Wed 07 October 2020: Figure is 2nd highest single-day tally in several months, after lock downs lifted Twelve people died from corona virus in Pakistan over the past 24 hours, the second-highest single-day tally in the last several months, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday. The fresh casualties raised the total number of deaths from […]
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Tue 06 October 2020: The Maldives Criminal Court charged Adeeb with embezzlement, money laundering and misuse of government authority among other offences The former vice president of the Maldives has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to money laundering and embezzlement under orders from the former president. The 38-year-old, who […]
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Mon 05 October 2020: Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev has said in an interview on Monday on TRT that Turkey must be involved in the solution process for the Nagorno-Karabakh region after a potential future ceasefire. Both Turkey and Azerbaijan have accused Armenian forces of targeting civilians in recent tensions on the Azerbaijan-Armenia front line “A peace process […]
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Mon 05 October 2020: Holding undocumented migrants responsible for spikes in cases nevertheless obscures government’s failure, activists say A group of Malaysian activists urged Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yasin to focus on fighting the novel corona virus rather than blaming undocumented migrant workers for the surge in number of virus cases. “The recent statement by Prime […]
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Sun 04 October 2020: Dalit girl gang-raped by four men from upper caste died last week Women activists and rights groups have demanded action in a case of a Dalit girl (lower Hindu caste) who died after she was gang-raped in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state. The victim, who died of her injuries last week, […]
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Sat 03 October 2020: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated the strategically vital all-weather Atal Tunnel, which decreases the distance between Manali and Leh by 46 km and the travel time by four to five hours at Himachal Pradesh’s Rohtang. The Atal Tunnel, built by the Border Roads Organisation, is the longest highway […]
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Sat 03 October 2020: India’s death toll from the novel coronavirus rose past 100,000 on Saturday, only the third country in the world to reach that bleak milestone, after the United States and Brazil, and its epidemic shows no sign of abating. Total deaths rose to 100,842, the health ministry said, while the tally of […]
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Fri 02 October 2020: “We expect other governments will not condone contravention of Indian laws by any entity.” New Delhi: After a rising chorus of international concern over the closure of operations by Amnesty International in India, the Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday said it was expected that foreign governments would not condone the contravention […]
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Thu 01 October 2020: Pharmaceutical company collaborates with Indian giant to procure anti-viral drug Indonesian pharmaceutical company PT Kalbe Farma is collaborating with India’s PT Amarox Pharma Global to launch antiviral drug Covifor (Remdesivir) for COVID-19 treatment in the Southeast Asian country. Amarox Pharma Global is a subsidiary of Hetero, one of India’s leading generic […]
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Thu 01 October 2020: Around 500 people gathered at the city’s Beyazit square, holding up pictures of their missing families and unfurled banners Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Istanbul on Thursday to protest China’s treatment of mainly Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang, an AFP journalist said. Around 500 people gathered at the city’s Beyazit square, holding up pictures of their […]
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