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Coronavirus outbreak sparks migrant crisis in India
Apr 01, 2020 03:02Since India announced a countrywide lockdown on March 24 due coronavirus outbreak, hundreds of thousands of migrant workers, perhaps millions across the country, were desperately trying to reach their native places due to absence of jobs.
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India buys Israeli arms as doctors demand facemasks
Mar 27, 2020 07:26Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to go ahead with an arms deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars with Israel, while healthcare workers in the country are grappling with a serious lack of masks and protective equipment in their fight against the coronavirus outbreak.
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India outlines $23 billion economic stimulus to help poor hit by lockdown
Mar 26, 2020 11:30India announced on Thursday a 1.7-trillion-rupee ($23-billion) economic stimulus plan providing direct cash transfers and food security measures to give relief to millions of poor people hit by a nationwide lockdown over a coronavirus pandemic.
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New lockdowns, emergency states & deaths: Coronavirus keeps impacting lives
Mar 25, 2020 07:44Around the globe, the outbreak of the new coronavirus continues to impact the lives of people, forcing governments to take measures unprecedented in peacetime.
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Police clear citizenship law protest site in Indian capital, citing virus lockdown
Mar 24, 2020 12:53Police have cleared out a long-running protest against a controversial citizenship law in the Indian capital, New Delhi, citing the a recently-announced lockdown to fight the coronavirus outbreak.
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India hangs four over 2012 Delhi bus gang-rape
Mar 20, 2020 05:42India executed four men on Friday for the gang-rape and murder of a woman on a Delhi bus in 2012 that sparked huge nationwide protests and international revulsion.
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Coronavirus cases surge in South Asia as countries try to stem epidemic
Mar 18, 2020 13:35The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the Indian subcontinent has topped 500 amid fears that inadequate health facilities could be overwhelmed in a region home to nearly 1.9 billion people.
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India’s Supreme Court must use legal methods to end discrimination against Muslims: Iran’s Guardian Council
Mar 15, 2020 04:04A member of Iran's Guardian Council, Hadi Tahan Nazif, has called on India's Supreme Court to use all legal methods and procedures to pave the way for the repeal of a discriminatory law against Muslims in the South Asian country.
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Police responsible for New Delhi violence, not Muslims: Indian police admit
Mar 14, 2020 13:27The Indian police have openly confessed to the closure of a route in the country’s capital of New Delhi that turned into a scene of deadly brutal clashes last month between Hindu nationalist mobs and Muslim protesters, a fact that members of the Muslim community in India have been insisting on since the anti-government rallies started there.
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Indian pilgrims in Iran protest New Delhi’s failure to consider evacuation request
Mar 12, 2020 10:17A group of Indian pilgrims in Iran have gathered in front of their country’s embassy in Tehran to denounce the New Delhi government’s failure to consider their demand for evacuation after more than two weeks of being stranded over fears of exposure to the new coronavirus.