Fri 23 October 2020: Ali has claimed that he had been seeking the permission to keep beard since 2019 but the department did not grant him permission till date An Uttar Pradesh police sub-inspector (SI) named Intesar Ali was reportedly suspended after he grew a beard without seeking permission from the department. Ali was warned many times […]
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Thu 22 October 2020: At least 13 South Koreans have died after receiving flu shots in recent days, according to official and local media reports, ramping up fears about vaccine safety even as authorities rule out a link. Health authorities said on Wednesday they had no plans to suspend a program to inoculate around 19 […]
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Thu 22 October 2020: The attack on a religious school in the northeastern province of Takhar also wounded 14 others An Afghan military air strike targeting Taliban fighters killed at least 12 people, including children, and wounded 14 in an attack that hit a mosque in the northeastern province of Takhar, provincial officials said on […]
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Thu 22 October 2020: A group of 35 organisations is now calling on the US and other countries to state publicly that what happened in Myanmar constituted genocide The United Kingdom has announced new funding for tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees now living in camps in Bangladesh after fleeing a brutal military crackdown in […]
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Wed 21 October 2020: Mandiri Bank holds 51.2% shares in Islamic bank being formed by merging 3 entities Financial giant Bank Mandiri will be the majority shareholder of Indonesia’s upcoming largest Islamic bank, it was disclosed on Wednesday. Bank Mandiri holds 51.2% shares of the new bank, which is being formed by merging Islamic banking […]
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Wed 21 October 2020: At least 15 Afghans have been killed and more than a dozen injured in a stampede near the Pakistani consulate in eastern Afghanistan. The stampede occurred in a stadium in Jalalabad city where thousands of Afghans had gathered to secure visas from the consulate, officials said on Wednesday. Many people were […]
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Wed 21 October 2020: The U.N. human rights chief on Tuesday urged India’s government to do more to protect human rights defenders, who have come under mounting pressure in recent months in the world’s largest democracy. Highlighting that India has long had a strong civil society at the forefront of “groundbreaking human rights advocacy within the […]
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Tue 20 October 2020: After failed attempts to charge them under the Epidemic Diaseas Act, the National Disaster Act and the Foreigners Act, police’s case under Bombay Police Act too falls flat. The members of the Tablighi Jamaat, including 10 from Kyrgyzstan and 10 from Indonesia, were booked in the state of Maharashtra for attempted […]
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Tue 20 October 2020: President of Indonesia, the country with the world’s largest Muslim majority, Joko Widodo warned on October 19 that the nation shall not rush into rolling out vaccines for COVID-19 and cited his concerns over the awareness of citizens about whether they were ‘Halal’. “We should consider public perception regarding the halal […]
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Tue 20 October 2020: The Estates Department of Jammu and Kashmir government on Monday sealed the office of a famous daily in Srinagar. The owners of the newspaper, however, claimed that the due process of law was not followed. The office of ‘Kashmir Times’ at Press Enclave in Srinagar was sealed yesterday. No reason was […]
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