Tue 6 December 2022: New Delhi: The rise of Hindutva and Ram temple politics in the 1980s and 1990s led to the demolition of the Babri Mosque which stood at the spot where the Sangh parivar claimed that the Hindu community believed that Ram was born. The Wire takes a look at the personalities and the events […]
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Tue 6 December 2022: Indonesia has passed a new Criminal Code that makes sex outside of marriage and cohabitation illegal. The new laws apply to both Indonesians and foreigners and reinstate a ban on insulting the president, state institutions, or Pancasila, Indonesia’s national ideology. The new criminal code, which was approved unanimously by parliament on […]
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Mon 25 December 2022: About 310,000 chickens will be culled in central Aichi Prefecture in Japan due to an outbreak of bird flu, the Kyodo news agency reported on Monday. Local authorities say this is the first such outbreak in the past 11 years. On Sunday, workers at a farm in Aichi discovered an unusually […]
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Mon 25 December 2022: ‘Teacher Li’ has amassed more than 800,000 followers with his posts highlighting COVID-related unrest in China Taipei, Taiwan – As China faced its biggest protests in a generation last month, one Twitter account played an outsized role in taking protesters’ message beyond the Great Firewall to the outside world. “Teacher Li is […]
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Mon 25 December 2022: More people were evacuated Monday from nearby villages, following the eruption of Mount Semeru in Indonesia, with officials warning of the dangers of cooling lava, despite the volcano’s reduced activity. More than 2,400 villagers have now fled their homes and taken shelter in 11 evacuation centres after the highest mountain on […]
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Sun 04 December 2022: On early Sunday, Indonesia’s highest volcano on its most densely populated island of Java erupted, spewing large gas clouds and a lava river. According to the country’s disaster mitigation agency, this prompted authorities to issue the highest level of warning and begin the evacuation of at least 93 residents of East […]
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Sat 03 December 2022: The Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan’s visit to Saudi Arabia and subsequently his trip to Makkah for performing Umrah became the topic of most Indians not only in Saudi Arabia but also back home in India. Since the actor’s presence in Saudi Arabia is known to the public, some Muslims have […]
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Fri 02 December 2022: One of India’s most popular TV journalists quits the network recently acquired by a billionaire tycoon considered close to the BJP. The resignation of one of India’s most popular TV journalists from a network recently acquired by a billionaire tycoon close to the ruling party has sparked concerns over press freedom […]
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Thu 01 December 2022: Saudi Arabia is to host a Chinese-Arab summit on 9 December, which will coincide with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the Kingdom, Reuters reported yesterday, citing three Arab diplomats. A Chinese delegation led by Xi is scheduled to arrive in Riyadh on 7 December, said two of the diplomats, and a fourth […]
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Wed 30 November 2022: New Delhi: Bilkis Bano on Wednesday approached the Supreme Court challenging the premature release of 11 men convicted of gangraping her in the 2002 Gujarat riots. Bilkis Bano filed a review plea against the May order of the Supreme Court which allowed the Gujarat government to apply the 1992 Remission Rules to […]
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