Fri 21 Apr 2023: Sri Lanka has confirmed China’s request for importing 1,00,000 endangered monkeys from the cash-strapped island nation, amidst protests from environmental groups against the deal. Gunadasa Samarasinghe, the top bureaucrat in Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Agriculture said that a privately-owned Chinese company connected to Zoological Gardens which are animal breeders had made […]
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Fri 21 Apr 2023: The CBI has asked former Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik to answer certain queries in connection with an alleged insurance scam in the Union Territory, officials said on Friday. Reacting to the development, Malik told PTI that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has asked for his presence at […]
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Fri 21 Apr 2023: The Chief Justice of Delhi High Court on Thursday instructed all staff members, litigants and lawyers to wear a mask and avoid being gathered in groups while in court premises. The direction has been issued in view of the rising number of covid cases in the national capital, which on Thursday […]
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Fmr Gujarat min and BJP leader Maya Kodnani and Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi. Thu 20 Apr 2023: A special court in Ahmedabad designated for speedy trial of 2002 Gujarat genocide on Thursday acquitted all 67 accused, including former BJP MLA Maya Kodnani, ex-Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi and Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Jaydeep Patel, in the 2002 […]
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Thu 20 Apr 2023: South Asia is home to the highest number of child brides in the world as increased financial pressures and school closures due to COVID-19 forced families to marry off their young daughters, according to new estimates released by UNICEF. There were 290 million child brides in the region, accounting for 45 […]
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Wed 19 Apr 2023: India has overtaken China to become the most populous country in the world, suggests data from a newly released United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report on Wednesday. According to the UNFPA’s The State of World Population Report, 2023, India’s population has reached 1,428.6 million while China’s stands at 1,425.7 million — […]
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Wed 19 Apr 2023: The centre and the Gujarat government are likely to challenge an order by the Supreme Court seeking files on the remission of convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case. The government, citing “privilege”, has indicated it does not want to produce the documents connected with the remission of sentence of 11 […]
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Tue 18 Apr 2023: Bangladesh will pay its outstanding debts to Russia in Chinese yuan rather than dollars. It was announced that Dhaka will pay $110 million in Chinese yuan to Moscow for the currently under construction Rooppur power project. The development came amid increasing de-dollarisation efforts by the developing nations and calls by BRICS […]
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Tue 18 Apr 2023: Imran Khan, a former prime minister of Pakistan, disclosed that he had specific knowledge of a potential assassination attempt during the approaching Eid holidays at his home in Lahore’s Zaman Park, IANS reported. Since the Wazirabad incident last year, which occurred during the anti-government long march from Lahore to Islamabad, he […]
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Mon 17 Apr 2023: The European Union has won a case against India’s trade tariffs on information and communication technology (ICT) products in the World Trade Organization (WTO), the European Commission (EC) announced on Monday. “In its panel ruling, the WTO upheld all EU claims against India and found that India’s tariffs of up to […]
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