Tue 03 October 2020: Bollywood actor Aamir khan’s daughter, Ira has claimed that she was sexually harassed at the age of 14. In her latest video on Instagram, Ira claimed that when she was abused, she was too young to understand what was going on, which in turn delayed her from seeking help. Ira Khan, […]
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Mon 02 October 2020: Gunmen have attacked Kabul University’s campus, killing at least 25 students on Monday, AFP reported. The attackers were targeting students and fired on them as they fled the Afghan capital, a witness said. “They were shooting at every student they saw,” Fathullah Moradi told Reuters news agency. He said he managed […]
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Mon 02 November 2020: A top militant commander, Saifullah Mir, was killed in a gun battle in the Indian-administered Kashmir on Sunday, police said. Kashmir region’s Inspector General of Police Vijay Kumar said that Mir, the operational chief commander of Hizbul Mujahideen — a militant outfit active in the region — was killed while a […]
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Mon 02 October 2020: China is removing domes and other decorative elements from mosques across the country. The move is part of a cultural whitewash to suppress the influence of Islam, according to a report in The Telegraph. One such building that has been altered is the Nanguan Mosque in Yinchuan, capital of Ningxia province. The mosque has […]
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Sun 01 October 2020: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan announced granting the provisional-provincial status to Gilgit-Baltistan on Sunday as he arrived in the area to attend its 73rd Independence Day celebrations. Khan’s proposal would apply to Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan’s only land link to China, which is the northern part of the larger Kashmir region. Both Delhi and […]
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Sun 01 October 2020: “During one visit “Aladdin” actually made an appearance in front of me. I did not know who this person was at that time Two men have been arrested in western Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut after they allegedly cheated a city doctor of ₹ 31 lakh by selling him “Aladdin’s lamp” – the magical artifact […]
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Sun 01 November 2020: Global rights watchdog Amnesty International has called on India to “immediately halt its intensifying suppression of dissent” after the country’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) raided several organizations in Jammu and Kashmir. Amnesty, which shut its office in India last month following a “witch hunt” by the government, said on Thursday night: […]
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Sun 01 November 2020: The arrested include current and former opposition lawmakers, according to their political parties and media reports. Seven pro-democratic politicians in Hong Kong have been arrested over protests and scuffles that broke out in the city’s legislature earlier this year, according to a police statement. The seven politicians – four of them […]
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Sun 01 November 2020: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today cited an Allahabad High Court order on religious conversion for marriage to raise the issue of “love jihad”, and invoke “Ram naam satya” – a Hindu funeral chant – to issue a thinly-veiled threat to “those who… play with our sisters’ respect”. Yogi Adityanath, whose […]
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Sat 31 October 2020: Indonesian president Joko Widodo on Saturday condemned what he called “terrorist” attacks in France, but also warned that remarks by President Emmanuel Macron had “insulted Islam” and “hurt the unity of Muslims everywhere.” Islamic organizations in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, have called for protests and boycotts against France, sharing […]
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