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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Sun 10 September 2023: In northeast China’s Liaoning Province, archaeologists have discovered 10 graves and the foundations for eight houses that date from the Wei Kingdom (220–265) to the Jin Dynasty (265–420), Xinhua reported. These finds were uncovered by the Liaoning provincial institute of cultural relics and archaeology at the Quying cemetery in Yingkou City. […]
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Sun 10 September 2023: In the first 212 days of 2023, 525 incidents of violence against Christians have been reported from 23 states of India, which is a significant increase compared to the total of 505 incidents reported for the entire year of 2022, according to United Christian Forum. Breaking down the figures by month, […]
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Sat 09 September 2023: Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Investment (ACCI) says the closure of Torkham crossing into Pakistan has cost the economy millions of afghanis (AFN) over the past three days. The closure of the border came at a crucial time specifically for exporters of fresh produce, especially fruit. The ACCI said the longer […]
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Sat 09 September 2023: As Putin stays in Moscow, India-Russia ties are in decline, while New Delhi’s bond with the West gets tighter. As Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine in February 2022, marking the start of Europe’s biggest war since World War II, countries around the world came under pressure to choose between the Western-backed […]
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Fri 08 September 2023: Despite repeated requests from the administration for more press access, the White House announced Thursday evening that reporters traveling with President Joe Biden to India for this week’s G20 summit will not have the chance to ask questions to Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi when the two leaders meet […]
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