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New Delhi ranks world’s most polluted capital

17-03-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Delhi was the world’s most polluted capital for the third straight year in 2020, according to IQAir. IQAir is a Swiss group that measures air quality levels based on the concentration of lung-damaging airborne particles known as PM2.5. India was home to 35 of the …

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Sri Lanka says burqa ban was just ‘a proposal’

17-03-2021 COLOMBO: After criticism from allied states regarding Sri Lanka’s decision to impose a ban on Muslim women covering their full faces in public, the country on Tuesday said that it was “merely a proposal….under discussion.” Sri Lanka’s minister for public security, Sarath Weerasekera, had said on Saturday it would …

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‘Daesh beheading Shia children in Mozambique’

16-03-2021 By SJA Jafri + BBC MAPUTO/ KARACHI/ DAMASCUS/ KABUL: The al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria/ ISIS which has allegedly converted into Islamic State/ IS also known as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant/ ISIL, Taliban, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Daesh, Boko Haram and dozens of terrorists groups …

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New COVID-19 variant discovered in France

16-03-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies PARIS/ MUMBAI/ NEW DELHI: France has found a new coronavirus variant in the French region of Brittany, said the French health ministry in a statement late Monday. According to media reports, the health ministry’s statement read that initial analysis did not show this new variant …

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Protesters storm presidential palace in Yemen

16-03-2021 SANA’A/ RIYADH: Angry Yemeni protesters have stormed the presidential palace in the southern city of Aden, seat of the internationally recognized government, according to local sources. Demonstrators broke into the Maasheeq Presidential Palace on Tuesday amid public anger over the lack of services, poor living conditions and depreciation of …

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