Tue 02 February 2021: Twitter blocked dozens of accounts in India on Monday, including that of a leading newsmagazine,at the Hindu nationalist government’s request. An Information Technology ministry source told the AFP news agency the government had directed the social media giant to act against about 250 Twitter accounts and tweets that posed a “grave […]
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Mon 01 February 2021: India plans to introduce a law to ban private cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and put in place a framework for an official digital currency to be issued by the central bank, according to a legislative agenda listed by the government. The law will “create a facilitative framework for creation of the […]
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Mon 01 February 2021: Myanmar’s military has taken control of the country after detaining de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other politicians in the early hours. Military TV said a state of emergency had been declared for one year and power transferred. The military declared a state of emergency hours after detaining State Counsellor […]
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Sun 31 January 2021: Hundreds of birds are culled in Nepali capital Kathmandu on Saturday as fresh cases of Bird-Flu (H5N8) were confirmed after several samples underwent tests in recent days. According to Nepal’s Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development press release, there are confirmed cases of Bird-Flu at a farm in Tarkeshwor Municipality-7 in […]
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Sat 30 January 2021: Pakistan has secured 17 million doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine under a global scheme to deliver coronavirus treatments to developing nations, a government health official said on Saturday. About 6 million of the doses will arrive in the first quarter of 2021 under the COVAX scheme, with the remainder due by mid-year, Faisal Sultan, […]
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Sat 30 January 2021: Prominent members of civil society on Friday condemned the government’s attempt to criminalise the legitimate protests by farmers and demanded an unconditional withdrawal of “motivated FIRs against the leadership of the farmer movement”. They called it a “brazen misuse of the police and the law to silence people’s legitimate democratic expression”. […]
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Sat 30 January 2021: A Japanese woman who said she hid her mother’s corpse in a freezer in her apartment for a decade told police she feared eviction if the death was discovered, media reported Saturday. Police told AFP that Yumi Yoshino, 48, was held “on suspicion of abandoning and hiding a female body” found […]
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Sat 30 January 2021: A group of unknown people have vandalised, broken and ripped from the base a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in a park in the US state of California, shocking and outraging Indian-Americans across the country, who have demanded that the officials investigate it as an incident of hate crime. The 6-ft tall, […]
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Sat 30 January 2021: Internet services in the Delhi border areas of Singhu, Ghazipur and Tikri – epicenters of the farmers’ weeks-long protest against the centre’s agriculture laws – will be suspended from 11 pm for a period of 24 hours, the Union Home Ministry said in a notification issued Saturday afternoon. “… it is […]
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Sat 30 January 2021: The Taliban in Afghanistan rejected on Friday accusations by the US Pentagon that it has been violating their peace accord and continued to kill Afghan security forces and civilians. The group’s spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahed, said in a statement that the Taliban is fully committed to all clauses of the Doha agreement […]
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