Tue 13 April 2021: As the second wave of Coronavirus epidemic is wreaking havoc across India, reports coming on Monday from Haridwar in Uttarakhand are alarming. Here two-month-long Kumbh Mela is in progress. Tens of thousands of Hindu devotees have gathered by the Ganges River for a special prayer called Somvati Amavasya that marks the […]
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Tue 13 April 2021: It is a fact that rape and sexual abuse have been used as weapons of war throughout history. The lack of security leaves women and girls, in particular, more vulnerable than usual to violence. For a long time, this was just accepted as inevitable in conflicts, and few efforts were made […]
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Mon 12 April 2021: On Monday, India’s Subject Expert Committee of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation recommended the Emergency Use Authorization of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine. If the Drugs Controller General of India accepts this recommendation, it will become the 3rd approved COVID-19 vaccine in India after COVAXIN and COVISHIELD amid surging novel coronavirus […]
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Mon 12 April 2021: A prominent Kashmiri human rights group on Monday said that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not welcome in the UK and called on UK premier to not invite him to the G7 summit, Anadolu Agency reported. Tehreek-E-Kashmir, together with a number of other Indian minority groups, also planned a protest against Modi, […]
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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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