The Indian government has removed a 58-year-long ban forbidding civil servants and bureaucrats from joining or associating with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its activities, as reported by an opposition leader on Sunday. Jairam Ramesh, a Member of Parliament (MP), affiliated with the opposition Indian National Congress posted a picture on his X (formerly [...]

The Court of First Instance of Tunisia on Friday sentenced opposition leader Lotfi Mraihi to eight months in prison with a lifetime ban from contesting elections on charges of illicitly influencing votes through gifts and cash, as reported by local media.  Mraihi is the founder and president of the Union Populaire Républicaine (Republican People’s Union). He [...]

Six people were killed in Bangladesh and hundreds injured on Tuesday during the ongoing students’ protest against the government job quota requirements for children of Bangladesh freedom fighters, according to local media. The government has ordered the indefinite closure of schools and colleges while the country is engulfed in deadly protest. The protest sparked in [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) asked the Libyan government on Friday to release television host Ahmed al-Sanussi from detention. The organization denounced al-Sanussi’s arrest, which occurred the previous day in Tripoli, expressing concern that his place of detention and reason for arrest were still unknown. CPJ’s Interim MENA (Middle East and North Africa) Program Coordinator [...]

Pakistan’s Punjab government proposed a ban on all social media platforms for six days, citing security concerns during thousands of religious processions starting next week from July 13-18, according to a Thursday notice from the Ministry of Interior. The ban proposal concerns the religious parade taken out by the minority Shi’ite Muslims of the country on [...]

The Indian Supreme Court on Wednesday disapproved the Manipur High Court’s decision to curtail hospital treatment for a prisoner belonging to the minority Kuki community, citing ethnic clashes in the state. While giving the order, the Apex Court expressed disappointment, “We do not trust the state…The accused was not taken to hospital because he is [...]

Delhi court sentenced renowned Indian activist, Medha Patkar to five months imprisonment on Monday in a defamation case filed by the current Delhi lieutenant governor, Vinai Kumar Saxena in 2001. Patkar is the founding member of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save the Narmada River Movement) started in 1985 in states including Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and [...]

The Delhi High Court put a final stay on the bail order granted by the trial court for the chief minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday. The trial court of Delhi, the capital of India, approved the bail plea for Kejriwal on June 20 with a bail bond of INR 100,000 in the money laundering [...]

The Indian government removed on Saturday the director general of the National Testing Agency (NTA), Subodh Kumar Singh, amid the ongoing National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate) (NEET-UG) scandal. The NEET-UG exam has been under heightened scrutiny since NTA released the results on June 14 and was accused of corruption and unfair practices. Shri Pradeep [...]

The Punjab, Pakistan government imposed protest restrictions on Friday citing the “law and order situation” and security threats posed by demonstrations. The order came at the time when Pakistan’s previous ruling party, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) had called for a nationwide protest to release its leader and Pakistan’s ex-prime minister, Imran Khan from jail. Section 144 [...]