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Over 136K volunteering hours in H1 2023: Dubai Police
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The Dubai Police Volunteering Platform documented the active participation of volunteers in a range of humanitarian and community initiatives, collectively contributing an impressive 136,602 volunteering hours during the first half of this year.
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World Humanitarian Day: UN and partners aim to reach 250 million people wo
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The wreath-laying ceremony at the UN in New York was held to mark World Humanitarian Day, commemorated annually on 19 August. This marks the day in 2003 when a suicide bomber detonated a truck full of explosives outside the UN headquarters at the Canal Hotel in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
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UAE continues to promote the values of giving, extend a helping hand to
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, affirmed that the UAE would continue to promote the values of giving, extend a helping hand to the less fortunate people, and fight ignorance everywhere in ‘’our region and the world''.
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Can soil microbes thrive in a changing climate?
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Climate change, habitat degradation, and other human-caused environmental changes are putting organisms around the world under unprecedented stress. Predicting and mitigating the impacts of growing stress on organisms and the environmental services on which we rely involves knowing why some
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Guru Nanak’s philosophy, Doctrine of Modern Humanism
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Guru Nanak’s philosophy can be best described as the doctrine of modern Humanism. This Humanism aligns with the principles outlined in the Amsterdam Declaration of Humanism issued in 1952 and revised in 2002. All the key elements of modern Humanism highlighted in this Declaration are already
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UAE renewed source of inspiration in providing global charitable, humanita
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Ahead of World Humanitarian Day on August 19, Sheikh Sultan bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Frontline Heroes Office, reinforced the government’s commitment to build on the legacy of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the UAE’s Founder, and continue t
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NHRC notices to Delhi Chief Secy, police commissioner over beating of stud
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that a student of a government school in Delhi had to be hospitalized after a severe beating by his teacher. His parents have registered an FIR in the matter. However, no arrest was made by the police
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Racial, ethnic differences in gut microbiome develop at 3 months old: Stud
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
According to a new study published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Elizabeth K. Mallott of Washington University in St. Louis, US, Seth Bordenstein of Pennsylvania State University, US, and colleagues, gut microbiome variation associated with race and ethnicity emerges after three
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Lesser-known brain cells might be key to staying awake without cost to cog
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
A new animal study suggests that understudied brain cells called astrocytes play a key role in regulating sleep demand, and that one day humans will be able to sleep for long periods of time without adverse effects such as mental fatigue and reduced physical health. It suggests that it may b
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Japanese squirrels develop human hereditary diseases with ageing: Research
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
A team led by Dr Tomoaki Murakami of the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology discovered that fibrinogen A-chain amyloidosis, a previously unknown disease in animals other than humans, is common in Japanese squirrels (Sciurus lis). They compared the pathology of Japanese squirrels
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Dubai Customs facilitates delivery of humanitarian aid shipments
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Their simplified clearance procedures have had a significant impact on the rapid deliveries of humanitarian aid and relief goods from Dubai to the most affected areas in the world.
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US Health and Human Services Secy in Gujarat for G20, bilateral meetings
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra will travel to Gandhinagar, India to participate in the G20 Health Ministers’ meeting and bilateral meetings on August 18 and 19
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