Mon 13 March 2023: Indians are celebrating a historic night at the Oscars after a breakout hit song from the action movie RRR and a short documentary, The Elephant Whisperers, win at the Oscars. “Naatu Naatu” won the award for the best original song, making history as the first homemade movie from the South Asian country to […]
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Mon 13 March 2023: Former Minister and BJP MLA K.S. Eshwarappa has stirred a fresh controversy in Karnataka by stating that “does Allah listen only if the Azaan prayers are played on loudspeakers”. Speaking at a rally organised as part of the Vijay Sankalp Yatra on Sunday, Eshwarappa said, “Will Allah listen only if the […]
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Mon 13 March 2023: Chinese President Xi Jinping is planning to visit Russia as soon as next week, the news agency Reuters reported on Monday (March 13) quoting people familiar with the matter. The development comes as the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war continues to escalate over the eastern city of Bakhmut. The visit would be would […]
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Sun 12 March 2023: The editor of the Jammu-based Kashmir Times newspaper accused the Narendra Modi administration of stifling press freedom in Kashmir and the rest of India in an opinion piece that was published in The New York Times, angering the Centre. Anuradha Bhasin, the owner and executive editor of the Kashmir Times, claimed […]
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Sat 11 March 2023: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi has erupted, spewing out smoke and ash that blanketed villages near the crater and forcing authorities to halt tourism and mining activities on the slopes of the country’s most active volcano. The volcano, located in Indonesia’s Yogyakarta special region, erupted at about 12pm (05:00 GMT) on Saturday and unleashed […]
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Sat 11 March 2023: Naseem Qureshi, 56, died earlier this week after being attacked by a mob on suspicion of carrying beef. According to a police official, authorities in India have detained three individuals in eastern Bihar state in connection with the killing of a Muslim man who was attacked because he was thought to […]
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Fri 10 March 2023: Xi Jinping was handed an unprecedented third term as Chinese president on Friday, capping a rise that has seen him become the country’s most powerful leader in generations. Nearly 3,000 members of China’s parliament, the National People’s Congress (NPC), voted unanimously in the Great Hall of the People for Xi to be […]
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Fri 10 March 2023: Zubair said that while he usually ignores or laughs off the torrent of abuse he receives, the flurry calling for violence against him increased after Alt News busted misleading propaganda about ‘fatal attacks’ on migrant workers from Bihar in Tamil Nadu. New Delhi: Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair has received a fresh flurry […]
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Thu 09 March 2023: The governor of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan’s Balkh province was killed in a blast at his office on Thursday (March 9). Speaking to the news agency AFP, Asif Waziri said the governor Mohammad Dawood Muzammil and three other persons were killed in the explosion. Taliban government spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted that Muzammil was […]
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Thu 09 March 2023: Muhyiddin Yassin, who was Malaysia’s prime minister as the country locked down over COVID-19, is expected to be charged on Friday with corruption over the alleged diversion of funds to his party. Muhyiddin went voluntarily for questioning at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) on Thursday morning in relation to allegations that […]
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