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Thousands of Shias Muslims marched through Srinagar on Thursday for a major religious procession. Permitted in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) for the first time since a ban was imposed decades ago. Hundreds of Shias mourners on Thursday participated in the Muharram procession. That was taken out on the traditional route from Gurubazar to Dalgate in Srinagar. For the first time in 34 years after the administration lifted the ban. Following a series of meetings with the stakeholders. The J&K administration on Wednesday lifted the ban on the Muharram procession on the traditional Gurubazar-Dalgate route. About 25,000 persons participated in the procession, police said. The administration granted two-hour permission for the procession from 6 am to 8 a...

UK McDonald's is facing allegations of creating a 'toxic work culture'. After more than 200 current and recent UK staff accused colleagues of sexual assault, harassment, racism, and bullying. Workers from the fast-food chain, some as young as 17, told the BBC that they are being groped and harassed almost routinely. At least 200 UK McDonald’s staff members have now claimed they were subjected to sexual assault, sexual harassment, racism, and bullying. Dozens of new complaints flooded in after a BBC investigation revealed people as young as 17 were groped and harassed regularly. Fresh allegations include an older female manager forcing a younger worker’s hand into her trousers and slapping her bum. As well as senior staff making sexual comments to juniors regularly. Others say ma...

Yesterday was the busiest day for commercial aviation that we’ve ever tracked. We tracked 134,386 commercial flights on 6th July and today is shaping up to be another busy day. More than 20,000 flights are in the air right now. The number of global commercial aviation set an all-time high on July 6. Coinciding with the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth. According to live flight tracker FlightRadar24, July 6 was the busiest day for the tracking agency, with 134,386 commercial flights recorded. The flight-tracking agency noted that they use an average estimate of 100 people per flight. This would suggest that the number of passengers on that particular day would have exceeded 13 million. 10,000 of recorded July 6 flights as per FlightRadar24 were private jets. The agen...