Thu 18 March 2021: Proposal to ban the burqa in Sri Lanka viewed by many as attempt to appease Sri Lanka’s Buddhist majority and cause divisions. SrI Lanka’s move to ban the burqa on “national security” grounds while calling its use “religious extremism” has been termed a “racist agenda” used to cause divisions in the […]
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Thu 18 March 2021: The EU’s 27 ambassadors agreed on Wednesday to adopt new sanctions on individuals from China and other countries over human rights abuses, the first sanctions against Beijing since an EU arms embargo in 1989 following the Tianamen Square crackdown. The United States has imposed sanctions on an additional 24 Chinese and Hong Kong […]
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Thu 18 March 2021: A United Nations-backed team of investigators urges people in Myanmar who receive orders to commit acts against international law to come forward with evidence that can be use to prosecute leaders. Nicholas Koumjian, the head of the United Nations Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, in a statement on Wednesday encouraged people […]
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Wed 17 March 2021: Australian defense forces are planning to discharge its soldiers involved in war crimes in Afghanistan on “medical grounds,” local media reported on Wednesday. According to the Sydney-based Daily Telegraph, a group of special forces soldiers facing dismissal due to the investigation into the Afghanistan war crimes has been told they can […]
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Wed 17 March 2021: Bangladesh’s largest religious political party, Jamaat-e-Islami, organized a rally in the capital Dhaka on Monday to condemn a petition filed in the Indian Supreme Court seeking the removal of 26 verses from the Muslim holy Quran. Waseem Rizvi, former chairperson of the Shia Central Board of Waqf (Trust) in Uttar Pradesh, […]
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Wed 17 March 2021: Twenty-two of the world’s 30 most polluted cities are in India, with Delhi being ranked as the most polluted capital city globally, a new report said today. The report is prepared by Swiss organisation, IQAir, in the form of the ‘World Air Quality Report, 2020’, which has released globally. The report, […]
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Tue 16 March 2021: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today warned of rising food and fuel prices as the current political unrest starts to impact supply chains and markets. Across the country, the cost of rice showed an average increase of 3 percent on monitored markets from mid-January to mid-February. However, in a […]
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Tue 16 March 2021: Peers in Britain’s House of Lords held a debate on the issue of “freedoms of non-governmental organisations, academics and other groups in India” and called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to take up the issues directly with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi during his visit to New Delhi next month. The […]
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Tue 16 March 2021: Bride in Pakistan has demanded books of Rs 100,000 as a “Haq Mehr”, the latest reports say. Mehr is an obligation in form of money or possession paid by groom to his bride at the time of marriage. It is often money. However, the woman from Mardan set an example for the other women by demanding “books” of Rs 100,000 from her husband. […]
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Tue 16 March 2021: China will exempt foreigners applying for visas to enter the country via Hong Kong who have received a Chinese vaccine from providing health certification, the state-owned CGTN news channel reported Monday. Those who are administered non-Chinese vaccine doses will be required to produce negative nucleic acid tests and a health and […]
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