Sat 02 September 2023: Aditya L1, India’s first space-based observatory to study the Sun, was launched successfully at 11:50 am on Saturday, September 2. The mission to study the Sun’s outermost layers represents another milestone for the Indian space programme after the Chandrayaan-3 mission successfully soft landed on the lunar surface on August 23. Aditya L1, India’s […]
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Fri 01 September 2023: The Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) on Thursday trained gun at billionaire Gautam Adani’s group, alleging hundreds of millions of dollars were invested in publicly traded group stocks through Mauritius-based ‘opaque’ investment funds managed by partners of promoter family, charges the conglomerate denied vehemently. ADANI GROUP’S GROSS DEBT RS […]
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Thu 31 August 2023: Domestic, Asian and European companies, Thursday, signed seven major mining contracts worth around $6.5 billion with the interim Taliban administration in Afghanistan, Anadolu Agency reports. The contracts were signed in Kabul between the war-torn nation’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum and private companies from Afghanistan, Turkiye, Iran and China, said the office […]
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Thu 31 August 2023: The Narendra Modi-led Indian government is using powerful surveillance tools bought from Israeli firms to spy on the citizens, a recent Financial Times report claims. The report titled ‘India’s communications backdoor attracts surveillance companies’ has shed light on how India’s communications monitoring systems are creating ‘backdoors’ for surveillance companies to “enable the government […]
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Thu 31 August 2023: Malaysia has rejected the latest edition of the ‘standard map of China’ that lays claim to almost the entire South China Sea, including areas lying off the coast of Malaysian Borneo. Tensions have been rising in the strategically important waters as China has become increasingly assertive in its claim despite a […]
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Thu 31 August 2023: After accused the popular video-sharing app of “causing addiction” among children and harming their mental health, Kyrgyzstan said on Wednesday that it intended to outlaw TikTok. The culture ministry of the Central Asian nation claimed in a statement that it had received “frequent messages” from organizations voicing worry about the “harmful […]
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Wed 30 August 2023: India has lodged a strong protest with China over a new map that lays claim to territory New Delhi says is Indian, the latest tension between the two Asian neighbours over their mutual border. The protest lodged by New Delhi on Tuesday followed reports in the Indian media that Beijing had released an official “standard […]
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Wed 29 August 2023: Hundreds of thousands of people are being forcibly engaged by organised criminal gangs into online criminality in Southeast Asia – from romance-investment scams and crypto fraud to illegal gambling – a report issued today by the UN Human Rights Office shows. Victims face a range of serious violations and abuses, including threats to […]
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Tue 29 August 2023: China on Monday released the 2023 edition of its “standard map”, staking a claim over Arunachal Pradesh, Aksai Chin region, Taiwan and the disputed South China Sea, news agency PTI reported. China’s official map, referred to as the 2023 edition, was introduced via the Ministry of Natural Resources’ standard map service […]
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Tue 29 August 2023: The Islamabad High Court has suspended former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s prison sentence for a corruption conviction. A two-judge bench of the IHC overturned a lower-court decision imprisoning him for three years and has ordered his immediate release. However, a special court recently established to hear cases under the Official Secrets Act has […]
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