Wed 16 June 2021: Two historic shipwrecks, one dating back to the 14th century and the other to 1796, have been found in Singapore’s waters near Pedra Branca, offering “invaluable” insights into the country’s maritime past, researchers said on Wednesday. The prosperous island nation has long been a key trading hub on global shipping routes […]
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Wed 16 June 2021: The largest Muslim advocacy organisation in the US urged Hilton Worldwide Holdings on Tuesday to drop plans to build a hotel on the site of a bulldozed mosque in China’s Xinjiang region, Anadolu Agency reported. The call by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) came after a report this week by the British […]
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Tue 15 June 2021: Amid the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Kolkata-based Scientist Dr Ramendra Lal Mukherjee, an engineer by profession has invented a highly portable battery operated ventilor which can be used by people who suffer from breathing problem, irrespective of their age. It can be charged through mobile charger which can last […]
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Tue 15 June 2021: UN human rights experts on Monday expressed alarm at alleged forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners and other detained minorities, such as the ethnic Uighurs, in China, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said in a statement. “UN human rights experts said today they were […]
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Mon 14 June 2021: Across Lakshadweep, Monday was observed as a day of protest by islanders, who dressed in black and shouted slogans of “go back” from their homes as Union Territory Administrator Praful Khoda Patel landed there around 2.30 p.m. Black flags were also raised from some homes as the protests rent the air. […]
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Mon 14 June 2021: Ziona Chana, believed to head the world’s largest family — with 38 wives, 89 children and 33 grandchildren — died today at the age of 76 in Mizoram. Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga took to Twitter to confirm the death of Ziona Chana, and said that the state and “his village at […]
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Mon 14 June 2021: India will reopen for the public its iconic Taj Mahal and all other monuments, sites and museums protected by the culture ministry’s Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) on June 16, after a two-month break due to the coronavirus pandemic, ASI said on Monday. “Considering the prevailing situation, now, it has been […]
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Mon 14 June 2021: Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Dr. Yousef A. Al-Othaimeen, received on 13 June 2021 in his office at the headquarters of the OIC General Secretariat in Jeddah, Ambassador Chen Weiqing, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. During the meeting, they exchanged […]
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Sun 13 June 2021: Bangladesh has sought the cooperation of Saudi Arabia for a sustainable repatriation of Rohingya Muslims to their home country, Myanmar, reports Anadolu Agency. Bangladeshi Foreign Minister A. K. Abdul Momen made the appeal while speaking to his Saudi counterpart Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud over the phone, said a statement by the […]
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Sun 13 June 2021: Police have said that the four men arrested in Asif lynching case are innocent. They have submitted a discharge plea to a local court despite the fact that the men were named by Asif’s brother and eyewitness Rashid and his father in their complaint. Asif, a gym trainer from Haryana’s Mewat, […]
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