Sat 10 April 2021: A 26-year-old woman was stabbed to death by her husband at a market in Delhi on Saturday afternoon, police said. The man stabbed her 25 times over suspicion of her having an illicit affair, they said. The chilling footage of the incident shows Harish repeatedly stabbing his wife, Nilu, in public […]
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Sat 10 April 2021: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat has tested positive for coronavirus, the organisation tweeted on its official handle. Mr Bhagwat, 70, has been showing commons symptoms of coronavirus infection, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) tweeted. “He is currently having common symptoms of COVID-19 and has been admitted to Kingsway Hospital in […]
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Sat 10 April 2021: The Chinese State Administration for Market Regulation said on Saturday it had fined the e-commerce giant Alibaba 18.228 billion Yuan ($2.78 billion) over anti-monopoly violations. The penalty, equivalent to approximately 4 percent of Alibaba’s revenues in 2019, came amid an unprecedented regulatory crackdown on the home-grown technology conglomerates in the last […]
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Sat 10 April 2021: India on Saturday witnessed an unprecedented surge of 1,45,384 coronavirus cases, the highest since the start of pandemic, as the country’s tally surged to 1,32,05,0926. Night curfews and restrictions are back in many parts amid concerns over second Covid wave. While the death toll stands at 168,436 which includes 794 new […]
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Fri 09 April 2021: The Myanmar military authorities declined the request for a visit by UN Special Envoy Christine Schraner Burgener who arrived in Thailand earlier on Friday as part of her efforts to calm the situation, US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said. “We must insist that military authorities allow the UN […]
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Fri 09 April 2021: The United States is working with Turkish and Afghan counterparts to plan the Istanbul conference to help accelerate the peace process, State Department spokesperson Ned price said on Thursday. “Planning is underway for a conference in Istanbul to accelerate the peace process… We are working with our Turkish counterparts and the […]
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Fri 09 April 2021: Following an Al Jazeera investigation, a broad coalition of Indian American activists and United States-based civil rights organisations has called on the US Small Business Administration (SBA) to probe how Hindu right-wing groups received hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal COVID-19 relief funds. A statement issued by the Coalition to Stop […]
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Thu 08 April 2021: New cases overtake Wednesday’s 115,736 infections, with dozens of cities and towns imposing night curfews to try to contain the second wave. India on Thursday reported a record single-day high of 126,789 new Covid-19 cases, pushing its infection tally to 1,29,28,574, while the number of active cases too went upwards to […]
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Wed 07 April 2021: The London-based rights watchdog, Amnesty International has slammed India for its punitive lockdown in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, as well as its handling of the anti-CAA (Citizenship (Amendment) Act) protests, farmers’ protests, Delhi riots and clampdown on civil liberties in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. According to Kashmir Media […]
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Wed 07 April 2021: An incident of appalling cruelty in India’s Madhya Pradesh has taken place following the Central and state governments’ order to enforce safety measures for Covid. A man in Indore was severely beaten up by two policemen, allegedly for his failure to wear a mask properly. The mask of Krishna Keyer, a 35-year-old […]
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