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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Thu 09 April 2020: A 22-year-old man was allegedly beaten to death in Delhi’s Bawana after he was suspected of a conspiracy to spread COVID-19, police said on Wednesday, 8 April. The victim has been identified as Mehboob Ali, a resident of Harewali village in Bawana, they said. Police said Ali had gone to Bhopal […]
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Wed 08 April 2020: Boxer Amir Khan has announced aid for 10,000 Pakistani families amid the coronavirus lockdown saying that ration bags will be distributed on Thursday. The former world champion took to Instagram sharing his photo and wrote, “I’m giving out food Tomorrow to the people of Pakistan. 10,000 families will receive aid.”. […]
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Tue 07 April 2020: Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) founder Kamal Haasan on Monday flayed the BJP-led government at the Centre for its handling of the situation arising out of COVID-19 pandemic, saying the “same mistake of demonetisation is being repeated, albeit at a much bigger scale.” In an open letter to the prime minister, the […]
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