Sat 25 March 2023: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi held his first news conference since his disqualification from the Lok Sabha on Saturday, saying he only raised one question about Adani in Parliament. On the question of apologizing for his remarks on the Prime Minister, Rahul remarked that his name is ‘not Savarkar but Gandhi. “My […]
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Fri 24 March 2023: Afghanistan’s new leaders believe in dialogue and an exchange of ideas. But it takes two hands to clap. A year and a half after the developments of August 15, 2021, when the Islamic Emirate regained control of Afghanistan, the situation in the country remains extremely hopeful. The security situation has improved significantly. Violence […]
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Thu 23 March 2023: A Surat district court in Gujarat on Thursday convicted Congress MP Rahul Gandhi in a criminal defamation case against him over his alleged ‘Modi surname’ remark in April 2019. Gandhi was convicted under IPC sections 499 and 500. The maximum possible punishment under this section is two years. The Court of […]
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Thu 23 March 2023: President Joe Biden has expressed “solidarity” with China’s embattled Uighur minority in a message to Muslims around the world as they celebrate the holy month of Ramadan. “Together with our partners, the United States stands in solidarity with Muslims who continue to face oppression, including Uighurs in the People’s Republic of China, Rohingya in […]
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Thu 23 March 2023: The UK has officially launched an independent investigation into allegations that British armed forces committed dozens of extrajudicial killings in Afghanistan between 2010 and 2013. The investigation, which was first announced in December, will also look into whether the UK military investigated allegations of unlawful killings of civilians by British forces […]
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Wed 22 March 2023: The US Department of State has slammed India once again in its latest report on human rights issues across the world, flagging “extrajudicial killings”, “lack of accountability for official misconduct”, and an “overburdened and under-resourced” judicial system. Released Tuesday, the 57-page document titled ‘2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices’ — also known as the […]
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Wed 22 March 2023: About six months after catastrophic floods in Pakistan, more than 10 million people still lack access to safe drinking water in areas affected by the record-breaking rains, according to a United Nations report. Families living in flood-hit areas have “no alternative but to drink and use potentially disease-ridden water”, the UN […]
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Wed 22 March 2023: New Delhi: Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud has said that a special bench will be constituted by the Supreme Court to hear the pleas challenging the premature release of 11 convicts by the Gujarat government in the Bilkis Bano gang rape case. “I will have a bench constituted. Will look at it this […]
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Tue 21 March 2023: A strong earthquake has struck Pakistan, Afghanistan and India. According to the US Geological Survey, the centre of the magnitude 6.5 quake, was located 40km Southeast of Jurm, in Afghanistan’s Hindukush region. Accroding to the Pakistan’s meteorological office, the earthquake was a magnitude 7.7 and was felt in the capital Islamabad […]
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Tue 21 March 2023: Chinese leader Xi Jinping is meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin, for formal talks at the Kremlin on Tuesday, the second day of his three-day trip. It’s Xi’s first visit, since the Russian invasion of Ukraine — and Beijing has billed the trip as a peace mission, but has not yet indicated, […]
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