Sat 19 February 2022: India and the United Arab Emirates signed a broad trade and investment pact on Friday (February 18) that will eventually cut all tariffs on each other’s goods and aims to more than double the annual trade between the two nations to $100 billion within five years, Reuters reports. The virtual signing ceremony marks […]
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Fri 18 February 2022: Anti-Asian hate crimes are on the rise in Washington, D.C., as Asian communities continue to be blamed for the COVID-19 pandemic, news portal Axios reported on Wednesday. In 2021, there were a total of 91 hate crime incidents involving ethnicity/national origin or race, and 23 of them targeted Asians, the report […]
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Fri 18 February 2022: A court in India has sentenced 38 people to death and sentenced 11 others to life in prison in connection with a series of bomb blasts in the western city of Ahmedabad in 2008. The court convicted 49 people on February 8 for the coordinated attacks that killed 56 people and […]
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Thu 17 February 2022: Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft Corp and philanthropist, visited Pakistan on Thursday, meeting with Prime Minister Imran Khan to discuss polio eradication in one of the world’s last two endemic countries. “This is the final, and hardest, phase of the eradication effort, but by keeping up the momentum and staying vigilant, […]
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Thu 17 February 2022: Amid the ongoing hijab row in Karnataka, the Mulbagal taluk administration has demolished an 18-year-old Jesus statue at Gokunte village in Kolar district. The Tehsildar gave the nod for the demolition claiming that the statue was built on government land which was reserved as an animal pasture. Mulbagal Tehsildar Shobhita R […]
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Thu 17 February 2022: Amid growing outrage over Muslim students in Karnataka being denied permission to wear hijabs, controversial BJP MP Pragya Thakur – out on bail as a key accused in the Malegaon blasts terror case – said “(only) people who are not safe in their houses need to wear a hijab”. The Lok […]
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Wed 16 February 2022: Bappi Lahiri, the Indian singer-composer and “Disco King” who collaborated with Snoop Dogg and Samantha Fox, died at the age of 69, his family announced Wednesday, prompting tributes from the worlds of politics and Bollywood. The larger-than-life Lahiri, who was born in West Bengal to a musical family, was known for […]
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Wed 16 February 2022: The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has voiced serious concerns over the continued attacks on Muslims in India and called upon the international community, including the United Nations, to take steps to stop hate crimes against the minority community. The General Secretariat of the OIC expressed deep concern over recent public […]
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Wed 16 February 2022: Fortify Rights says evidence shows military massacred civilians and used them as cover, as it urges ASEAN to support arms embargo. The Myanmar military has murdered civilians, and used them as human shields, in a series of atrocities in eastern Karenni State that may amount to war crimes, prominent human rights […]
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Tue 15 February 2022: China on Tuesday called the US decision to split Afghan reserves a “robbery” and urged Washington to return the money to Afghans. The US stole money from Afghans, Hua Chunying, spokesperson of China’s Foreign Ministry, said on Twitter. Hua reacted to the US President Joe Biden’s executive order last Friday splitting […]
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