Khalifa Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Taliban’s acting Interior Minister met with a visiting delegation of (OIC), Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Kabul on Sep 4, 2023 [@MJalal0093/X] Tue 05 September 2023: Calling education a “shared need of Muslims”, the interim Taliban administration, on Monday, urged “patience” on the issue of girl’s education in Afghanistan, Anadolu Agency reports. […]
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Mon 04 September 2023: The Hindu far-right’s actions in Nuh, in India’s Haryana, echo Israel’s policies of trying to delete histories and legacies of the Palestinian people. In early August, the world watched in horror as authorities in the northern Indian state of Haryana demolished more than 300 Muslim-owned homes and businesses in Nuh – the only […]
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Mon 04 September 2023: Chinese President Xi Jinping will not attend the G20 Summit in New Delhi this week and the delegation will be led by Premier Li Qiang, the foreign ministry announced here on Monday. At the invitation of the government of the Republic of India, Premier of the State Council Li Qiang will […]
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Mon 04 September 2023: Malaysia has dropped a multimillion-dollar corruption case against Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi on charges he defrauded a foundation. Zahid had faced 47 charges involving multiple counts of criminal breach of trust, corruption and money laundering related to the misuse of $27m of funds at Yayasan Akalbudi, a charity he […]
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One of the cases highlighted in the BBC report is of Aasif Sultan, a local journalist and assistant editor of the Kashmir Narrator magazine who was arrested in August 2018 Sun 03 September 2023: Police in Indian-administered Kashmir threaten to initiate legal action against the British broadcaster for reporting on media crackdown in disputed […]
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Sat 02 September 2023: Aditya L1, India’s first space-based observatory to study the Sun, was launched successfully at 11:50 am on Saturday, September 2. The mission to study the Sun’s outermost layers represents another milestone for the Indian space programme after the Chandrayaan-3 mission successfully soft landed on the lunar surface on August 23. Aditya L1, India’s […]
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Fri 01 September 2023: The Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) on Thursday trained gun at billionaire Gautam Adani’s group, alleging hundreds of millions of dollars were invested in publicly traded group stocks through Mauritius-based ‘opaque’ investment funds managed by partners of promoter family, charges the conglomerate denied vehemently. ADANI GROUP’S GROSS DEBT RS […]
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Thu 31 August 2023: Domestic, Asian and European companies, Thursday, signed seven major mining contracts worth around $6.5 billion with the interim Taliban administration in Afghanistan, Anadolu Agency reports. The contracts were signed in Kabul between the war-torn nation’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum and private companies from Afghanistan, Turkiye, Iran and China, said the office […]
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Thu 31 August 2023: The Narendra Modi-led Indian government is using powerful surveillance tools bought from Israeli firms to spy on the citizens, a recent Financial Times report claims. The report titled ‘India’s communications backdoor attracts surveillance companies’ has shed light on how India’s communications monitoring systems are creating ‘backdoors’ for surveillance companies to “enable the government […]
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Thu 31 August 2023: Malaysia has rejected the latest edition of the ‘standard map of China’ that lays claim to almost the entire South China Sea, including areas lying off the coast of Malaysian Borneo. Tensions have been rising in the strategically important waters as China has become increasingly assertive in its claim despite a […]
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