Fri 25 June 2021: The advancing monsoon and the increasing water level in Ganga in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj town have thrown up a challenge for authorities: Dealing with the mass graves in the sandbanks, suspected to be of Covid patients. As the water level rises and the sand banks crumble, the bodies are floating up. […]
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Thu 24 June 2021: Reliance Industries Ltd said on Thursday it hopes to formalize its partnership with Saudi Aramco this year and its Chairman Yasir Al-Rumayyan will join the Indian conglomerate’s board as anindependent director. “Al-Rumayyan joining our board is also the beginning of internationalization of Reliance,” Chairman Mukesh Ambani told shareholders on Thursday. Reliance […]
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Thu 24 June 2021: A US delegation of Pentagon and State Department officials will be in Turkey to discuss security at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan, according to a defense official Wednesday. The visit will take place later this week, Pentagon spokesman Rob Lodewick told Anadolu Agency. Testifying before the House Armed Services Committee, Gen. […]
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Wed 23 June 2021: Assets worth ₹ 9,371 crore belonging to fugitive businessmen Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi have been transferred by the Enforcement Directorate to state-run banks that will help them recover losses on account of the fraud. Here’s your 10 point cheat sheet to the story: So far, the agency has seized assets worth ₹ 18,170.02 […]
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Wed 23 June 2021: A dissident newspaper in Hong Kong, Apple Daily, announced its closure on Wednesday, after the government arrested its executives and frozen their assets last week under a new national security law. The newspaper’s publisher, Next Digital, said in a statement that the board of directors has decided to shut down the […]
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Tue 22 June 2021: The Kerala High Court today stayed two major measures of “reform” introduced recently in Lakshadweep by the Union Territory’s new Administrator Praful Khoda Patel: removal of chicken, beef, and other meat from the island group’s school menu and closing down of dairy farms. The order followed a plea alleging that these […]
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Tue 22 June 2021: China on Tuesday politely declined UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet’s call for a meaningful access to verify the serious reports of human rights violations in the restive region of Xinjiang, saying she is welcome for a “friendly visit” but not to pursue a probe with presumption of guilt. […]
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Tue 22 June 2021: Indonesia’s most active volcano Merapi emitted hot clouds three times as far as 1,200 meters to the southeast and southwest, according to the Geological Disaster Technology Research and Development Center (BPPTKG) on Tuesday. The first and second hot clouds respectively rolled down the southeast at 3:37 a.m. for 115 seconds, and […]
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Tue 22 June 2021: Taliban fighters seized the town of Sher Khan Bandar in the Kunduz province of northern Afghanistan without resistance from the government troops, the local broadcaster Ariana news reported on Tuesday, citing security sources. Kunduz provincial council member Khaliddin Hakmi said the Taliban “captured Sher Khan Bandar and the town and all […]
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Mon 21 June 2021: Mohammad Umar Gautam (formerly Shyam Pratap Singh Gautam ) and a Muslim cleric Mufti Qazi Jahangir Qasmi have been arrested by the UP Police’s Anti-Terrorism Squad under the state’s draconian anti-conversion law. An FIR has been lodged at the Gomtinagar police station Lucknow, which says that the clerics were involved in the conversion […]
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