Sat 16 May 2020: Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, the architect of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons programme, has petitioned the country’s top court to say he is being “kept prisoner” by government agencies and not allowed to plead his case for freedom of movement. Dr Khan, who was sacked from his official position, was granted clemency by […]
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Sat 16 May 2020: A large section of media in India accused of running shows that appear to blame Muslims for the spread of the virus. “During this lockdown, why does every crowd gather only near mosques?” journalist Arnab Goswami recently asked on the Indian news channel, Republic TV. The well-known anchor was referring to […]
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Fri 15 May 2020: The novel coronavirus has been detected in one of the camps in southern Bangladesh that are home to more than a million Rohingya refugees, according to officials. An ethnic Rohingya refugee and a local person tested positive for COVID-19, a senior Bangladeshi official and a United Nations spokeswoman said on Thursday. […]
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Thu 14 May 2020: The research by the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College London looked at data to make short-term forecasts for countries – especially developing ones – in two-week trajectories based on reported deaths as an indicator of disease spread. India are expected to jump from 30,806 to 643,649 […]
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Wed 13 May 2020: South Korea has raised the age of consent for sex to 16 from 13 as it seeks to strengthen protection for minors following accusations the existing law on sex crimes was too weak. Under the revised law, adults who have sex with under-16-year-olds will be prosecuted for child sexual abuse or […]
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Wed 13 May 2020: Indonesians who violate social distancing rules in the capital could soon find themselves forced to clean toilets to atone for their sins. Latrine duty is among a range of punishments listed in new rules aimed at battling coronavirus infections in the Southeast Asian megacity of Jakarta. Going outside without a mask […]
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Tue 12 May 2020: The 27-year-old sociology student at the prestigious Jamia Milia Islamia university was taking a nap, her husband, who didn’t want to be named, told the BBC. The couple had married 19 months ago, and Ms Zargar had discovered just a week earlier that she was pregnant. “She’d been suffering from nausea […]
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Mon 11 May 2020: A rare one-horned rhino has been killed as poaching attempts increase in one of India’s best-known national parks during the coronavirus lockdown, officials said Sunday. The lack of vehicles on the highway near Kaziranga National Park in Assam state — home to the world’s biggest population of one-horned rhinos — amid […]
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Sun 10 May 2020: New Delhi : An audio clip of Tablighi Jamaat head Maulana Saad Kandhalvi, in which he insisted that coronavirus can do no harm to Muslims and asked Jamaat members not to follow social distancing norms, is possibly “doctored”, Delhi Police Crime Branch has found during probe. Around 2000 devotees from various […]
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Sat 09 May 2020: An Indian national will stand trial in Germany accused of spying on Sikh and Kashmiri communities for New Delhi’s Secret Service, a court said Friday. Federal prosecutors allege the suspect, identified as 54-year-old Balvir, has been working with the Indian foreign intelligence agency Research & Analysis Wing since 2015. “He allegedly […]
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