Wed 06 October 2021: According to the BBC, the Indian government has promised to pay $674 in compensation for each death caused by the COVID-19 virus. Following a plea by lawyers seeking compensation under the country’s disaster management laws, India’s supreme court has approved the government’s decision. COVID-19 has claimed the lives of at than […]
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Wed 06 October 2021: The discovery of genetic traces in the body of a 7,000-year-old teenager provides the first evidence that early people in Indonesia mixed with individuals from far away Siberia much earlier than previously assumed. According to the Reuters news agency, the findings of a study published in the scientific journal Nature in […]
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Tue 05 October 2021: After withdrawing from Afghanistan, the United States is sending a clear message to the world about China now being in focus, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Tuesday. ”After Afghanistan, the US is sending a clear message about how they want to reorder their priorities facing China mainly, and […]
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Tue 05 October 2021: Hervé Ludovic De Lys, UNICEF Representative in Afghanistan, and Mary-Ellen McGroarty, WFP Afghanistan Representative and Country Director, both raised the alarm about the terrible situation of malnutrition and food insecurity sweeping the country. Afghan children and their families are facing the price of years of violence and the present economic crisis […]
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Tue 05 October 2021: The special envoy of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson met with Taliban leaders in Afghanistan to address the humanitarian crisis and ways to prevent Afghanistan from becoming a breeding ground for militants, Reuters reported. Simon Gass, Johnson’s high representative for Afghanistan, met Taliban leaders including Amir Khan Muttaqi, Mullah Abdul Ghani […]
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Tue 05 October 2021: Days after arresting Islamic scholar Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui from Meerut on charges of religious conversation, the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on Tuesday carried out a search operation in Shaheen Bagh area of New Delhi. The UP ATS conducted the search on the basis of an order from a court, reported Aaj […]
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Tue 05 October 2021: Afghanistan will start issuing passports to its citizens again on Tuesday after months of delays, a senior official said. Alam Gul Haqqani, the passport office’s acting head, told reporters in Kabul they would issue between 5,000 and 6,000 passports a day and women would be employed to handle the processing of […]
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Mon 04 October 2021: According to a Thai official, Thailand’s government is in talks with Merck & Co. of the United States to buy 200,000 courses of the company’s experimental antiviral tablet for COVID-19 treatment. Many Asian countries are scrambling to secure early quantities of the potential treatment after falling behind Western nations in the […]
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Mon 04 October 2021: Turkish Red Crescent, in collaboration with Pakistan Red Crescent Society and Pak-Afghan Cooperation Forum has sent a Humanitarian Relief convoy of 33 tons of food aid to Afghanistan. The food relief sent would be provided to 16,000 people for a month, said a press release. Humanitarian Relief was handed over by […]
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Mon 04 October 2021: Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s 23-year-old son Aryan Khan was arrested along with seven others on Sunday following a raid at a party on a cruise ship off the coast of Mumbai the previous night by the Narcotics Control Bureau or NCB. Shah Rukh Khan was seen leaving his home and […]
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