India-France steps up counter-extremism coop as threat of expulsion of Pak-based French envoy looms largeFrance during the recent visit of its NSA to Delhi indicated that Paris will put an end to exports of critical defence items to Pakistan Ar...
25 Jan, 2021, 09.05 AM IST
French President Emmanuel Macron criticizes media over coverage of Islamic extremism"When France was attacked five years ago, every nation in the world supported us," Macron told Ben Smith in comments published in the latte...
16 Nov, 2020, 09.39 AM IST
Wounds still raw as France remembers 2015 Paris attacksThe night of carnage on November 13, 2015 saw 130 people killed and 350 wounded when Islamist suicide bombers and gunmen attacked the Stade...
13 Nov, 2020, 05.07 PM IST
Famous Urdu poet Munawwar Rana booked over remarks on France killingsThe poet has also been booked under IPC Section 505 (statements conducing public mischief) and Section 66 of the Information Technology Act...
02 Nov, 2020, 03.49 PM IST
France honours slain teacher with a minute of silence as schools resumeSchoolchildren across France were to observe a minute of silence at 11:00 am (1000 GMT) to remember Samuel Paty, who was killed in Conflans...
02 Nov, 2020, 02.36 PM IST
At least 50,000 take part in anti-France rally in BangladeshPolice estimated some 50,000 people took part in the protest, which demanded a boycott of French products, while organisers said there were...
02 Nov, 2020, 02.22 PM IST
View: The French issue is bigger than a few tasteless cartoons"India was right to stand by Macron. These are questions that go beyond the boundaries of France. Islamic countries may feel that Macron is...
01 Nov, 2020, 11.02 AM IST
France's Macron to Muslims: I hear your anger, but won't accept violenceAn assailant shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest) beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a church in Nice on Thursday, in Fra...
01 Nov, 2020, 10.16 AM IST
Orthodox priest wounded in shooting in France's Lyon, attacker flees: PoliceThe priest, who has Greek nationality, was closing his church when the attack happened and is now in a serious condition, said the source, ...
31 Oct, 2020, 10.43 PM IST
France on edge as man linked to Nice attacker detainedThe 47-year-old was taken into custody late Thursday after the killings at Nice's Notre-Dame basilica by a 21-year-old Tunisian who arrived...
30 Oct, 2020, 05.59 PM IST
Three dead in knife attack in French church, woman beheadedThe attack comes while France is still reeling from the beheading earlier this month of French middle school teacher Samuel Paty in Paris b...
29 Oct, 2020, 08.34 PM IST
Saudi Arabia holds off from backing action against France over cartoonsA foreign ministry official also said in a statement that the Gulf state condemns all acts of terrorism, an apparent reference to the behea...
27 Oct, 2020, 02.12 PM IST
Saudi Arabia condemns cartoons offending Prophet MohammadThe statement by a foreign ministry official, carried on state media, did not refer to calls in some Muslim countries for a boycott of Fren...
27 Oct, 2020, 10.16 AM IST
Turkey calls for boycott of French goods amid Macron rowTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has led the charge against President Emmanuel Macron over his robust defence of the right to mock re...
26 Oct, 2020, 11.43 PM IST
Pakistan witnesses maximum protests against re-publication of Charlie Hebdo cartoonsThe protests organised by Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), a radical political party established in 2015, were held in Islamabad, Multan a...
25 Sep, 2020, 08.31 PM IST
Charlie Hebdo reprints controversial Mohammed cartoons to mark start of trial against alleged accomplices to 2005 attackThe editorial team wrote that now was the right time to republish the cartoons.
02 Sep, 2020, 11.16 AM IST
German daily that printed Charlie Hebdo cartoons attackedA German newspaper was targeted in an arson attack for reprinting controversial cartoons from French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo and two ...
11 Jan, 2015, 07.10 PM IST