Sun 27 December 2020: Bangladesh is set to move a second batch of Rohingya refugees to the remote island of Bhasan Char in the Bay of Bengal this month, officials say, despite calls by rights groups not to carry out further relocations. About 1,000 Rohingya refugees, members of a Muslim minority who fled neighbouring Myanmar […]
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Sun 27 December 2020: Protesting farmers in India agreed on Saturday to hold talks with the government as thousands continue to camp on the borders around the capital New Delhi, demanding a rollback of three new farm laws passed earlier this year. Addressing a press conference on Saturday evening, leaders representing 40 farmer groups said […]
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Sat 26 December 2020: India’s government detained at least 75 Kashmiri political leaders and activists to forestall political unrest after an alliance of Kashmir’s regional political parties won a local election, leaders and a police official said on Saturday. The District Council election, concluded early this week, was the first such exercise since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government last year revoked […]
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Sat 26 December 2020: “NPR is the 1st step of NRC. It will force Indians to prove their citizenship & put them at risk of being marked as “doubtful citizens”. NRC+CAA will mean that Indian Muslims are reduced to second class citizenship. Go ahead with Census, there’s no need for NPR,” tweeted AIMIM president Asaduddin […]
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Sat 26 December 2020: The ban on 4G internet in Jammu and Kashmir has been extended till January 8, said an order issued by the Union Territory’s administration on Friday. “The internet speed shall be continued to be restricted to 2G, except the districts of Ganderbal and Udhampur, where mobile internet connectivity shall be continued […]
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Fri 25 December 2020: A four-year-old girl child, who has recently returned here from the United Kingdom has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, informed Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation on Friday. Swab samples of the child’s parents have also been collected for the Covid-19 test. Earlier on Thursday, a 24-year-old male who arrived in Bhubaneswar from […]
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Fri 25 December 2020: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has issued notices to Google Inc and Wikipedia for “disseminating sacrilegious content” through the two platforms, it emerged on Friday. In a press release, the authority said it has been receiving complaints regarding “misleading search results associated with ‘present khalifa of Islam’ and an unauthentic version […]
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Fri 25 December 2020: Dubbing these laws as “anti-farmer”, these farmers claim that the newly enacted legislations would pave the way for the dismantling of the minimum support price system, leaving them at the “mercy” of big corporations. A group of seven influential US lawmakers, including Indian-American Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, have written to Secretary of […]
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Thu 24 December 2020: The government should put repeal of the laws on the agenda for fresh dialogue,” Shiv Kumar Kakka, a senior farmer leader says New Delhi: Farmers protesting the agriculture laws have turned down an invitation to resume talks and said they are uninterested in returning to the negotiating table unless the centre is […]
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Thu 24 December 2020: Senior defense officials from both sides meet in Turkey in high level military meeting Turkey and Pakistan reaffirmed the resolve to further strengthen defense cooperation after a two-day meeting among the high-level military officials of the two countries on Thursday. The 15th round of Pakistan-Turkey High-Level Military Dialogue Group (HLMDG ) […]
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