At least six people have been killed as Hurricane Laura battered the US state of Louisiana. Winds of up to 150mph (240km/h) caused severe damage, with power cuts to more than half a million homes and a chemical fire from an industrial plant. But the feared 20ft (6m) storm surge was

With minority communities in dire straits, as many as nine family members of converted Sikh girl Jagjit Kaur from Nankana Sahib in Pakistan have written to authorities asking them to make a passport so that they could leave the south Asian nation. A letter written to DCO Nankana Sahib

Attacks and clashes between Afghani forces and Taliban are now almost daily news, and so are the clashes between Afghan Taliban and Pakistani troops along the Durand line, the international land border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. In the last few weeks, the Afghan Taliban have

India crossed the 60,000-mark in Covid fatalities on Wednesday.  The country added a record 76,014 fresh infections in the last 24 hour.  This takes the total caseload to 33,04,598. Wednesday’s record surge is the third-highest daily count recorded in any country in

A New Zealand court has sentenced a man who killed 51 people at two mosques to life in prison without parole, the first person in the country's history to receive this sentence. Australian Brenton Tarrant, 29, admitted to the murder of 51 people, attempted murder of another 40

Two people have been killed and one injured during a third night of unrest in the US city of Kenosha, sparked by the police shooting of a black man. Police said three people had been shot, but gave no details about who was involved. Local media reports earlier said the violence was

Aspate of reports published recently highlight the plight of the nearly 11 million Uighurs living in Xinjiang. The Uighurs are a Turkic ethnic group whose members are predominantly Muslim. The reports indicate that China is trying to wipe out their identity and forcibly assimilate them by

For the first time since 2012, the Jammu and Kashmir Lakes and Waterways Development Authority (LAWDA) has procured new high-tech machines for cleaning up the Dal Lake, said Shafat Ahmed Jeelani, Executive Engineer Mechanical wing LAWDA. Jeelani said LAWDA has procured indigenously

Pakistan’s top graft body, National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has found its former ambassador to Indonesia, Major General (retd) Syed Mustafa Anwar, guilty of illegally selling the embassy building in Jakarta. NAB on Wednesday filed a reference in court against Major General

Facebook has shared data with United Nations investigators probing international crimes in Myanmar, after the lead investigator said the tech company was suppressing evidence. A Facebook representative on Tuesday said it had given the Independent Investigative Mechanism on Myanmar

US First Lady Melania Trump has made a heartfelt plea for racial unity in a live speech from the White House to the Republican party convention. "Stop the violence and looting," she also said as protests continued over a police shooting in Wisconsin. Melania Trump urged

Concerned over the increasing cases of child labour, a one-day orientation cum training programme was organised by an NGO along with labour commissioner of Kashmir and members of juvenile justice board to bring awareness about child labour among placement agencies in the Kashmir Valley.

In an attempt to benefit students amid COVID-19 crisis, a government school teacher from the border area of Uri in Baramulla district of North Kashmir has created a school website as well as an Android application. Aijaz Sheikh, hailing from Chandanwari village of Uri who is a lecturer

Pakistan's intelligence agency, ISI, has been using the services of Pakistan crime syndicates operating in several countries, including France and Thailand, to further its agenda, according to a report in the Global Watch Analysis. Recently, Thailand Police arrested a Pakistan

Researchers in Hong Kong on Monday reported what appears to be the first confirmed case of Covid-19 reinfection, a 33-year-old man who was first infected by SARS-CoV-2 in late March and then, four and a half months later, seemingly contracted the virus again while traveling in Europe.

The tourism global industry has been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic, with $320 billion lost in exports in the first five months of the year and more than 120 million jobs at risk, the UN chief said Tuesday. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a policy briefing and

US President Donald Trump has warned his fellow Republicans their opponents may "steal" November's election, as his party anointed him as their candidate. "They're using Covid to defraud the American people," Mr Trump told delegates on the first day of the

Pablo Picasso, a famous Spanish painter, wrote: “Art is the lie that enables us to realise the truth.”  An artist, having been born anywhere around the world, even in war-torn countries—tries hard to utilise the given circumstances to the best of capabilities.

The leader of India's main opposition Congress party offered to resign on Monday, local media reported, after almost two dozen top leaders called for better decision-making in the party, which has ruled for much of the country's independent history. The call, made in a letter,

At least five soldiers and four civilians have been killed, and several others were wounded after two explosions struck the southern Philippine town of Jolo, according to authorities. Philippine Red Cross Chief Richard Gordon said the explosion hit at approximately noon (04:00 GMT) on