Category: Asia
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 […]
Continue ReadingCHINA REITERATES CLAIM ON ARUNACHAL PRADESH REGION
Indians burn images of Chinese President Xi Jinping in Bhopal on June 16 after news of the violence at the border broke Sat 16 March 2024: Beijing on Friday reiterated its claim over the Indian eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, known as Zangnan in China, state media reported. “The area of Zangnan is Chinese […]
Continue ReadingUN SEEKING MORE THAN $850M FOR ROHINGYA REFUGEES IN BANGLADESH
Fri 15 March 2024: The United Nations is calling for more donations for Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh. In its annual response plan to the crisis, the UN appealed for $852.4m to provide food and other aid to the mostly Muslim Rohingya refugees and their host communities. Bangladesh has taken in more than a million […]
Continue ReadingUS, UN EXPRESS CONCERN ABOUT INDIA’S RELIGION-BASED CITIZENSHIP LAW
Thu 14 March 2024: The US government and the United Nations, on Tuesday, expressed concerns about a contentious religion-based citizenship law in India, with the UN calling the legislation “fundamentally discriminatory in nature”, Reuters reports. Rights advocates have criticised the 2019 Citizenship Amendment Act, which the Indian government moved to implement on Monday. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International say it discriminates against […]
Continue Reading‘DARK DAY’: INDIA ON EDGE OVER RELIGION-BASED CITIZENSHIP LAW BEFORE POLLS
New Delhi: Protestors hold placards during a demonstration against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) at Jamia Nagar in New Delhi, Friday, Dec. 20, 2019. (PTI Photo/Ravi Choudhary) (PTI12_20_2019_000064B) Tue 12 March 2024: New Delhi, India — Protests have erupted in parts of India over the Narendra Modi government’s implementation of a controversial citizenship law ahead of national […]
Continue Reading“MR. 10%” ASIF ALI ZARDARI ELECTED AS 14TH PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN
Sat 09 March 2024: Asif Ali Zardari, the co-chairman of the center-left Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), was chosen by parliamentarians on Saturday to serve as the nation’s fourteenth president. Zardari, 68, the widower of the two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and the candidate of the ruling coalition, defeated Mahmood Khan Achakzai, a veteran politician from the southwestern […]
Continue ReadingWORLD TRYING TO DISCREDIT THE ISLAMIC SYSTEM, TALIBAN HEAD SAYS
Fri 08 March 2024: Taliban chief, Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, said in an inter-departmental coordination meeting that the world does not see the current oppression of the Palestinian people and instead seeks to discredit the Islamic system under the name of human rights. Akhund added that at this critical time, the protection of Islam and […]
Continue Reading‘SINICISATION’ OF ISLAM ‘INEVITABLE’, SAYS TOP CHINESE OFFICIAL IN XINJIANG
Fri 08 March 2024: A senior Communist Party official of China’s Xinjiang province on Thursday said that “Sinicisation of Islam in the Muslim-dominated province was “inevitable”. China has faced massive international criticism over the persecution Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. Notably, Sinicisation is an act or process of making something more Chinese in character. The regional […]
Continue ReadingMODI MAKES RARE PRE-ELECTION KASHMIR TRIP, BUT STRUGGLES TO ‘WIN HEARTS’
Fri 08 March 2024: Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – In his first speech in the main city of Indian-administered Kashmir since scrapping its semi-autonomous status in 2019, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed the move had brought development and prosperity to the region’s residents. “I am working hard to win your hearts,” Modi told a rally on Thursday in […]
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