Wed 03 May 2023: Business & Human Rights Resource Centre says it recorded more than 550 attacks on human rights defenders in 2022. Taipei, Taiwan – India, Cambodia and the Philippines are among the most dangerous places in the world for human rights and labour activists with protests against corporate abuses often met with state-backed violence, […]
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Tue 02 May 2023: UN chief Antonio Guterres held a second day of talks with world powers Tuesday on how to deal with Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders amid warnings from the Kabul administration that the meeting could be “counter-productive”. The talks in Doha were arranged by Guterres after the Taliban government banned Afghan women from working […]
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Tue 02 May 2023: The Indian Supreme Court today refused to entertain a plea seeking a stay on release of the movie “The Kerala Story” on grounds that its a “worst kind of hate speech” and an “audio-visual propaganda”. A bench of Justices KM Joseph and BV Nagarathna was told by senior advocate Kapil Sibal […]
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Mon 01 May 2023: Doha, Qatar – The Taliban has not been invited to a United Nations-organised conference on Afghanistan in Doha, with the Afghan group governing the South Asian country saying that the two-day meeting would be “ineffective” without its participation. Envoys from the United States, China and Russia, as well as major European aid […]
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Mon 01 May 2023: Chinese authorities banned most Uyghurs praying in mosques — and even in their homes — during the Eid al-Fitr holiday, marking the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, in many parts of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, residents and police said, the media reported. People aged 60 and older […]
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Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and his Indian counterpart Rajnath Singh pose for a picture before start of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meet in New Delhi, India, April 28, 2023. Sun 30 Apr 2023: The Taliban refuted comments made by Russia’s defense minister on Friday that armed groups from Afghanistan pose a threat to […]
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A file photo of the Chinese Mars rover Zhurong near its landing platform, in an image taken by a remote camera, June 11, 2021 Photograph:(Agencies) Sun 30 Apr 2023: For the first time, China’s Zhurong rover discovered indications of recent water activity on Mars, indicating that the Red Planet has a few locations where conditions […]
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Sun 30 Apr 2023: More than 2,000 people were booked in three FIRs for offering namaz without permission on a road outside the Eidgah on Eid last week, police said on Thursday. The FIRs were registered separately at Bajaria, Babu Purwa, and Jajmau police stations on Wednesday. No arrests have been made so far. A […]
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Sat 29 Apr 2023: Twitter on Saturday locked Asian News International’s (ANI) and NDTV’s accounts because they did not match the ‘minimum age requirement’ to use the microblogging site, according to ANI Editor Smita Prakash on Saturday. The news agencies’ Twitter handle displays the phrase ‘This account doesn’t exist’. Prakash tweeted an image of a […]
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Fri 28 Apr 2023: The Supreme Court on Friday, April 28, sought a status report from the Uttar Pradesh government on the steps it has taken after the gangster and former MP Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf’s murder while in police custody, and has categorically asked its attorney why the duo was paraded in […]
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