Thu 17 March 2022: On Thursday, South Korea recorded a new high of over 600,000 coronavirus cases, with officials claiming the country was nearing the apex of an Omicron-fueled infection wave. South Korea leads the world in newly reported cases in the last seven days, with 2,417,174 infections, followed by Vietnam with 1,776,045 infections, according […]
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Wed 16 March 2022: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has welcomed a decision by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to approve a resolution setting March 15 as the International Day to Combat Islamophobia. The resolution, adopted on Tuesday by consensus by the 193-member world body and co-sponsored by 55 mainly Muslim countries, emphasises the […]
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Tue 15 March 2022: China’s foreign minister has told his Spanish counterpart his country does not want to be impacted by Western economic sanctions imposed on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine last month, according to state media. “China is not a party to the crisis, still less wants to be affected by the sanctions,” […]
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Tue 15 March 2022: A film based on the sorrow and migration of Kashmiri Pandits has instead managed to become a propaganda tool, inflaming anti-Muslim and anti-Kashmiri sentiments in the country, adding to the existing climate of anti-minority hatred that has permeated society for the past eight years or so. The Kashmir Files is supposed […]
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Tue 15 March 2022: Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday dismissed petitions filed by a section of Muslim students from the Government Pre-University Girls College in Udupi, seeking permission to wear Hijab inside the classroom. The prescription of school uniform is only a reasonable restriction, constitutionally permissible which the students cannot object to, a three-judge […]
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Mon 14 March 2022: China has placed about 17 million residents under lockdown, as virus cases doubled nationwide to nearly 3,400 and anxiety mounted over the resilience of its ‘zero-Covid’ approach in the face of the worst outbreak in two years. The southern tech hub of Shenzhen – home to about 13 million people – […]
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Sun 13 March 2022: A high-level US delegation meets in Rome Monday with a top Chinese official, the White House said as it warned Beijing would face severe “consequences” if it helps Russia evade sanctions over its war in Ukraine. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Yang Jiechi, the Chinese Communist Party’s chief diplomat, “will […]
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Sat 12 March 2022: An Uyghur educator has been imprisoned for seven years in China’s troubled Xinjiang region for breaching Chinese legislation by training students in Uyghur, their native language. Adil Tursun has already received government acknowledgment for his efforts. According to Radio Free Asia, he was detained in 2016 and sentenced to seven years […]
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Sat 12 March 2022: The origin of the city’s Delta variant epidemic of Covid—imported hamsters appears to have been established by a Hong Kong study. According to the research, Syrian hamsters were the cause of a local epidemic of the Delta variant two months ago, which was undertaken jointly by the University of Hong Kong’s […]
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Fri 11 March 2022: Hardline Hindu monk Yogi Adityanath’s political stock is rising in India, where he is set to deliver the ruling party a thumping election win in the country’s most populous state despite the pandemic setbacks and fury in the state at farm reforms that were eventually repealed by the federal government. His performance in Uttar Pradesh, […]
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