Fri 27 May 2022: Jaipur: Claiming the mausoleum of Sufi saint Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer was once a temple, a Hindu outfit has demanded a survey of the premises by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). Rajvardhan Singh Parmar of Maharana Pratap Sena claimed Hindu symbols were present on the walls and windows of the dargah. […]
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Fri 27 May 2022: Indian writer Geetanjali Shree won the International Booker Prize for her novel “Tomb of Sand,” the Booker Prizes said on Friday. “Tomb of Sand, written by Geetanjali Shree and translated by Daisy Rockwell, has won the 2022 International Booker Prize for Translated Fiction,” a statement published on the prize’s website said, […]
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Thu 26 May 2022: Former Pakistan Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, along with other party workers, late on Wednesday reached Islamabad after PTI workers and supporters made their way towards the federal capital, pushing aside containers and braving tear gas shelling, local media reported. A large number of party workers and […]
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Wed 25 May 2022: An Indian court on Wednesday ordered life in jail for Kashmiri leader Yasin Malik for funding “terrorist” activities and other charges, a judge said, prompting street protests outside the politician’s residence. Malik, head of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), earlier told a special court designated for the National Investigation […]
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Wed 25 May 2022: As PTI’s Azadi March began on Wednesday, tensions in Punjab rose after police made use of tear gas and arrested several PTI marchers in Lahore as activists attempted to remove the shipping containers between them and Islamabad. It came after PTI chairman Imran Khan exhorted his supporters yesterday to embark on […]
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Wed 25 May 2022: A leak of thousands of photos and official documents from China’s Xinjiang province has shed new light on the extent of abuses, including mass internment, targeting the Uighur and other Muslim minorities, according to media reports. The files, obtained by academic Adrian Zenz, were published as UN human rights chief Michelle […]
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Tue 24 May 2022: Pakistan has banned Imran Khan, the country’s deposed prime minister, from holding a planned mass protest in the capital, Islamabad. According to senior party members and police sources, the restriction came after police detained hundreds of followers of deposed Khan overnight ahead of a big sit-in planned by the former leader. […]
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Tue 24 May 2022: The Afghan Taliban interim government on Tuesday signed a deal to hand over the country’s four key airports to a state-run United Arab Emirates company. Under the deal, the control and management of four international airports-Kabul, Kandahar, Herat, and Mazar-e-Sharif-will be handed over to the UAE aviation company, according to the state-run Bakhtar News Agency. The ceremony […]
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Tue 24 May 2022: Varanasi: The Varanasi district court is likely to pronounce the verdict in the Gyanvapi mosque case on Tuesday. The district court on Monday completed the hearing of arguments in the case and reserved its order for today. Advocate Madan Mohan Yadav, representing the Hindu side, on Tuesday, said that the Muslim side […]
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Tue 24 May 2022: Uyghurs have urged United Nations Human Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet to ask tough questions in Xinjiang to avoid falling victim to a public relations ploy. Bachelet’s six-day tour has entered a delicate new phase, with visits to the remote Xinjiang cities of Urumqi and Kashgar on Tuesday (May 24) and Wednesday […]
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