Indian Defence Forum

Employment growth in India slowed down drastically during the period 2012 to 2016, after a marginal improvement between March 2010 and March 2012, according to the latest available employment data collected by the Labour Bureau. There was an absolute decline in employment during the period 2013–14 to 2015–16, perhaps happening for the first time in independent India. The construction,...

New Delhi: Pakistan on Sunday brandished the photo of a woman with facial injuries at the United Nations General Assembly on Sunday. The country’s Permanent Representative to the UN Maleeha Lodhi claimed the woman was a “victim of pellet gun injury in Kashmir”.

The claim, it turns out, was a blatant lie.

The woman in the photo is Rawya abu Jom’a, who was injured in an Israeli...

Sunday, 24 Sep 2017
Hasnaat Malik
Pakistan loses another power litigation
PHOTO: FILE

ISLAMABAD: The London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) has issued a final partial award against Pakistan, directing the country to pay around Rs11 billion claimed by nine independent power producers (IPPs) – a second embarrassing outcome of international litigations...