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'Pagdi' sturdier than helmets, protects Sikhs from every trouble: Ex-Punja
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Former Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa on Friday said the central government should reconsider a proposal of purchasing helmets for Sikh soldiers.
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Singer Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis Presley, passes away at 54
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Elvis Presley's only child Lisa Marie Presley, whose turbulent life also included a music career, passed away aged 54 on Thursday.
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OIC asks Taliban to reconsider ban on women from working for NGOs
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The statement was issued by OIC in its final communique of the Extraordinary Meeting of the OIC Executive Committee on "The Recent Developments and the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan."
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China irked by Turkey's public criticism of Beijing over mistreatment of U
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
At a press briefing on December 29, 2022 Turkish Foreign Minister Cavusoglu stated, "Our defending the rights of the Turkic Uyghurs in the international arena disturbs China. But this is a humanitarian issue".
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East Turkistan Govt in Exile condemns Muslim nations for supporting China
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The East Turkistan Government in Exile call on the 14 nations that visited Occupied East Turkistan, including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Serbia, Tunisia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kuwait, and Sudan to oppose China's ongoing genocide against Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples i
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Erdogan ponders meeting with Assad, a rapprochement that seemed unthinkabl
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
This was a surprising move coming after Erdogan's repeated threats that he would launch a new ground operation in Syria against the US-allied Syrian Kurdish groups which Ankara considers "terrorists" and because Turkey since 2011 has been the main backer of Syria's opposition to the Assad
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Japanese illustrator produces booklet depicting experience of Uzbek woman
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Shimizu has portrayed the experiences of female survivors of Xinjiang's detention camps. The vast network of detention camps are believed to have held up to 1.8 million Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities.
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Saudi Arabia launches an international competition for Quran and Adhan wit
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], January 6 (ANI/PRNewswire): The second edition of the international Quran and Adhan (Muslim call to prayer) competition Otr Elkalam was launched in Saudi Arabia, with prizes that are the largest of their kind in the world, exceeding USD 3 million (SAR12 million). The c
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Reduction in VAT helped states operate at higher capacity: Centre
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The reduction in Value Added Tax (VAT) on Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF), has apparently helped the states operate at higher capacity levels.
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Repatriation of Uyghurs from Turkey to China not on cards: Report
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Turkey's emergence as a safe haven for the Uyghurs who continue to suffer severe crackdown on the Chinese mainland has become disturbing for China as roughly 50,000 Uyghurs live in Turkey, forming the largest Uyghur diaspora outside Central Asia, a US-based think tank, GlobalSecurity.org sai
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Premier League to feature first Sikh-Punjabi assistant referee Bhupinder S
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The 37-year-old will follow in the footsteps of his father, Jarnail Singh, who oversaw more than 150 games between 2004 and 2010 and became the first turbaned referee in English Football League history.
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US man sentenced for conspiring to steal General Electric technology for C
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
According to court documents, Zheng was employed at GE Power in Schenectady, New York, as an engineer specializing in turbine sealing technology. He worked at GE from 2008 until the summer of 2018.
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