Mon 12 April 2021: Myanmar’s ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi was hit with a fresh criminal charge on Monday, her lawyer said. “She has been charged in six cases altogether — five charges in Naypyidaw and one in Yangon,” Min Min Soe told AFP, saying the latest charge was under the country’s natural disaster management law. The 75-year-old Nobel […]
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Mon 12 April 2021: India has reported a record 169,000 COVID-19 infections overnight, data from the health ministry showed, overtaking Brazil to become the second-most affected country globally by the coronavirus. India’s total cases have reached 13.52 million, according to the country’s Health Ministry, while US-based John Hopkins University put the total number of cases […]
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Sun 11 April 2021: Tokyo organizers plan to prepare 300 hotel rooms for athletes who test positive for the coronavirus but show no or minor COVID-19 symptoms, at this summer’s Olympic Games, Kyodo news agency said on Sunday. According to Kyodo news agency, the organizing committee is considering reserving an entire hotel building located a […]
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Sun 11 April 2021: More than 77 percent of Kyrgyz nationals have voted for the new version of the constitution, the data of the central election commission showed on Sunday after processing 50 percent of ballots. According to the data, about 13 percent of voters did not support the new draft of the basic law. […]
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Sun 11 April 2021: The government of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir will withdraw cases filed against a group of people from Bangladesh, including members of the Rohingya community, so that they can be deported, local media reported on Saturday, Anadolu Agency reported. It is not clear how many of the group are Rohingya refugees, hundreds of whom […]
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Sun 11 March 2021: Voters in Kyrgyzstan headed to the polls on Sunday for a referendum envisaging radical change in the central Asian country’s constitution. Over 3.6 million people started casting their votes into 2,474 ballot boxes at 8 a.m. local time (0200GMT) across seven regions and 26 provinces. Nearly 200 observers and 179 domestic […]
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Sat 10 April 2021: A 26-year-old woman was stabbed to death by her husband at a market in Delhi on Saturday afternoon, police said. The man stabbed her 25 times over suspicion of her having an illicit affair, they said. The chilling footage of the incident shows Harish repeatedly stabbing his wife, Nilu, in public […]
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Sat 10 April 2021: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat has tested positive for coronavirus, the organisation tweeted on its official handle. Mr Bhagwat, 70, has been showing commons symptoms of coronavirus infection, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) tweeted. “He is currently having common symptoms of COVID-19 and has been admitted to Kingsway Hospital in […]
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Sat 10 April 2021: The Chinese State Administration for Market Regulation said on Saturday it had fined the e-commerce giant Alibaba 18.228 billion Yuan ($2.78 billion) over anti-monopoly violations. The penalty, equivalent to approximately 4 percent of Alibaba’s revenues in 2019, came amid an unprecedented regulatory crackdown on the home-grown technology conglomerates in the last […]
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Sat 10 April 2021: India on Saturday witnessed an unprecedented surge of 1,45,384 coronavirus cases, the highest since the start of pandemic, as the country’s tally surged to 1,32,05,0926. Night curfews and restrictions are back in many parts amid concerns over second Covid wave. While the death toll stands at 168,436 which includes 794 new […]
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