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Israel: Two shot dead in terror attack in Huwara
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Huwara has long been a flashpoint in the West Bank, thanks to a main thoroughfare running through the town also being used regularly by Israelis to travel to and from settlements. There are plans to build a bypass road for settlers to avoid having to travel through the town but work on this
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Research claims prehistoric human migration in Southeast Asia driven by se
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
An interdisciplinary team of scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU, Singapore) found that rapid sea-level rise prompted early settlers in Southeast Asia to migrate during the prehistoric period, increasing the genetic diversity of the region today.
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SC agrees to remove "foreign origin" remark for Sikkimese of Nepalese orig
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to remove the remark describing Sikkimese of Nepalese origin as people of "foreign origin" from its judgment in 'Association of Old Settlers of Sikkim vs Union of India.'
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Robust historical ties between India, Maldives getting stronger
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
It is believed the earliest settlers in the Maldives, who had moved there in the 5th century BCE, were probably ethnic Sinhalese and Dravidian Buddhists from modern Sri Lanka and South India.
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Pakistani Sikh body raises concern over illegal encroachments on Gurdwaras
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], October 10 (ANI): Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (PSGPC) raised concern over the state of Gurdwaras in Pakistan that are being encroached on by illegal settlers.
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Palestine warns against allowing Israeli settlers to visit Al-Aqsa Mosque
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Ramallah [Palestine], May 15 (ANI/Xinhua): Palestine on Saturday warned of the consequences of allowing Israeli settlers to visit the compound of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the old city of Jerusalem during the "Second Jewish Passover" on Sunday.
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Mass detention of Uyghurs by Chinese govt 'egregious form of settler colon
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], February 18 (ANI): Highlighting that the Chinese government has detained about 1.8 million Uyghurs since 2017, an anthropologist said that the mass detentions are part of China's settler colonialism and resource extraction in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).
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Four entities in Pandora Papers leak owned by IREO Group's VC Lalit Goyal:
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 21 (ANI): In its prosecution complaint or chargesheet against Lalit Goyal, Vice-chairman cum Managing Director of IREO Group of companies, the Enforcement Directorate on Friday called him "settler" and named him the beneficiary of an overseas Trust which owns and c
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Defying strong criticism from the US and EU, Israel plans to build 3130 ho
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], November 1 (ANI): On October 27 the Israeli government announced plans to build 3,130 homes for Jewish settlers deep inside the occupied West Bank, defying the strongest criticism to date of such projects from the administration of US President Joe Biden as well as from
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In another provocative move, China constructing villages, outposts inside
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Beijing [China], May 9 (ANI): Since 2015, China has been constructing a previously unnoticed network of roads, buildings and military outposts deep in a sacred valley in Bhutan and are planting settlers, security personnel and military infrastructure within the territory internationally and
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Jerusalem: 11 detained, 5 policemen injured in protest over teen settler's
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], January 3 (ANI/Sputnik): Five law enforcement officers sustained injuries in Saturday's protests in Jerusalem in the wake of the death of an Israeli teen during a car chase, police reported, noting that 11 demonstrators had been detained.
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Centre specifies properties, funds for trust entrusted with creation of Ra
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 6 (ANI): The Centre specified that the Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, which had been entrusted with the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, will operate from New Delhi and laid down the rules regarding its properties and funds.
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