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Sikh separatist preacher
Internet services remain restricted in parts of India’s northern Punjab state for a fourth day as thousands of police continue their search for Sikh separatist leader Amritpal Singh. Over 100 of his supporters have been arrested in the manhunt since Saturday. Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann promised strict action against those spreading “anti-national sentiments” in Punjab. A self-styled preacher, Mr Singh says he supports Khalistan, or a separate Sikh homeland. His rapid rise has revived memories of a 1980s insurgency in Punjab in which thousands died. Mr Singh’s whereabouts remain unclear. On Tuesday, the high court in Punjab demanded to know […]Read more...
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Indian women use
Almost every woman in India has a story of sexual harassment that took place in crowded public spaces – when someone fondled her breasts or pinched her bottom, elbowed her in the chest or rubbed himself against her. To hit back at their predators, women used whatever they had – for instance, as college students commuting in the overcrowded buses and trams in the eastern city of Kolkata decades ago, my friends and I used our umbrellas. Many of us also kept our nails long and sharp to scratch straying hands; others used the pointy heels of their stilettos to […]Read more...
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On BJP’s “Defaming
“I recall the Prime Minister going abroad and announcing that noting has been done in the 60 or 70 years of Independence,” Rahul Gandhi told reporters. Congress’s Rahul Gandhi has hit back at BJP over allegations that he had “defamed” the country abroad, alleging that it was Prime Minister Narendra Modi who did that by discrediting the country’s achievements since Independence. The BJP has accused Mr Gandhi of maligning India abroad after repeated electoral defeats, after his address at his alma mater Cambridge University. “I recall the Prime Minister going abroad and announcing that noting has been done in […]Read more...
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Bangladesh fire: Thousands
Thousands of people have been left without shelter after a massive fire broke out in a crowded Rohingya refugee camp in southeastern Bangladesh. The blaze, which is now under control, engulfed some 2,000 shelters at Cox’s Bazar camp on Sunday. It is estimated that about 12,000 people, most of whom escaped violence in neighbouring Myanmar, have had their accommodation destroyed. The cause of the fire is not yet clear and no casualties have been reported. The blaze started at about 14:45 local time (08: 45 GMT) and quickly tore through the bamboo-and-tarpaulin shelters, an official said. “Some 2,000 shelters have […]Read more...
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India’s G20 meet
Gathering of foreign ministers is marred by disagreements as Russia and China reject a joint statement that calls for end to war. A meeting of the Group of 20 has ended without a consensus on the Ukraine war as China joined Russia in refusing to support a demand for Moscow to cease hostilities. The two were the only countries at the gathering of G20 foreign ministers on Thursday in New Delhi not to agree on a statement demanding Russia’s “complete and unconditional withdrawal from the territory of Ukraine”. Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said there were “divergences” that could not be reconciled […]Read more...
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India child marriage
Crackdown leaves poor families in Assam state without main breadwinner as campaigners say arrests are the wrong way to tackle the issue. Aged 15 and already pregnant after marrying last year, Pinku Das Sarkar has no idea what to do following her husband’s February 2 arrest in a controversial police crackdown on child marriage in northeastern India. He is among more than 3,000 men, priests and Muslim leaders who have been jailed over the last month in the state of Assam on charges of violating the country’s widely flouted laws against early marriage. “It was 11pm and we were about to sleep […]Read more...
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Javed Akhtar –
By Quamar Ashraf | Noted film writer and poet Javed Akhtar is being hailed by Indians for obvious reason. He is assailed by celebrities in Pakistan. The reason: he schooled Pakistan on terrorism after the neighbouring nations did not act against the men who India believed were involved in terror attacks in Mumbai on 26 November 2008. Akhtar, during the Faiz Ahmed Faiz Festival held in Lahore recently, opined that Pakistan should not feel bad when India reminds it on the action taken against the terrorist. He reportedly said: “I am from Bombay and all of us witnessed the attack […]Read more...
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