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
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
Anti-France protests continue in Muslim nations; President Macron seeks understandingThe demonstrations, which followed anti-France protests across the Muslim world last week, came after President Macron's interview late Sat...
01 Nov, 2020, 08.12 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
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
As anger rises, thousands protest French cartoonsAn estimated 2,000 worshippers celebrating the Mawlid, the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad, took to the streets in the eastern city of Lah...
30 Oct, 2020, 04.54 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
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
Pakistani PM Imran Khan writes to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg seeking ban on Islamophobic contentIn the letter, shared by the Pakistani government on Twitter, Imran Khan said that "growing Islamophobia" is encouraging extremism and viol...
26 Oct, 2020, 09.04 AM 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
Kerala to US, cartooning is in the crosshairseven in the age of social media memes, this centuries-old art form has lost none of its power to provoke and to shape opinion.
16 Jun, 2019, 11.05 AM IST
Pakistan parliament passes resolution against 'Charlie Hebdo' cartoonsResolution tabled in the National Assembly or the lower house said: "These cartoons are a conspiracy to widen misunderstandings among civil...
15 Jan, 2015, 05.15 PM 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
Paris attack: Haji Yakub Qureshi's remark for cheap publicity, say Muslim clericsMuslim scholars trashed as "cheap publicity gimmick" and "childish" Qureshi's alleged statement hailing terrorists and demanded strict acti...
09 Jan, 2015, 08.33 PM IST