Fri 08 May 2020: Safoora Zargar is a 27-year-old M.Phil student and activist at the Jamia Milia Islamia university in New Delhi, who was recently booked and imprisoned under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. This is a law that gives the government liberty to jail any individual with suspected terror links. However, there has been […]
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Fri 08 May 2020: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced that his government will be begin to lift the nationwide coronavirus lockdown starting on Saturday. “We have decided to lift the lockdown from Saturday in phases,” Khan said, addressing the nation. “We are doing this because the people of our country are suffering economically.” Khan […]
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Thu 07 May 2020: Commonly known as the Turkish Game of Thrones, the globally-renowned TV show is travelling from household to household in flash drives, bypassing the internet ban, according to a report by India-based ThePrint. Rafi Ahmed, who lives in Srinagar’s Hazratbal, said that watching the series had now become a daily activity in […]
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Wed 06 May 2020: New Delhi: Main opposition Congress party‘s youth wing on Tuesday sought cancellation of license and appropriate actions against Arnab Ranjan Goswami’s channels Republic TV, Republic TV Bharat and its holding Company M/s ARG Outlier Media Pvt Ltd for “ brazenly violating the government’s guidelines and creating ill-will in the society. Goswami, […]
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Tue 05 May 2020: Relief agency dispatches humanitarian aid to Muslim communities in Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines and Myanmar The Istanbul-based Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) dispatched food packages to residents and refugees affected by the COVID-19 outbreak in Southeast Asian countries. “IHH has sent more than 9,500 packages for families in need,” Mucahit Demir, an official […]
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Sun 03 May 2020: In March, India’s top court said that it was “difficult for prisoners to maintain social distancing” and ordered that detainees convicted of crimes with jail terms of no more than seven years be given parole. Many states started releasing thousands of inmates. Although there are no official numbers on how many […]
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Sat 02 May 2020: India reported 2,293 new cases of coronavirus today — its biggest single-day increase since the outbreak began, according to the country’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. That takes the national total to 37,366 cases and 1,218 related deaths, according to the ministry. All 1.3 billion people in India remain under […]
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Sat 02 May 2020: Pakistan has reported a record 990 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of infections to 17,439 with 391 deaths so far in the country, the health ministry said on Friday. The Ministry of National Health Services said Punjab reported 6,340 cases, Sindh 6,675, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa […]
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Fri 01 May 2020: New Labour leader Keir Starmer has changed Labour’s position on the decades long territorial issues between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, saying the issue should be left between the two Asian countries in a move away from his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn. This comes just one year after the Labour party, then led by Jeremy […]
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Thu 30 April 2020: Governing party reprimands Uttar Pradesh legislator for accusing Muslim vendors of ‘infecting vegetables with saliva’. India’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has issued a notice to one of its leaders after a video showing him asking people not to buy vegetables from Muslims surfaced amid a nationwide coronavirus lockdown. “Keep one […]
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