Sat 07 October 2023: The death count from a magnitude 6.3 earthquake in western Afghanistan on Saturday has risen to “about 120”, disaster relief authorities said, with more than 1,000 others being treated for injuries. The United States Geological Survey said the epicentre was 40 kilometres (25 miles) northwest of the region’s largest city Herat, […]
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Fri 06 October 2023: With the Modi government’s Olympics bid, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has a key opportunity to press for human rights reforms and justice for affected Indian athletes, Human Rights Watch said in a dispatch on Thursday. The statement comes as the IOC is holding its 140th annual session from October 15 […]
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Fri 06 October 2023: Thailand is tightening regulations on guns and replica firearms, officials said on Thursday, in an effort to to close legal loopholes in the aftermath of a shooting at a Bangkok shopping mall that killed two people and injured five more. Thai Deputy Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said the government will implement […]
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Thu 05 October 2023: Police in India have carried out raids against dozens of reporters, drawing outrage from journalists and rights groups over a growing crackdown on the media under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. A planned protest in the capital, New Delhi, on Wednesday was prevented by police. Activists and rights groups have sounded the […]
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Thu 05 October 2023: Pakistan’s plan to evict hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees and migrants is “unacceptable”, says the Taliban, denying Islamabad’s allegations that Afghanistan’s citizens were responsible for Pakistan’s security problems. “The behaviour of Pakistan towards Afghan refugees is unacceptable,” Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman for the Taliban administration in Kabul, said in a post on the […]
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Thu 05 October 2023: The journalist and fact-checker is one of three nominees, with the Index on Censorship recognising his efforts to “address flaws in the Indian media ecosystem, such as overt political pressure on media outlets and opaque methods by which government funding was awarded to media outlets”. New Delhi: Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair is […]
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Indian Media persons turned up in large number at the Press Club of India to protest against multiple raids on a number of journalists associated with Newsclick (02/10/2023) Wed 04 October 2023: Following the arrest of NewsClick founder and editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha and its HR head Amit Chakravarty under the draconian UAPA law on […]
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Wed 04 October 2023: A blow to TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, the Indonesian trade minister announced on Wednesday (Oct. 4) that the country has outlawed e-commerce transactions on social media platforms. The announcement could undermine TikTok’s strategy to develop its e-commerce company by focusing more on Southeast Asia’s largest economy. According to the government, […]
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Wed 04 October 2023: Several journalists and activists in New York, USA, have extended their support to the online news outlet NewsClick after Delhi police raided its offices, residences of staff, and arrested its editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha and HR head under the draconian UAPA law. One such solitary protest was witnessed against the New York Times (NYT) which had published an […]
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Wed 04 October 2023: Poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has reportedly dropped by 85% following the return to power of the Islamic Emirate, new analysis shows. In April last year, the Taliban supreme leader issued a decree prohibiting poppy farming across the country. Almost 18 months later, the ban is being described by experts as “the […]
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