Fri 25 March 2022: Rights group slams India’s repeated denial of bail to Umar Khalid, who is accused of ‘conspiracy’ behind Delhi riots and charged under UAPA. New Delhi, India – Rights group Amnesty International has described India’s repeated denial of bail to jailed Muslim activist Umar Khalid as a “big blow” to those exercising their […]
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Fri 25 March 2022: Turkey has urged the Taliban government of Afghanistan to allow girls of all ages to pursue their education in the country, as the group’s leadership yesterday imposed limits on girls’ access to education based on their age. Educational institutions in Afghanistan were officially re-opened yesterday, seven months after the Taliban took […]
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Thu 24 March 2022: The foreign ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have endorsed Pakistan’s call for a joint probe to establish the facts surrounding the “accidental” firing of a missile into Pakistan from India earlier this month. In a resolution adopted Wednesday at the culmination of the two-day OIC Foreign Ministers Summit […]
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Wed 23 March 2022: China is investing over $400 billion in nearly 600 projects across the Muslim world under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the Chinese Foreign Minister said on Tuesday, and Anadolu News Agency reports. Speaking at the meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Foreign Ministers in Islamabad, Wang Yi said Beijing has […]
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Wed 23 March 2022: The virulent hate campaign by Hindutva forces promoted by the ruling right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and subsequent rise in public and institutional Islamophobia, have combined to create panic among India’s 204 million Muslims, the country’s largest minority community. The mood was encapsulated by India’s opposition, […]
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Tue 22 March 2022: Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday said Islamophobia grew after the 9/11 terror attacks and went on unchecked because the Muslim countries did nothing to check the wrong narrative that Islam was equated with terrorism. Addressing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting in Islamabad, Imran Khan said that there […]
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Tue 22 March 2022: New Delhi: India’s air pollution worsened in 2021, according to the World Air Quality Report released by IQAir, a Swiss firm. This ends a three-year trend of improving air quality. The average air pollution, measured in the lethal and microscopic PM2.5 pollutant, is 58.1 micrograms per cubic meter, which is more than […]
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Tue 22 March 2022: The US president has described India as an exception among Washington’s allies with its “shaky” response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Addressing a meeting of US business leaders in Washington, Biden said there had been “a united front throughout NATO and in the Pacific”. While the other Quad countries – […]
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Mon 21 March 2022: Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is scheduled to visit India on April 2 for talks on strengthening alliance and ties between the two countries, according to his office, Anadolu Agency reported. A statement by Bennett’s office said the visit will mark the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Tel Aviv and New Delhi.“The […]
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Mon 21 March 2022: According to state television CCTV, a China Eastern Airlines passenger plane carrying 132 people crashed in southern China. There was no information yet on whether anyone was hurt in the event, which occurred on Monday afternoon. In the Guangxi region, a Boeing 737 airliner crashed in the countryside near Wuzhou. According […]
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