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J&K: Friendly match between specially-abled, PMMCT winners held
7Nov mmBy Joe RodriguezNo Comments
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J&K: Friendly match between specially-abled, PMMCT winners held

In the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), a friendly cricket match between specially-abled team (SAT) of Kulgam district and winners of Police Martyrs Memorial Cricket Tournament (PMMCT) was played at the Sports Stadium in Kulgam.The Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Kulgam, Showkat Aijaz Bhat who was Chief Guest on the occasion along with SP Kulgam Gurinder Pal Singh interacted with participants and applauded the efforts put forth by specially-abled persons.The event was organized by District Police of Kulgam under ‘Civic Action Programme’ in the memory of “police martyrs for their supreme sacrifices in safeguarding the unity and integrity of the nation.”The Specially-abled team won the match by 28 runs. The match was played as a revolutionary initiative to boost the morale ...
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J&K: Real Kashmir FC lifts Anantnag Knockout Football Tournament trophy
7Nov mmBy Joe RodriguezNo Comments
Asia

J&K: Real Kashmir FC lifts Anantnag Knockout Football Tournament trophy

In the final match of the ‘Anantnag Champions Knockout Football Tournament 2020’, Real Kashmir FC lifted the winning trophy after defeating Solina FC by 2:1 at the Anantnag Sports Stadium located in Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.In the high voltage game, both the teams played aggressively for the title while the fans thronged the venue in huge numbers. As the match started, forwards of both the teams started attacking other goalposts to seize an early initiative. However, defense lines of both the teams ensured that no damage was done. Real Kashmir FC maintained their reputation of attacking football with Ateeb and Ibrahim going close in the early exchanges. The team was finally rewarded when Ibrahim Rasheed scored with a delightful finish on a Corner kick.Ateeb was the secon...
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India’s biggest festival Diwali to boycott Chinese products
7Nov By Online DeskNo Comments
Asia, China, Market

India’s biggest festival Diwali to boycott Chinese products

While we’ve noted the extent to which markets have been flooded with ‘cheap quality yet affordable’ products from China, with PM Modi’s push towards Atmanirbhar Bharat, it seems changes can be plotted especially this festive season. As trends suggest, this is the peak season for huge amounts of imports from China to meet the demand of customers for diverse goods. Yet, this year has brought a twist in the tale. What accounted for almost 70-80% of market share some 5-6 years ago has fallen to a mere 10% share of imported Chinese goods this year. Traders importing Idols of gods and goddesses have declined rapidly. Forces behind this change range from anti-China product demonstrations to a significant change in consumer sentiments as demand for Made in India sees a rise. This in turn ha...
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Confrontation with China reboots Indian economy
7Nov By Online DeskNo Comments
Asia, China

Confrontation with China reboots Indian economy

The tense relations due to border standoff between China and India led to a campaign by Indian traders to boycott Chinese products and Indian authorities mulling higher trade barriers. In terms of global value chains, India is looking to create its own industrial base and alternate global value chain, introducing many preferential policies, economic stimulus and incentives for Indian industry. Additionally, some Indian industrial sectors which rely on supplies from China are now looking to create alternate and reliable supply chains. China has been a top trading partner of India for years, while China's exports to India have accounted for about 2 percent of its total exports. India can take confidence East Asian countries who have developed highly integrated industrial chains. India...
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Swedish clothing icon H&M joins global clamour to end human rights abuses in Xinjiang
7Nov By Online DeskNo Comments
Asia, China

Swedish clothing icon H&M joins global clamour to end human rights abuses in Xinjiang

Swirling reports about human rights abuses in Xinjiang are now beginning to hurt China's export-led economy, with Swedish clothing icon H&M deciding not to buy raw materials from the region's farms and factories suspected of using "forced labour". The fashion house said on Tuesday that it would no longer source cotton from Xinjiang-China's largest growing area of the cash crop. It also clarified that it did not work with any garment factory in the region. H&M said it had conducted "an inquiry at all the garment manufacturing factories we work with in China aiming to ensure that they are not employing workers ... through what is reported on as labour transfer programmes or employment schemes where forced labour is an increased risk." By de-linking from restive Xinjiang, where...
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Indian consumers and manufacturers getting sensitive to domination of Chinese goods in Indian market
7Nov By Online DeskNo Comments
Asia, China, Market

Indian consumers and manufacturers getting sensitive to domination of Chinese goods in Indian market

China’s emergence as a recent economic superpower is in no small part due to its massive production industry. The coastal factory towns produce an assortment of goods — with equally varying degrees of quality — on an enormous scale and with low cost, only for them to be shipped off to the rest of the world. Cheap labour —allegedly through labour rights violations as well as slave labour — and brazen theft of intellectual property have played a fairly large hand in cementing the Communist state as a principal hub for free market production. Experts had prophesied a subsequent political transformation from communism into a democracy with the liberation of China’s economy. Unfortunately, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has pioneered a sinister amalgamation of the ugliest aspects of Marx...
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Iran reports highest ever day death toll from COVID-19, currency plunges
5Nov By Desk TeamNo Comments
Asia, World

Iran reports highest ever day death toll from COVID-19, currency plunges

TEHRAN: Iran announced on Sunday (Oct 11) its highest single-day death toll from the coronavirus with 251 confirmed dead, the same day local media reported two senior officials had been infected and the nation's currency plunged to its lowest level ever. Health Ministry spokesperson Sima Sadat Lari said the total confirmed death toll now stands at 28,544, making Iran the hardest-hit country in the region. Iran had just recently recorded its highest daily death toll four days earlier with 239 new fatalities. A further 3,822 new cases were confirmed over the past 24 hour-period, raising recorded nationwide cases to 500,075. Nearly 4,500 patients are in critical condition. Among those recently infected is the head of the country’s atomic energy organization, the latest senior official ...
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Restoration of secretariat building underway in J&K’s Srinagar
5Nov mmBy Joe RodriguezNo Comments
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Restoration of secretariat building underway in J&K’s Srinagar

In the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), the authorities have started the restoration process of an old stone secretariat building on the banks of river Jhelum in an attempt to preserve the rich heritage of the Valley.The area is well known for its age-old heritage infrastructures including mosques, temples, churches, shrines, bridges and other monuments and buildings.According to Mushtaq Beg, Deputy Director of Archives, Archeology and Museums, work is being supervised by experts and architects and the same materials that were originally used are being used.“We are using the same material that was used when it was originally built. The previous state authorities had completely changed the original look of the place. They had whitewashed over the Khatamband (decorative...
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‘TehreekTaliban Pakistan’ poster asks Dir women to quit education
5Nov mmBy Joe RodriguezNo Comments
Asia

‘TehreekTaliban Pakistan’ poster asks Dir women to quit education

A poster purportedly pasted by the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) outside a women degree college in Samarbagh warned the female students to abandon education or face dire consequences.According to the principal of the Government Ghazi Umara Khan Degree College, the poster was allegedly pasted outside the institution’s main entrance on Friday night.The principal has also sent a letter to the director higher education department Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, asking for security measures for safeguarding the lives of the female students.The poster threatened the female students with death if they did not stop coming to the college.The college management has also informed the Lower Dir administration and the police about the development.The poster has also irked the parents who demanded of the ...
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J&K student’s podcast promotes Kashmiri language, Sufi poetry
5Nov mmBy Joe RodriguezNo Comments
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J&K student’s podcast promotes Kashmiri language, Sufi poetry

A medical student from India’s Kashmir has become an inspiration to many and it has nothing to do with his field of work.Saadath Mohi-ud-din Bhat, from Anantnag district in South Kashmir, has started a podcast titled "Aao Unhe Yaad Karai," which aims at promoting the Kashmiri language and Sufi poetry."I am also writing a poetry book which will be published soon. The aim is to preserve our rich language and Sufi culture and draw the attention of people, especially youth, towards it," he said.Bhat said that the youth of Kashmir use the Kashmiri language less nowadays."There is no one who has any interest in our mother tongue. When we are shying away from our own language, protecting our culture seems to be difficult. There will be no traces of our own language and culture if this approach co...
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