Hyderabad, May 30 (PMI): All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeem (AIMIM) Chief and Hyderabad MP, Asaduddin Owaisi today criticized that the government approach is unscientific to check Corona cases as the lockdown is not a solution. It is good if night curfew imposed instead of the lockdown as it ruined the lives of people …
Read More »Dubai property market booms due to ‘lockdown dodgers’
30-05-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ DUBAI : The Dubai property market, which had seen a slump over the past five or six years, has seen an upsurge due to “lockdown dodgers” from Europe and other parts of the world, looking to escape coronavirus restrictions. The “lockdown dodgers” and wealthy …
Read More »Thousands join global Belarus solidarity protests
30-05-2021 MINSK/ VILNIUS/ WARSAW: Thousands of people in Poland and Lithuania gathered for protests on Saturday to show support for the opposition in neighboring Belarus. They called for the release of a Belarusian dissident who was arrested along with his girlfriend when their flight was diverted to Minsk. The pair’s …
Read More »UK´s Boris Johnson weds in ´secret ceremony´
30-05-2021 LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson married his fiancee Carrie Symonds in a “secret ceremony” on Saturday, UK media reports said. Known for his colorful love life, 56-year-old Johnson wed Symonds, 33, in Catholic Westminster Cathedral in front of close friends and family, the Mail on Sunday and ‘The …
Read More »Austrian Muslims to sue government over ‘Islam map’
30-05-2021 VIENNA: A leading Muslim group in Austria has said it plans to file a lawsuit against the government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz for unveiling a controversial “Islam map”, according to Austrian media reports. Muslim Youth Austria lambasted the government for publishing a “political Islam map”, which identifies the locations …
Read More »Indigenous people in Canada grapple with ‘unthinkable loss’
30-05-2021 OTTAWA/ MONTREAL: Indigenous people across Canada are grappling with the discovery of the remains of more than 200 Indigenous children, including some as young as three, at the site of a former residential school in the western province of British Columbia this week. Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation chief …
Read More »Boko Haram frees 14 Shia students abducted in Nigeria
30-05-2021 ABUJA: Boko Haram has released the remaining 14 Shia students who had been held captive after being abducted last month from a northern Nigerian university, officials said. Armed groups of Boko Haram (an anti-Shia terrorist organization) have repeatedly attacked schools and universities in northwest Nigeria in the last few …
Read More »Indonesia releases seized Iranian tanker after four months
29-05-2021 JAKARTA: Iran says Indonesia has released its oil tanker that it seized in late January after court processions concluded. The National Iranian Tanker Company said in a statement that MT Horse and its crew were released on Friday after 125 days as efforts by senior Iranian officials and the …
Read More »Remains of 215 children found at Canadian indigenous school
29-05-2021 TORONTO: The remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, were found at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children, a discovery Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described Friday as heartbreaking. The children were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British …
Read More »We should unite against China: Ex-Australian PM
29-05-2021 Bureau Report + BBC CANBERRA/ BEIJING: Countries should unite against China’s growing economic and geopolitical coercion or risk being singled out and punished by Beijing, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has told the BBC. Rudd said governments in the West should not be afraid to challenge China on …
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