Mon 27 February 2023: On Monday, the World Bank threw three private banks in bankrupt Sri Lanka a lifeline by giving them $400 million to pay for imports of critical goods like food and medicine while an IMF bailout was on hold. The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector lending arm of the World […]
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Mon 27 February 2023: Russian President Vladimir Putin will one day be killed by his inner circle, Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed. The comments are part of a Ukrainian documentary titled ‘Year‘ featuring him, according to a report in Newsweek. The documentary was released on Friday to coincide with the one year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, […]
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Mon 27 February 2023: Investigations into the origins of a virus that has now killed nearly 7 million people have been hampered by politics and a lack of access and transparency. COVID-19 was probably the result of a leak from a laboratory, according to a newly updated classified report from the United States Department of […]
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Mon 27 February 2023: Gautam Adani, the chairman of the Adani Group, has slipped out of the world’s top 35 billionaire list as the group’s stocks continue to fall following the Hindenburg report. Currently, he is at the 37th spot on the list. On Monday, the first day of the trading week, most of the […]
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Sat 25 February 2023: According to a report by the United Christian Forum, there has been a sharp rise of 400%, from 147 in 2014 to 598 in 2022, in violence against the community. Uttar Pradesh leads with highest numbers of reported incidents. Chhatisgarh, Jharkhand, Karnataka and tamil Nadu are among top five states reporting […]
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Sat 25 February 2023: Afghan special forces are being drafted into the Ukraine War to fight alongside Russian mercenaries known as the Wagner Group. Despite the US spending hundreds of billions training up these Afghan commandos, they were left stranded after the 2021 fall of Kabul and will now be taking up arms against US […]
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Fri 24 February 2023: Students in Karnataka, which has banned the hijab in classrooms, have moved the Supreme Court seeking interim relief so that they can write exams at government colleges. In March last year, the Karnataka high court upheld the ban. In October, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court, delivered a split verdict on the […]
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Fri 24 February 2023: Two Pakistani brothers held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay military prison for two decades have been freed by US officials and have returned home, officials said. Abdul, 55, and Mohammed Rabbani, 53, will be reunited with their families after a formal questioning by Pakistani authorities, security officials and a Pakistani senator […]
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Fri 24 February 2023: India is the worst performer in 2023 among the top 10 countries of the world when it comes to market capitalisation, Business Standard has reported, noting that the dent in Adani Group stocks following the Hindenburg report triggered the fall. India has now slipped to seventh position. The United Kingdom is now on […]
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Fri 24 February 2023: The detection of positive Covid cases has dropped, according to Chinese health officials, who also claimed that the pandemic had “basically” ended. The authorities, speaking at a news event, assured that China’s “major conclusive triumph” over the coronavirus has set an example of counteraction and control for populous nations, as reported […]
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