Wed 20 January 2021: A self-styled holy man in Sri Lanka has apparently concocted a miracle potion to prevent Covid-19. However, the invention turned ‘sour’ after a minister drank it publicly and had to be hospitalised due to Covid, reports Al Jazeera. Thousands defied public gathering restrictions to swamp a village in central Sri Lanka last month […]
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Wed 20 January 2021: The ministry asked WhatsApp to respond to 14 questions including on the categories of user data it collected, whether it profiled customers based on usage and cross-border data flows. India’s technology ministry has asked WhatsApp to withdraw changes to its privacy policy the messaging platform announced earlier this month, saying the […]
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Wed 20 January 2021: Jack Ma just made his first public appearance in months, ending a 2 1/2-month disappearance from public view that prompted speculation about his status and his business empire’s future. The billionaire co-founder of Alibaba (BABA) resurfaced Wednesday in a video published online by Tianmu News, a subsidiary of the Zhejiang government’s official newspaper. Zhejiang province […]
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Wed 20 January 2021: The U.S. State Department said Tuesday it had determined that China’s detention and repression of Uighur Muslims amounts to “genocide” and “crimes against humanity,” the strongest statement from any government to date against China’s policies in the Xinjiang region. On his way out the door, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo […]
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Tue 19 January 2021: A court in Thailand on Tuesday sentenced a former civil servant to a record prison term of 43 years and six months for breaching the country’s strict law on insulting or defaming the monarchy, lawyers said. The criminal court sentenced the woman to 87 years in jail, however after confession, her sentence […]
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Tue 19 January 2021: Out of 85 people who have been prosecuted under the law so far, 79 are Muslims, while others belong to the Christian community A petition has been filed in the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court by the Legal Aid Committee of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, seeking to quash cases registered against […]
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Mon 18 January 2021: Amid outrage over leaked WhatsApp conversations of TV anchor Arnab Goswami, submitted by Mumbai Police to a court, the opposition has demanded an investigation into chats linked to the 2019 Balakot air strike in retaliation for the terror attack on a security convoy in Pulwama. The transcripts are a part of […]
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Mon 18 January 2021: China’s economy grew more than expected last year, even as the rest of the world was upended by the coronavirus pandemic. China on Monday said its economy grew by 2.3% in 2020 compared to a year earlier, and its economic and social development goals were accomplished better than expected despite the […]
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Mon 18 January 2021: The mosque is coming up in the Uttar Pradesh district pursuant to the Supreme Court verdict in the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi case. “At a meeting of the Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation (IICF), it was decided that Republic Day will be celebrated with the start of the Dhannipur Mosque Project, which includes a […]
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Sun 17 January 2021: The protesting farmers refused to call off their Republic Day tractor rally today, and said the probe by the National Investigation Agency is meant to break their big protest. Today, as the agency summoned 40 people — Including farmer leader Baldev Singh Sirsa — for questioning in a case related to […]
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