Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKIYE

ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to chair Cabinet meeting at presidential complex.

ANKARA - Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy to attend handover ceremony of General Secretariat of International Organization of Turkic Culture (TURKSOY).

UKRAINE

KYIV - Following Russia’s war on Ukraine, sanctions, efforts for peace, and related international developments.

RUSSIA

MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin, Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko to visit Vostochny spaceport, hold press conference.

BELGIUM

BRUSSELS - European affairs ministers of EU member states to meet in Luxembourg.

GERMANY

BERLIN - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to chair security cabinet meeting.

US

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden to visit Iowa, deliver speech on economy, rural investments under infrastructure law.

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Antony Blinken to deliver remarks on release of 2021 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.

WASHINGTON - Secretary Blinken, Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar to participate in conversation at Howard University as part of US-India Higher Education Discussion.

THE ECONOMY

ANKARA - Turkish statistical department to reveal industrial production, turnover, retail trade indices for February.

FRANKFURT - European Central Bank to announce interest rate decision.

WASHINGTON - US inflation figures for March to be released.

BERLIN - Germany's statistical office to share inflation data for March.

PARIS - OECD to share unemployment figures for February.

SPORTS

IZMIR - Tour of Turkiye to continue with Cesme-Izmir (Karsiyaka) stage.

MADRID/MUNICH - Real Madrid to face Chelsea, Bayern Munich to take on Villarreal in UEFA Champions League quarterfinals second leg.

SPECIAL REPORT

Anti-Muslim communal hate on rise in India's Karnataka state

By Ahmad Adil

NEW DELHI (AA) - Earlier this year, when a group of Muslim schoolgirls in the southern Indian state of Karnataka were barred from entering the classroom wearing the hijab, or headscarf, no one expected the issue to snowball into a series of hate campaigns against the Muslim community in the state.

SPECIAL REPORT

India's tech geeks face bleak future in Tanzania

By Kizito Makoye

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AA) - For 34-year-old Maisam Raj, the biggest challenge of his job as a creative head at Jema Printers in Tanzania's bustling city of Dar es Salaam is not the complex logos and designs he has to create to impress corporate customers, but the number of hours he must toil every day to get things done.