Sat 12 August 2023: Deloitte has decided to resign as auditor of India’s Adani Ports over concerns about transactions flagged in a report by the United States-based short seller Hindenburg, the Reuters news agency reports, citing an unnamed source with direct knowledge of the matter. Deloitte in May had pointed to certain transactions flagged by […]
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Fri 11 August 2023: Jama Masjid’s Shahi Imam Syed Ahmed Bukhari on Friday expressed concerns over the “storm of hatred” in the country, and urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to listen to the ‘Mann Ki Baat’ of Muslims. Citing recent incidents like the Nuh riots and the killing of four persons by a railway police […]
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Fri 11 August 2023: Pakistan’s imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan met his wife Bushra Bibi at the high-security Attock jail for the first time on Thursday after his conviction and arrest in a corruption case, his lawyer said. Lawyer Naeem Haider Panjutha said in a video message on X, formerly known as Twitter, that […]
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Fri 11 August 2023: On Friday, Uzbekistan started a trial over the deaths of 65 children last year that were connected to tainted cough syrups, revealing for the first time a far greater death toll than before, Reuters reported. Only 20 deaths associated with the medications, which were made by Marion Biotech in India, had […]
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Fri 11 August 2023: The new arrangement will definitely benefit India. But its benefits for Bangladesh are questionable, experts say. Early last month, Bangladesh and India rolled out bilateral trade in Indian rupees, which was billed by the two countries’ governments as a “landmark” settlement. They said it would not only boost their trade volume […]
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Thu 10 August 2023: Indian lawmakers have passed a data protection law that will dictate how tech companies process users’ data amid criticism that it will likely lead to increased surveillance by the government. The law, passed on Wednesday, will allow companies to transfer some users’ data abroad while giving the government power to seek […]
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Thu 10 August 2023: More than 952,000 Afghan refugees have returned home over the last year from neighboring countries, the interim Taliban administration said Wednesday. According to the interim Ministry of Refugee and Repatriations, 952,589 Afghan refugees returned to Afghanistan from Iran, Pakistan and other countries over the past year, state news agency BNA reported. […]
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Thu 10 August 2023: The US State Department in a meeting on March 7, 2022 encouraged the Pakistani government to remove Imran Khan as the country’s Prime Minister over his neutrality in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, US-based news outlet The Intercept reported citing a classified Pakistani government document. The meeting between the Pakistani […]
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Wed 09 August 2023: Gurugram : In a purported video, a group of Hindus carrying the banner of Nuh’s Brij Mandal Jalaabhishek Yatra were seen urging shopkeepers in Haryana not to employ Muslims and to boycott the community vendors. The Hindu group gave out this warning during a rally in a market place in Haryana. […]
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Tue 08 August 2023: In a major blow to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday disqualified PTI chief and former Prime Minister Imran Khan for five years following his conviction in the Toshakhana case last week, Dawn News reported. An Islamabad trial court on Saturday sentenced Imran — who was […]
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