Fri 06 November 2020: Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fun announced Thursday that it had acquired 2.04 percent of India’s Reliance Retail Ventures Limited for total investment of $1.3 billion. The PIF said the investment would strengthen the fund’s presence in the Indian economy and retail market. “The investment in RRVL follows an earlier acquisition of […]
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Fri 06 November 2020: Mohammad Yusuf voted in almost every Myanmar election from 1974 until 2010 – the last time ethnic Rohingya were allowed to vote in the country he still calls home after fleeing three years ago in the wake of a brutal military offensive. When Myanmar holds on Sunday its second democratic election […]
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Fri 06 October 2020: The second batch of Rafale jets — the first western combat aircraft to join the fleet 23 years after the Sukhoi aircraft from Russia — has arrived in India, the Air Force tweeted this evening. The jets had covered the 7,000-odd km flying non-stop from France, the IAF posted after the […]
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Thu 05 November 2020: After the coronavirus pandemic, a zoonotic bacterial infection called brucellosis, caused by a leak at a biopharmaceutical company last year is wreaking havoc in China. The Health Commission of Lanzhou, the capital city of Gansu province, confirmed that over 6,000 people had contracted the disease Brucellosis, caused by contact with livestock carrying the bacteria Brucella. The […]
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Thu 05 November 2020: A bank manager was shot dead by its security guard allegedly over blasphemy allegations in Punjab’s Khushab district on Wednesday, police and relatives said. Malik Imran Hanif, the manager of the National Bank of Pakistan branch in Quaidabad tehsil of Khushab, was shifted to a local hospital after he was shot […]
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Thu 05 October 2020: An Indonesian delegation met on Tuesday with a number of Saudi businessmen and investors, asharq al awsat reported on Wednesday. The delegation discuss available investment opportunities in Hajj and Umrah, Joko Asmoro, chairman of the Indonesian Muslim Association for Hajj and Umrah, said that pilgrims from his country would arrive successively […]
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Wed 04 November 2020: Republic TV editor Arnab Goswami was detained by Raigad police on Wednesday in connection with abetment to suicide case filed against him and two others in 2018. The Raigad police have not yet confirmed the arrest. “Arnab Goswami is currently being taken to Raigad. He shall be interrogated by the investigating officer and […]
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Wed 04 November 2020: The United States has agreed to sell four armed MQ-9 Reaper drones to Taiwan, the State Department announced Tuesday, helping to boost the island’s defenses as China steps up its threats. The $600 million sale aids Taiwan’s “continuing efforts to modernize its armed forces and to maintain a credible defensive capability,” […]
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Wed 04 November 2020: Donald Trump Jr, the eldest son of US President Donald Trump while predicting results of the 2020 presidential elections, shared a map of India, showing Kashmir to be a part of Pakistan. Predicting a “red wave”, Donald Trump Jr posted a world map with majority of countries filled in with red, […]
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Tue 03 November 2020: Maulana Arshad Madani, President, Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, has described the riots in the northeast Delhi in February as a ploy to push back Muslims economically, educationally, socially and politically. While handing over a renovated mosque and 45 rebuilt houses damaged during the violence on Monday, he said that the riots were horrific […]
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