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EnvironmentAn oil spill from a tanker off Umm Al Quwain has led the UAE's Ministry of Climate Change and Environment to close beaches and coastal areas for now; residents of Sharjah and Ajman also noticed an unusual smell.
IslamJurists hold that vague words such as 'go', not addressed to the wife and not clearly remembered, do not amount to talaq; a Hanafi principle says certainty is not removed by doubt.
AgribusinessJamuna Fertilizer Factory in Jamalpur, restarted on 6 October after about eight months without gas and stopped the next night by a boiler fault, resumed urea production on the morning of 23 October.
About 1.5 million people cut sugarcane in India for around 400 rupees for a 14-hour day; with no leave even during menstruation, many women from Beed in Maharashtra have their wombs removed. A 2019 state survey found 13,861 hysterectomies among 82,309 women cane workers.
At mezbani feasts in Sirajganj Sadar and Kazipur, beef or buffalo meat is cooked overnight with fresh, damp aromatic rice flour pounded in a dheki; from dawn prayers onwards the whole village is served rice, pituli meat and buttermilk.
In Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, about 450 people in two villages were given rabies vaccine as a precaution after eating food made with milk from a cow that died after a suspected dog bite; the deputy chief medical officer says boiling milk destroys the virus.
Ittefaq's religion desk, drawing on works of fiqh, explains how to offer salah when prayer time comes during a journey, depending on whether one can stand, face the qibla and bow and prostrate; if none is possible, pray by gestures and make it up later.
IslamThe Quran says no bearer of burdens carries another's burden; Islam still asks children to correct a parent's mistake with respect, privately and in a soft voice.
IslamAqiqah on the seventh day after birth is recommended, two goats for a boy and one for a girl. The meat may be given raw or cooked, but Aisha, Imam al-Nawawi and Ibn Qudamah preferred cooking it and feeding others.
IslamVerses 22 and 23 of Surah An-Nisa permanently forbid marriage with 14 categories of women related by blood, marriage or nursing; Islamic jurisprudence adds further situations in which a marriage is unlawful.
HealthThe Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) says viral claims that a drug made from camel urine cures cancer are false; the product in question is a registered dietary supplement, not an approved medicine for any disease.
HealthPakistan's first national survey, covering about 18,000 adults over five years, found that at least 32 per cent currently have a mental or behavioural disorder; the results were published in the British Medical Journal.
There is no strong evidence that keeping a phone beside the pillow causes cancer, but screen light and notifications harm sleep, and charging under a pillow or blanket can make a phone overheat and catch fire.
