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The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has called on the Indian Government to take urgent steps to stop the growing tide of Islamophobia in the country. The organization also called on the Indian government to to undertake measures to…

Sewing factories in the Gaza Strip have begun production of face masks for the local and international markets in response to the tense coronavirus crisis. Abdullah Shehadeh, one of the administrators at the Hasco sewing factory, said 40…

Source: Reuters Bangladesh coastguard has rescued about 400 Rohingya refugees from a boat mishap. Disclosing this on Friday April 17, 2020, Bangladesh coastguard spokesman, Lieutenant Shah Zia Rahman, stated that the boat had been adrift…

Attacks and discrimination against the Muslim community have escalated amid false claims that a Muslim group is to blame for the spread of Coronavirus across India. This is coming Just weeks after Hindu mobs attacked Muslims in communal…

Authorities in Bangladesh have executed an assassin of the country's founding father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, almost 45 years after the assassination. Inspector General of Prisons Brigade General, AKM Mustafa Kamal Pasha who disclosed this…

Sources: Reuters Yasin Malik, Indian-administered Kashmir's prominent pro-independence leader, was imprisoned in New Delhi and charged with a series of cases, including the reopening of a 30-year old case of gunning down of Indian Air…

Source: AP Indian Ministry of Home Affairs officials have decried the ravaging rise in cybercrimes in the past four weeks. The ministry affirmed that various crimes including scams ranging from free mobile recharges to offers of free…

The Taliban has declared that the peace deal with the United States is nearing a breaking point. The peace deal is aimed at bringing peace to Afghanistan. The group is blaming Washington of violations that included drone attacks on…

Source: Reuters As China keeps a widely-documented record of violation of human rights, it is therefore an aberration for the United Nations to have included it among nations who elevate human rights. Chinese human rights lawyer, Wang…

Source: Reuters The number of funerals in Jakarta has risen sharply, following the outbreak of coronavirus. This heart-rending development has elicited reaction from the governor of Indonesia's capital city, claiming that deaths from the…

Despite the fact that cases of coronavius surpassed one million worldwide, North Korea has claimed that its country has only recorded a single case. Though the claim was met with increasing suspicion, a senior health official in Pyongyang…

Source: AFP The Indian government has introduced a new set of laws for Indian-administered Kashmir, including domicile rights for Indian citizens. Experts and residents fear the law will alter the demographic status of the Muslim-majority…

Source: Al Jazeera Thousands of Nepalese, who want to return home, have become stranded at border points Nepal's 1,700km border with India. They started walking home after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi imposed a complete lockdown on…

The Minister of Finance, Budget and Planning, Zainab Ahmed, and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele have obtained Presidential approval to permit critical financial services to function amid the lockdown. In a bid…

Africa Centres for Disease Control (CDC) has declared its readiness to collaborate with Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB), the leading technology innovation centre in Africa, in a venture to educate and sensitize the continent to COVID-19. The…

Source: Reuters A powerful inland and shallow earthquake has hit eastern Indonesia. The earthquake which occurred late on Saturday night made people panic in parts of Sulawesi and flee to higher ground, disregarding directive from…

Source: AP Iranian media have reported that about 300 people have been killed and more than 1,000 under treatment so far across the country due to consumption of methanol, a false cure spread across the country. Dr Hossein Hassanian who…

Source: Reuters Sri Lanka's president has pardoned and released an army officer sentenced to death for the killing of Tamil civilians, including four children, during the island's violent ethnic war. Staff Sergeant Sunil Ratnayake was to…

Source: AP Istanbul prosecutor's office said it had prepared an indictment against 20 suspects over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, including the former deputy head of Saudi Arabia's general intelligence and a former royal…

Source: Reuters The United Nations has called for an immediate nationwide ceasefire across the war-battered country to promote an "all-out-effort" to resist the coronavirus pandemic. On humanitarian grounds, the UN special envoy for…

Source: Reuters Egyptian police, security forces and military officials have arbitrarily arrested, tortured and taken away hundreds of children, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). The New York-based rights group released a report,…

Source: PTI (Press Trust of India) Millions across India are staying in to counter the threat from the highly contagious COVID-19, a disease spread by the Novel Coronavirus, which has toppled economies and annihilated thousands across the…

Source: AP Lebanese officials had alleged that Fakhoury, 57, of Dover, New Hampshire, who had been jailed since September, was accountable for the killings and abuse of prisoners in Lebanon as part of an Israeli-backed militia two decades…

Source: Reuters Russia's Constitutional Court has authorized a 'reset' of President Vladimir Putin's previous terms, including a batch of amendments, providing him with the chance to govern upto 2036. The court announced the decision on…

Source: AFP Syria's deadly conflict has entered its 10th year with Bashar al-Assad's regime strengthening its grip over Syria's war-battered lands and decimated economy. When Syrians took to the streets on March 15, 2011, they would…

A 68-year-old woman has died of coronavirus in Delhi, in the second death associated with the global pandemic in the country. The woman was the sixth case of coronavirus to be reported from the capital city and had other symptoms…

India has recorded first death of coronavirus victim. This was confirmed after the death of a 76-year-old patient from Kalaburagi in Karnataka, who had returned from Saudi Arabia on 29th February 2020. His samples were tested positive…

Lebanon's parliament has disclosed plan to vote on a law that would legalize the cultivation of cannabis for medical and industrial usage. The draft law, if approved, will constitute a measure to improve the country’s crippled economy and…

Malaysia's Religious Affairs Minister says prayers must continue with precautions More than 140 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Malaysia amid rising tensions over its spread across the globe. Malaysia's Religious Affairs…

Pakistan National Assembly has passed the Zainab Alert, Response and Recovery Bill, 2019 with a majority vote. The country's Senate offered its approval to the law that aims to accelerate scrutiny and punishment for executioners of child…