MILLIONS OF BANGLADESHIS DISPLACED IN 2022 DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE: WHO

Tue 29 November 2022:  According to the World Health Organization (WHO), millions of people in Bangladesh lost their homes and means of support this year as a result of climate change, which is fueling an uncontrollable internal migration, Anadolu Agency reported. According to the WHO’s assessment of the current situation in the country of about […]

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ROW ERUPTS AFTER ISRAEL FILMMAKER CALLS THE ‘KASHMIR FILES “VULGAR, PROPAGANDA”

Tue 29 November 2022:  The comments of an Israeli filmmaker heading the Indian Film Festival jury, calling ‘The Kashmir Files’ “vulgar and propaganda”, have sparked a big row. The festival jury has said its chief Nadav Lapid’s remarks are “completely his personal opinion”. Nadav Lapid, jury chief at the International Film Festival India (IFFI), criticised […]

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NO EXCUSE FOR CHINESE POLICE BEATING JOURNALISTS -UK MINISTER

Tue 29 November 2022:  British business minister Grant Shapps said on Monday there was no excuse for media covering protests to be beaten by police, after the BBC said Chinese police had assaulted and detained one of its journalists in Shanghai. “There can be absolutely no excuse whatsoever for journalists who are simply covering the protests going on, for being beaten by […]

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CHINA’S COVID PROTESTORS, CENSORS PLAY CAT-AND-MOUSE GAME ONLINE

Mon 28 November 2022:  Chinese censors are scrambling to scrub references to protest codewords and demonstration hotspots like Xinjiang. Taipei, Taiwan – Chinese internet users and government censors are engaged in a cat-and-mouse game to control the narrative around the country’s anti-“zero COVID” protests. Protests began in Urumqi, the capital of the far-western Xinjiang region, on […]

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INDIA: 5 SIT-UPS IS PUNISHMENT FOR RAPING GIRL, 5, IN BIHAR VILLAGE (VIDEO)

Sun 27 November 2022:  In a viral video from Bihar, a man is seen doing sit-ups in front of a crowd. Five sit-ups were his “sentence” for allegedly raping a five-year-old girl. The video is from a village in Bihar’s Nawada district. The man allegedly took the child to his poultry farm with the promise […]

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ANGER OVER ‘ZERO-COVID’ ESCALATES IN CHINA AS PROTESTS SPREAD TO MORE CITIES

Sun 27 November 2022:  A tragic fire in the country’s western Xinjiang province that has been linked to severe lockdown regulations has sparked protests against China’s harsh COVID-19 laws in numerous cities, with locals calling for an end to lockdowns and participating in acts of resistance. According to news organisations, the largest of the protests […]

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IMRAN KHAN DECIDES TO ‘OPT OUT OF CORRUPT SYSTEM AND QUIT ALL ASSEMBLIES’

Sat 26 November 2022:  PTI Chairman Imran Khan has announced that his party has decided not to remain part of the current political system and will instead resign from all the assemblies. He was addressing his first public rally, in the garrison town of Rawalpindi, since surviving an “assassination” attempt earlier this month. However he […]

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CHINA’S COVID CASES HIT RECORD HIGH; URUMQI ROCKED BY COVID LOCKDOWN PROTESTS

Sat 26 November 2022:  On Saturday, China reported 31,709 new coronavirus infections, while 1,893 patients were discharged from the hospital after making a full recovery over the previous 24 hours. Only 3,474 of the total new cases showed symptoms, according to a written statement from the National Health Commission (NHC), which added that more than […]

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