Mon 13 December 2021: Sri Lankan authorities displayed what they claimed was the world’s largest natural corundum blue sapphire, weighing 310 kilograms and discovered in a gem pit three months ago. Local gemologists who examined the sapphire said it was one of the world’s rarest gems, weighing more than 300 kilograms. The precious stone has […]
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Sun 12 December 2021: Scientists have been trying to come up with vaccines and other tools to combat the virus since the pandemic began in December. Now, Japanese scientists have now produced masks that can detect the virus when exposed to ultraviolet light. Yasuhiro Tsukamoto and his colleagues at Kyoto Prefectural University in western Japan […]
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Sun 12 December 2021: Sajeeb Wazed Joy, the ICT Affairs Adviser to the Bangladeshi Prime Minister, launched 5G, or fifth generation mobile services, on Sunday through Teletalk, a state-run cellular operator, in conjunction with Huawei, a Chinese telecom giant. Mobile users in some parts of the country will now have access to high-speed 5G Internet […]
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Sun 12 December 2021: According to the Kyodo news agency, an avian flu outbreak has been reported in the northern Japanese prefecture of Aomori, with 7,000 birds slated for extinction. A poultry farm confirmed finding several dead birds on Friday, according to prefecture officials. The presence of the highly pathogenic H5 strain was discovered through […]
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Sunday 12 December 2021: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal Twitter account has been “very briefly compromised,” the prime minister’s office has said. A swiftly deleted tweet from his main @narendramodi handle declared India had adopted Bitcoin as legal tender and was distributing the cryptocurrency to citizens. It said the Indian government had officially bought […]
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Sat 11 December 2021: A heritage luxury limited edition watch believed to have been used by football legend late Diego Maradona was recovered from Assam this morning after it went missing from Dubai. The watch, worth around ₹ 20 lakh, was recovered from the possession of an Assam resident who used to work in Dubai and had […]
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Sat 11 December 2021: The United Nations’ human rights office is finalizing its assessment of the situation in China’s Xinjiang region, where Uyghurs are alleged to have been unlawfully detained, mistreated and forced to work, a spokesperson said on Friday. Rupert Colville said the office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet hoped […]
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Fri 10 December 2021: France has declined to join the diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing, calling such a step “insignificant.” French President Emanuel Macron stated that the boycott, led by the United States and other Western nations, is merely a “symbolic step” that will have no significant impact. Apart from the […]
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Fri 10 December 2021: An international campaign was launched in Johannesburg on Thursday to bring the self-exiled Gupta brothers back to South Africa to face trial on charges of looting billions of rands from state institutions. Ajay, Atul and Rajesh Gupta, who are accused of massive state capture due to their closeness to former president […]
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Thu 09 December 2021: The UK-based unofficial tribunal says the Chinese government’s alleged forced birth control of Muslim Uighurs amounts to genocide. The tribunal was established in September last year with the help of the NGO Coalition for Genocide Response to investigate “ongoing atrocities and possible genocide” against the Uighurs, Kazakhs and other Turkic Muslim […]
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