Thu 30 March 2023: Up to 31 people have died after a ferry carrying about 250 passengers and crew caught fire in the southern Philippines. The Coast Guard Commodore Rejard Marfe confirmed that 28 people had drowned or died in the blaze However, Jim Hataman, governor of Basilan, the southern island province near where the […]
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Thu 30 March 2023: Canada has announced its intention to introduce legislation to eradicate forced labour from its supply chains, sparked by China’s ongoing persecution of its Uyghur Muslim population and the conditions in which they are forced to work. In its Budget 2023 announcement this week, the Canadian government stated that it “is gravely concerned by […]
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Wed 29 March 2023: Sikh preacher Amritpal Singh, who has managed to evade a massive manhunt by the police for 12 days, on Wednesday released a video, confirming that he remains at large. The video has been sourced through a foreign country, said sources, adding it appears to be two days old. UK handles have […]
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Wed 29 March 2023: Zakir Abdul Karim Naik, the popular televangelist and Islamic preacher, who delivered his first lecture ‘The Quran is a Global Necessity’ in Oman, said the majority of Hindus in India love him. According to reports, he made the remark while speaking at the Oman Convention and Exhibition Centre on Thursday, which […]
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Tue 28 March 2023: An Imam who led the prayer at a mosque in Maharashtra’s Anwa village was attacked by Hindu men who entered the mosque and beat him up for refusing to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram,’ a Hindutva war cry. According to Zakir Sayyed Khaja, the incident happened on Sunday evening at approximately 7:30 […]
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Tue 28 March 2023: The unprecedented scale of action on Amritpal, who otherwise could have been arrested without either much noise or spectacle, appears to be an attempt to demoralise civil society by creating a ‘fear psychosis’, says historian and expert, Prof. Harjeshwar Singh. Chandigarh: A sense of uncertainty continues in Punjab as the police chase […]
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Mon 27 March 2023: All the seven Adani Group stocks ended in the red on Monday, March 27 – for the first time in more than a month, i.e. since February 22, 2023. This has led to a loss of Rs 30,000 crore worth of market capitalisation, CNBCTV18 reported. The total market capitalisation currently stands at […]
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Muslims offering Taraweeh (left) Rashtriya Bajrang Dal state president Rohan Saxena (right) Sun 26 March 2023: Right-wing organisation Rashtriya Bajrang Dal objected to the offering of Taraweeh prayers by a group of Muslim men in the Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh. The incident happened on Saturday night when a group of Rashtriya Bajrang Dal led […]
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Sun 26 March 2023: India on Sunday launched its heaviest rocket, Launch Vehicle Mark 3 (LVM3 or GSLV Mark 3), which successfully placed 36 satellites into orbit, the country’s Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) announced. “All 36 OneWeb Gen-1 satellites injected into the intended orbits. In its 6th consecutive successful flight, LVM3 carried 5805 kgs […]
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Sat 25 March 2023: Toronto: Canada is “very closely” following the developments in Punjab and will continue to address the concerns of the community, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly has said amid Punjab Police’s crackdown on radical preacher Amritpal Singh. Joly was answering a question from Indo-Canadian MP Iqwinder S Gaheer in the House of Commons on […]
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