Tue 05 July 2022: It was no real surprise when Delhi police officers arrested Indian journalist Mohammed Zubair after he outed the media chief of Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for making derogatory comments about Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). Sadly, today’s political climate has made the business of speaking […]
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Sun 03 July 2022: Over 100 citizens in an open letter demanded the immediate release of Alt News co-founder and fact-checker Mohammed Zubair. The letter included signatures of writer and human rights activist Aakar Patel, independent journalist Ajit Sahi, Arjun Sheoran of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties, Kavita Krishnan of the All India Progressive […]
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Sun 03 July 2022: A Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist from Indian-administered Kashmir says she has been barred from travelling abroad by the Indian authorities who provided no valid reasons for their refusal. Sanna Irshad Mattoo told Al Jazeera she was scheduled to travel to Paris from New Delhi on Saturday for a book launch and photography […]
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Sun 03 July 2022: In an interview with the German news site Bild, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said he is worried about China’s lunar missions because he thinks Beijing intends to claim the moon for itself. Nelson said that everyone should be concerned about Chinese space development because one day Beijing is said to land […]
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Sun 03 July 2022: After 50 years, Kim Phuc Phan Thi, a Vietnamese woman whose burned and agonized photograph came to represent the effects of the Vietnam War, received her final skin treatment. When napalm was dropped by a South Vietnamese Skyraider attack aircraft in 1972, a photograph of Kim Phuc Phan Thi, then nine […]
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Sun 03 July 2022: Many of the world’s Muslim rulers have come together in a powerful show of unity which could well bring the increasingly Islamophobic Indian government to its knees. There are many lessons to be learned from this. It may even bring an end to the genocidal tendencies within the world’s largest democracy […]
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Screenshots of the accused’s posts shared by Pawan Khera. Source: Twitter. Sat 02 July 2022: The Congress on Saturday alleged that one of the main accused in the brutal killing of a tailor in Udaipur is a “BJP member” and asked whether the Centre had moved quickly to transfer the case to the NIA due […]
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Fri 01 July 2022: The Supreme Court today blamed former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma for igniting tension with her comments on Prophet Muhammad and said “she and her loose tongue have set the country on fire”. In unusually strong comments, the court said she must apologise to the country. “The way she has ignited emotions […]
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Fri 01 July 2022: On Friday, John Lee was sworn in as Hong Kong’s new chief executive, signaling a fresh start as the former British colony commemorated 25 years of Chinese rule. In order to oversee the ceremony, Chinese President Xi Jinping traveled for the first time outside of mainland China since the COVID-19 outbreak […]
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Fri 01 July 2022: The US ambassador at large for international religious freedom Rashad Hussain has voiced concern over the treatment of a number of religious communities in India and said Washington was dealing directly with Indian officials to address the “challenges.” Addressing the International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit here on Thursday, Hussain said his […]
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