- Saturday, February 22, 2025
CHILD MARRIAGE is on the rise in Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps and the risk of human trafficking grows with every day the pandemic shuts youth services, according to a recent UN-led study. Bangladesh scaled back activities in the refugee camps in April and mainly focused on providing health and emergency…
In 2019, Facebook took down about 12 million pieces of content in groups for violating policies on hate speech, 87 per cent of which was found proactively. FACEBOOK on Thursday (17) said it was cracking down on private groups where hate or misinformation was being shared among members. The move…
Millions of students in Pakistan returned to classes on Tuesday (15) after a break of six months, as schools and colleges began to reopen for the first time since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. Educational institutes were closed in March as the coronavirus began to spread in Pakistan, but,…
Pakistan has opened criminal investigations into 50 pilots and at least five civil aviation officials who allegedly helped them falsify credentials to secure licences, according to two senior government sources and cabinet meeting minutes seen by Reuters. The probes comes roughly three months after Pakistan grounded dozens of pilots over…
Harsimrat Kaur Badal (C) pays her respects at the Golden Temple. (Photo by NARINDER NANU / AFP) India’s minister for food processing resigned on Thursday (17) over her opposition to planned laws to allow farmers to sell produce directly to bulk buyers and make contract farming easier, saying the legislation…
Islamist activists shout slogans as they take part in a protest in Dhaka on October 21, 2019, a day after deadly clashes when police shot at Bangladeshi Muslims protesting Facebook messages that allegedly defamed the Prophet Mohammed. (Photo by Munir UZ ZAMAN / AFP) A Hindu has been jailed for…
The US provided “strong and unambiguous support” to India during its current border crisis with China, which is engaged in increasingly aggressive behaviour throughout the Indo-Pacific even during the coronavirus pandemic, a senior White House official said on Thursday. From a bilateral perspective China’s recent actions on the Line of…
Dr Rami Ranger. By Nadeem Badshah IT IS the world’s longest bus route, spanning 12,000 miles to link the UK with Delhi in India. And the 70-day trip through 18 countries, set to be launched in May 2021, has been met with approval by leading Indians in Britain. Passengers…
Prime Minister Boris Johnson was seen riding a Hero Viking Pro bike to Canalside Heritage Centre at Beeston in Nottingham on July 28, 2020, during an event to launch the the government's new cycling initiative to help get people fitter. (Photo: RUI VIEIRA/AFP via Getty Images) HEALTH EXPERTS have called…
Usman Khawaja said he faced "both overt and casual" racism in his career. "But I had the confidence to speak up when something didn't feel right, and I know not everyone does." (Photo: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images) By S Neeraj Krishna USMAN KHAWAJA, the first Muslim to play Test cricket for…
