Fri 26 March 2021: US President Joe Biden told reporters on Thursday the United States may not meet the May 1 deadline to withdraw troops from Afghanistan due to tactical issues. “It is going to be hard to meet the May 1 deadline in terms of tactical reasons,” Biden said when asked about the US […]
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Fri 26 March 2021: Turkey raised the issue of Uyghur Muslims during talks with China’s foreign minister in Ankara on Thursday, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said, as hundreds of Uyghurs protested against the treatment of their ethnic kin in China, Reuters reported. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met Cavusoglu and later President Tayyip Erdogan as around […]
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Thu 25 March 2021: A 54-year-old man was arrested from Uttar Pradesh for allegedly duping people in the name of Haj or Umra yatra, police said on Wednesday. The accused was identified as Intezar Sayed Mehandi, a resident of Kaushambi district in UP. The police said that in 2017-2018, Mehandi, who worked as a tour […]
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Thu 25 March 2021: After a video – that shows a man in Delhi being thrashed by another man as he is forced to chant “Pakistan Murdabad (down with Pakistan)” – was widely shared on social media, police said the accused has been arrested and an FIR (filed a first information report) has been filed in the […]
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Thu 25 March 2021: United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet has received a mandate to collect evidence of crimes during Sri Lanka’s long civil war, which ended in 2009 with the defeat of the separatist Tamil Tigers and a surge of civilian deaths. Rights groups say the decision is a critical step in gaining justice for […]
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Thu 25 March 2021: Hackers in China used fake Facebook accounts and impostor websites to try to break into the computers and smartphones of Uyghur Muslims, the social network said Wednesday. The company said the sophisticated, covert operation targeted Uyghur activists, journalists and dissidents from China’s Xinjiang region, as well as individuals living in Turkey, […]
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Wed 24 March 2021: Several thousand people gathered in central Bangkok at a rally for reformation of the country’s monarchy, with demonstrators blocking one of the main intersections in the capital’s shopping district, local media reported on Wednesday. The whole event was livestreamed by the Reporters online news agency on their Facebook page. The demonstration […]
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Wed 24 March 2021: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sent a letter to his Pakistani counterpart, saying he desires cordial relations with Pakistan, officials said, as relations thaw between the two nuclear-armed neighbours. Modi wrote to Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday to congratulate him on the country’s annual Pakistan Day, which commemorates a resolution passed […]
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Tue 23 March 2021: Traders in India say they will burn effigies of Amazon and (Walmart-owned) Flipkart as a protest against deep discounting and pricing tactics they say are hurting local businesses. Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) on Tuesday announced that traders would burn effigies of Amazon and Flipkart on this Holi (March 28) […]
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Tue 23 March 2021: Turkey’s Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities (YTB) in association with Anadolu Agency will organize an online media training program for Rohingya Muslims, a senior official said on Tuesday. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, YTB Chairman Abdullah Eren said the program intends to help Rohingya Muslims, a minority group in Myanmar […]
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