Thu 21 October 2021: In a landmark achievement, India’s cumulative COVID-19 vaccination coverage one billion doses on Thursday. A total of one billion vaccine doses have been administered so far to eligible beneficiaries, as per the Cowin portal at 9:47 am today. “India achieves the major milestone of ‘one billion’ vaccinations,” India’s Health Ministry said […]
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Wed 20 October 2021: Dubai has signed a memorandum of understanding with the far-right Hindu nationalist government of Narendra Modi to build infrastructure in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Details of the MoU were announced by India on Monday, but the value of the accord was not provided. The Indian government said that the agreement will […]
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Wed 20 October 2021: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday that the matter of recognizing the Taliban as the legitimate government in Afghanistan is not on the current agenda ahead of the movement’s upcoming visit to Moscow. “We encourage them to live up to the promises they made when they came to power, […]
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Wed 20 October 2021: In India, a woman who claims to be at least 70 years old gave birth, making her one of the world’s oldest mothers. Jivunben Rabari from western Gujarat state conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment, according to Naresh Bhanushali, who runs an IVF center in the Bhuj area of the […]
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Tue 19 October 2021: According to Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo, the United States does not plan to allow the Taliban access to Afghanistan’s financial reserves stored in American banks. “I see no situation in which we would allow the Taliban to have access to the reserves that belong to the Afghan people. […]
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Tue 19 October 2021: A Hindu teenager was arrested in Bangladesh on Monday for an allegedly offensive Facebook post about Islam’s holiest site, the Kaaba, which went viral and sparked communal violence in the country. On Sunday, Paritosh Sarkar degraded the holy Kaaba in the post, causing outrage among Muslims in Rangpur’s northern district. According […]
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Tue 19 October 2021: Asaduddin Owaisi, the leader of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), said on Monday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi never speaks about the issue of rising fuel prices or China’s “sitting in Ladakh.” Addressing a gathering, Asaduddin Owaisi said, “PM Modi never speaks on two things — rise in petrol and […]
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Tue 19 October 2021: Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Monday that Zalmay Khalilzad, US President Joe Biden’s special envoy for Afghanistan, is stepping down. The top US diplomat thanked Khalilzad for his efforts and extended his “gratitude for his decades of service to the American people.” Thomas West, Khalilzad’s former deputy, will assume the […]
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Mon 18 October 2021: “After a long delay, Afghan exports from Afghanistan through Central Asia to Australia, the United States and European countries have resumed,” said Emaruddin Stanekzai, head of international transit and transport. According to Stanekzai, the export package includes hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of agricultural products, dried and fresh fruits and […]
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Mon 18 October 2021: Despite amassing record vaccine stocks, India’s vaccination campaign has slowed, according to health ministry data released today, as authorities maintain a wider-than-usual gap between doses in a plan that has increased coverage. Krishna N Das reports from New Delhi for Reuters that domestic production of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which accounts for […]
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