Wed 06 January 2021: A 50-year-old woman was gangraped and murdered allegedly by three men including a priest and his two disciples on Sunday night in western Uttar Pradesh’s Budaun district. Two men have been arrested and a case has been registered against them, police said. Images from the woman’s village home taken on Monday […]
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Wed 06 January 2021: Dozens of former lawmakers and opposition activists were arrested Wednesday morning in Hong Kong, on suspicion of violating the city’s sweeping national security legislation, in the biggest crackdown yet since the law was imposed by Beijing last year. Police confirmed 53 people between the ages of 23 and 64 had been detained […]
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Tue 05 January 2021: Speculation is mounting over the whereabouts of the Chinese billionaire Jack Ma, who has not been seen or heard in public for more than two months. A former English teacher, Mr Ma, 56, founded what would become China’s primary e-commerce platform in 1999, five years after Amazon was founded in the US. […]
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Tue 05 January 2021: A day after talks with the centre ended in a stalemate, the protesting farmers have announced that they will intensify their agitation against the three contentious agriculture laws for the next two weeks. Swaraj India’s Yogendra Yadav, who has been backing the protesters, said on Tuesday that a tractor march will […]
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Tue 05 January 2021: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson cancelled his visit to India, sources said, hours after he announced a fresh lockdown in the United Kingdom over the new strain of coronavirus that has affected thousands of people in the UK. Mr Johnson was to be the chief guest at this year’s Republic Day […]
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Tue 05 January 2021: The number of people evacuated due to floods in Malaysia caused by monsoon rains exceeded 20,000 early Tuesday. A total of 20,838 people affected by the monsoon rains since Jan. 1 in the Pahang, Johor, Kelantan, Terengganu, Selangor, and Perak states were taken to safe places, Malaysian authorities said in a […]
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Mon 04 January 2021: India’s multi-billion dollar deal to purchase the Russia-made S-400 air defence system may trigger US sanctions on New Delhi, a US Congressional report has warned. The Congressional Research Service (CRS) – an independent and bipartisan research wing of US Congress – in its latest report to Congress, said India is “eager […]
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Mon 04 January 2021: India’s Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has criticised the government for giving the nod to Bharat Biotech’s Covid vaccine without phase-3 trials. The central licensing authority has granted permission to Bharat Biotech to manufacture ‘Covaxin’ for sale and distribution, after the indigenous coronavirus vaccine received regulatory approval for emergency use. Tharoor said, […]
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Sun 03 January 2021: Mount Sinabung on Indonesia’s Sumatra island erupted on Sunday, firing ash and other volcanic materials as high as 1,000 meters into the sky. Armen Putra, head of the Sinabung observation team, said the first eruption occurred at 9:34 a.m. (02:34 GMT), while the second one at 12:16 p.m. (05:16 GMT). He […]
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Sun 03 January 2021: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi’s hush-hush visit to Bengal’s Hooghly district has triggered more speculation over his political plans for a state due to hold Assembly elections in April-May. During his visit Mr Owaisi met Abbas Siddiqui at Furfura Sharif, a place of religious significance for Bengali Muslims, and asked him to […]
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