Mon 08 February 2021: The Indian government has asked microblogging platform Twitter to remove over a thousand more accounts for allegedly spreading misinformation and provocative content around farmers’ protests. It has said that the 1,178 listed handles have Pakistani and Khalistani users, official sources have said. The social media site is yet to completely comply […]
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Sun 07 February 2021: Some 150 people went missing after part of a Himalayan glacier broke in northern India, leading to a massive flood, officials said on Sunday. A portion of Nanda Devi glacier, India’s second-highest mountain, broke off in Tapovan area of the Uttarakhand state, damaging the Rishiganga hydro power project. “Representatives of the […]
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Sun 07 February 2021: Tens of thousands of demonstrators, mostly young people, staged four separate rallies against the military coup in Myanmar on Sunday amid tight security and roadblocks on the major street of Yangon, the country’s largest city. The police in Yangon are struggling to block the protesters who are marching to Sule Pagoda, […]
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Sun 07 February 2021: Melting of Himalayan glaciers has doubled since the start of the 21st century due to rising temperatures, losing over a vertical foot and half of ice each year and potentially threatening water supply for hundreds of millions of people in countries, including India, according to a study published in 2019. The […]
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Sat 06 February 2021: High speed 4G internet services are being restored across Jammu and Kashmir, a senior government official said on Friday, more than 18 months after they were snapped to prevent a backlash against the centre’s move to revoke the former state’s special status. “4G mobile internet services being restored in entire J&K,” […]
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Sat 06 February 2021: “Military dictator, fail, fail; Democracy, win, win,” chanting tens of thousands protesters have taken to the streets of Yangon to denounce this week’s coup and demand the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in the first such demonstration since the generals seized power. Calling for the military to free […]
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Sat 06 February 2021: The UN Human Rights office urged demonstrators and the government Friday to “exercise maximum restraint” during farmers’ protest in India as police complained of tweets by Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg. “The rights to peaceful assembly and expression should be protected both offline and online,” the office tweeted regarding the […]
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Fri 05 February 2021: Stand-up comic Munawar Faruqui, in jail for over a month over allegations of “insulting Hindu Gods and Goddesses” during a show, was granted interim bail today by the Supreme Court, which also issued notice to the Madhya Pradesh government and put on hold a warrant against him in Uttar Pradesh. Issuing […]
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Fri 05 February 2021: A doctored image showing pop superstar Rihanna purportedly holding up a Pakistan flag has been widely circulated after she expressed solidarity with farmers protesting in India against the agricultural laws. The original image, however, is over a year old, of Rihanna holding up a Cricket West Indies (CWI) flag at a match in […]
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Fri 05 February 2021: Activists in Indonesia have lauded the government’s decision to ban public schools from making religious attire mandatory, a move that followed national outrage over non-Muslim students being forced to wear a hijab. Andreas Harsono, a researcher at Human Rights Watch, said schools in more than 20 provinces still make religious attire […]
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