Mon 10 May 2021: Nepal President K P Sharma Oli Monday prorogued the country’s Parliament after the government headed by Prime Minister K P Oli lost a vote of confidence following several months of bickering among factions within the ruling party. At least 28 dissidents from the ruling Nepal Communist Party – Unified Marxist Leninist […]
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Mon 10 May 2021: Beijing: A document written by Chinese scientists and health officials before the pandemic in 2015 states that SARS coronaviruses were a “new era of genetic weapons” that could be “artificially manipulated into an emerging human disease virus, then weaponised and unleashed, reported Weekend Australian. The paper titled The Unnatural Origin of SARS […]
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Mon 10 May 2021: As the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is now spreading fast in rural areas, Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today said that not only cities, villages too are also left at the mercy of God. Taking to Twitter, the Congress leader also cited a media report about the rapid surge […]
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Sun 09 May 2021: The Maldives police said on Sunday that they had arrested a third person in connection with the attack on parliament speaker and former president Mohamed Nasheed. The first two suspects were arrested as part of the probe into the incident on Saturday. Police say they now have in their custody three […]
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Sun 09 May 2021: COVID-19 deaths in India could potentially reach a “staggering” one million by August 1 this year, an editorial published in medical journal the Lancet said citing an estimate by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation – an independent global health research centre of the University of Washington. “The Institute for Health Metrics and […]
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Sun 09 May 2021: Debris from a large Chinese rocket landed in the Indian Ocean on Sunday, according to the China Manned Space Engineering Office, which said most parts had burned up on reentry. The bulk of the rocket was destroyed as it re-entered the atmosphere, but state media reported that debris landed just west […]
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Sun 09 May 2021: India again reported over 4,000 COVID-19 fatalities in a single day, taking the country’s death toll to 242,362, according to the data released by the Health Ministry on Sunday. New Delhi has struggled to contain the outbreak, which has overwhelmed its healthcare system, and many experts suspect the official death and case numbers […]
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Sat 08 May 2021: Multiple blasts targeted a school in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday killing at least 40 people and wounding dozens more, mostly students, a senior interior ministry official said. The official told Reuters on condition of anonymity that most of the casualties were students coming out of the Sayed ul Shuhada […]
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Sat 08 May 2021: Maldives police have arrested two people over an assassination attempt on former president Mohamed Nasheed who has been taken off life support, officials and relatives said Saturday. President Ibrahim Solih described the explosion outside Mr Nasheed’s home on Thursday night as “an attack on Maldives’ democracy and economy”. The Indian Ocean […]
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Sat 08 May 2021: A day after reporting the world’s highest daily surge, India today saw more than 4,187 deaths linked to Covid in a day for the first time and 401,078 new cases in the last 24 hours. The government yesterday said a third Covid wave may not happen if strong measures are taken. […]
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