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Myanmar, Sept 25: Hindus once sold food to Rohingyas, spoke the same language and even cut the hair of their Muslim neighbours. But co-existence among the collage of ethnicities in Myanmar's Rakhine state has been ruptured -- perhaps irreversibly -- by the bloodshed of the last month. Violence has periodically cut through the western state, where communal rivalries have been sharpened by British

New Delhi, Sept 25: Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistan’s permanent representative to the United Nations, made an embarrassing faux pas on Saturday when she attempted to pass off a photo of a Gaza girl as that of a Kashmiri. Lodhi was responding to Indian external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj’s attack on Pakistan at the United Nations General Assembly, calling it a “pre-eminent export factory for terror”

Dhaka, Sept 24: Bangladesh has banned telecommunication companies from selling mobile phone connections to Rohingya refugees, citing security concerns for the latest restrictions, officials said Sunday. Bangladesh’s four mobile phone providers were threatened with fines if they provide any of the nearly 4,30,000 newly-arrived refugees from Myanmar with phone plans while the ban is in force. “For

Thiruvananthapuram, Sept 24: The Kerala State Women's Commission on Sunday decided to approach the Supreme Court in the case of Hadiya, who is kept under house arrest. Chairperson M C Josephine told the media that the Commission would now approach the top court with a petition seeking permission to visit 25-year-old Hadiya, a homoeopath who converted to Islam last year and married a Muslim named

Bangladesh, Sept 24: Doctors treating some of the 429,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar in recent weeks have seen dozens of women with injuries consistent with violent sexual attacks, U.N. clinicians and other health workers said. The medics’ accounts, backed in some cases by medical notes reviewed by Reuters, lend weight to repeated allegations, ranging from

Washington, Sept 24: US bombers and fighter escorts flew off the coast of North Korea Saturday in a show of force against its nuclear weapons program, escalating already sky-high tensions. The hermit state's foreign minister meanwhile derided Donald Trump as "mentally deranged" at the United Nations, while the US president fired back on Twitter with fresh threats. The latest exchange of bellicose

Parkal, Sept 24: Prominent Dalit writer and intellectual Kancha Ilaiah today filed a police complaint stating that four persons attacked his vehicle in the town and tried to kill him. The alleged attack on Mr Ilaiah sparked tension between members of Arya Vysya caste and Dalits who came face to face. However, the police averted any escalation in tension by dispersing the groups. A police official

United Nations, Sept 24: Taking a dig at Pakistan, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today asked its leaders to introspect as to why India is recognised as a global IT superpower while Pakistan is infamous as the "pre- eminent export factory for terror". In her address to the 72nd UN General Assembly session, Swaraj accused Pakistan of waging a war against India and said a country that has

Mangaluru/Udupi Sep 23: The District Congress Committees in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi on Saturday launched ‘Mane Manege Congress’ campaign on the directions of the KPCC and AICC. The campaign aims to strengthen the party at the grassroots level in the run-up to the 2018 Assembly elections. Dakshina Kannada district in-charge minister B Ramanath Rai inaugurated the district level campaign at Kadri

Mohali, Sept 23: Senior journalist K J Singh and his nonagenarian mother were found dead at their residence here, police said today. “There were injury marks on their necks,” Mohali Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Alam Vijay Singh said. Singh was in his sixties while his mother Gurcharan Kaur was 92 years old. Police said they were investigating the matter. Senior police officials have