Tue 26 April 2022: For third straight year, US commission recommends adding India to religious freedom blacklist over alleged abuses. The state of religious freedom in India “significantly worsened” last year, a United States panel has said, calling for targeted sanctions against the country over alleged abuses. In its annual report released on Monday, the […]
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Mon 25 April 2022: Islamabad: Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has been issued a passport to return to his home country from the UK where he was seeking treatment, a media report said on Monday. The 72-year-old three-time premier, against whom several corruption cases were launched by the government of former prime minister Imran Khan, […]
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Mon 25 April 2022: Stockholm: World military expenditure reached an all-time high of USD 2.1 trillion in 2021, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said on Monday, adding that the top three largest spenders were the United States, China and India. “Total global military expenditure increased by 0.7 per cent in real terms in 2021, […]
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Mon 25 April 2022: At the age of 119, a woman who was believed to be the world’s oldest died. According to the nation’s main broadcaster, Kana Tanaka, a Japanese woman, died in hospital last week. Guinness World Records verified her as the world’s oldest living person in 2019. When another Japanese woman, Chiyo Miyako, […]
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Mon 25 April 2022: A subsidiary of Apple supplier Foxconn Technology Group has closed two factories outside of Shanghai after new COVID-19 cases were reported on site, the company said on Monday. The factories operated by Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited, also known as FIT, are located in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, a small city situated between […]
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Sun 24 April 2022: The main border crossing between Iran and Afghanistan was closed on Saturday following skirmishes between Iranian border guards and the Taliban forces, Anadolu Agency reported. According to official sources, Taliban authorities in the Islam Qala district of western Afghanistan’s Herat province were paving a road in the border zone with Iran, which was […]
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Sun 24 April 2022: Bajrang Muni Das of Maharishi Shri Laxman Das Udasi Ashram, who allegedly made a hate speech and issued a “rape threat” in Uttar Pradesh’s Sitapur, was granted bail by a local court. District judge Sanjai Kumar granted bail to the seer on Saturday. He was released from the district jail Sunday […]
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Sun 24 April 2022: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will press India over its neutral stance on the Ukraine war after arriving in the country on Sunday for trade, security and climate talks. New Delhi has long walked a tightrope in its relations with the West and Moscow — which supplies most of India’s arms — […]
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Sat 23 April 2022: In another development in the hotly debated Twitter match of sorts between Former India cricketers Irfan Pathan and Amit Mishra, Mr Pathan tweeted a copy of the preamble of the Indian Constitution. Taking aim at Mr Mishra without naming him, the former Indian pacer said, “Always followed this and I urge each citizen […]
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Fri 22 April 2022: According to a Taliban official, an explosion at a mosque and religious school in northern Afghanistan killed at least 33 people on Friday, including religious school students. Zabihullah Mujahid reported on the horrific attack in Imam Saheb, Kunduz Province, on Twitter, saying it injured another 43 people, many of whom were […]
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