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14 perish in fire at hospital near Mumbai

Charred remains of the inside of the Vijay Vallabh Hospital where a fire broke out on Friday morning killing 14 (Image credit: Hindustan Times)

In yet another tragic incident 14 seriously ill COVID-19 patients died of suffocation caused by a fire at Vijay Vallabh Hospital in Vasai-Virar in Palghar district about 60 km from Mumbai at around 3:00 AM on Friday (April 23). There were in…

Smooth sail of Suez Canal down the ages

The container ship Ever Given which got stuck in the Suez Canal recently (Image credit: BBC)

The Suez Canal, one of the most important waterways in the world, was recently in the news for about a week. A container ship, named Ever Given had ran aground and stuck diagonally in the canal on March 23. As…

Setting up mega Muslim media-house amounts to wild goose chase

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–Soroor Ahmed There is no dearth of genuinely honest souls who, having no experience of working in any media-house for even a day or night, bemoan as to why Muslims of India have no nationally recognised newspaper or television channel. They are from within the community or outside, like US-based Avi Dandiya. The latter even cited the example of Blacks in the United States who had in 1960s come up with several such big media organisations. Without questioning their intention it can be said that the idea is mistimed and should be simply set aside at this point of time.…

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