Sat 07 May 2022: Many cities in India have experienced water and power shortages as a result of the early heatwave. Daily power outages driven by a surge in demand for electricity have resulted in blackouts as long as eight hours in some parts of India, while coal stocks the fuel that accounts for 70% […]
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Fri 06 May 2022: Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today declared a state of emergency giving security forces sweeping powers for the second time in five weeks to deal with escalating anti-government protests. A spokesman for the President said he invoked the tough laws to “ensure public order” after trade unions staged a nationwide strike […]
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Fri 06 May 2022: The Allahabad High Court on Friday ruled that delivering the azaan on loudspeakers is not a fundamental right. The court made this remark while dismissing a petition filed by one Irfan of Budaun district, who sought permission to play azaan using loudspeakers in the Noori Masjid. “The law has now been […]
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Experts in art and history have given it their seal of approval, and it has already earned a world record £15.5 million at auction. In Hong Kong, a four-inch-high Chinese seal – used to stamp artworks as a sign of the emperor’s approval – sold for three times its projected price. The Chinese text on […]
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Thu 05 May 2022: China launched at least eight new satellites into space on Thursday using a 2D rocket. One Jilin-1 Kuanfu 01C and seven Jilin-1 Gaofen 03D satellites were launched into space from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi province using the home-built Long March-2D rocket. The Jilin-1 Kuanfu 01C will be used […]
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Tue 03 May 2022: Jodhpur: Hours before Eid, communal tension broke out in Jodhpur leading to stone-pelting. Five policemen were injured in the incident that took place past midnight, officials said. The situation was brought under control with heavy deployment of police, but the tension re-escalated after the Namaz of Eid on Tuesday morning when […]
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Tue 03 May 2022: For the fourth year in a row, the largest number of internet shutdown incidents were documented in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir and around the Farmers’ Protests, followed by Myanmar. Internet shutdowns made a comeback in 2021, with India responsible for more than half of them, a new report has found. Published […]
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Mon 02 May 2022: Former PM Imran Khan on Monday posted a series of tweets asking some questions from US President Joe Biden’s administration and demanding Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) to form a judicial commission to probe the US-backed conspiracy to oust his government, ARY News reported. Imran Khan, while tweeting a video of US […]
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Mon 02 May 2022: Indore/Alirajpur: A 42-year-old man married his three live-in partners at the same function in accordance with tribal customs in Madhya Pradesh’s Alirajpur district. The six children he has with the three women also took part in the wedding rituals, the event in Mori Falia village itself becoming a much-talked one on social […]
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Mon 02 May 2022: No one can be forced to take the vaccine, the Supreme Court said today in a landmark decision on India’s Covid vaccine policy, also directing the central government to publish reports on the adverse effects of vaccination. “Bodily integrity is protected under the law and nobody can be forced to be […]
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