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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Wed 29 April 2020: His movie credits include internationally acclaimed offerings such as The Lunchbox and the Hollywood blockbuster Jurassic World. Actor Irrfan Khan died on Wednesday in Mumbai’s Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, where he was being treated for a colon infection. A statement released by his family said that Mr Khan spent his final hours “surrounded by his […]
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Tue 28 April 2020: Tablighi Jamaat chief, Maulana Saad Kandhavli, who was booked for culpable homicide after thousands of attendees of the Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi’s Nizamuddin tested positive for COVID-19, appealed to COVID-19 survivors from the Muslim community to donate blood plasma for the treatment of other patients. Courtesy: The Wire Think your […]
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Mon 27 April 2020: The Delhi Minorities Commission has said that keeping members of the Tablighi Jamaat in COVID-19 quarantine camps for periods far exceeding the mandated 14 days, in case of those suspected to have contracted the coronavirus, was “creating ill-will in the Muslim community and may lead to court cases.” It has, therefore, […]
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