Wed 05 February 2025: Chinese scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) method to forecast dramatic increases in the intensification of tropical cyclones over a short period, state media reported on Tuesday. Developed by researchers from the Institute of Oceanology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the latest method sheds new light on improving […]
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“Tokyo Camii” mosque on Inokashira Street, is one of the largest in Japan and is a holy place where Muslims living in Japan come to pray. Tue 04 February 2025: With Japan’s Muslim population now estimated at 350,000 the country faces increasing pressure to provide burial plots that align with Islamic customs in a […]
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Tue 04 February 2025: In a tit-for-tat move, China on Tuesday imposed additional tariffs on some US products, according to local media. According to China’s Ministry of Commerce and General Administration of Customs, Beijing imposed additional tariffs on certain imported goods originating from the US, including a 15% tariff on coal and liquefied natural gas […]
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Mon 03 February 2025: The South African government has again asked Taiwan to relocate its representative office out of Pretoria, the diplomatic capital of South Africa, Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry said. The South African government last month “again sent a letter to our representative office in South Africa, demanding that our office move out of the […]
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Mon 03 February 2025: A court in Delhi has ordered action against a police officer for a “hate crime” related to the 2020 riots, which left over 50 people, mostly Muslims, dead. “Clearly, the station house officer Police Station Jyoti Nagar, and other unknown police officials engaged themselves in hate crimes against the victim,” Judicial […]
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Sun 02 February 2025: And lied about it. There is a story that is commonly told in Britain that the colonisation of India – as horrible as it may have been – was not of any major economic benefit to Britain itself. If anything, the administration of India was a cost to Britain. So the fact that […]
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Sat 01 February 2025: At least 18 paramilitary soldiers and 24 armed attackers have been killed in two related incidents in southwestern Pakistan, according to officials and local media reports, as sectarian, ethnic and separatist violence escalates in the region. Pakistan’s military on Saturday said fighters tried to set up roadblocks overnight in the restive province […]
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A satellite image of the building of the new military base near Beijing © Planet Labs Sat 01 February 2025: China is constructing a vast military complex in the western part of Beijing that US officials say will serve as a wartime command center and could be larger than the Pentagon, the Financial Times reported. Satellite images reviewed by US intelligence show a 1,500-acre (607-hectare) […]
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Fri 31 January 2025: As the Centre prepares to present the Union Budget 2025, a survey by a polling agency indicates an increasing number of citizens losing hope of a better quality of life under the Modi government. The polling agency, C-Voter, conducted a pre-budget survey questioning 5,269 people across India. Over 37 percent of […]
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Fri 31 January 2025: With the opposition expressing strong reservations to the Waqf (Amendment) Bill 2024, the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) has wetted it accepting 14 amendments with a vote of 15 “Ayes” and 11 “Nays”. Now the Waqf bill is ready for the perusal of the Lok Sabha Speaker who will take further action […]
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