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Pak govt's national curriculum threatening doctors' medical knowledge
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 22 (ANI): As part of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) Single National Curriculum, religious scholars appointed as members of the SNC Committee are supervising the content of schoolbooks and have warned textbook publishers not to print any diagram or sket
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Javadekar claims Congress doing appeasement politics after Abhishek Singhv
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 21 (ANI): Replying to Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi's controversial International Yoga Day tweet, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar on Monday took a swipe at Congress for indulging in appeasement politics.
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J-K govt cancels this year's Amarnath Yatra due to COVID-19 pandemic
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], June 21 (ANI): The Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to cancel this year's Amarnath Yatra but all the traditional religious rituals will be performed at the Holy Cave Shrine as per past practice, said the Shri Amarnath Ji Shrine Board.
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Taliban says only 'genuine Islamic system' can lead to Afghan peace
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 20 (ANI): Amid the unrelenting violence in Afghanistan, the Taliban has said it remains committed to peace talks and wants a "genuine Islamic system" that would make provisions for women's rights in line with cultural traditions and religious rules, in the war-torn
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UN rights experts 'extremely alarmed' by forced organ harvesting of minori
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 18 (ANI): United Nations (UN) human rights experts have sounded alarm over the reports of alleged 'organ harvesting' that is targeting minorities, including Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslims and Christians, who are currently in detention in China
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TN ministers, veterinary experts visit Madurai's Meenakshi Amman Temple to
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Madurai (Tamil Nadu) [India], June 18 (ANI): PK Sekar Babu, the Minister for Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment, along with Minister of Commercial Taxes, P. Moorthy and Finance Minister of Tamil Nadu, Palanivel Thiagarajan visited Meenakshi Amman Temple in Madurai on Friday to examine
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Pakistan suspends polio vaccine drive after attacks on health workers
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 17 (ANI): Amid its inability to stamp out religious extremism, Pakistan has now "indefinitely" suspended its nationwide anti-polio campaign, to protect some 270,000 polio field staff from growing attacks.
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Pak journalists, activists question silence of religious bodies after cler
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 17 (ANI): Lahore police have registered a case against cleric Mufti Azizur Rehman following a video clip surfaced on social media showing him allegedly sexually assaulting one of his students, prompting journalists and activists to condemn the incident and question
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Pakistan: 13-yr-old Christian girl forcibly converted to Islam, father see
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 16 (ANI): The forced conversion of girls from religious minorities to Islam continues unabated in Pakistan and its latest victim is a 13-year-old Christian girl.
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Ignorance stands before Pakistan's polio challenge
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 15 (ANI): Amid Pakistan's inability to stamp out religious extremism, the surging attack on the country's polio vaccine workers is hurting the government's vaccination drive.
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Czech Senate declares China perpetrating genocide on Uyghurs in Xinjiang
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Prague [Czech Republic], June 15 (ANI): The Czech Senate has voted unanimously on a motion labelling the Chinese government's treatment of Uyghurs Muslim and other ethnic and religious minorities as amounting to "genocide and crimes against humanity."
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Opposition giving 'religious colour' to demand of renaming flyover after S
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 15 (ANI): Shiv Sena MP Rahul Shewale has accused the Opposition of trying to give a "religious colour" to his demand after his proposal of naming a flyover in Mumbai after Sufi saint Moinuddin Chishti was opposed by Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bharat
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