Wed 06 September 2023: The government of Sri Lanka will establish a parliamentary committee to look into claims made in a British television broadcast that Sri Lankan intelligence was involved in the 269-person-death Easter Sunday explosions in 2019. Manusha Nanayakkara, the minister of labor, promised the house on Tuesday that more information on the probe […]
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Wed 06 September 2023: Chinese authorities have ordered central government employees to refrain from using or bringing into the workplace any gadgets bearing the Apple or other foreign brand, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The step is the latest under authoritarian rule of Chinese Communist Party led […]
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The screen grab of the dinner invite sent by the Indian president to the G20 delegates [X/@ShashiTharoor] Tue 05 September 2023: The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has substituted the name India with a Sanskrit phrase in dinner invitations sent to visitors attending this week’s Group of 20 (G20) summit, sparking speculation that the […]
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Alleged rapist Samrat Vishwas (R), minor rape victim (M) and School Principal Anita Mishra (R). Tue 05 September 2023: A minor school-going girl was allegedly raped and sexually abused multiple times for 12 months by the son of an school director in Bihar’s Saharsa District. The matter came to light on 23 August when the […]
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Tue 05 September 2023: Malaysia announced on Tuesday that it is considering about regulating how internet digital platforms, such as Meta and Google, are paid for in the Southeast Asian country, Anadolu Agency reported. The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) stated that it is thinking about adopting legislative frameworks resembling those in place in […]
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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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