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Topic: Uighurs

Xi Jinping says facts prove policies toward Uighurs in Xinjiang are ‘completely correct’

Bloomberg News -
Xi remark comes even as international community has piled pressure on China over its treatment of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang, where US estimated hundreds of thousands could be in 're-education camps'.

US readies ‘harsh’ sanctions on China over abuses in Xinjiang

Nick Wadhams -
The sanctions are likely to target Communist Party officials responsible for the internment and persecution of minorities in Xinjiang.

US Senate moves toward vote to pressure China over Uighur rights

Daniel Flatley -
The legislation, aimed at punishing Beijing for its treatment of Uighur Muslims, signals rising anti-China sentiment in Congress amid the pandemic.

When will UN chief speak up for China’s oppressed Uighur Muslims?

Eli Lake -
Six months after a UN committee report revealed how China arbitrarily and systematically detains Uighurs, the UN Secretary-General is acting as if it's business as usual with China.

How China is defending its detention of Muslims to the world while selling the BRI dream

Peter Martin -
China is worried about an international backlash to its ‘re-education camps’, raising the stakes for Xi Jinping who has directly challenged Western-style democracy.

Why Pakistan champions Islamic causes globally but ignores Uighur persecution by BFF China

Sadanand Dhume -
At home, China persecutes minority Uighurs merely for practicing their faith; overseas, Beijing supports hardened Pakistani terrorist Masood Azhar.

Turkey, with its own dodgy record on human rights, becomes China’s unlikely critic

Srijan Shukla -
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This is how Islam is getting a Communist makeover in China

Aastha Singh -
Reports from China suggest that the country will soon release a five-year 'outline' for the 'Sinicisation' of Islam.

NASA reaches for the Sun, and a mother whale in mourning in the Pacific

ThePrint Team -
Dementia patients in the US are being given unapproved drugs 'with possibly fatal consequences', and China's crackdown.

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Opinion

Title scene of Taarak Mehta ka ooltah chashmah.

Dear Taarak Mehta, you were our peak comfort content for 14 years. Now it’s time to retire

Yashika Singla -
Just like the Truman Show, all Taarak Mehta plots somehow feel the same for the past few years. It's fine to accept that ideas can go stale.
The Gyanvapi Mosque and Kashi Vishwanath Temple, Varanasi | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint

Gyanvapi row and Places of Worship Act were born together. Now each wants to end the other

Credit: ThePrint Team

The LIC way or the Air India way — that is the multi-crore disinvestment question

Economy

An attendant refills a two-wheeler with fuel at a petrol pump in New Delhi Saturday | ANI

Under fire for spiraling inflation, Modi govt announces excise duty cut on fuels, LPG subsidy

Shubham Batra -
It has also decided to enhance the fertiliser subsidy for farmers, and reduce import duty on some raw materials. ‘It is always people first for us!’ tweets prime minister.

Defence

File photo of a defence personnel armed with a SiG 716 rifle near the Line of Control | Photo: Snehesh Alex Philip | ThePrint

India to ink ‘repeat order’ deal for 73,000 SiG 716 rifles from the US

Snehesh Alex Philip -
In February 2019, 72,400 SiG 716 rifles of 7.62 x 51mm calibre were contracted from SIG Sauer Inc, USA, under government's 'Buy (Global) category', through fast track procedure.

National Interest

Mandir or Masjid? New surveys not needed, just acceptance of truth & move towards reconciliation

Shekhar Gupta -
That temples were destroyed and mosques built is undisputed history. The past can’t be changed, but we can’t deny the wrongs of the past either before we consider reconciliation.

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