Tue 01 June 2021: Anger and fear in the Arabian Sea islands with 97 percent Muslims, whose administrator plans slew of measures that threaten livelihood and ecology. A series of regulations proposed by an administrator belonging to India’s governing party in a set of islands in the Arabian Sea has caused widespread resentment and fear […]
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Mon 31 May 2021: A shocking video of a body of Covid patient being thrown in a river has surfaced from India’s Uttar Pradesh, where thousands of bodies buried in shallow graves by the Ganga and some dumped in the river made headlines around the world a couple of weeks ago. The Indian government has […]
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Mon 31 May 2021: As Twitter faces allegations of not complying with the IT rules in India, a Twitter spokesperson on Monday informed that the microblogging company “strives to comply” with applicable laws in India. An official statement by the spokesperson informed, “As we have stated earlier, Twitter strives to comply with applicable laws in […]
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Mon 31 May 2021: The U.S. government said Friday it has blocked imports of tuna and other seafood harvested by a Chinese fishing fleet due to allegations of forced labor. The move came as the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden steps up pressure on China amid concerns over its human rights violations, including against […]
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Mon 31 May 2021: The ruling Chinese Communist Party has decided to allow the country’s married couples to have a third child, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Monday, amid concern over the low birthrate. China will support couples that wish to have a third child, according to a meeting of the Political Bureau of […]
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Mon 31 May 2021: A court battle is pitting Whatsapp against the world’s largest democracy. India is the biggest market for the messaging service. The government recently passed new rules forcing social media companies to identify the first person to send a message. Whatsapp argues this goes against privacy rights in the constitution, adding it […]
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Sat 29 May 2021: Vietnam has discovered a new Covid-19 variant which spreads quickly by air and is a combination of the Indian and British strains, health officials confirmed Saturday. “We have discovered a new hybrid variant from the Indian and the UK strains,” Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long told a national meeting on the pandemic Saturday, according […]
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Sat 29 May 2021: China’s Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft has successfully entered orbit several minutes after its launch on Saturday, the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMS) announced. The spacecraft took off at 12:55 GMT from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the southern province of Hainan. The CMS said that “604 seconds after the […]
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Sat 29 May 2021: Around 64.4 per cent people feel that big corporate houses have benefited in economic terms from the works of the Narendra Modi-led government, according to the ABP-C Voter Modi 2.0 Report Card. The ABP-C Voter survey found that 61 per cent respondents in the urban areas, and 65.9 per cent people […]
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Sat 29 May 2021: More than 120,000 people are currently displaced in Myanmar amid growing conflict between the Myanmar military and ethnic armed groups, according to a UN report released on Friday. Fighting has particularly intensified in Kachin, Kayin, northern Shan, Chin, and Kayah states, resulting in the internal displacement of a total of 120,900 […]
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