“We condemn terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, including those on the basis of xenophobia, racism and other forms of intolerance, or in the name of religion or belief, recognizing the commitment of all religions to peace,” said the Delhi Declaration.
As people across the globe are getting ready to celebrate World Laughter Day on May 7, 2023, Dr Madan Kataria, founder of the worldwide Laughter Yoga movement, says that the need to laugh is more needed today, than ever before.
A frosty namaste and some extraordinarily harsh tongue-lashing is what Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari received during his two-day visit to India, the first by his country’s foreign minister in 12 years.
The Indian government has made significant efforts to detect, disrupt, and degrade the operations of terrorist organisations, according to the US Bureau of Counterterrorism’s ‘Country Reports on Terrorism 2021: India’.
The Foundation for India and Indian Diaspora Studies (FIIDS) has raised issues and policy matters important for Indian Americans before the 118th Congress, the speaker of the house, and recently elected India Caucus leadership. FIIDS has stressed and urged the India Caucus to focus on critical issues like immigration, the US-India partnership, countering terrorism, establishing peace, climate change and international treaties.
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Monday listed Pakistan-based terrorist Abdul Rehman Makki as a global terrorist under its ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee. This listing comes after China last year put on India’s bid to name the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) leader a global terrorist.
India has called for international solidarity to hold responsible under international law the countries that use cross-border terrorism. India’s Permanent Representative Ruchira Kamboj told the UN Security Council on Thursday, “States that use cross-border terror to serve narrow political purposes must be held accountable”.
The fact that judges and policemen are taking such a keen interest in our reading habits suggests that those who read books, like me, are likely to get into trouble one of these days. I know I will, given what’s on my bookshelf, says Justice Katju.
A Mumbai nurse who came face to face with the 26/11 terrorists at a hospital and protected 20 newborns gave a moving testimony before the UN Security Council about the horrors of terrorism and its continuing effects.
Terrorism threatens humanity, said External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday, as he remembered the victims of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.
