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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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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