Fri 06 September 2019: Pakistan’s Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa said Pakistan is proud of its “special strategic and brotherly relationship” with the UAE and Saudi Arabia. The statement came as UAE’s Foreign Minister Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel Al Jubeir called on the […]
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Thu 05 September 2019: A disturbing video of this incident that occurred in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh’s Alirajpur district on September 1, has gone viral on Twitter. We may have reached the 21st century, but caste-based violence still exists in India. Twitter users who shared the video are shocked. Indian filmmaker Vinod Kapri […]
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Tue 03 September 2019: Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today slammed several world superpowers for imposing sanctions on small countries in the region. He said the sanction would hurt not only the country involved but also other countries for “no reason at all”. “We have no quarrel with this country but we are […]
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Sun 01 September 2019: Indonesian police have arrested dozens of people in the easternmost region of Papua following protests last week in which buildings were set ablaze, a police spokesman said on Sunday. The area has been racked by civil unrest for two weeks over perceived racial and ethnic discrimination. Some protesters are also demanding […]
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Sat 31 August 2019: Economic growth rate slowed to 6-year low of 5% in April-June 2019, according to government data India’s economic growth rate slowed to a six-year low of 5% in the April-June 2019, a drop of 0.8% compared to the last quarter that ended in March, according to government data released on Friday. […]
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Fri 30 August 2019: Urmila Matondkar’s husband has not been able to speak to his parents, who live in Kashmir, for the last 22 days, she said. Actor-turned-politician Urmila Matondkar on Thursday hit out at the Centre over the security clamp-down in Jammu and Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370. Her husband has not […]
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Thu 29 August 2019: A prominent Christian leader faced a lawsuit for his comment on the military persecution against ethnic Christians in the country at a White House meeting last month. Hkalam Samson, chair of the Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC), was among 27 victims of religious persecution from 17 countries invited to a meeting with […]
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FILE PHOTO: Iranian Ambassador to India, Ali Chegeni (Right) after presenting his credentials to President Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi, on Dec 7, 2018. Wed 28 August 2019: “Iran and India have very good relations based on centuries-old ties. These small pressures sanctions on the two sides will not affect ties. […]
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Tue 27 August 2019: “If I owned a newspaper, my headline tomorrow would just be the word ’20’ because it is the twentieth day that the people of Kashmir have been subjected to these restrictions on their freedoms,” says Kannan Gopinathan. New Delhi: An officer of the Indian Administrative Service from Kerala, Kannan Gopinathan, has resigned […]
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Tue 27 August 2019: Lt. Gen. Shavendra Silva, who became army commander last week, faces allegations of grave rights abuses during the war, which ended in 2009 after government forces defeated ethnic Tamil rebels who fought to create a separate state. “I, of course, totally deny those allegations,” Silva told reporters at his first media […]
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