Police in India’s capital has broken up the longest-running protest against a new citizenship law, citing a ban on public gatherings because of the coronavirus pandemic. Dozens of people, many of them women, have been staging a sit-in protest since early December on a street in the Shaheen Bagh neighbourhood,[…]
New Delhi is reeling from days of violence, described as some of the worst the Indian capital has suffered in decades. Dozens of people have been killed and more than 200 were wounded since the unrest began on Sunday in largely Muslim-populated areas in northeast Delhi. Protests against a new[…]
Dozens of people, carrying placards and India ‘s tricolour flags, form a human chain near a Mughal-era gate in capital, New Delhi, to mark the death anniversary of iconic freedom fighter, Mahatma Gandhi . As more people on Thursday afternoon joined the chain and a call to observe silence in[…]
By Tasneem Adams A South African human rights group raising awareness on growing fascism and discrimination under the regime of Narendra Modi says South Africans must become more conscientized on the political realities in India. In December, Indian lawmakers passed the Constitutional Amendment Act (CAA), which would give citizens of[…]
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has defended a contentious citizenship law his government passed as protesters continued to demonstrate against the new legislation that excludes Muslims. Modi took the stage at a rally in New Delhi on Sunday to launch his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s campaign for the capital legislative assembly elections in February.[…]
The Civil Aviation Authority is investigating and will give more details soon of the plane crash at Kameeldrift outside Pretoria. One person was killed and 20 injured, 18 on board the aircraft and two in a building that it hit late Tuesday afternoon. The plane reportedly experienced difficulties after taking[…]
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