London: Islamic charitable groups in the UK donated £20.2 billion ($24.4 billion) to local and international causes last year, according to an official report. More than 165,000 groups or individuals contributed to the total, according to the study by the National Council for Voluntary Organizations, reported
Dhaka: Aid groups raised an alert on Thursday that rapidly decreasing humanitarian assistance threatens the lives of 1 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh as the UN has further reduced their food rations. Since the beginning of June, the UN World Food Program’s food aid for the
Sydney: An Australian court has found that Ben Roberts-Smith, who was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery, probably killed unarmed civilians in Afghanistan as three newspapers reported in 2018. Roberts-Smith, a former soldier with the elite Special Air Services Regiment (SASR), sued the Sydney Morning Herald,
Cape Canaveral, Fla: NASA held its first public meeting on UFOs a year after launching a study into unexplained sightings and insisted it’s not hiding anything. The space agency televised the four-hour hearing featuring an independent panel of experts who vowed to be transparent. The team
Khartoum: The United States said on Thursday it will only be ready to mediate a truce between Sudan's warring parties when they get "serious", after the army left negotiations and the latest ceasefire unravelled. The army blasted bases of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) after
New York: Earth has pushed past seven out of eight scientifically established safety limits and into “the danger zone,” not just for an overheating planet that’s losing its natural areas, but for the well-being of people living on it, according to a new study. The study
Allahabad: The Allahabad High Court dismissed a revision plea challenging the maintainability of the petition filed by Hindu plaintiffs seeking permission to worship inside the Gyanvapi mosque, reported Live Law. The revision plea had been filed the Anjuman Intazamia Committee, which manages the mosque. Five Hindu women
Beijing: China on Thursday said that its decision to expel two Indian journalists was a “counter measure” against New Delhi’s “unfair” treatment of Chinese journalists. In April, China had barred State-run Prasar Bharati’s reporter Anshuman Mishra and The Hindu correspondent Ananth Krishnan from returning to the
Srinagar: The Modi-led Indian government has allotted 1,99,550 more houses on Kashmiris’ land to non-Kashmiri residents in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) to upset the Muslim majority status of the territory on fast track. This is deemed as a major step towards a big
Srinagar: Protest demonstrations were held in Srinagar, Poonch and other areas against the anti-people policies of the occupation regime. People took to streets in Batamaloo area of Srinagar against the fleecing of the Kashmiri people in the name of the installation of smart meters by the