Wed 19 November 2025: NGO says Swiss food giant is ‘putting the health of babies at risk for profit’ by adding sugar to babyfood. Swiss food giant Nestle has been adding sugar to babyfood to help it stoke sales in Africa, Asia and Latin America – after cutting it from products sold in European markets, […]
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Tue 18 November 2025: Reviving old myths to fuel new divides The Taj Mahal, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, continues to symbolize India’s cultural identity and artistic brilliance. Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore once called it “a teardrop on the cheek of time.” This masterpiece in white marble, a UNESCO World Heritage Site maintained by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), attracts […]
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Mon 17 November 2025: Bangladesh on Monday demanded India extradite ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, hours after she was sentenced to hang for crimes against humanity. Hasina’s autocratic rule was backed by New Delhi, and the 78-year-old fled to India after her ouster in a mass uprising in August 2024, fraying relations between the two neighbours. […]
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Mon 17 November 2025: Director and Founder of Restless Beings, Mabrur Ahmed, warned that conditions inside the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh had continued to deteriorate as education systems collapsed and families endured increasingly harsh living environments. Nearly a decade of displacement had left the community confined to shelters never intended for long-term residence, with […]
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Mon 17 November 2025: 45 people were killed after a bus carrying Indian pilgrims met with an accident in Saudi Arabia, officials said Monday. The incident occurred in Medina, and the bus was carrying Indian nationals, authorities said. “Forty-five people have died, and there is only one survivor who is currently in the hospital,” V.C.Sajjanar, a top police officer […]
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Mon 17 November 2025: Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal has sentenced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death for crimes against humanity over her government’s violent crackdown on student-led protests last year. The interim government led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus has called the death sentence for former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina a “historic […]
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Sat 15 November 2025: China on Friday announced that it has discovered its largest single gold deposit since 1949. The Dadonggou Gold Mine in the northeastern province of Liaoning contains 1,444.49 tons of proven gold reserves, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources. The state-run Global Times reported that the mine has already passed an […]
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Thu 13 November 2025: Indian authorities in Jammu and Kashmir have launched one of their biggest security crackdowns in recent months, raiding hundreds of homes linked to the banned Muslim organisation Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI). Police said the operations, carried out across the southern districts of Kulgam, Sopore, and Shopian, targeted the homes of JeI members and […]
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Thu 13 November 2025: Human rights groups and legal experts are urging the international community to act against the ongoing persecution of the Uyghur people in China. International pressure is mounting on China over its treatment of the Uyghur population. Human rights organisations are calling for concrete action citing a growing body of evidence of […]
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Thu 13 November 2025: Two days after the deadly car explosion outside Red Fort in Old Delhi that claimed 13 lives, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday said it was a “heinous terror incident, perpetrated by anti-national forces”, the first official confirmation from the government. Chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Cabinet observed a two-minute silence in […]
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