Fri 22 September 2023: Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir have released a top cleric and pro-freedom leader and allowed him to lead the congregational Friday prayers after more than four years of house detention. An emotional Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday led the prayers at the disputed region’s main mosque in Srinagar city amid heavy security […]
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Fri 22 September 2023: A popular Indonesian TikTok influencer has been sentenced to two years in jail over posting a video, where she said an Islamic phrase before eating pork. Lina Lutfiawati, 33, who has over 2 million followers on the social media platform, was found guilty by a court in the city of Palembang […]
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Fri 22 September 2023: United States President Joe Biden and other leaders expressed concern to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the G20 summit earlier this month about Canada’s claim that New Delhi was involved in the killing of a Sikh separatist leader, the Financial Times (FT) has reported. Several members of the Five Eyes – an […]
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Fri 22 September 2023: Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan’s poll panel has announced the much-awaited general elections will be held in the last week of January next year. In a short statement on Thursday, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) said the polls, due to be held in November, were delayed due to fresh marking of the […]
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Thu 21 September 2023: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reiterated Thursday that Canada does not seek to provoke or cause problems, following India’s suspension of all visa services for Canadian citizens and directive to reduce diplomatic staffing as a rift between the countries widened following the prime minister’s statement that India may have been involved […]
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Thu 21 September 2023: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged cash-strapped Pakistan to increase its income through taxing the country’s rich, and protect the vulnerable in order to ensure economic stability. The call was reiterated by IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva who met Pakistan’s caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar on the sidelines of […]
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In 2022, Chinese researchers published more scientific papers on artificial intelligence than any other nation. Mf3D/E+ via Getty Images Thu 21 September 2023: China made an impact on the global academic scene by surpassing the US for the first time in terms of contributions to highly influential international journals in 2022, a report released Wednesday […]
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Wed 20 September 2023: The quasi-religious group has at least 3,500 members who are holed up in a mountain community in Mindanao. Mindanao, Philippines – An obscure religious movement, believed to be promoting an imminent end-of-the-world ideology, has been accused of engaging in sexual violence and forced marriage of its own members, including children. The Socorro […]
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Wed 20 September 2023: Canada PM Trudeau urges New Delhi to take issue seriously after India rejects accusations of involvement in killing. Sikh and Muslim leaders in Canada have called on the government to do more to prevent potential threats against their communities, after Ottawa announced a probe of possible links between India and the killing of […]
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Tue 19 September 2023: Just hours after Ottawa removed the South Asian country’s top intelligence agent and accused it of a part in the death of a Sikh separatist leader, India said on Tuesday that it had dismissed a Canadian diplomat and given him five days’ notice to leave the country. New Delhi’s decision reflected […]
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