Thu 15 June 2023: Officials in Gujarat state say its deserted coastal towns were battered in the dark as power went out after electricity poles fell and some trees were uprooted by gusty winds. As the storm neared land, the windspeed rose around Jakhau, Amit Arora, a district official in the region of Kachchh told […]
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Thu 15 June 2023: Sri Lankan military physicians removed the world’s largest kidney stone from a 62-year-old former soldier on Wednesday. According to the army, the stone removed from ex-sergeant Canistus Coonge weighed 801 grams (28.25 ounces), which is more than five times the weight of a normal male kidney. Coonge’s kidney stone was 13.37 […]
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Thu 15 June 2023: Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International schedule a private screening in Washington, two days ahead of Indian PM’s state visit. Two human rights groups have invited policymakers, journalists and analysts to a screening in Washington of a BBC documentary on Narendra Modi that questions the Indian prime minister’s leadership during the […]
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Insha Mushtaq. [Photo: Rifat Fareed/Al Jazeera] Wed 14 June 2023: Sedow (Shopian, J&K): Insha Mushtaq gave out a sigh of unease when a reporter walked into the mud-plastered room with a mic in one hand and a mobile phone in the other. “No more, please. I am very tired now. I want to rest a […]
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In a similar manner to Nazi Germany, Muslim-owned shops were marked with black crosses. Tue 13 June 2023: Muslim families leaving their homes, Hindutva mobs rampaging through Muslim-owned businesses, and protests against “love-jihadis” are just a few of the images that have come to reflect life in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi district over the past few […]
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Mon 12 June 2023: A proposed nationwide ban on cigarettes and vaping in Malaysia, beginning with the current generation of teenagers, has been postponed once more, Anadolu Agency reported. The country’s health minister, Zaliha Mustafa, announced on Monday that the law, which would prohibit the use, purchase, and sale of cigarettes and vaping products to […]
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Mon 12 June 2023: Riyadh leads the Arab region in boosting trade ties with Beijing as it looks to diversify its economy away from oil. Saudi Arabia has signed a $5.6bn deal with a Chinese company to manufacture electric vehicles as the kingdom is looking to lead the Arab world in expanding economic ties with […]
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Mon 12 June 2023: The Taliban has condemned as “baseless and biased” a United Nations Security Council report that called the Afghan administration “highly exclusionary” and “repressive”. The report, released earlier in June by the UNSC’s Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team, said the Taliban governance structures remain “highly exclusionary, Pashtun-centred and repressive” towards all […]
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Sun 11 June 2023: 350 camps were housing more than 50,650 people who had been displaced due to ethnic violence in Manipur, S. Ranjan, the minister of information and public relations as well as health, said on Sunday. The Minister stated that 105 people have been killed and more than 320 injured as a result […]
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Sun 11 June 2023: Members of a Hindu organisation were detained in their houses in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district after they announced to go to Darul Uloom Deoband in Saharanpur district to demand a ‘fatwa’ against Muslim youths who allegedly tie ‘Kalawa’ (sacred red thread) on their wrists to ‘trap Hindu girls’ and promote ‘love-jihad’, […]
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