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16-02-2022 Bureau Report LUCKNOW/ NEW DELHI: A dispute over restrictions on the wearing of the hijab by female students in a southern Indian state has now reached India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, with a group of youngsters asking a college to ban the head covering. Authorities closed colleges …

15-02-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ WASHINGTON: Four women activists in Afghanistan have been released by the Taliban (de-facto authorities) after going missing weeks ago, the United Nations (UN) claimed. Since storming back to power in August, the Taliban have cracked down on dissent by …

15-02-2022 SANA’A/ RIYADH/ DUBAI: The Saudi-led military coalition fighting Yemen’s Houthi rebels says it has destroyed a telecommunication system used to control drones in the rebel-held capital, Sanaa, according to the official Saudi News Agency SPA. The bombing on Monday targeted a ground station for satellites in the vicinity of …

15-02-2022 PARIS: Police in the French capital have killed a man who allegedly attacked them with a knife at Paris’s Gare du Nord station. The incident took place at about 7am (06:00 GMT) on Monday at the terminus for trains from London. “The person who attacked them died on the …

15-02-2022 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to visit the United Arab Emirates for the first time in nearly a decade, as ties improve between the two countries. Speaking at a news conference at the Ataturk Airport in Istanbul on Monday, the president said the visit will aim to …

14-02-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report MELBOURNE: Another news of Press Media of India (PMI) has been found hundred percent correct with day, time place and characters as flashed earlier like dozens other proofed during last thirty years but neither the local nor national or any other LEA even …

14-02-202O TEHRAN: A fire broke out in a Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) military base in western Iran, local media reported, but the cause of the blaze was not immediately clear. The fire started in a stockroom where motor oil and other flammable materials were stored in the Mahidasht district of Kermanshah …

14-02-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KHANEWAL/ LAHORE: A mob has lynched a man in a remote region of Pakistan’s Punjab province after he was accused of burning pages of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, the police and officials said. Dozens of people have been detained and arrested …

14-02-202O WASHINGTON/ NEW DELHI: US official has voiced concerns about the controversial banning of the headscarf at schools and colleges in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, prompting a strongly worded rebuttal from New Delhi. Rashad Hussain, the US ambassador-at-large for International Religious Freedom, said in a tweet on Friday …

14-02-2022 KHARTOUM: Sudan’s military leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has made comments in which he dismissed Western threats of sanctions tied to protests in the country and discussed meetings between Sudanese and Israeli officials he said were for security cooperation, not politics. In his first interview on state television since …