BRICS Summit July, 2018 (File Photo) Wed 05 July 2023: The BJP will participate in the ‘BRICS political parties plus dialogue’ conclave to be organised by the African National Congress in South Africa this year. BJP president J P Nadda announced this during his meeting with heads of missions to India from the Middle […]
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Tue 04 July 2023: Food assistance to Afghanistan will shrink to nothing by the end of October under current funding projections, the World Food Programme’s (WFP) Country Director told Reuters on Friday, as United Nations officials continue to warn against funding reductions amid Taliban restrictions on women, Reuters reports. The WFP has already slashed rations and cash assistance from […]
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Chief Superintendent of Police (National Security) Li Kwai-wah announces the warrants. Tue 04 July 2023: Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States have condemned the Hong Kong police over arrest warrants and bounties for eight exiled pro-democracy activists. Hong Kong police on Monday evening announced a payment of 1 million Hong Kong dollars […]
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Mon 03 July 2023: Pakistan has decided to charge the suspected human traffickers involved in last month’s shipwreck off the coast of Greece under the country’s anti-money laundering law, an official statement said on Monday, Anadolu Agency reports. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), which is investigating the gory incident in which some 350 Pakistanis were among over […]
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View of lots of broken bones and teeth surrounded by rocks inside a cave. Mon 03 July 2023: Locals in Siberia unearthed what palaeontologists consider to be the largest ancient hyena cave ever discovered in Asia, a prehistoric cave hyena lair. The cave in question is in Khakassia, a Russian Republic in southern Siberia, and […]
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Mon 03 July 2023: Lawyers representing bereaved relatives have revealed shocking revelations during a public investigation, saying that around 80 Afghans may have been killed in summary manner by three different British SAS teams between 2010 and 2013, according to a Guardian report. It is alleged that one SAS soldier personally ended the lives of […]
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Anti-mosque protesters have held pork BBQs and left pig heads outside the construction site in actions the country’s human rights commissions said were designed to demean Muslims and incite hostility [Raphael Rashid/Al Jazeera] Sun 02 July 2023: Plan to rebuild a small mosque for Daegu university students has come up against a powerful conservative Christian […]
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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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