Thu 02 April 2020: A Muslim charity in coronavirus-stricken Australia brought relief to self-isolating lonely pensioners, expressing that they are not alone in this fight. Elderly residents lacking a support network were driven to tears after receiving care packages filled with essential goods. “It’s quite heartbreaking because most of them never expected something like this […]
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Thu 02 April 2020: Tablighi Jamaat headquarters in Indian capital Delhi sealed for arranging congregation amid lockdown Indian Muslim organizations and leaders on Tuesday took strong exception to the attempts being made by certain sections to squarely blame the Tablighi Jamaat and its members for accentuating the coronavirus or COVID-19 pandemic crises in the country. […]
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Thu 02 April 2020: A six-week-old infant has died of complications relating to COVID-19, the governor of the US state of Connecticut said Wednesday, in one of the youngest recorded deaths from the virus. Governor Ned Lamont tweeted that the newborn was “brought unresponsive to a hospital late last week and could not be revived.” […]
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Thu 02 April 2020: (AFP) Personal data protection is a thorny subject in privacy-loving Germany, but the country is nevertheless considering using a smartphone app to help manage the spread of the new coronavirus. Even Chancellor Angela Merkel — who often refers to her youth in surveillance-ridden communist East Germany — said Wednesday that if […]
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Thu 02 April 2020: The United States has accused China of lying about the extent of its deadly coronavirus outbreak, according to American lawmakers who on Wednesday cited an intelligence report presented to the White House. Republicans in Congress, pointing to a report by Bloomberg citing US intelligence officials, expressed outrage that Beijing apparently misled […]
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Thu 02 April 2020: (AFP) As the world battles the coronavirus pandemic, the main question for most is simply: “When will it end?”. But other, troubling questions are starting to be asked of governments. Why did Western governments not predict the risk of an epidemic in their territories after the novel coronavirus first emerged in […]
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Thu 02 April 2020: While BTV, a Kannada news channel called Tablighi Jamaat a ‘terrorist virus’, Sudarshan News, a Muslim bashing hate channel called the novel coronavirus as ‘Corona Jihad’, insinuating a Muslim-led conspiracy behind its spread. For the past few days, ever since the death of six people from Telangana was connected to the congregation they […]
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Thu 02 April 2020: (AFP) The use of face masks in Asia during the coronavirus outbreak has been far more widespread than in the West, where governments have urged people to reserve supplies for frontline medical staff, so have they helped limit infections? Experts agree that the ordinary surgical masks commonly worn in parts of […]
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Wed 01 April 2020: Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh, two of India’s 2011 World Cup heroes, found themselves unwittingly caught in the middle of a twitter war among cricket fans. the two Indian stars drew some sharp criticism for supporting former Pakistan allrounder Shahid Afridi’s charity work on twitter from some quarters. Taking to Twitter, […]
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Wed 01 April 2020: The world risks facing a food shortage if authorities fail to manage the continuing coronavirus outbreak properly, the heads of three global agencies have warned. As governments around the world are trying to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus by putting their populations in lockdown, international trade and food supply chains suffered […]
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