Category: Asia

Mon 06 January 2020: Many students and teachers have been injured after they were allegedly attacked by members of right-wing students’ group in New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Sunday. Witnesses said violence followed a public meeting organised by the JNU Teachers Association in connection with a rise in hostel charges for the students announced some […]

FILE PHOTO Fri 03 January 2020: Illegal border crossings from India to Bangladesh have risen in recent months amid ongoing citizenship crisis in India, official data from Dhaka showed on Thursday.  Bangladesh border security forces have detained 455 people for crossing its border with India in the last two months, while the number of illegal […]

Tue 31 December 2019: Dummy police are the newest recruits to law enforcement in India’s southern city of Bangalore where authorities have adopted an unusual tactic to fight traffic offenders. Mannequins dressed up as traffic officers — complete with hats, white shirts and fluorescent vests with police insignia — are being placed at major intersections […]

Mon 30 December 2019: Bangladesh’s top Islamic leadership has not yet made a ruling on the milk bank, but it was halted after critics said the plan could lead to breaches of Sharia law. A Bangladesh hospital has suspended plans to give donated breast milk to babies after a backlash by Muslim clerics who said the scheme violated […]

Sun 29 December 2019: The General Assembly passed a resolution denouncing human rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims and other minority groups. The UN General Assembly (UNGA) approved a resolution on Friday strongly condemning human rights abuses against Myanmar’s Rohingya and other minorities, including arbitrary arrests, torture, rape and deaths in detention. The 193-member body voted […]

Fri 27 December 2019: Janne-Mette Johansson, a Norwegian citizen, was interrogated for taking part in the People’s Long March, a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Kochi on December 23. This was the 71-year-old’s fifth visit to India.   The Long March was organised in Kochi and saw scores participate, with people belonging to all […]

Thu 26 December 2019: At six, a boy from South Korea makes solving complex math problems such as gamma functions and Euler’s functions appear as easy as playing a game of tic-tac-toe. Meanwhile, this writer struggled to remember if the word “sentence” was spelt with an “a” or an “e” when she was of the […]

Wed 25 December 2019: India’s much vaunted goal of becoming a $5 trillion economy by 2025 is likely to remain an unrealistic target given the dismal economic data of the past few quarters and the doubts and concerns voiced by ratings agencies and economists on the medium-term outlook. International Monetary Fund’s chief economist Gita Gopinath […]

Tue 24 December 2019: Former Pakistan cricket captain Shahid Afridi has seemingly pulled back his support for Uyghur Muslims after he deleted a tweet imploring Prime Minister Imran Khan to speak up against China’s persecution of the minority. “Hearing of atrocities dedicated up against the #UighurMuslims is heartbreaking. We request @ImranKhanPTI to speak up against […]