Thu 24 December 2020: NEW DELHI — Republic Bharat, Hindi channel of Arnab Goswami’s Republic TV, in the United Kingdom (UK), has been found guilty of breaching hate content rules in UK by a government regulatory body which has imposed a fine of £20,000 (nearly Rs 2 million) on the channel’s licence holder in the country, Worldview […]
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Wed 23 December 2020: Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying was granted a HK$ 10 million ($1.29 million) bail on Wednesday by the Hong Kong High Court after being charged with fraud and violating the national security law for Hong Kong. Lai is one of the financial hub’s most ardent Beijing critics, while his […]
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Wed 23 December 2020: Srinagar: The Centre should listen to the people’s voice against the abrogation of Article 370 since it has itself termed the district polls as a victory of democracy, National Conference (NC) vice-president Omar Abdullah said today. Addressing party workers at National Conference headquarters Nawa-i-Subah, he said the people have made clear their […]
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Wed 23 December 2020: After a 19-year old woman married a person of her choice, her father petitioned the high court, complaining that his daughter’s statement before a magistrate may not have been recorded in an atmosphere where she felt comfortable. Kolkata: Hearing a petition by a father claiming that his daughter has been unduly influenced […]
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Tue 22 December 2020: Turkey and Indonesia should work together to support the Muslim community against Islamophobia and discrimination, according to Turkey’s foreign minister on Tuesday. “We should support the [Muslim] community by working together with Indonesia and fight against these,” Mevlut Cavusoglu told a press conference alongside Indonesian counterpart Retno Marsudi in Jakarta. Cavusoglu […]
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Tue 22 December 2020: New Delhi: Former Congress Councillor Ishrat Jahan, arrested under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in a northeast Delhi riots case, alleged before a court in Delhi on Tuesday that she was beaten up by inmates at Mandoli jail and was continuously facing harassment in prison. Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat directed […]
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Tue 22 December 2020: New Delhi: The economic loss due to premature deaths and morbidity from air pollution was ₹ 2,60,000 crore or 1.4 per cent of the GDP in India in 2019, according to a new scientific paper. It also said that 1.7 million deaths (18 per cent of the total deaths) in the country were attributable […]
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Mon 21 December 2020: Facebook today clarified that an error on the part of its automated systems used to review activities on the community pages led to the blocking of accounts being used by the farmers protesting the government’s new agricultural laws on Sunday. The automated systems flagged the accounts of Kisan Ekta Morcha as […]
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Sun 20 December 2020: Muslim groups in the United States have pleaded for the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to speak out on China’s mass imprisonment of Uighurs, accusing the global body of abetting what some described as genocide. The OIC consists of 57 Muslim-majority nations and frequently takes up cases in which it believes Muslims […]
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Sun 20 December 2020: India is fast-tracking “settlement colonies” in Jammu and Kashmir by transferring land to ex-soldiers, Pakistan-administered Kashmir President Masood Khan claimed on Saturday, Anadolu Agency reports. In a statement, Khan said India under a “well-thought-out policy is swiftly acting to grab Kashmiri land to turn the whole IOJK [Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir” to its […]
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