Sat 21 November 2020: A Delhi court Friday extended the judicial custody of former JNU student leader Umar Khalid and JNU student Sharjeel Imam by three days. Khalid and Imam were arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in a case related to the communal violence in northeast Delhi in February. Additional Sessions Judge, Amitabh […]
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Sat 21 November 2020: China is starting mass testing on 3 million people in a section of the northern city of Tianjin and has tested 4,015 others in a hospital in Shanghai after the discovery of a pair of cases there. The National Health Commission recorded seven new domestically transmitted cases of COVID-19 Saturday, with […]
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Fri 20 November 2020: Actor Akshay Kumar has served a defamation notice to a YouTuber from Bihar, seeking Rs 500 crore in damages for making “false and baseless allegations” against him in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case. Kumar, in the legal notice sent through law firm I.C. Legal on November 17, said Rashid Siddiquee, […]
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Fri 20 November 2020: A leading international human rights group and an Afghan envoy on Thursday urged nations whose militaries have served as part of the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan — including America and Britain — to follow Australia’s example and probe their own soldiers’ conduct in the 19-year war. Recent revelation of Australian forces’ […]
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Pakistani religious leader Khadim Hussain Rizvi, who rose to prominence in the South Asian nation by campaigning on the issue of “blasphemy” against Islam, has died in the eastern city of Lahore, his party says. The cause of the Pakistani cleric’s death was not known. Some media reports hinted that he had symptoms similar to […]
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Fri 20 November 2020: India’s coronavirus cases crossed the 9 million mark early Friday after it recorded over 45,000 new infections, Health Ministry figures show. According to a Health Ministry update, the number of confirmed cases in the country now stands at over 9 million. Some 584 deaths were registered in the last 24 hours, […]
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Thu 19 November 2020: Rightly named ‘Rocky’ after the super-hit Hollywood film on a street fighter, starring Sylvester Stallone, the Indian street dog finds a home in London. The three-year-old mutt was found “covered in blood” and her forelegs badly injured by a Railway Protection Force constable at Faridabad in northern Haryana state last October, […]
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Wed 18 November 2020: Japan is closely watching human rights conditions in China’s Xinjiang region with concern, its top government spokesman said today, Reuters reports. “Japan believes it is important that freedom, respect for basic human rights and rule of law, which are universal in international community, are guaranteed in China as well,” Katsunobu Kato, […]
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Tue 17 November 2020: Twitter on Monday, woke with trending Hashtag JusticeforGulnaz after a mother in Vaishali district of Bihar protested police inaction with the mortal remains of an acid attack victim. Gulnaz, a Muslim girl was burnt alive and thrown into a well by two right-wing men earlier this month. INDIA: #Muslim GIRL BURNT ALIVE, MOTHER […]
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Tue 17 November 2020: The Trump administration is reportedly planning to cut the US military presence in Afghanistan by almost half, before Joe Biden takes over the presidency in January. While Trump is expected to give the order as soon as this week, the Pentagon has already issued a notice known as “warning order,” according to a […]
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