Sat 21 September 2019: Many of thousands of people including politicians, activists and common people who were detained in Indian-administered Kashmir after the Indian government revoked special status of Jammu and Kashmir last month were moved to jails outside the state. In northern Indian city of Agra in Uttar Pradesh, which is famous for the […]
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Sat 21 September 2019: India is expecting the same narrative on Jammu and Kashmir from Pakistan at the upcoming UN General Assembly session, its envoy said Friday. On a question posed to him over Kashmir, Ambassador Syed Akbaruddin, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, said: “What you’re telling me is that it will be more […]
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Fri 20 September 2019: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Thursday that $100 million earmarked for an energy project would be returned to the US treasury, while an additional $60 million in planned assistance would be nixed.Pompeo claimed that the funds were being withheld as punishment for Kabul’s “inability to transparently manage US government […]
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Thu 19 September 2019: In the past few weeks, Malaysia and neighboring Singapore have been choked by smoky air blown in from forest fires started to clear land for plantations, forcing schools to shut and many people to wear masks so as to avoid inhaling smog particles. Malaysia will push its Southeast Asian neighbors to […]
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Tue 17 September 2019: Indonesia’s parliament has revised the country’s marriage law to lift the minimum age at which women can marry by three years to 19, a move welcomed by campaigners as a step toward curbing child marriage in the world’s biggest Muslim majority-country. All factions in parliament agreed the revision at a plenary […]
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Mon 16 September 2019: Under influence of drug, the accused abducted child who was sleeping by her father Another minor girl has been raped in India. This time a six-year-old in Ludhiana in the Indian state of Punjab. Shocked Twitter users shared news reports and the horrific details of the case on September 15. Media […]
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Sun 15 September 2019: In video message, Canada-based Tahir-ul-Qadri announces retirement from politics A firebrand Pakistani political leader and religious scholar Tahir-ul-Qadri on Saturday announced his retirement from politics. In a video message from Canada, where he has been settled for several years, Qadri also announced to resign from the leadership of his Pakistan Awami […]
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Sat 14 September 2019: A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court against the alleged illegal detention of children in Jammu and Kashmir following the abrogation of Article 370 and an unprecedented lockdown in the state. The petition was filed by eminent child rights expert, Enakshi Ganguly and Professor Shanta Sinha, first Chairperson of […]
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Fri 13 September 2019: The principle claimed that their attire was against the dress code Some students were allegedly denied entry in a state-funded college in India because they were wearing burqas. However, the educational facility has claimed that it was due to a dress code violation. The incident occurred in SRK College in Firozabad, […]
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Thu 12 September 2019: The vice president of the Philippines on Thursday rebuked the country’s leader for being “reckless”. Leni Robredo, who also leads the opposition, described as “extremely irresponsible” President Rodrigo Duterte’s apparent openness to concede to China and accept its offer to jointly develop gas reserves, which an international tribunal ruled Manila had […]
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