Sat 18 June 2022: The Railways cancelled 369 trains on Saturday due to the agitation against the Centre’s recently announced Agnipath scheme for recruitment of soldiers in the armed forces, officials said. These include 210 mail/express and 159 local passenger trains. The Railways has also partially cancelled two mail/express trains, thus the total number of […]
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Fri 17 June 2022: China has officially launched its third aircraft carrier, naming the vessel the Fujian. China’s state media said the country’s latest and most advanced warship was launched “in a short but festive ceremony” on Friday morning at the China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) shipyard in Shanghai where it has been under construction […]
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Fri 17 June 2022: The US has said it condemns the controversial remarks made by two now-suspended BJP functionaries against Prophet Mohammad and encourages India to promote respect for human rights. The BJP on June 5 suspended its national spokesperson Nupur Sharma and expelled its Delhi media head Naveen Kumar Jindal after their controversial remarks […]
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Thu 16 June 2022: Gulf nations will watch protests in India closely with both sides having billions riding on investments and trade. India’s political ties with the Gulf region may be strained over insulting remarks made by members of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) against Prophet Muhammad, but the jury is out on whether tensions will […]
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Wed 15 June 2022: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has reiterated his call to stop any violence stemming from religious differences in India. His Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Tuesday that Guterres “is for the full respect of religion, for calling against any sort of hate speech or incitement and, of course, a halt to any […]
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Wed 15 June 2022: Dozens of countries have voiced concern about alleged abuses in China’s far western Xinjiang region, and demanded that the United Nations rights chief publish a long-delayed report on the situation there. “We continue to be gravely concerned about the human rights situation in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region,” Paul Bekkers, the Dutch ambassador to […]
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Muslim Student leader and Fraternity Movement national secretary Aysha Renna sustained injuries during lathicharge in Kerala’s Malappuram. She was leading a protest against the demolition of Muslim activist Afreen Fatima’s house in UP. Wed 15 June 2022: India must immediately end a “vicious” crackdown on Muslims who took to the streets to protest a ruling party official’s remarks […]
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Tue 14 June 2022: As per a report in the South China Morning Post, new liberal studies textbooks in Chinese secondary schools state that Hong Kong was never a British colony. The texts have been updated to reflect the new curriculum. According to textbooks, the logic behind such an assumption is that China does not […]
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Tue 14 June 2022: Representatives of the Rohingya genocide victims in Myanmar were set to write a Letter Before Action against against Facebook, the social media giant now known as Meta, over its role in enabling the genocide, a report said on Monday. The Letter comes in advance of an anticipated claim seeking damages from […]
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Mon 13 June 2022: Given the current diplomatic tensions between India and the Gulf countries, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit UAE while returning from the G7 summit. It is to be noted that at least 16 Muslim majority countries had registered their protest against derogatory remarks on Prophet Muhammad by former Bhartiya […]
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