Fri 15 March 2024: The United Nations is calling for more donations for Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh. In its annual response plan to the crisis, the UN appealed for $852.4m to provide food and other aid to the mostly Muslim Rohingya refugees and their host communities. Bangladesh has taken in more than a million […]
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Thu 14 March 2024: The US government and the United Nations, on Tuesday, expressed concerns about a contentious religion-based citizenship law in India, with the UN calling the legislation “fundamentally discriminatory in nature”, Reuters reports. Rights advocates have criticised the 2019 Citizenship Amendment Act, which the Indian government moved to implement on Monday. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International say it discriminates against […]
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New Delhi: Protestors hold placards during a demonstration against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) at Jamia Nagar in New Delhi, Friday, Dec. 20, 2019. (PTI Photo/Ravi Choudhary) (PTI12_20_2019_000064B) Tue 12 March 2024: New Delhi, India — Protests have erupted in parts of India over the Narendra Modi government’s implementation of a controversial citizenship law ahead of national […]
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Sat 09 March 2024: Asif Ali Zardari, the co-chairman of the center-left Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), was chosen by parliamentarians on Saturday to serve as the nation’s fourteenth president. Zardari, 68, the widower of the two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and the candidate of the ruling coalition, defeated Mahmood Khan Achakzai, a veteran politician from the southwestern […]
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Fri 08 March 2024: Taliban chief, Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, said in an inter-departmental coordination meeting that the world does not see the current oppression of the Palestinian people and instead seeks to discredit the Islamic system under the name of human rights. Akhund added that at this critical time, the protection of Islam and […]
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Fri 08 March 2024: A senior Communist Party official of China’s Xinjiang province on Thursday said that “Sinicisation of Islam in the Muslim-dominated province was “inevitable”. China has faced massive international criticism over the persecution Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. Notably, Sinicisation is an act or process of making something more Chinese in character. The regional […]
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Fri 08 March 2024: Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – In his first speech in the main city of Indian-administered Kashmir since scrapping its semi-autonomous status in 2019, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed the move had brought development and prosperity to the region’s residents. “I am working hard to win your hearts,” Modi told a rally on Thursday in […]
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Thu 07 March 2024: On Thursday, Chinese President Xi Jinping called the military to plan ahead for naval conflicts, defend the nation’s maritime interests and rights, and foster the growth of the marine industry. It was necessary to build cyberspace defence system and improve the ability to maintain national network security, Xi was quoted by […]
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Wed 06 March 2024: Farmers in India are resuming their march to the national capital New Delhi to press the government to guarantee a minimum support price for all crops besides other demands. “People from several states will start moving to Delhi from today,” Gurlal Singh Mann, a farm representative told Anadolu. Dozens of farmers’ […]
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Wed 06 March 2024: A study from Sri Lanka suggests climate change will spark a rise in the numbers of people receiving snakebites. In 1950, Roald Dahl wrote a short story titled Poison. The tale, set in colonial India and often found in deckle-edged children’s anthologies, tells a riveting story about racism. In the story, a striped […]
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