Tue 19 January 2021: A court in Thailand on Tuesday sentenced a former civil servant to a record prison term of 43 years and six months for breaching the country’s strict law on insulting or defaming the monarchy, lawyers said. The criminal court sentenced the woman to 87 years in jail, however after confession, her sentence […]
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Tue 19 January 2021: Out of 85 people who have been prosecuted under the law so far, 79 are Muslims, while others belong to the Christian community A petition has been filed in the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court by the Legal Aid Committee of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, seeking to quash cases registered against […]
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Mon 18 January 2021: Amid outrage over leaked WhatsApp conversations of TV anchor Arnab Goswami, submitted by Mumbai Police to a court, the opposition has demanded an investigation into chats linked to the 2019 Balakot air strike in retaliation for the terror attack on a security convoy in Pulwama. The transcripts are a part of […]
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Mon 18 January 2021: China’s economy grew more than expected last year, even as the rest of the world was upended by the coronavirus pandemic. China on Monday said its economy grew by 2.3% in 2020 compared to a year earlier, and its economic and social development goals were accomplished better than expected despite the […]
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Mon 18 January 2021: The mosque is coming up in the Uttar Pradesh district pursuant to the Supreme Court verdict in the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi case. “At a meeting of the Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation (IICF), it was decided that Republic Day will be celebrated with the start of the Dhannipur Mosque Project, which includes a […]
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Sun 17 January 2021: The protesting farmers refused to call off their Republic Day tractor rally today, and said the probe by the National Investigation Agency is meant to break their big protest. Today, as the agency summoned 40 people — Including farmer leader Baldev Singh Sirsa — for questioning in a case related to […]
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Sun 17 January 2021: The United States led the world in exposing the “horrific” rights abuses in Xinjiang province of China and imposed sanctions on the Chinese Communist Party’s officials, said outgoing US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo. Taking to Twitter, Pompeo on Saturday (local time) lauded America’s efforts in bringing up the Uyghur issue […]
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Sun 17 January 2021: A 13-year-old girl was kidnapped and gang-raped by nine men in Madhya Pradesh’s Umaria district twice within five days, the police have said, adding seven people have been arrested so far in the case. The incident comes at a time when the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government is running the ‘Samman’ campaign […]
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Sun 17 January 2021: Gunmen have shot dead two Afghan women judges working for the Supreme Court during an early morning ambush in the country’s capital, officials said, as a wave of assassinations continues to rattle the nation. Sunday’s attack on the judges happened as they were travelling to their office in a court vehicle, […]
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Sat 16 January 2021: Right wing Indian television anchor Arnab Goswami knew of the Modi government’s plan to stage a strike in Pakistan days before the Feb 26, 2019, Balakot episode between the two countries, evidence submitted by Mumbai police as part of an ongoing investigation on manipulation of television ratings suggests, multiple Indian media […]
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