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    Iran marks 31st anniversary of US downing of passenger plane

    Iran is commemorating the 31st anniversary of the downing of its passenger plane by a US Navy guided-missile cruiser in the Persian Gulf waters.A memorial ceremony was held at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport on Tuesday.

    West Asia
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    Anger grows over Israel’s controversial al-Quds dig in presence of US officials

    Palestinians and several organizations have condemned the inauguration of a highly contentious tunnel built by the Israeli regime at an archaeological site in occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds and the attendance of Americ.

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    Nowruz: Celebrating the New Year on the Silk Roads

    Nowruz is a rite dating back to at least the 6th century BCE, marking the new year and ushering in spring. Variously known as Novruz, Nowrouz, Nooruz, Navruz, Nauroz or Nevruz, this historic.

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    China wants to develop Kashmir, won’t take sides in India-Pak dispute: State media

    China will not pick sides in the India-Pakistan dispute as its primary aim is to develop the “poor and backward” Kashmir, a state media opinion piece has said, adding that Beijing is willing.

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    India's top court orders mediation in Hindu temple dispute

    India's top court set up a mediation team on Friday to try to settle a land dispute between Muslims and Hindus over plans to build a Hindu temple on a site where hard-liners demolished a 16th-century.

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    Amnesty urges travel sites to ban Israel settlement listings

    Amnesty International has slammed online tourism companies for offering services in Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land, saying they are actually contributing to the regime’s land theft.

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    ‘Saudis gave green light to Arafat’s assassination’

    A former senior adviser to Yasser Arafat, the late leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), has said that Arafat's death was not natural and he was actually assassinated, with Saudi Arabia.

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    US sponsored anti-Hamas resolution defeated at the UN

    Arab nations outmanoeuvred the United States at the UN to defeat a resolution it sponsored condemning Hamas by requiring a two-thirds majority for it to pass, rather than the simple majority it received.

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    Babri Masjid demolition:No evidence of a Temple under the Masjid, says Archaeologist

    Two archaeologists have accused the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) of having ‘preconceived notions’ following the six-month-long excavation under the Babri Masjid that took place.

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    All eyes on Ayodhya as Hindu outfits plan programmes on Babri demolition anniversary

    Days after it organised a 'Dharam Sabha' in Indian city Ayodhya to seek support for construction of a grand Ram temple, the right-wing party, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) is planning.

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    Peace: half a kilometre per year

    It took Islamabad and New Delhi 71 years to allow for a pocket of peaceful coexistence on their shared border as the nations travelled four kilometres in these seven decades to meet at Kartarpur.

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    1984 anti-Sikh riots in India: Delhi HC upholds conviction of 88 people accused

    The Delhi High Court on Wednesday upheld the conviction of around 80 people and awarded them five year jail term for rioting, burning houses and violation of curfew during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in India.

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    'India Is Neglecting Taj Mahal Because Muslims Built It'

    Last Wednesday, a 32-page booklet entitled “Uttar Pradesh Tourism – Unlimited Possibilities” was unveiled. It highlights the key attractions in UP but Taj Mahal, which is one of the Seven Wonders.

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    The most disputed land on earth: How Greek Orthodox church sold off Palestinian plots

    It’s been a hot summer for the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem, as Palestinian calls for the removal of Patriarch Theophilos III and other church leaders accused of selling property to Israeli settlers have escalated.

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    Gandhi, Nehru, Ambedkar were NRIs, Rahul Gandhi says in US

    Congress leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru were NRIs who returned to their country to transform India, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has said, exhorting overseas Indians

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    Short-range nuke weapons to counter India’s doctrine:Pak

    Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said on Thursday his country has developed short-range nuclear weapons to counter the ‘cold start doctrine’ adopted by the Indian Army.

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    1,800-year-old dot is first ‘zero’, say researchers

    A black dot on a third-century manuscript has been identified by Oxford University as the first recorded use of the mathematical symbol for ‘zero’, 500 years earlier than previously thought.

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    How a Hindu munshi’s Persian work came to influence English scholarship on Indian religions

    Reading about the recently opened exhibition,Collector Extraordinaire, Mackenzie Collection exhibition, at Lews Castle, Stornoway, in the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides - see our recent post Colin Mackenzie

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    Iran can quit nuclear deal if US keeps adding sanctions: Rouhani

    President Hassan Rouhani warned on Tuesday that Iran could abandon its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers within hours if the United States keeps on imposing new sanctions.

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    Independence day: Modi urges India to reject violence in name of religion

    In a speech from the ramparts of Delhi’s Red Fort marking the 70th anniversary of India’s independence, Modi also listed his government’s achievements, including a fight against corruption.

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    Arch-enemies of Jinnah and Gandhi

    Seven decades after Pakistan and India came out of British colonial rule, we see that the enemies of Jinnah and Gandhi are ruling the two countries — in India directly while in Pakistan indirectly.

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    Development with compassion: President Kovind's pitch for 'New India'

    Indian newly elected President Ram Nath Kovind today pitched for a partnership between citizens and the government to create a New India by 2022 that is a "compassionate society" and includes the.

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    Seven decades on, what we have achieved from Partition?

    While I have no memory of the journey, I learned later that our train had been attacked on the way, and we had been saved only by the presence and courage of the handful of soldiers who escorted us.

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    Mughals slashed out of Indian history textbooks

    The board has revised history textbooks for classes VII and IX, removing almost all traces of the rule of the Mughals and the monuments they built, instead focusing on the Maratha empire founded by Shivaji.

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