Thu 03 February 2022: The US stated on Wednesday that international banks can transfer money to Afghanistan for humanitarian purposes, and aid groups can pay teachers and healthcare personnel at state-run institutions without risk of violating sanctions on the Taliban. The US Department of the Treasury has issued guidance on sanctions exemptions granted in September […]
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Thu 03 February 2022: Dissidents join rights groups in warning against any effort by Beijing to use Games as ‘sports-washing opportunity’. After he was arrested at the age of 20 in China’s Xinjiang and eventually escaped to Turkey in 2005, all Kuzzat Altay wanted was to live in peace in the United States, where he […]
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MINIWIZ engineer makes chargers. (Taiwan News photo, Lyla Liu). _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Thu 03 February 2022: Taiwan’s Fubon Financial Holding Co. and Miniwiz are converting recycled face masks into phone chargers to accomplish the goal of a circular economy. People are frantically buying facemasks as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, which is adding a new unwanted […]
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Wed 02 February 2022: As Afghanistan’s public universities reopened for the first time since the Taliban gained control of the country last year, female students joined their male counterparts. Women were allowed to attend classes on the condition that they were physically separated from male students, according to education officials. The Taliban administration had not […]
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Tue 01 February 2022: Police in India have arrested 12 people, including eight women and three minor boys, over alleged sexual assault and parading of a young woman in the streets of capital New Delhi. Police on Tuesday told Al Jazeera the three minors are accused of sexually assaulting the woman, who is in her […]
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Six Muslim girl students who donned the hijab to mark World Hijab Day on Tuesday, February 1, were not allowed to attend classes. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Tue 01 February 2022: Barring students from wearing hijab or headscarf is an attack on the “symbols of faith,” said activists and experts in India, Anadolu News Agency reports. For many weeks now, […]
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Tue 01 February 2022: Mahatma Gandhi, India’s independence leader and an advocate of Hindu-Muslim unity, was assassinated on this day in 1948 by a Hindu militant leader Ramachandra Vinayak Godse (popularly known as Nathuram Godse). A new book reveals that Godse was a member of the Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) all along, dispelling the myth […]
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Tue 01 February 2022: Afghanistan’s public universities, closed since the Taliban seized power in August, will reopen in February, the Taliban acting higher education minister said on Sunday, without specifying whether female students would be able to return. Universities in warmer provinces will reopen from Feb 2, while those in colder areas would reopen on Feb 26, […]
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Turkish Aerospace Industries CEO Temel Kotil (R) and an oficial from Pakistani institution SUPARCO sign a cooperation agreement, Istanbul, Turkey, Jan. 26, 2022. (Twitter account of TAI) _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Mon 31 January 2022: Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) signed a cooperation agreement with Pakistan’s Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) on Wednesday to develop space and satellite […]
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Mon 31 January 2022: Pakistani police demanded that the immensely popular PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) game be banned after a boy admitted to killing four members of his family in a rage after bingeing for days playing online. “This is not the first incident of its nature,” police investigator Imran Kishwar told reporters in the eastern […]
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