Thu 31 August 2023: After accused the popular video-sharing app of “causing addiction” among children and harming their mental health, Kyrgyzstan said on Wednesday that it intended to outlaw TikTok. The culture ministry of the Central Asian nation claimed in a statement that it had received “frequent messages” from organizations voicing worry about the “harmful […]
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Wed 30 August 2023: India has lodged a strong protest with China over a new map that lays claim to territory New Delhi says is Indian, the latest tension between the two Asian neighbours over their mutual border. The protest lodged by New Delhi on Tuesday followed reports in the Indian media that Beijing had released an official “standard […]
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Wed 29 August 2023: Hundreds of thousands of people are being forcibly engaged by organised criminal gangs into online criminality in Southeast Asia – from romance-investment scams and crypto fraud to illegal gambling – a report issued today by the UN Human Rights Office shows. Victims face a range of serious violations and abuses, including threats to […]
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Tue 29 August 2023: China on Monday released the 2023 edition of its “standard map”, staking a claim over Arunachal Pradesh, Aksai Chin region, Taiwan and the disputed South China Sea, news agency PTI reported. China’s official map, referred to as the 2023 edition, was introduced via the Ministry of Natural Resources’ standard map service […]
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Tue 29 August 2023: The Islamabad High Court has suspended former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s prison sentence for a corruption conviction. A two-judge bench of the IHC overturned a lower-court decision imprisoning him for three years and has ordered his immediate release. However, a special court recently established to hear cases under the Official Secrets Act has […]
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Tue 29 August 2023: In a concerning incident that has sent shockwaves across the nation, a religious shrine in the Uttarakhand state of India was vandalized by a group of individuals. The incident, which took place in the Amit Gram area of Rishikesh, has been widely discussed on social media after a video capturing the […]
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Mon 28 August 2023: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will skip the Group of 20 (G20) summit in India next month and will send his foreign minister instead, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s office has said. Modi’s office said he spoke to Putin by telephone, “expressing an understanding” for his decision not to attend the summit. […]
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Mon 28 August 2023: A Dalit man was brutally murdered in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar district on Thursday after an argument broke out between him and the accused over withdrawal of a sexual harassment case filed by the victim’s sister in 2019. The victim, 18-year-old Nitin Ahirwar, was beaten to death after he refused to withdraw […]
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Sun 27 August 2023: Muzaffarnagar school teacher Tripta Tyagi, who is booked by the cops regarding the incident of making communal remarks and ordering her students to slap a Muslim classmate for not doing his homework, has told a news channel that “she is not ashamed” of her actions. Speaking to NDTV, Tyagi said that she […]
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Sun 27 August 2023: Chinese President Xi Jinping has made a rare visit to Xinjiang, calling on officials to conserve “hard-won social stability” in a region where Beijing is accused of abuses that the United Nations has said could amount to “crimes against humanity”. The Chinese government has pursued a years-long campaign against what it […]
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