Tue 09 August 2022: In Bihar, India’s third-most populous state, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party lost power on Tuesday as a regional ally joined an opposition coalition that now has the majority to form the next government. The breakdown in government in Bihar is a rare defeat for Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which controls […]
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Tue 09 August 2022: For some time now, Al-Qaeda had stopped being the primary target of policy and counterterrorist experts. The erstwhile most dangerous terrorist group in the war on terror following its attacks on the United States on 9/11 had largely been inactive, particularly in Afghanistan. No longer responsible for any incident of violence, […]
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Sun 07 August 2022: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government is considering relevant legislation to ease the return of its supreme leader Nawaz Sharif, who is in a self-imposed exile in London on medical grounds, to Pakistan, the media reported. PML-N leader and Pakistan Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah has already said the coalition government might […]
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Russian FM Sergei Lavrov (L) shaking hands with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi (R) Fri 05 August 2022: In light of Moscow’s ongoing conflict with Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov described Moscow’s partnership with Beijing as a safeguard of international law. At the ministerial conference of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) on […]
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Thu 04 August 2022: The Taliban is investigating a “claim” by the US that it killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a drone operation in Kabul, implying that the group’s leadership was unaware of his presence there, Taliban spokesperson said. Al-Zawahiri was reportedly killed on Sunday by a missile fired from a drone at his […]
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Thu 04 August 2022: Pakistan‘s ambassador to Türkiye said he hopes advocates of human rights and fair play will take a stand on Kashmir the same way they did in opposing Russia’s war on Ukraine. Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan since their independence in 1947, but claimed by both in its entirety. The South Asian nuclear-armed nations […]
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Thu 04 August 2022: On Thursday, Tokyo’s defense minister, said, China’s ballistic missiles are believed to have landed in Japan’s exclusive economic zone for the first time, Reuters reports. “Five of the nine ballistic missiles launched by China are believed to have landed within Japan’s EEZ,” Nobuo Kishi told reporters, as China holds massive military […]
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Thu 04 August 2022: China has fired several ballistic missiles into the waters around Taiwan as it launched large-scale military exercises in response to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the self-ruled island. Chinese state media said the live-fire drills in six areas around Taiwan got underway at noon local time (04:00 GMT) on Thursday and […]
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Thu 04 August 2022: India’s Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has decided to remove books by renowned Islamic thinkers and scholars, Maulana Abul Ala Maududi and Syed Qutb from its syllabus taught in the Department of Islamic Studies. “In order to avoid the controversy, the University has decided to do away with the optional paper on […]
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Wed 03 August 2022: On Wednesday, Japan reported 249,830 new COVID-19 cases, setting a record high amid concerns about the overcrowded healthcare system as a result of the rapidly increasing number. The previous record was set on Thursday last week during Japan’s seventh wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, when 233,000 cases were reported. This was […]
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