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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Sat 31 October 2020: Shops and businesses are shut in several parts of Indian-administered Kashmir in a general strike called to protest against new laws that allow Indians to buy land in the disputed region. Government forces in riot gear patrolled streets in Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar in anticipation of anti-India protests. Public transport […]
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Sat 31 October 2020: Philippine officials have ordered evacuation of thousands of residents in the southern part of the main Luzon island as a category-5 storm that is the world’s strongest this year approaches. Typhoon Goni, with 215km/h (133 mph) sustained winds and gusts of up to 265km/h (164 mph), will make landfall on Sunday […]
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Activists and rights groups have condemned Indian agency’s raids on non-governmental organisations, activists and journalists in Indian-administered Kashmir, national capital New Delhi and the southern city of Bengaluru over alleged “terror funding” in the disputed region. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted a series of raids in those places on Wednesday and Thursday, accusing several “non-profit […]
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Fri 30 October 2020: India has conveyed its “serious concern” to Saudi Arabia for a recently issued banknote. The global map printed on the new 20 Riyal banknote, released to mark Saudi Arabia’s presidency of the G20 grouping, does not feature Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh as part of India. The banknote, a new 20 […]
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Fri 30 October 2020: Twitter removed a tweet from former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad for violating its policy demanded the company also ban him from its platform. Cedric O said he told the managing director of Twitter in France that Mahathir’s account “must be immediately suspended,” O tweeted on Thursday. “If not, @twitter would be […]
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Fri 30 October 2020: India has conveyed its “serious concern” to Saudi Arabia for a recently issued banknote. The global map printed on the new 20 Riyal banknote, released to mark Saudi Arabia’s presidency of the G20 grouping, does not feature Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh as part of India. The banknote, a new 20 […]
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Thu 29 October 2020: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday described China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims as the biggest threat to religious freedom during an address to the youth wing of Indonesia’s largest Islamic organisation, Nahdlatul Ulama. Pompeo, who is visiting the world’s biggest Muslim-majority nation as part of a regional trip to […]
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Wed 28 October 2020: A yellow turtle was rescued from a pond in West Bengal on Tuesday. This makes it the second time this year that a rare yellow turtle has been spotted in India – one was also found in the state of Odisha back in July. Indian Forest Service officer Debashish Sharma took […]
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