Tue 23 November 2021: The first of three trials in Sri Lanka related to explosions that killed over 270 people has begun. Pujith Jayasundera, Sri Lanka’s former police chief, was charged with criminal negligence on Monday for failing to act despite prior intelligence warnings in the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attack, which killed over 270 […]
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Sun 21 November 2021: Farmers at the Delhi borders have said their protests will continue till the formal cancellation of the three contentious farm laws, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Friday. They have also demanded a law on minimum support prices, and withdrawal of the police cases filed against many of them over the […]
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Sun 21 November 2021: A 45-year-old man, declared dead after a road accident in Uttar Pradesh, shocked his relatives when they found him still breathing despite a night in the freezer of a hospital morgue. Srikesh Kumar was rushed to a clinic in a critical condition after he was hit by a motorbike in Uttar […]
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Sat 20 November 2021: Since gaining control in August, the Taliban’s provisional administration in Afghanistan has collected more than $270 million in revenue. The Finance Ministry’s spokesman, Ahmad Wali Haqmal, told a news conference in Kabul that income collection is gathering up steam with each passing day. He highlighted customs and other taxes as the […]
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Sat 20 November 2021: “Catastrophic and famine-like conditions” hang over Afghanistan’s farmers and herders, whose needs continue to rise with the onset of winter, the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) said on Friday. While humanitarian access has never been better, prices are soaring and needs continue to outpace the resources provided, the FAO explained. […]
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Sat 20 November 2021: On Friday, Pakistan’s Telecom Regulatory Authority lifted a ban on TikTok after the company pledged to monitor “immoral and unlawful” content. After “continuous” dialogue with TikTok management, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) agreed to lift the ban on the Chinese video-sharing app. “As a result of continuous engagement, senior management of […]
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Fri 19 November 2021: Authorities in restive Indian-controlled Kashmir exhumed two bodies of four men killed in a controversial gunfight and handed them over to their families, officials said Friday. Witnesses and families of the civilians and one suspected rebel have denied the police version of events, saying they were deliberately killed by Indian troops […]
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Fri 19 November 2021: According to media reports, a Chinese man was fined 200,000 Yuan ($31,000) and given a two-year suspended jail sentence for hiding COVID-19 symptoms after a travel overseas and violating quarantine restrictions, as the country toughens restrictions in an uphill battle to eliminate the virus. According to Chinese digital daily The Paper, […]
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Fri 19 November 2021: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says he has decided to repeal three controversial farm laws against which farmers have protested for more than a year, in a stunning announcement just months before elections in states like Uttar Pradesh and Punjab. “Today I have come to tell you, the whole country, that […]
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Fri 19 November 2021: President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that the United States is considering a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing in protest of China’s treatment of the Uyghur Muslim minority. American athletes would still compete in the games, which begin on February 4, 2022, despite the diplomatic boycott. […]
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