Tue 06 July 2021: A United Nations human rights expert has expressed her outrage over the death on Monday of the imprisoned Indian rights activist, Stan Swamy, in Mumbai city. “The news from India today is devastating,” Mary Lawlor, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders (HRDs), said in a tweet. […]
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Mon 05 July 2021: Iran and Turkey have closed their consulates in the Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif located in the Balk province amid growing security concerns about a resurgent Taliban. It has also been reported that the consulates have stopped issuing visas to Afghan citizens while diplomats have been relocated to the relative safety of […]
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Mon 05 July 2021: The Indonesian government is planning to import medical oxygen tanks as the country is fighting the second wave of COVID-19 cases, xinhua repoted The plan was announced by the country’s Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin in a hearing on Monday with lawmakers of the House of Representatives. Sadikin said the ministry […]
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Mon 05 July 2021: Addressing an event organised by the RSS minority wing, Muslim Rashtriya Manch, Mohan Bhagwat said: “If a Hindu says that no Muslim should live in the country, then he is not a Hindu. The cow is a holy animal but the people who are lynching others are going against Hinduism. The […]
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Mon 05 July 2021: The National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA) efforts to repatriate corrupt-Gupta family members have received a major shot in the arm after Interpol issued red notices against two implicated brothers, their wives and other associates. The brothers – Atul and Rajesh Gupta– and their respective wives, Chetali and Arti are among those accused […]
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Mon 05 July 2021: China launched a new meteorological satellite, Fengyun-3E (FY-3E), into planned orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Monday, state-run media said. The satellite is equipped with 11 remote sensing payloads expected to “improve the accuracy of weather forecasting,” according to Xinhua news. It was launched from the […]
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Sun 04 July 2021: The Taliban announced on Sunday they had captured two districts in Afghanistan’s northeastern provinces of Takhar and Badakhshan. According to the Taliban, it seized Takhar’s Warsaj district, including a local police headquarters and got hold of weapons, vehicles and ammunition. In Badakhshan, the militants took over the Yawan district, with approximately […]
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Sun 04 July 2021: A week after the drone attack at an Air Force base in Jammu, the Srinagar administration has imposed restrictions on the use, possession and sale of drones. According to a July 3 order issued by the office of district magistrate Mohammad Aijaz, those having drone cameras or other similar unmanned aerial […]
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Sun 04 July 2021: The Taliban have captured a key district of Kandahar after fierce night-time fighting with Afghan government forces, officials said Sunday, AFP reported. The fall of Panjwai district in the southern province of Kandahar comes just two days after US and NATO forces vacated their main Bagram Air Base near Kabul, from […]
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Sun 04 July 2021: At least 29 people were killed and 50 injured Sunday when a Philippine military aircraft carrying troops crashed and burst into flames after missing the runway in the country’s south, officials said. Another 17 on board the C-130 Hercules transport plane when it crashed while trying to land on Jolo island in Sulu province are still […]
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