Fri 01 March 2024: At least 45 people have been killed and numerous others injured in a major fire that broke out at a six-story retail mall in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Thirteen fire departments battled for two hours to put out the fire that began in a biryani restaurant on the first floor […]
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World Athletics Championships in Beijing 2015. Thu 28 February 2024: The 2027 World Athletics Championships will take place in Beijing, the governing body of track and field announced on Wednesday. The city was chosen at a conference held in Glasgow by the World Athletics Council. “Congratulations to Beijing on their successful bid to host the […]
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Wed 27 February 2024: The Hindu side in the Gyanvapi case filed a new petition on Wednesday at the Varanasi district court, seeking to stop the entry into the terrace of the ‘Vyas Ji Ka Tehkhana’, located in the southern area of the Gyanvapi mosque complex. The petition said that there was a possibility of […]
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An official ceremony of lunching CASA 1000 Project (file photo / kabar.kg). Tue 26 February 2024: The World Bank has announced that it has agreed to restart the Central Asia-South Asia Electricity Transmission and Trade Project (CASA-1000) in Afghanistan amid concerns among the other participating countries -Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Pakistan – that they risk $1billion […]
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Tue 26 February 2024: Google is under fire from followers of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “biased” responses by its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) tool, sparking calls for tough control of the new technology’s drawbacks. A response from Google’s AI platform suggesting that some experts believe the policies of the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, […]
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Mon 26 February 2024: New Delhi, India – India averaged nearly two anti-Muslim hate speech events per day in 2023 and three in every four of those events – or 75 percent – took place in states ruled by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, revealed a report released Monday. In 2023, the hate […]
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Sat 24 February 2024: Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan will write to the IMF urging it to call for an independent audit of the country’s controversial Feb. 8 national elections before it continues talks with Islamabad, his lawyer said on Thursday. Pakistan averted default last summer thanks to a short term International Monetary […]
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Sat 24 February 2024: The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that since the beginning of 2024, more than 286,000 individuals have been afflicted with respiratory diseases across Afghanistan, among whom 668 have lost their lives. On Saturday, the organization reported hundreds of deaths and infections due to respiratory illnesses across the country, coinciding with […]
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Sat 24 February 2024: The Calcutta High Court this week told the government of the eastern Indian state of West Bengal to consider renaming two lions in a zoo-cum-animal reserve after a Hindu nationalist organisation called Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) found their names rather catty. Starting on Tuesday, the court heard the plea requesting a change of name […]
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Fri 23 February 2024: Hundreds of supporters from Pakistani Islamic parties rallied to protest against what they say were blasphemous remarks by the country’s chief justice. The protest call, by various religious and political groups led by Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) whose rallying cry is “death to blasphemers”, said on Friday that remarks by Chief Justice […]
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