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Floods kill 18 in Saudi Arabia...
( Saudi Arabia )
Riyadh:Flash floods sweeping Saudi Arabia for the past week has left more than a dozen dead as the kingdom grapples with heavy downpours across the country. Saudi Arabia’s civil defense agency said in a statement on Thursday that at least 18 people were killed in the floods which struck areas starting from the desert capital of Riyadh to Hail, Mecca, Medina, Al-Baha, Asir, Najran and Jazan. The statement said a total of 915 people were rescued by the agency. Another report by the Saudi Red...
Iran:OIC dominated by some members,rarely unbiased...
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Tehran:Iran has criticized the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for being dominated by certain member states and for its failure to avoid bias in its decision-making processes. “The general atmosphere governing the OIC under the current circumstances is not really indicative of cooperation among Muslim countries and unity in the Muslim world,” Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, who is attending the organization’s 13th summit in the Turkish city of Istanbul, said on Thursday. “Unfortunately,...
Jordan closes headquarters of Muslim Brotherhood affiliated ...
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Amman:Police in Jordan have raided and closed the headquarters of a group affiliated with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood movement in the capital, Amman, in a move condemned by the group as “illegal.” On Wednesday, a Jordanian official, who spoke anonymously, said the headquarters of the group was sealed because the group is “illegal and not licensed.” The source said “illegal” internal elections had been held secretly within the group. The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan split into...
Saudi Arabia sends ammunition to anti-Iran terror groups in ...
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Riyadh:Saudi Arabia’s former Crown Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz says his country is supplying anti-Iran militant groups in neighboring Pakistan with large volumes of ammunition. According to Turki bin Nasser bin Abdulaziz, the kingdom’s former head of the presidency of meteorology and environment, Muqrin made the remarks when they paid a visit to former deputy minister of defense and aviation Abdul-Rahman bin Abdulaziz at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh, where he had been...
Budding Cricketer Among 4 Killed in Handwara Kashmir...
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Srinagar:Handwara in Jammu and Kashmir remains tense as the death toll in clashes between protestors and security forces in the town climbed up to 4. Security personnel had allegedly opened fire at locals who were protesting against the molestation of a girl. Budding cricketer Nayeem Bhat is among the four killed in Handwara when security forces opened fire to disperse a stone-pelting mob. Five people have also been injured in the clashes. Nayeem, a student of Government Degree College Handwara,...
Israel admits strikes in Syria for first time...
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Tel Aviv:Israel has launched dozens of strikes in Syria, the regime’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admits for the first time. Visiting Israeli troops in the occupied Golan Heights on Monday, Netanyahu said Israel carried out the attacks to prevent alleged arms transfers to Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah. “We act when we need to act, including here across the border, with dozens of strikes meant to prevent Hezbollah from obtaining game-changing weaponry,” he added. The...
US neither sincere nor serious in fight against terrorism:Le...
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Tehran:Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says certain powers, the US in particular, are neither sincere nor serious in the campaign against terrorism. In a Monday meeting with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev in Tehran, the Leader stressed the importance of enhancing cooperation between Tehran and Astana in different political, economic and international fields as well as in the fight against terrorism. “Certain powers, particularly the US, are not sincere and...
Military might, spirituality go hand in hand:Leader of Musli...
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Tehran/Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, in a meeting with senior commanders of the Iranian Armed Forces on Sunday, said the most important characteristic of the “collective identity” of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran is their concurrent endowment with “operational and military capability” as well as “spiritual and religious motivations and orientations.” Ayatollah Khamenei emphasized: “In the Islamic Republic establishment, the main task...
Massive fire in Paravur temple at Kollam in Kerala,110 dead ...
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KOCHI:In one of the worst accidents of its kind in the state, 110 people were killed and nearly 500 injured in a huge explosion in a temple complex, near Kollam on Sunday morning. The explosion happened when sparks from the firework display organised by the temple landed on the building where the fire crackers where stored. The accident, which occured around 3 am at at the Puttingal Devi Temple Complex at Paravoor destroyed the store house and damaged the temple and nearby houses. Police have registered...
Govt rejects outstation students’ demand to shift NIT Srin...
( Jammu and Kashmir )
New Delhi:HRD Ministry officials have rejected the demand of outstation students of NIT Srinagar for shifting the institute out of Kashmir but assured them of addressing their “genuine” issues.
A group of outstation students of the NIT met Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh and Education Minister Naeem Akhtar along with officials from Union HRD ministry last night to discuss the situation at the institute.
“The demand for shifting the NIT out of Kashmir has been outrightly rejected...