Wed 10 March 2021: US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin will visit India next week along with Japan and South Korea, the Pentagon announced on Wednesday, in the first overseas trip of a senior member of the new Biden Administration. This is the first time that India has been included in the itinerary of the first […]
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Tue 09 March 2021: India called in the British High Commissioner today to express its disapproval of the discussions on farmers’ protest and press freedom in the British parliament, calling it “gross interference” and “votebank politics”. The debate came in response to a petition initiated by Maidenhead Liberal Democrat leader Gurch Singh, who has Indian […]
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Tue 09 March 2021: The Chinese government has breached every single article of the UN genocide convention in its treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang, and bears responsibility for committing genocide, according to a landmark legal report. The 25,000-page report, The Uighurs Genocide: An Examination of China’s Breaches of the 1948 Genocide Convention, is “based on an extensive […]
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Tue 09 March 2021: China has launched a digital COVID-19 vaccination certificate for its citizens planning cross-border travels, joining other countries issuing similar documents as they seek ways to reopen their economies. The digital certificate, which shows a user’s vaccination status and virus test results, is available for Chinese citizens via a programme on Chinese […]
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Mon 08 March 2021: The United States is to ask the Turkish government to host a senior-level meeting between the Afghan government and the Taliban in order to proceed with the next step in the ongoing peace process, the Biden administration’s Secretary of State proposed yesterday. In a letter written by Anthony Blinken to Afghan […]
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Mon 08 March 2021: The Union Home Ministry of India has come up with new rules that will require special permission for overseas Indians to carry out journalistic, Tablighi or missionary activities. According to a report in NDTV, those who possess Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) cards are required to get special permission from the […]
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Sun 07 March 2021: Authorities in Indian-controlled Kashmir have sent at least 168 Rohingya refugees to a holding centre, police said Sunday, in a process that they say is for the deportation of thousands of the refugees living in the region. The development comes a day after the Home Department issued a notification on March […]
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Sun 07 March 2021: China will operate bullet trains to Tibet, close to the Indian border in Arunachal Pradesh before July this year, marking the opening of high-speed train services to all Chinese mainland provincial-level regions, a senior official has said. A 435-km rail link to the regional capital of Lhasa will run Fuxing high-speed […]
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Sun 07 March 2021: Tens of thousands of people came out in Myanmar on Sunday in one of the biggest days of protest against the coup, despite overnight raids by security forces in the main city, Yangon, on campaign leaders and opposition activists. The protests on Sunday come as state-run media warned legislators involved in the Committee […]
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Sat 06 March 2021: Myanmar has requested the administration in Mizoram to send back eight policemen, who have apparently crossed over to the northeastern state to take refuge, following last month’s military coup in the neighbouring country, an official here said. Mizoram shares a 510-km-long porous border with Myanmar, where mass demonstrations are being held […]
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