Sat 12 June 2021: Two days after the Kavaratti Police sent a notice to Lakshadweep film personality Ayesha Sultana to appear before it on June 20 in connection with her remarks about the spread of Covid in the island, a bunch of BJP leaders quit the party in protest against levelling of sedition charges against […]
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Sat 12 June 2021: The Haridwar district administration has ordered a probe into allegations that fake Covid reports were issued by private laboratories engaged by the Uttarakhand government to conduct tests during the Kumbh Mela. One of the world’s largest religious gatherings, the Kumbh was held in the state from April 1 to 30, and […]
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Sat 12 June 2021: At least 20 security forces were killed and 20 others were wounded in heavy clashes with the Taliban in Tolak district of Afghanistan’s Ghor province, informed sources on Saturday. Salman Yusufi, district governor for Tolak, said that at least 20 security force members were killed on Friday and 20 more were […]
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Fri 11 June 2021: China’s far western region of Xinjiang has become a “dystopian hellscape” where Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities face systematic and state-organised “mass internment and torture amounting to crimes against humanity”, human rights group Amnesty says. More than 50 former camp detainees shared new testimony with Amnesty, providing detailed inside accounts of […]
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Fri 11 June 2021: The UN rights chief said Friday that violence was escalating across Myanmar, warning that the country had plunged into a “human rights catastrophe” since a February 1 coup. “In just over four months, Myanmar has gone from being a fragile democracy to a human rights catastrophe,” Michelle Bachelet said in a […]
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Fri 11 June 2021: The Malaysian health ministry announced on Friday that the third coronavirus lockdown had been extended by two weeks until June 28. “[Lockdown] 3.0 is extended for another 2 weeks from June 15 to June 28, 2021,” it tweeted. Restrictions were set to expire on Monday, but Ismail Sabri Yaakob, a […]
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Fri 11 June 2021: China on Friday sent four new satellites into space for ecological environment monitoring. Indigenously-built Long March 2-D carrier rocket moved Beijing-3 and three other satellites into the orbit from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China’s Shanxi province, Chinese People’s Daily reported. It was the 373rd flight mission of the […]
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Thu 10 June 2021: China is boosting its military capabilities at very serious and sustained rate which will require the United States to remain competitive in face of the alleged threat to its national security, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said in testimony to Congress on Thursday. “China is […]
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Thu 10 June 2021: Belgium’s defence minister said Thursday the country could take in around 30 Afghans who had worked with its military during the NATO mission, as the alliance wraps up a two-decade deployment. Minister Ludivine Dedonder said decisions would be taken on a “case-by-case” basis and one man considered to be at risk […]
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Wed 09 June 2021: A prominent Pakistani journalist who was banned and taken off air by his TV station after he criticized the country’s military last month at a protest against growing attacks on journalists has offered an apology, saying he had no intention to defame the army. Hamid Mir took to Twitter on Wednesday, […]
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