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Maldives: Reforms fall short in curbing threats to free speech
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New York [US], April 14 (ANI): The Maldives authorities have not credibly addressed threats to free expression and other rights by religious extremist groups, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released on Thursday.
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Religious scholars in Paktika province urge Taliban to reopen girls' schoo
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 14 (ANI): Amid the worldwide condemnation of the Taliban regime's diktat to ban girls from attending school over sixth grade, a group of religious scholars assembled in Afghanistan's south-eastern Paktika province calling for reopening of schools for girls.
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Security forces on high alert in Maharashtra ahead of upcoming religious f
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 13 (ANI): Ahead of the upcoming religious festivals across Maharashtra, two lakh police forces, 38 thousand home guards and 100 SRPF companies have been deployed to avoid religious violence in the state.
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SC refuses to entertain plea seeking to enact uniform law for Trust and tr
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 13 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a petition seeking to direct and declare that the Centre can enact only uniform law for Trust and trustees, charities and charitable institutions, and religious endowments and institutions.
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Religious sound arts from the 7th century AD restored in Saudi Arabia in a
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], April 13 (ANI/PRNewswire): Saudi Arabia is witnessing an international competition that tests the sound performance in reciting the Holy Quran (the Holy Book in Islam) and delivering adhan (the call to prayer in Islam).
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Shivraj Singh Chouhan slams Digvijaya Singh for 'conspiring to spread reli
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], April 12 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday slammed Congress leader Digvijaya Singh for tweeting a photo of a youth hoisting saffron (flag) at a religious place and added that the latter was conspiring to spread religious fr
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Uyghur diaspora finds discussing Chinese genocide in Xinjiang with their c
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], April 12 (ANI): Uyghurs who are being persecuted as an ethnic and religious group by the Chinese government, face a common challenge of figuring out how best to talk with young people about the 21st-century atrocities occurring in China's northwestern Xinjiang region.
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Systematic Uyghur genocide depicts human rights abuses against ethnic mino
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], April 11 (ANI): The systematic Uyghur genocide by Chinese authorities in Xinjiang characterizes the human rights abuses committed by China against Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities, said a media report.
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Karauli violence: Sec 144 CrPC imposed in 17 districts of Rajasthan to mai
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], April 10 (ANI): A total of 17 districts in Rajasthan have imposed Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) for approximately a month in a bid to maintain law and order situation in their respective districts after violence broke out recently during
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Ramzan 2022: How people manage fasting and praying at workplace
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 9 (ANI): The holy month of Ramzan has commenced with a spiritual zeal across the whole nation. Ramzan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, during which the followers of Islam observe fast from dawn to sunset.
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Indian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka hosts Iftar dinner in Colombo
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 8 (ANI): High Commissioner of India in Sri Lanka, Gopal Baglay, hosted an Iftar dinner in Colombo on Friday which was attended by the Finance Minister of Sri Lanka, Ali Sabry, members of the clergy and religious scholars.
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Afghanistan: Clerics call on Taliban to reopen girls' schools, says no leg
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 8 (ANI): Religious scholars once again called on the Taliban to reopen all girls' schools in Afghanistan's capital Kabul and said there was no legal justification for banning girls above sixth grade from going to school.
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