Category: Asia

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor says the Bill did nothing to benefit Muslim women New Delhi: The government on Friday introduced The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2019 banning Triple Talaq in the Lok Sabha amid criticism that it will harm Muslim families and was discriminatory. The opposition requested Lok Sabha Speaker Om […]

Thu 20 June 2019: A former top Indian policeman critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alleged role in deadly anti-Muslim riots in 2002 has been jailed for life. Sanjiv Bhatt was convicted of murder in a case dating back 30 years. He alleged that Mr Modi, chief minister at the time of the violence in […]

Thu 20 June 2019: The British government has asked Pakistan to sign a treaty that would allow it to send thousands of Pakistani migrants with expired UK visas back to their home country, says Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi. Qureshi said he recently discussed the treaty with UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid, and appeared […]

Wed 19 June 2019: Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister, Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail said, Tuesday, that her country looks forward to a thorough report from Egypt, explaining the reasons that caused the death of former President, Mohamed Morsi. “Mr Morsi was the first democratically-elected President of Egypt following the 2011 Arab Spring revolution, whose term […]

Tue 18 June 2019: PATNA, India (AFP) – Angry protests erupted in one of India’s poorest states on Tuesday (June 18) over the deaths of more than 100 children from a mysterious brain fever potentially linked to lychees. So far this month, 103 children, mostly under 10 and malnourished, have died from Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) in […]

Mon 17 June 2019: NEW DELHI/KOLKATA (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of doctors across India went on strike on Monday demanding better working conditions, the country’s top medical body said, as the outrage over lax security conditions at hospitals escalated. The nationwide protests, affecting hundreds of hospitals, started after an attack at a medical college […]

Sun 16 June 2019: DHAKA (Reuters) – Garment manufacturers in Bangladesh on Sunday demanded higher export subsidies from the government, saying proposals in the latest national budget, unveiled last week, were not enough to compensate for higher production costs and low prices. Bangladesh textile industry earns about $30 billion annually by exporting ready made garments, […]

Containers supposed to contain paper were loaded with plastic waste and nappies Indonesia has returned five containers of rubbish to the United States and will not become a “dumping ground”, officials said Saturday, the latest Southeast Asian country to return imported waste. The containers were supposed to contain only paper scrap, according to the customs […]

Fri 14 June 2019: A plan for Indian train passengers to be offered massage services during their journeys has been described as immodest and “un-Indian” by a conservative politician. Indian Railways, the state rail operator, announced last week that massages will be available for purchase on a number of routes, with a range of options involving creams and […]

Sat 15 June 2019: The Indian government has floated the idea of establishing two new villages inhabited exclusively by Sanskrit speakers. The push to promote the ancient sacred language – spoken by some 25,000 – has ignited a national debate. India’s minister for Human Resource Development, Ramesh Pokhriyal, proposed the idea this week, saying that […]