Sat 23 January 2021: A young man was hit and killed by a train in Pakistan while being filmed walking along the tracks for a TikTok stunt, police and rescue officials said Saturday. Hamza Naveed, 18, was walking next to the tracks while a friend filmed him, Raja Rafaqat Zaman, a spokesperson for the local […]
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Sat 23 January 2021: The US administration of President Joe Biden intends to review a deal between Washington and the Taliban made last February, according to Biden’s National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Friday. There are currently only 2,500 US troops left in the country – the lowest number since the conflict began almost 20 […]
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Fri 22 January 2021: Protesting farmer leaders said today that their proposed January 26 tractor rally will take place at Delhi’s busy Outer Ring Road as decided earlier, after their eleventh round of talks with the government ended in a deadlock. After the meeting, farmer leader Balbir Singh Rajewal said it is for the government […]
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Fri 22 January 2021: Police authorities, a forensic team and officials from the fire wings of three Maharashtra government agencies on Friday launched a probe to ascertain the cause of the fire at the Serum Institute of India’s premises, which claimed five lives. Five contractual labourers died in the fire that broke out in a […]
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Fri 22 January 2021: Suicide rates in Japan have risen sharply in the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly among women and young people, even though they fell in the first wave when the government offered generous handouts to people, a survey found. The situation was termed as “severe” by the Health Ministry. Data […]
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Thu 21 January 2021: Farmers protesting against the controversial farm sector laws have decided to hold out for a complete scrapping of the laws, rejecting the Centre’s new proposal of putting them on hold for 18 months while negotiations continue with a fresh committee. The government had put forward the proposal yesterday at the 10th […]
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Thu 21 January 2021: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Thursday announced that China has promised to provide 500,000 doses of a coronavirus vaccine to Pakistan by January 31. In a video message after a phone call with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, Qureshi said China offered Islamabad to send an airplane and airlift the […]
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Thu 21 January 2021: The government is ready to put the three controversial farm laws on freeze for one-and-half years and will convey it to the Supreme Court in an affidavit, farmers who attended the 10th round of negotiations on Wednesday evening told NDTV. The farmer unions, which are holding out for repeal of the […]
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Thu 21 January 2021: Twitter has locked the account of China’s embassy in the United States for a social media post that defended China’s policies towards Muslim Uighurs in the Xinjiang region, which the platform said violated the firm’s policy against “dehumanisation”. The Chinese Embassy account, @ChineseEmbinUS, posted a tweet this month that said that […]
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Wed 20 January 2021: Yousef al-Othaimeen, the secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), held talks on Wednesday with Afghan Foreign Minister Haneef Atmar on the reconciliation process in Afghanistan. In a statement, the Jeddah-based organization said discussions were held on the peace process, and forms of support the OIC can provide to the […]
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