Mon 08 May 2023: Mohammad Reza Ahmadi, the designer of a sports car made in Afghanistan, said in a video message posted to social media, that due to financial problems, they have been forced to stop work on their vehicle. Ahmadi did not say when they hoped to resume work but stated the main reason […]
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Mon 08 May 2023: Several farmers broke through police barricades on Monday to join the wrestlers’ protest against Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh here even as Delhi Police denied any untoward incident at the site. Purported videos showed farmers climbing the barricades and even dragging and pushing some of them away […]
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Sun 07 May 2023: Tribal groups are protesting the prospect of Manipur’s majority Meitei community being recognised as a “Scheduled Tribe”. At least 54 people have reportedly been killed and some 23,000 people displaced, most of them sheltering in army camps, in ethnic violence in India’s northeastern state of Manipur, according to military officials. On Sunday, the […]
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Sun 07 May 2023: The Belt and Road Initiative will now include Afghanistan, following an agreement between the Taliban, China, and Pakistan. This could bring in billions of dollars to support infrastructure development in the sanctioned nation, Bloomberg reported. During their Saturday meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and China’s Qin Gang […]
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Fri 05 May 2023: The Indian army has said that five Indian military personnel were killed in a blast during a gunfight with militants in the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir region. Indian defence forces have launched various operations in the Rajouri sector of the Himalayan region after unidentified shooters last month opened fire at an […]
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Fri 05 May 2023: Pakistan will most likely pay for the Russian oil in Chinese yuan, with the first cargo of 750,000 barrels of crude scheduled to arrive in June. According to The News, quoting an official, Pakistan would most likely pay the price of crude in Chinese money, and the “Bank of China may […]
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Thu 04 May 2023: In the unrest-ridden northwest of Pakistan, gunmen attacked a school, killing several teachers and shooting another one of them in a separate attack. On Thursday, a group of gunmen attacked a government school where pupils were sitting exams in Kurram, a district in the northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan. The […]
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Thu 04 May 2023: The ongoing wrestlers’ protest intensified on Thursday morning after a scuffle broke out between protesting grapplers and Delhi Police at Jantar Mantar late Wednesday night. Ace wrestler Vinesh Phogat, who said that a Delhi police personnel manhandled and shoved protesting grapplers, today said “she will return all her medals”. Around 11 […]
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Thu 04 May 2023: Human Rights Watch says Muslims in Xinjiang are flagged as violent extremists for simply practising their religion. Taipei, Taiwan – Chinese authorities monitor the phones of ethnic minority Uighurs for the presence of 50,000 known multimedia files that are used to flag violent extremism, with possession of the Quran enough to trigger […]
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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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