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    Imran Khan Says, Paying Price for Independent Foreign Policy

    Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has claimed that there was a “foreign conspiracy hatched by the United States” to topple his government through the opposition’s no-confidence motion.

    Southeast Asia
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    81 People Beheaded In Saudi Arabia In Single Day

    Saudi Arabia on Saturday executed 81 people, most of them pro-democracy activists in what is now known as the largest known mass execution carried out in a single day in the modern history of conservative Arab kingdom.

    West Asia
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    ‘You’ll Be Expelled’: How Ukraine Colleges Held Kashmiri Students Hostage

    The killing of an Indian student in Ukraine on Tuesday has heightened fears of families of more than 100 Kashmiri students still stuck in war ravaged Ukraine.

    South Asia
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    Can Hijab Be Worn In Classroom? What Karnataka Government Told Court

    The Karnataka government on Tuesday told the High Court that there is no restriction on wearing Hijab in India with reasonable restrictions subject to institutional discipline.

    South Asia
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    58 girls suspended from college in Karnataka for wearing Hijab, holding protest

    Girl students in many parts of Karnataka were denied entry into their respective educational institutions on Saturday as they arrived in hijabs, despite a court order, as the issue showed no signs of abating.

    South Asia
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    India Polls: All 117 Seats in Punjab, 59 in UP Vote Today

    Voting for 59 assembly constituencies spread across 16 districts of Uttar Pradesh will take place on Sunday in the third phase of the polls. Campaigning for the third phase of the state elections ended on Friday.

    South Asia
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    Hijab Not An Essential Part Of Islam, Says Govt in India

    The Karnataka government on Friday contended before the High Court that the hijab is not an essential religious practice of Islam and preventing its use did not violate Article 25 of the Indian Constitution.

    South Asia
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    38 Indian Mujahideen members sentenced to death; 11 get life term

    A special court on Friday sentenced to death 38 members of terror outfit Indian Mujahideen (IM) in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts, which claimed 56 lives and left over 200 injured.

    South Asia
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    Opposition's Agenda Is Same As Pakistan's, To Break Punjab: PM Modi

    Hitting out at the Opposition for making attempts to break Punjab, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday alleged that their agenda is the same as Pakistan's agenda.

    South Asia
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    Tirupati's Lord Venkateswara Temple Gets ₹ 9.2 Crore Donation

    A 76-year-old devotee from Chennai, who died recently, made a donation of ₹ 9.2 crore to the ancient hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara near Tirupati.Her sister handed over documents of immovable property to the TTD Board.

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    Indian girls tell court: Hijab an innocent practice of faith, not religious jingoism

    The Muslim girls who have moved the Karnataka High Court against the ban on Hijab argued on Tuesday that wearing the headscarf was an innocent practice of faith and not a mere display of religious jingoism.

    South Asia
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    Indonesia Teacher Gets Life In Jail For Raping 13 Students, Impregnating 8

    An Indonesian court Tuesday sentenced a teacher to life in prison for the rape of 13 students, in a case that has drawn national attention to sexual abuse in some of the country's religious boarding schools.

    Southeast Asia
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    Myanmar settling Buddhists in ex-Rohingya area

    Myanmar’s government has been shuttling Buddhist nationals to repopulate the north of Rakhine State, which used to be dominated by minority Rohingya Muslims before they were driven out or.

    West Asia
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    Saudis to build atomic bomb if Iran does:Crown prince

    The Saudi crown prince, who is in Washington to push for an atomic deal with the United States that could pave the way for the Saudi regime to enrich uranium, says Riyadh will be quick to develop.

    West Asia
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    India elections: Ruling BJP Suffers Body Blow In UP By-Polls

    In a stunning blow to the BJP ahead of the 2019 general elections, the party Wednesday lost bypolls to all three Lok Sabha seats it contested, including its bastion Gorakhpur, and Phulpur.

    South Asia
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    Indian Elections: BJP loses all 3 Lok Sabha by elections in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar

    The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday lost byelections to all three Lok Sabha seats it contested, including its bastion Gorakhpur, and Phulpur in Uttar Pradesh, and Araria in Bihar.

    South Asia
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    Laying Claim to India

    During the first week of January last year, a group of Indian scholars gathered in a white bungalow on a leafy boulevard in central New Delhi. The focus of their discussion: how to rewrite the history of the nation.

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    Shoe thrown at former Pak PM Nawaz Sharif

    A shoe was hurled at Pakistan’s ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif by a religious extremist today during a function at an Islamic seminary in Lahore.

    South Asia
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    Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi stripped of human rights award

    Myanmar has responded to the stripping of a prestigious human rights award from de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi by claiming the awarding institution was "misled and exploited."

    Southeast Asia
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    India’s top court upholds freedom of choice in ‘love jihad’ case

    India's Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a 25-year-old woman’s freedom of choice, setting aside a lower court’s order to annul her marriage because of allegations that she had been misled.

    South Asia
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    Statue vandalism continues in India:Gandhi's statue damaged in latest attack

    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s strong condemnation over incidents of vandalism of statues in various parts of the country seems have no deterring effect on miscreants.

    South Asia
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    Violence continues in Sri Lanka despite emergency decree

    A shop and a mosque in central Sri Lanka have been attacked as communal violence continues in the South Asian island nation despite the declaration of a state of emergency over anti-Muslim riots.

    South Asia
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    Israel to legalize withholding bodies of slain Palestinians

    Israel’s parliament (Knesset) is expected to approve a controversial bill that allows police to withhold the bodies of Palestinians killed by the regime’s forces and refuse to hand them over to their families for burial.

    West Asia
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    Babri Masjid dispute:"We will have a Syria in India if issue not resolved amicably"

    Indian Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Monday said India will turn into Syria if the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi controversy is not resolved soon.The Supreme Court is hearing appeals against.

    South Asia

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