Tue 06 January 2026: Reliance Industries Ltd, which runs the world’s largest single-location oil refining complex and was until recently India’s top purchaser of Russian crude, announced on Tuesday, January 6, that it has not taken delivery of any Russian oil cargoes in nearly three weeks, with no shipments anticipated for the month of January, […]
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Mon 05 January 2026: The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances finds that out of 1,569 confirmed cases, 287 fell into the ‘missing and dead’ category. Bangladesh has revealed that enforced disappearance cases connected to ousted leader Sheikh Hasina could number a staggering 4,000 to 6,000 people. A new report by the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced […]
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Sun 04 January 2026: China carried out a record 92 space launches in 2025, the highest annual total in its history, state-run media reported on Saturday. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) said the year saw multiple breakthroughs and several firsts across manned spaceflight, deep-space exploration and commercial space activities, according to Global Times. As part of its […]
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Sun 04 January 2026: ‘Decision taken in the context of the extreme communal policy of India’s cricket board,’ says Bangladeshi official. Bangladesh will not play its T20 World Cup 2026 fixtures in India over concerns about its players’ safety, following the removal of a top Bangladeshi player from the Indian Premier League (IPL), a government […]
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Sat 03 January 2026: Zabiullah Mujahid, spokesperson for the Islamic Emirate, has warned that a specific powerful circle in Pakistan might have plotted a new “conspiracy” against Afghanistan, either to serve foreign interests or to assert control over the Islamic Emirate. Speaking in an interview released Thursday, Mujahid suggested that Pakistan’s recent attacks on Afghanistan […]
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Fri 02 January 2026: Soon after the release of the Bollywood film ‘Dhurandar’, which follows the trajectory of an Indian spy operating in the curated landscape of Karachi’s Lyari locality, Instagram reels were filled with the trend ‘Day one as a Spy in Pakistan’. There has rightfully been conversation about the Islamophobic undertone of the […]
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Fri 02 January 2026: Legislation signed by President Serdar Berdimuhamedov establishes a licensing scheme overseen by country’s central bank. Turkmenistan, one of the world’s most isolated nations, has officially legalised mining and exchanging cryptocurrency in a major shift for the country’s tightly controlled, gas-dependent economy. President Serdar Berdimuhamedov signed the legislation on Thursday, regulating virtual […]
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Tue 30 December 2025: Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia died at the age of 80 after a prolonged illness, her Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) announced Tuesday. Zia, the country’s first female premier and the wife of Ziaur Rahman, the former president of Bangladesh and founder of the BNP, had long suffered from a series […]
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Tue 30 December 2025: China will on January 1 launch an “action plan” for boosting management and operations of its digital currency, a deputy governor of the country’s central bank said Monday. “The future digital yuan will be a modern digital payment and circulation means issued and circulated within the financial system,” People’s Bank of China […]
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Mon 29 December 2025: Police in Indian-occupied Kashmir have placed several opposition leaders under house arrest ahead of a planned student protest over the region’s reservation policy, triggering accusations of a pre-emptive crackdown on peaceful dissent. The move came as students in occupied Jammu and Kashmir announced a sit-in demanding changes to reservations in education […]
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