Thu 14 September 2023: As Beijing tries to convince the world that the Xinjiang region has moved on, its Uighur residents continue to suffer. During his visit to the Chinese province of Xinjiang on August 26, Chinese President Xi Jinping asserted that the predominantly Muslim Uighur region is enjoying some “hard-won social stability”, and that it is […]
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Indian officials pay respect to Humayun Muzammil Bhat, the J&K DSP who was slain in the Anantnag encounter. Thu 14 September 2023: Three Indian security officers were killed in an ongoing gun battle with rebels in Indian-administered Kashmir’s Anantnag district, while another soldier and two rebels were killed in a separate gunfight in the border district of Rajouri on Wednesday. A joint party of police and army launched an operation on […]
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Wed 13 September 2023: A spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry stated on Tuesday that since the start of the year, despite the weak global economic recovery and a difficult and complex external environment, China’s economy has continued to recover on a generally sound track of rebound, Xinhua repotted. Mao Ning, the spokesperson, made the […]
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Mohammad Hassan Akhund, the Prime Minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, accepted the credentials of Mr Zhao Xing, the new Chinese ambassador to Afghanistan on 13 September 2023 [bakhtarnews/X]. Wed 13 September 2023: A new Chinese ambassador presented his credentials to the Taliban prime minister in Kabul on Wednesday, Reuters has reported. Afghan officials added […]
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Wed 13 September 2023: Authorities in southern China have launched an operation to find more than 70 crocodiles that escaped when floods hit the region in recent days. A typhoon brought sustained heavy rains to southern China last week. Deluges around the city of Maoming in Guangdong province caused a lake at a commercial crocodile […]
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Tue 12 September 2023: The Central Bank of Afghanistan has warned residents in the country’s southwestern provinces. They are instructed to cease their commercial transactions using the Pakistani currency (Rupee) and have been given a deadline. The Central Bank has initiated the promotion of the Afghani currency in the country’s southwestern region since last week. […]
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Tue 12 September 2023: The cow vigilante has been arrested for allegedly uploading ‘objectionable and inflammatory’ posts under a fictitious name, reports say. A cow vigilante on the run after he was accused of inciting deadly communal violence in India’s northern Haryana state has been arrested. Mohit Yadav, better known by his alias Monu Manesar, was […]
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US president Joe Biden and PM Narendra Modi. Photo: X/@POTUS. Mon 11 September 2023: The US President Joe Biden on Sunday, September 10, said that he raised the issue of respecting human rights with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in discussions on the sidelines of the G20 summit. After departing Delhi before the end […]
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Mon 11 September 2023: A report released by the Lucknow-based Nur Manzil Psychiatric Centre has found that India ranked 38 globally in suicide deaths. The Centre is a chain of psychiatric hospitals under a national mental health care organisation. The report also suggested that as per the National Crime Records Bureau, 12 suicides per lakh […]
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Mon 11 September 2023: Police have confirmed a man in his twenties was arrested in March and bailed until next month. China has lashed out at the United Kingdom, saying reports that a UK parliamentary researcher had been arrested on suspicion of spying for China were “malicious slander”. The UK’s Sunday Times reported that the […]
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