Category: General Interest
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Taiwan bans Dog Meat
On 11th April 2017, the legislature of Taiwan, made a landmark amendment to its animal protection laws by prohibiting the consumption of dog and cat meat….
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Validity of Triple Talaq and Polygamy in India
On April 15th, 2017, Mohammed Haneef sent a postcard to his second wife just a week after their wedding. The second marriage was formalised with the consent of Haneef’s first wife but the relevant papers..
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Concentration Camps in Chechnya
On the 11th of April 2017, Reports emerged that the first concentration camp since the Holocaust had opened in Argun, Chechen Republic, Russia. The camp was set up to house over a hundred members..
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Highway Liquor Ban
On April 4th, 2017, The Supreme Court reaffirmed their earlier decision to ban liquor being sold along any national and state highways….
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Chemical attack in Syria
A suspected chemical attack on a rebel-held Syrian town has drawn widespread international condemnation, with the United Nations saying it would investigate the bombing raid as a possible war crime.
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Human cost of India’s meat ‘ban’
The government’s crackdown on meat shops in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has left many traders and butchers without much work and money.
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Arrest of al-Aqsa guards
Israel’s detention of Palestinian security guards working at the al-Aqsa compound is “unacceptable” and Israeli police are trying to change the status quo at the holy site, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem says.
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US internet policy
On 28th March 2017, the House of Representatives voted to repeal an Obama-era law that demanded internet service providers have permission to share personal information..
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Ahmed Kathrada passed away
Veteran South African anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada has died at the age of 87. He passed away peacefully in a Johannesburg hospital after a short period of illness, following surgery to the brain. Kathrada, along with President Nelson Mandela..
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Neuralink
On the 28th of March, the Wall Street Journal announced that technological visionary Elon Musk was investing into a brain-computer interface/platform called ‘Neuralink’. The company will be the Tesla founders new project but..