This Wednesday, India’s Supreme Court will hear a public interest litigation (PIL) petition seeking a ban on WhatsApp in the subcontinent on the grounds that the messaging platform’s end-to-end encryption could provide terrorists with access to one another through the app, which is impossible to intercept.
Contents: Bangladesh government arrests 3,192 people to stop terrorist killings; History of Bangladesh’s ‘BNP-Jamaat clique’ goes back to massive 1971 ethnic war
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, where he told lawmakers that terrorism is “incubated in India’s neighborhood” and said terrorism’s philosophies are common, regardless of whether being carried out by Sunni or Shiite Muslim groups.
Statistics recently released by the government of Qatar indicate 58 percent of people in the country live in government-designated “labor camps,” highly-monitored neighborhoods designed to control the movement of migrant workers.
UCLA shooting suspect Mainak Sarkar came to the United States on a foreign student visa in 2001 after graduating from a prestigious Indian technology university and was granted permanent legal status in the U.S. in 2014.
A study newly released by the NGO Walk Free Foundation found that North Korea has more slaves per capita than any other nation in the world, with India boasting the largest absolute number of slaves within its borders.
Contents: Iran and India sign ‘historic’ deal for Iran’s Chabahar port; Chabahar port deal highlights enmity between Iran-India versus Pakistan-China; Iran, India and the classic fables of Kalileh-wa-Dimneh, Jataka and Panchatantra; The Caspian Corridor and the New Silk Road
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has promoted two young men, Fahad Tanveer Shaikh and Aman Naeem Tandel, to top leadership positions in the territory the jihadist group claims to control in India.
A Hindu nationalist group in India has asked the gods to bless Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, citing Trump’s stand against Islamist terrorism.
Donald Trump won over roughly a dozen Indians who are asking the Hindu gods to make Trump the President of the United States.
Given the impossibility of active human surveillance along its lengthy border, India has installed a dozen “laser walls” along its border with Pakistan, which will set off a loud siren if breached.
India has passed legislation that will require mobile phones to have ‘panic buttons’ so women can alert authorities when in distress.
On Monday, the government of India banned the importation of milk products, steel, and some electronic devices from China, citing “quality concerns.”
An Indian politician named his sons Communism, Socialism, and Leninism, as the family staunchly identifies with the nation’s Communist Party.
New Delhi (AFP) – One of India’s most senior lawyers has been ordered to study condom and other contraceptive packets to determine if their pictures are too racy and should be banned, according to reports Wednesday. Additional Solicitor General Maninder
Authorities in New Delhi, India, have arrested a man after he allegedly raped and attempted to kill a three-year-old girl.
India will no longer grant a visa to Dolkun Isa, a separatist leader from the China’s Muslim Uighur minority. China had expressed strong opposition to Isa receiving a visa.
Rajendra Pachauri, the disgraced former head of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), has produced an ingenious defence against the sexual harassment charges he is now facing in an Indian court. It turns out that, no he didn’t pester, bombard with emails,
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. signed a cooperation agreement with India’s Reliance Defense Systems Ltd. on Tuesday that will encompass future deals worth $10 billion, the Jerusalem Post reported. The companies made the announcement at the
India’s prime minister will hold talks Wednesday with EU leaders in Brussels, seeking to boost investment from his country’s biggest trading partner and deepen cooperation on counterterrorism. Narendra Modi will meet European Council President Donald Tusk and European Commission President
An Indian model was found dead hanging from a ceiling fan this week. Her suicide note accuses her husband of consistent abuse, calling her marriage the “biggest mistake of her life.”
Contents: India’s increased violence against Christians blamed on Hindu activism; Tensions grow between India and America over religious intolerance; Growth of Christianity in India attributed to proselytizing by missionaries
The National Investigative Agency (NIA) in India is warning police in Delhi, Punjab, and Assam to be on the lookout for a Pakistani soldier-turned-terrorist on the loose in India.
An Indian man beheaded his sister-in-law after claiming to find evidence of her involvement in witchcraft and black magic.
Data from the state of Jharkhand, India, shows a total of more than 127 woman lynched by angry crowds after being accused of witchcraft between 2012 and 2014.
An Indian family hacked to death a 22-year-old man after he married their higher caste daughter.
A 15-year-old Indian girl has died after her neighbor raped and set her on fire on the terrace of her home. The fire burned 90 percent of her body.
Two Indian men gang-raped a mother on a bus in front of her three-year-old toddler and threw her 2-week-old son, killing him.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) wants the Senate to vote on the State Department’s decision to send F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan.
Brothers in India burned their sister alive after she married a man in a different caste (social class) in the nation’s most recent honor killing.
A website belonging to Indian Railways was hacked on Tuesday, replacing the page of a personnel director with a message purportedly from Maulana Aasim Umar, al-Qaeda’s top operative in south Asia.
As China expands its military presence in the international waters of the South China Sea, U.S. Pacific Command head Admiral Harry B. Harris is proposing that the United States join with Australia, India, and Japan in conducting operations in the region to keep Beijing from stretching its military muscle against its smaller neighbors.
Contents: India about to deploy its first nuclear-armed submarine, in challenge to China; China’s military takes control of another Philippines fishing ground; Mideast Sunni-Shia split grows as GCC says Hezbollah is terrorist organization
The head of China’s military operations in the South China Sea threatened this weekend to use force to “deal with any security threat” in the region, asserting that “China’s sovereignty” in the region — highly disputed by its neighbors — was worth deploying the military.
Over the weekend, militants in the volatile Kashmir region ambushed an Indian military convoy, then holed up in the local headquarters of the government’s Entrepreneurship Development Institute, on the outskirts of Srinagar, India.
Contents: Delhi in crisis as India sends thousands of troops to quash Jat riots; Jats demand entry into the ‘reservation system’ for jobs and education; Bomb explosions strike Assad strongholds in Syria as Kerry speaks of ‘provisional’ peace
A mob, some dressed as attorneys, stormed a New Delhi court and beat an Indian student accused of having shouted anti-Indian government slogans at a rally, while waving Indian flags and shouting, “Glory to Mother India.”
The Zika virus has a long history in India, so there is much concern about the current outbreak, even though the region primarily affected is in South America, and Asia has not been affected much yet.
Iran’s re-entry into the oil market, following the end of sanctions over its nuclear program, will also mark the beginning of a major effort to reduce its dependency on the U.S. dollar. Not only is Iran demanding payment in euros instead of dollars for its new oil contracts, but it also wants the billions owed by its trading partners to be remitted in euros.
Indian lawyer Chandan Kumar Singh has attempted to file a lawsuit against the Hindu God Ram over mistreatment of the god’s wife, Sita.
