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FFRC warns schools against charging excess fees, threatens penalty, de-recognition
Srinagar/Jammu, Jan 14. The Fee Fixation and Regulation Committee (FFRC), Jammu and Kashmir, has issued a stern warning to schools against charging fees over and above the rates fixed by the committee, cautioning that strict action will be taken against violators. In an official notice issued on Wednesday, the FFRC said it has received complaints…
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Iran protest death toll spikes to at least 2,000, activists say
Dubai, Jan 14: About 2,000 people, including security personnel, have been killed in protests in Iran, an Iranian official said on Tuesday, the first time authorities have acknowledged the high death count from an intense crackdown on two weeks of nationwide unrest. The Iranian official, speaking to Reuters, said that what he called terrorists were…
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Man di€s at 142, leaves 134 children and grandchildren
Dubai, Jan 13: Saudi Arabia’s oldest known man, Nasser bin Radan Al Rashid Al Wadaei, has died at the age of 142, according to local reports.Funeral prayers were held in Dhahran Al Janoub, in the southern region of the Kingdom, before he was buried in his home village of Al Rashid.More than 7,000 people attended…
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Earthquake of magnitude 6.2 rattles in…..
An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 rattled the Philippine Sea, a statement by the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said. In a post on X, the NCS said, “EQ of M: 6.2, On: 07/01/2026 08:33:00 IST, Lat: 7.27 N, Long: 126.87 E, Depth: 85 Km, Location: Philippine Sea.”https://x.com/NCS_Earthquake/status/2008739774203654158?s=20The Philippine Sea borders the Philippines to its east,…
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Israel strikes multiple sites in……
Israel’s air force struck areas in southern and eastern Lebanon on Monday and early Tuesday, including in the country’s third-largest city.A strike around 1 a.m. Tuesday leveled a three-story commercial building in the southern coastal city of Sidon, a few days before Lebanon’s army commander is scheduled to brief the government on its mission of…
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Saudi Arabia bombs…..
Dubai, Dec 30: Saudi Arabia on Tuesday said it bombed the port city of Mukalla in Yemen over a shipment of weapons for a separatist force there that arrived from the United Arab Emirates.The attack signals a new escalation in tensions between the kingdom and the Southern Transitional Council, which is backed by the Emirates.…
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8 d€ad, 18 wounded in……
A bombing at a mosque in the Syrian city of Homs during Friday prayers killed at least eight people and wounded 18 others, authorities said, as long-standing sectarian, ethnic and political fault lines continue to destabilise the country, even as large-scale fighting has subsided.Images released by Syria’s state-run Arab News Agency showed blood on the…
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Libya’s military chief, 7 others killed in plane crash in…..
Ankara, Dec 24: A private jet carrying Libya’s military chief, four other officers and three crew members crashed on Tuesday after takeoff from Turkey’s capital, Ankara, killing everyone on board. Libyan officials said the cause of the crash was a technical malfunction on the plane.The Libyan delegation was in Ankara for high-level defence talks aimed…
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School bus accident kills 17 in…..
Seventeen people were killed and 20 were injured after a bus carrying school children fell off a cliff in a rural area in northern Colombia, the local governor said on Sunday night.In a post on X earlier in the day, the governor of Antioquia, Andres Julian, said the bus was traveling from the Caribbean town…
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Strong Earthquake 6.7 quake in….
Tokyo, Dec 12: An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.7 has hit Japan’s northeastern region, prompting a tsunami advisory from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), local media reported.The earthquake struck on Friday off the coast of Aomori Prefecture at 11:44 am local time (02:44 GMT) at a depth of 20km (12.4 miles), according to…