Wed 17 July 2019: Authorities in Pakistan have arrested Hafiz Saeed, founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), or Army of the Pure, the militant group blamed by the United States and India for a four-day attack on Mumbai in 2008, Geo Television said on Wednesday. A spokesman for Jammaat ud-Dawa (JuD), a charity run by Saeed, said […]
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Tue 16 July 2019: MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president has signed a bill into law penalizing a range of acts of sexual harassment including catcalling, wolf-whistling and persistent telling of sexual jokes, which pro-women’s groups have accused him of committing. Philippine officials released on Monday a copy of Republic Act 11313, known as […]
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Tue 16 July 2019: Pakistan has reopened its skies for civilian flights, which had been forced to make detours after the fighting between New Delhi and Islamabad over Kashmir earlier this year. India has reportedly done the same. On Tuesday morning, the Pakistani Civil Aviation Authority released a statement, saying it had issued a notice […]
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Mon 15 July 2019: Dozens of people protesting against the Bangladeshi government’s sudden decision to hike gas prices by a third clashed on Sunday with police outside the energy ministry in Dhaka, protest leaders and police said. Last month the state-run Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission announced it would raise natural gas prices by 32.8% on […]
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Sun 14 July 2019: In many parts of India, Hindus often invoke the popular god Ram’s name as a greeting. But in recent years, Hindu lynch mobs have turned Ram’s name into a murder cry, writes the BBC’s Geeta Pandey in Delhi. Last month, a video that went viral on social media showed a terrified […]
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Sat 13 July 2019: Bollywood rapper Aditya Singh Sisodia popularly known as “Badshah” has become the toast of the Twitterati, after breaking the world record with his new song Paagal, crossing 75 million-plus views within just 24 hours of its release. In the process, the Punjabi and Hindi language rapper has also surpassed records held by music […]
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Fri 12 July 2019: KURUNEGALA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) – Sri Lankan prosecutors said on Thursday tests would be needed to establish whether a Muslim doctor had sterilized Buddhist patients, while there was no evidence to support other charges against him of links to terrorist groups or money laundering. The case of Shegu Shihabdeen Mohamed Shafi […]
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Thu 11 July 2019: Tourist traffic within OIC expected to value $243B by 2021, with annual growth of 8.3%, says Sheikh Hasina Bangladeshi Premier Sheikh Hasina on Thursday highlighted the need to promote tourist traffic within the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which constitutes a collective population of over 1.8 billion. Pegging the value […]
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Wed 10 July 2019: India’s national carrier has removed recently introduced restrictions on the transportation of water from Makkah Pilgrims travelling from Jeddah to India on selected Air India flights can bring holy water from Makkah home with them. Air India took to Twitter to retract previous restrictions put in place to prevent the carrying […]
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Wed 10 July 2019: The trend of southeast Asian nations rejecting being used as dumping grounds for Western waste has continued with Indonesia declaring that it will ship eight containers of trash back to Australia. The shipment landed in Surabaya, Indonesia’s second largest city, in mid-June after being sent from Brisbane. It was supposed to […]
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