Sat 01 July 2023: KABUL – Afghanistan’s Taliban government on Saturday seized on an off-the-cuff remark by US President Joe Biden to underscore their claim that there was no Al-Qaeda threat in the country. Biden was leaving a press conference on Friday on the US Supreme Court’s decision to block his student debt relief program […]
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Fri 30 June 2023: It’s inexpensive, recycled, and has a long history: “shimogoe,” or “fertilizer from a person’s bottom,” is gaining popularity in Japan as the price of chemical alternatives rises due to the Ukraine war. As in several parts of the world, the use of “night soil” to fertilise crops was once common in […]
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Thu 29 June 2023: Rubeena Akhtar has a lot to do before Thursday, the day Indian-administered Kashmir will celebrate Eid Al-Adha, or the “Feast of Sacrifice”. Relatives and friends will be coming over all through the day and Akhtar wants everything to be perfect. She has already made her trip to the neighbourhood baker to […]
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Thu 29 June 2023: The cough medication manufactured by the Indian pharmaceutical company Marion Biotech that killed 19 children in Uzbekistan last year contained a toxic industrial-grade ingredient, According to Reuters, which cited two sources. Propylene glycol was purchased by the Uttar Pradesh-based company from Maya Chemtech India, a seller in Delhi who did not […]
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Taliban’s supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada. Wed 28 June 2023: Taliban supreme leader has freed 2,178 prisoners in a goodwill gesture over Eid-ul-Adha. According to a statement issued by the Supreme Court, the prisoners were freed ahead of Eid-ul-Adha based on the decree of Islamic Emirate’s supreme leader Mawlavi Hibatullah Akhundzada. The statement also said that […]
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Tue 27 June 2023: Prominent ministers from India’s ruling party have derided comments by former US President Barack Obama that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government should protect the rights of minority Muslims, accusing him of being hypocritical. During Modi’s state visit to the United States last week, Obama told CNN the issue of the “protection of the […]
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Afan Abdul Majid Ansari(L) was lynched by cow vigilante and Nasir Qureshi (R) is currently in hospital with serious injuries. Mon 26 June 2023: A 32-year-old man from the minority community was allegedly lynched to death by a group of cow vigilantes on suspicion of carrying beef in their vehicle. The incident took place […]
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Mon 26 June 2023: New Delhi: Top wrestlers Vinesh Phogat, Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia who had led the protest demanding action against the Wrestling Federation of India chief and Bharatiya Janata Party MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh in the light of severe sexual harassment allegations against him, have posted identical tweets saying that their fight […]
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Sun 25 June 2023: Sabrina Siddiqui, the journalist from the United States who questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi on ‘discrimination against minorities in India’ during his visit to the US, was trolled and abused by pro-Hindutva social media users, notably on Twitter. Siddiqui is the White House correspondent for The Washington Post. In one of the […]
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Sun 25 June 2023: Taliban supreme leader supreme leader Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada issued his Eid ul-Adha message on Sunday and wished all Muslims in the country and around the world a “very happy Eid”. In his message he said under the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA), an Islamic system has been established in the country, […]
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