Sat 29 Apr 2023: Twitter on Saturday locked Asian News International’s (ANI) and NDTV’s accounts because they did not match the ‘minimum age requirement’ to use the microblogging site, according to ANI Editor Smita Prakash on Saturday. The news agencies’ Twitter handle displays the phrase ‘This account doesn’t exist’. Prakash tweeted an image of a […]
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Fri 28 Apr 2023: The Supreme Court on Friday, April 28, sought a status report from the Uttar Pradesh government on the steps it has taken after the gangster and former MP Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf’s murder while in police custody, and has categorically asked its attorney why the duo was paraded in […]
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A statue of Jesus is destroyed in Gokunte village in Karnataka state, in southwestern India, Feb. 15, 2022. (Credit: YouTube screen grab.) Thu 27 Apr 2023: New Delhi: A.C. Michael, president of the Federation of Catholic Associations of Archdiocese of Delhi (FCAAD) and national coordinator of the United Christian Forum, has written to Indian Prime Minister […]
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Suan Phlu Immigration Detention Centre. (FILE PHOTO) Thu 27 Apr 2023: Mattohti Mattursun was one of 350 Uighur refugees, including children, who were detained in March 2014. An ethnic Uighur man who was detained by Thailand in 2014 after fleeing China has died in immigration detention, the second Uighur refugee to die in Thai custody […]
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Thu 27 Apr 2023: Islamabad, Pakistan – China says it will work with Pakistan’s military to “further deepen and expand” the two nations’ mutual interests and jointly protect regional peace and stability. A statement by the Chinese defence ministry on Wednesday said Zhang Youxia, the vice chairman of China’s Central Military Commission, made the comments during […]
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Thu 27 Apr 2023: The World Health Organisation on Tuesday issued a product alert over contaminated syrup by an Indian manufacturer, warning that it is unsafe for use, especially in children, and may result in serious injury or death. The WHO Medical Product Alert refers to a batch of substandard (contaminated) Guaifenesin syrup TG syrup […]
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Wed 26 Apr 2023: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has resumed work on preserving heritage sites in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan province. Through an Italian-funded project, UNESCO has reportedly started preserving Bamiyan’s cultural and archaeological sites that were added to the World Heritage in Danger list in 2003. ART news reported these sites […]
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Wed 26 Apr 2023: An Indian-origin man in Australia was convicted of drugging and raping five Korean women while recording the activities on a hidden camera, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, Balesh Dhankhar, a prominent member of Australia’s Indian diaspora with political ties, was on trial on 39 counts, including 13 instances of rape […]
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Wed 26 Apr 2023: Taliban fighters have executed the top ISIL (ISIS) group leader behind the deadly suicide bombing outside Kabul airport in August 2021, according to the father of a US Marine killed in the attack, who was informed by military sources on Tuesday, Associated Press reported. During the chaotic withdrawal of US forces […]
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Tue 25 Apr 2023: Maharashtra on Tuesday reported 722 fresh COVID-19 cases and three fatalities, taking the tally of infections to 81,62,842 and the death count to 1,48,507, the state health department said. The fresh cases rose thrice compared to Monday when 226 infections were recorded in the state. No COVID-19 fatality was recorded a […]
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