Recently published satellite images reveal the extent of Pakistan’s deadly floods and how an overflowing Indus River has turned part of Sindh Province into a 100 kilometer-wide inland lake. The new images, taken on August 28 from NASA’s MODIS satellite sensor, show how a combination of heavy rain and an overflowing Indus River have inundated […]
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New discoveries continue to amaze us about the vastness of our universe. The James Webb Space Telescope has given us its first images and they are breathtaking. These images include the deepest infrared view of our universe ever taken, capturing starlight over 13 billion years old. With a myriad of entire galaxies in “just one
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Mitsutaro Yamaoka Kotaro is an unusual historic figure, born in 1880 in Fukuyama, a city in the Hiroshima prefecture. He studied Russian at the Tokyo School of Foreign Languages (now the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) and joined the army as a volunteer soldier after the Russo-Japanese Conflict broke out, “in the year of his
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Qatar has agreed to finance the restoration of the houses destroyed during the latest conflict in Gaza. Hamas leader Heniyyeh, who praised Qatar’s support in the statement, said that the reconstruction process will be carried out through the Qatar Reconstruction Committee. Forty-nine Palestinians were killed and over 300 more were injured in Israel’s military operation
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The 2022 Islamic Well-Being Index (IWI) for Muslim Countries was launched internationally with Maldives newly included for IWI 2022 assessment. Maldives was amongst 33 Muslim majority countries for which religiosity (Deen) data is available from World Values Surveys. Former leaders, Indonesia and Malaysia, share second place. The nominations of these three Muslim countries shows the
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“Hijrah: In the Footsteps of the Prophet ﷺ” is Ithra’s first traveling exhibition, exhibiting at Ithra’s iconic building in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia for nine months before traveling across the country and then globally during its five-year run. The research-based artistic exhibition takes a deep hard look at the eight-day and 400 km journey the Prophet
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Darul A’shom school in Yogyakarta opened its gates in 2019 to cater to children with hearing disabilities. It is the first Islamic boarding school in Indonesia that helps students study and recite from the Qur’an using sign language. The students are also provided with formal education along with their religious studies. Abdul Kahfi, the founder
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The 5th Islamic Solidarity Games began on Tuesday, 9th August in Konya, Turkey. More than 4,000 athletes from at least 55 member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation will compete in 24 sports, ranging from archery to basketball and judo to swimming for 355 medals. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan officially declared the games
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Hike in petrol prices was something predicted a long time ago and it turned out to be something that motivated a man from Srinagar to create a car that runs on solar energy from scratch. Bilal Ahmed, a mathematics teacher from Srinagar in Kashmir, made it his aim to build a ‘luxurious’ and sustainable vehicle
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The Crown Prince of Dubai Hamdan bin Mohammad shared a video on Twitter of an unknown man (at the time of posting) that has since gone viral online with over 200,000 views. The video showed a delivery agent from Talabat (a UAE-based food delivery company) removing bricks from a busy road that might have caused
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