Wed 11 November 2020: Republic TV’s Arnab Goswami has been granted bail by the Supreme Court in a 2018 abetment to suicide case. He and two others were arrested last week in connection with the suicide of architect Anvay Naik and his mother. A two-judge bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Indira Banerjee pulled up […]
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Wed 11 November 2020: On Wednesday Beijing passed a resolution allowing the city’s government to disqualify politicians deemed a threat to national security. Shortly afterwards the opposition lawmakers said they would leave the city legislature in solidarity. “Today we will resign from our positions, because our partners, our colleagues have been disqualified by the central […]
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Tue 10 November 2020: Afghanistan’s Taliban on Tuesday called on the incoming administration of US President-elect Joe Biden to stick to the February agreement to withdraw US troops. The United States has been pulling out troops under the deal which envisages the withdrawal to be complete by May, subject to certain security guarantees, while the […]
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Tue 11 November 2020: Myanmar’s ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) has claimed a resounding victory in Sunday’s general election, the second since the military began to withdraw from civilian politics in 2011. Based on its own unofficial tally of votes, the NLD, which is led by Aung San Suu Kyi, expects to win even […]
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Mon 09 November 2020: The Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI), Commander Air Chief Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto said that the COVID-19 pandemic served as a reminder for the military to anticipate future bioweapons and noted that they will focus on how to counter future attacks. “We are aware that the threat of the pandemic has awakened us […]
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Mon 09 November 2020: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday paid tribute to Pakistan’s national poet Dr Allama Muhammad Iqbal on his 143rd birth anniversary. Taking to his official Twitter account, PM Khan wrote that Iqbal’s thoughts continue to be a source of inspiration and guidance. He also shared renowned Iranian revolutionary and sociologist, Dr […]
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Mon 09 November 2020: In addition, in cities and towns where the air quality has been ‘moderate’ in November, only green crackers are permitted for a two-hour window during festivals. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) of India on Monday imposed a total ban on the sale or use of all kinds of firecrackers in the […]
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Sun 08 November 2020: Polls opened across Myanmar on Sunday for general elections that were expected to deliver the government of Aung San Suu Kyi another term. Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) won a landslide victory in the last election in 2015 — the first polls after the nation emerged from nearly five decades of junta […]
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Sat 07 November 2020: The United States said it would no longer designate a Chinese Uighur separatist group as a “terrorist organization” on Friday, sparking sharp condemnation from Beijing. “ETIM was removed from the list because, for more than a decade, there has been no credible evidence that ETIM continues to exist,” a State Department […]
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Fri 06 November 2020: Indonesian authorities have evacuated hundreds of people living on the volatile Mount Merapi volcano’s fertile slopes on Java island following an increase in volcanic activity. The head of Yogyakarta’s Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation Center, Hanik Humaida, on Friday warned Merapi, Indonesia’s most active volcano, could erupt at any time, possibly […]
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