Mon 22 February 2021: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was speaking at the 46th session of the Human Rights Council. “Today, I call on the Myanmar military to stop the repression immediately. Release the prisoners. End the violence. Respect human rights and the will of the people expressed in recent elections,” Guterres said. Noting the undermining […]
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Mon 22 February 2021: The United Kingdom will call on Monday for the United Nations to be given “urgent and unfettered” access to Xinjiang to investigate reports of abuses in the far western Chinese region, as Britain returns to the UN Human Rights Council as a voting member. British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is also […]
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Mon 22 February 2021: Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind on Friday launched an ambitious programme to modernise madrassa education system. Called ‘Jamiat Open School’, the programme is targeted at 50,000 madrassa students who will be equipped with modern education. It will work in the framework of National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) all across the country. A twenty-day […]
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Sun 21 February 2021: A three-week joint military exercise involving Turkish and Pakistani special forces ended on Saturday, Anadolu Agency reports. The closing ceremony of the drill ATATURK-XI 2021 was held at the Pakistani military’s Special Service headquarters in Tarbela, northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkwa province, which borders neighbouring Afghanistan, said a statement from the Pakistan Army. […]
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Sun 21 February 2021: A Delhi court on Saturday directed the police to release the passports of 35 foreigners, who were acquitted in December last year in a case in which they were charge-sheeted for attending the Tablighi Jamaat congregation here, allegedly being negligent and disobeying the government guidelines issued in wake of COVID-19 pandemic. […]
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Sat 20 February 2021: The world’s big emitting countries, including China, India, Russia and Japan need to “really step up” and begin to lower greenhouse gas emissions, US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry has said as he called on all nations to raise their ambition to fight against climate change. Kerry on Friday […]
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Sat 20 February 2021: Tension prevailed in a Gorakhpur village in Uttar Pradesh after a mosque was found vandalised on Friday morning, the police said. The incident took place on Thursday night in Lona Sonbarsa village in Jhangha police station area of the district and came to light on Friday morning when a villager, Usman […]
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Sat 20 February 2021: Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has extended support to 22-year-old Disha Ravi in India, who is in jail for alleged sedition and other charges for editing a “toolkit” that the police claim was used to conspire against the country over the protest by farmers against new agriculture laws. Fridays for Future […]
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Fri 19 February 2021: A 20-year old woman died ten days after she was shot in the head during an anti-coup protest in Myanmar’s administrative capital, according to a family member on Friday. Mya Thwet Thwet Win, a university student, who had just turned 20, had been on life support since being taken to hospital […]
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Fri 19 February 2021: UN human rights experts said Thursday that India’s decision to end Jammu and Kashmir’s autonomy and enact new laws could curtail the previous level of political participation of Muslims and other minorities in the country. Such new laws could discriminate against Indian minorities in essential matters, including employment and land ownership, […]
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