Sun 19 April 2020: Around 100,000 people attend funeral of Muslim leader in eastern Bangladesh, local media reports Tens of thousands of people defied government restrictions to attend the funeral of a religious leader in eastern Bangladesh on Saturday. People from different parts of the country traveled to the eastern Brahmanbaria district for the last […]
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Sat 18 April 2020: (REUTERS) At least 20 officials working at Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s palace have tested positive for coronavirus, prompting the 70-year-old leader to limit most of his contact with staff to digital communication, government sources said on Saturday. An official document delivered to the Presidential Palace in Kabul is thought to have […]
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Fri 17 April 2020: Charity groups have been trying to ensure that poor do not go to bed hungry amid nationwide lockdown Muslim charities and other voluntary organizations are helping the poor in India during a nationwide lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the novel coronavirus. As of Thursday, the death toll from the […]
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Thu 16 April 2020: Apolitical Muslim group linked by Indian media to rising number of coronavirus cases in South Asian country India on Wednesday brought charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against Maulana Saad Kandhalvi, head of the Muslim missionary group Tablighi Jamaat, and six others, a police official said. The group — […]
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Tue 14 April 2020: India’s Hindi daily Dainik Jagran, once the world’s largest read daily, with close links to the right wing Hindu outfits called “Sangh Parivar” is hate Muslim media factory. The vernacular newspaper with wide circulation in the communal tinderbox, Uttar Pradesh indulged in creating Islamophobia and communal polarization of the society when […]
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Tue 14 April 2020: In a live televised address early on Tuesday morning, India’s prime minister extended the nationwide lockdown until May 3 to contain novel coronavirus pandemic. Narendra Modi assured that in the second phase of the lockdown, certain services would be relaxed somewhat in certain areas. “We have taken strict measures since the […]
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Mon 13 April 2020: An Indian national working in the UAE has been sacked by his company for allegedly sharing Islamophobic posts on Facebook related to the coronavirus pandemic, in yet another such case within weeks, according to a media report. Bala Krishna Nakka from Hyderabad, working as Chief Accountant at Dubai’s Moro Hub Data […]
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Sun 12 April 2020: Bangladesh has executed a military captain less than a week after he was arrested after nearly 25 years on the run over the assassination of the country’s founding leader, a minister said Sunday. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, father of current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was killed along with most of his family […]
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Sun 12 April 2020: (AFP) South Asia is on course for its worst economic performance in 40 years, with decades of progress in the battle against poverty at risk, because of coronavirus, the World Bank said Sunday. India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan and other smaller nations, which have 1.8 billion people and some of the planet’s […]
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Fri 10 April 2020: (AP) Mosques usually filled for Friday prayers and streets normally clogged with cars and motorcycles were empty as authorities in Indonesia’s capital enforced stricter measures to halt the spread of the new coronavirus after deaths spiked in the past week. Under the new measures that went into effect Friday, Jakarta’s mosques […]
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