Sat 13 March 2021: Sri Lanka will ban the wearing of the burqa and shut more than 1,000 Islamic schools, the latest actions affecting the country’s minority Muslim population. Minister for Public Security Sarath Weerasekera told a news conference on Saturday that he had signed a paper on Friday for cabinet approval to ban the […]
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Sat 13 March 2021: The Biden administration on Friday said it is willing to reconsider the objections or adverse decisions to foreign workers on visas like H-1B due to the three policy memos by the previous Trump administration which now have been rescinded. The move is expected to come to the rescue of a large […]
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Sat 13 March 2021: Waseem Rizvi, a Lucknow-based leader considered close to the Hindu right-wing, has filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court demanding removal of 26 verses of the holy Quran. This is perhaps the most provocative move which even the fanatics of Hindutva brigades have not made in the recent […]
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Fri 12 March 2021: Thailand on Friday suspended the use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine following a ban in several European countries over reports of severe or fatal blood clots in vaccinated people. The country’s Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and some Cabinet members were scheduled to be vaccinated on Friday morning, but the plan was abruptly […]
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Fri 12 March 2021: Malaysia, which is currently under a state of emergency that has suspended parliament, has brought in a new law to tackle “fake news”, raising renewed concerns about freedom of speech in the Southeast Asian nation. The government announced the legislation under its emergency powers on Thursday night saying it was necessary […]
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Thu 11 March 2021: A Pakistani court has ordered a ban on the TikTok social media platform over alleged “obscene content”, the second time the app has been banned in the South Asian country in less than six months. The Peshawar High Court’s Chief Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan made the ruling during a hearing into […]
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Thu 11 March 2021: The Indonesian government has started construction of Sheikh Zayed Gand Mosque in Solo, Central Java, which is being built as a symbol of Indonesia-United Arab Emirates friendship. The mosque, which will be built on a 3-hectare plot, will feature four minarets, with the main dome surrounded by smaller domes. It will […]
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Thu 11 March 2021: At least 88 Rohingya Muslims were detained in New Delhi while camping outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in the second such move in a week, Doha-based Al-Jazeera reported Thursday. “A total of 88 people have been detained,” an officer at Vikaspuri police station told the media […]
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Thu 11 March 2021: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today claimed India is “no longer” a democratic country, quoting media reports on Swedish Institute’s democracy report that downgraded India. “India is no longer a democratic country,” he said on Twitter, tagging a news report citing Sweden’s V-Dem Institute’s democracy report that has downgraded India from “world’s […]
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Thu 11 March 2021: NEW DELHI — Maulana Arshad Madani has been elected the President of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind for the seventh consecutive term during a meeting of the working committee of the body here on Tuesday. All the state units unanimously recommended the name of Madani. According to the by-laws, Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind holds the membership campaign […]
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