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Muslims pray for peace in Islamic congregation in Bangladesh

8:59 pm January 12, 2020

Tongi: Hundreds of thousands of Muslims raised their hands and prayed for the welfare of the world as they joined a final prayer Sunday in wrapping up a three-day Islamic congregation near Bangladesh’s capital. The Biswa Ijtema, or World Congregation of Muslims, is one of the largest gatherings of Muslim devotees, held on the sandy […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

UN thanks India for paying regular budget assessments in full

3:23 pm January 11, 2020

United Nations: The UN has thanked India for paying its regular budget assessments, only the fourth nation to make full contributions within the specified timeframe of the 193-member world body. India paid USD 23,396,496 net assessment on January 10, becoming only the fourth country to have paid its regular budget assessments in full by February […]

16 killed, 20 injured in blast at mosque in Pakistan’s Quetta

12:06 am January 11, 2020

Karachi : A powerful blast at a mosque during Friday evening prayers killed at least 16 people, including an Imam and a senior police officer, and left 20 others injured in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province, three days after a bomb explosion claimed two lives in Quetta. The nature of the explosion, which occurred inside the […]

Myanmar junta to start court case against Suu Kyi next week

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi visits China border state as Xi visit looms

8:05 pm January 10, 2020

Myitkyina (Myanmar): Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi made a rare trip to a region bordering China days before President Xi Jinping is expected to push for controversial port and dam projects during a visit to the country. Wearing traditional ethnic attire Suu Kyi danced with a street procession on Friday in northern Kachin state’s […]

Citizens battle to save China’s sickly ‘mother river’

4:48 pm January 10, 2020

Henan: Water has been a source of death as well as a source of life for a generation in Shenqiu, a region fed by a tributary of China’s heavily polluted Yangtze river and pockmarked with notorious “cancer villages”. Residents often faced a bitter choice: drink dirty, discoloured water and risk sickness, or pay high prices […]