PAKISTAN RESUMES PROCESS OF FORCED DEPORTATIONS OF UNDOCUMENTED AFGHANS

Fri 22 March 2024: Pakistani officials said on Tuesday that they will resume the process of forced deportation of Afghan immigrants from that country. This comes after Pakistan carried out airstrikes on residential houses in Barmal district of Paktika province and Spera district of Khost province on Sunday night. As a result of these airstrikes, […]

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PROMINENT INDIAN OPPOSITION LEADER ARVIND KEJRIWAL ARRESTED OVER CORRUPTION CLAIMS

Fri 22 March 2024: India’s financial crime bureau has detained Delhi Chief Minister and well-known opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal in relation to corruption claims involving the city’s liquor policy, his party has said. After two of Arvind Kejriwal’s deputies were arrested in the same case last year, which the party has referred to as “dirty […]

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INDIAN SUPREME COURT STAYS GOVERNMENT MOVE TO FORM FACT CHECK UNIT UNDER IT LAWS

Thu 21 March 2024: India’s top court has ordered a stay on the government notifying a state-run press body to check alleged fake news or misinformation about the government’s policies on social media. The Supreme Court’s order on Thursday said “serious constitutional questions” were raised in the petitions challenging the government’s move. The court’s ruling […]

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AS CHINA AGES, SENIOR CITIZENS SEE A RETIREMENT OF STRIVING TO GET BY

Many elderly Chinese plan to return to work after retirement [Courtesy: Thomas Peter/Reuters] Thu 21 March 2024: Taichung, Taiwan – When Hao Pengfei retired last year, it felt nothing like he had expected it would when he was a younger man. “I used to think that retirement is more about relaxation and hobbies and less about […]

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PRABOWO WINS 2024 INDONESIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Thu 21 March 2024: Presidential and vice-presidential candidate pair Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka won Indonesia’s 2024 presidential election, the country’s General Elections Commission (KPU) announced on Wednesday. According to the official counts released by KPU, Prabowo-Gibran received 96,214,691 votes, beating the Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar pair who got 40,971,906 votes, and Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD […]

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“THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WILL DIE IN EUROPE” IF POPPIES NOT GROWN IN AFGHANISTAN

Wed 20 March 2024: A Spanish newspaper has reported that the drastic drop in poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has opened a gap for fentanyl in Europe. A report from the European Drug Monitoring Center warns of the risk that a possible lack of global supply will be replaced with “more harmful synthetic opiates, such as […]

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THOUSANDS EVACUATED AS WILDFIRE RAGES IN CHINA’S SICHUAN PROVINCE

Tue 19 March 2024: More than 3,300 people have been evacuated as a wildfire spreads through a Tibetan-populated county in China’s Sichuan province, Chinese state media and three people with knowledge of the situation said Monday. The fire that started on Friday in the rural area of Yajiang County in the Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture […]

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HOW INDIA CAME TO EMBRACE THE POLITICS OF HINDUTVA

Sun 17 March 2024: As Modi religiously prepares for India’s elections, Sreenivasan Jain examines the tussle between Hindutva and secularism. The politics of Hindu nationalism have played a central role in the dramatic rise of the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. As the elections have neared, the Modi regime has turbocharged its Hindu-first agenda […]

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