Fri 13 October 2023: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said on Wednesday that substantial progress has been made in promoting gender parity in education, with 50 million more girls enrolling in school since 2015. In its Global Education Monitoring report published on Wednesday, the International Day of the Girl, UNESCO revealed […]
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Thu 12 October 2023: New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its verdict on a batch of petitions filed against the early release of convicts in the Bilkis Bano case by the Gujarat government. A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan reserved the judgment after hearing both the sides on the question of […]
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Thu 12 October 2023: The number of newborns in China decreased significantly in the previous year. The country saw a 10% decline in births, the lowest number on record, in spite of massive government attempts to encourage motherhood. There are worries that the nation’s demographics have become unbalanced as a result of this worrying decline. […]
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Wed 11 October 2023: Booker Prize-winning Indian novelist Arundhati Roy could be prosecuted for a 2010 speech about Indian-administered Kashmir after a top official signed off on the move, reports say. Roy, 61, is one of India’s most famous living authors, but her writing and activism, including her trenchant criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s […]
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Wed 11 October 2023: New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was briefed by his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu on the ongoing situation as his country carries out retaliatory strikes against Hamas. India strongly and unequivocally condemns terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, Modi said on Tuesday. “I thank Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his phone […]
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A mass funeral following deadly earthquakes is held in the Zindajan district, Herat province, western Afghanistan, on Oct. 9, 2023. (Photo by Zahir Khan/Xinhua) Wed 11 October 2023: A 6.3 magnitude earthquake rocked western Afghanistan just days after a series of catastrophic earthquakes killed over 2,400 people. At about 5am on Wednesday morning, October […]
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Tue 10 October 2023: Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday discussed India ties with the king of Jordan amid a huge row over the killing of Khalistani activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. “The Canadian Prime Minister spoke with King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein of Jordan on Sunday and he provided “an update on the situation […]
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Mon 09 October 2023: A Delhi-based Catholic priest uncle of UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman has cautioned his niece about some of her language around immigration and urged her not to forget that she herself is a child of migrants. According to a report in ‘The Times’ on Saturday, Father Ayres Fernandes told the newspaper from India […]
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Mon 09 October 2023: In the wake of the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, a disturbing trend has emerged on social media platforms in India. The right-wing extremist groups and online trolls have leveraged the conflict to perpetuate Islamophobic narratives and spread hatred against Muslims. The fresh Israel-Hamas conflict, a long-standing and deeply complex […]
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Sun 08 October 2023: The death toll from powerful earthquakes in western Afghanistan is estimated to be 2,000, a senior Taliban leader said, adding that the number might rise further in one of the deadliest quakes to hit the country in two decades. Afghanistan: at least 120 killed and 1,000 injured in 6.3 quake pic.twitter.com/nuG8iQi8IP […]
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