Fri 20 May 2022: Doha, Qatar – At a luxury hotel in Qatar’s capital, Pakistani officials are holding talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as Islamabad seeks the release of more funds from a $6bn bailout package agreed in 2019 to stabilise the country’s faltering economy. “The team will be in Doha during May 18-25 as part […]
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Thu 19 May 2022: To uphold Islamic and historic cultural values, the Kabul Municipality has built a mosque in the Kampani area of Kabul with its tomb and other designing similar to the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Jerusalem is a Palestinian City, which is equally important and sacred for Muslims, Christians and Jews and […]
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Wed 18 May 2022: The UAE has committed itself to invest $100 billion in India across several sectors, the country’s commerce and industry minister, Piyush Goyal, revealed on Friday. Goyal made the announcement at the India-UAE Economic Partnership Summit in Mumbai. “The commitment from the UAE is to look at over $100bn of investment to […]
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Thu 19 May 2022: India’s top court and a court in Varanasi hear petitions filed by Hindu groups claiming a Mughal-era mosque has relics of Lord Shiva. India’s Supreme Court has overturned a lower court’s order banning mass prayers at a 17th-century mosque in northern India after a survey team said it found relics of […]
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Thu 19 May 2022: An Indian expat has been fired from his job in Qatar and deported following comments he made, that nurses from his home state of Kerala were being sent to Gulf states to become “sex slaves for terrorists”. The man, identified as Sisupalan Durgadas, appeared in a video which surfaced online and […]
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Wed 18 May 2022: A photo of people excavating and restoring a trench has gone viral, with the claim that it represents the ‘Shivling’ that was purportedly discovered inside the Gyanvapi mosque complex in Varanasi. The Varanasi court ordered that a site in the mosque compound be sealed on Monday, May 16 after the petitioners’ […]
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Wed 18 May 2022: As a severe heatwave causes widespread agony in Pakistan, a Pakistani social media star with millions of followers is facing backlash after posing for a TikTok video by a forest fire. “Fire erupts wherever I am,” Humaira Asghar captioned a video of herself strolling about in a silver ball gown in […]
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Tue 17 May 2022: The Sri Lankan authorities have arrested over 660 people for participating in riots on May 9 and 10, Sri Lankan media outlet news First reported on Tuesday, citing police. A total number of people arrested due to the violent clashes, which took place on May 9-10, has increased to 664, with […]
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Tue 17 May 2022: A court in north India has banned large prayer gatherings in the historic Gyanvapi Mosque after a survey team allegedly found Hindu relics there, a lawyer representing a group of Hindu women said. Caretakers of the mosque say they will knock on the doors of the country’s top court, arguing the […]
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Mon 16 May 2022: North Korea said the death toll has risen to 19 days after it initially identified a coronavirus epidemic. According to official media on Monday, the number of patients with fever symptoms had grown to almost 1.2 million by Sunday evening, citing the emergency center for epidemic prevention. Over half of them […]
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