemned recent killings of Muslims in India and said the New Delhi government is ingratiating itself with the US by remaining silent on such crimes.