Fri 27 September 2019: The UN Peacekeeping Department has decided to ban the deployment of non-essential Sri Lankan Army troops in UN peacekeeping missions citing the appointment of the new army commander who is alleged to have committed war crimes, a UN spokesperson has told the Foreign Policy News. It said Lt. General Shavendra Silva’s […]
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Wed 25 September 2019: Indian government takes number of measures to revive growth, but experts predict slow growth for next fiscal year The Indian economy has run into a rough patch, with growth dipping to the 5% level in the year’s second quarter — the lowest over the last six years. With a 3% year-on-year […]
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Tue 24 September 2019: Around 160 cases of mob violence against Christian community recorded in 2019, says report Three Christians were attacked by a mob in northeastern India on suspicion of slaughtering a cow, police said on Monday. Local residents of Khunti district of Jharkhand State saw Kanantus Barla, Fagu Kaccap and Philip Horo with […]
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Mon 23 September 2019: At least 35 civilians were killed and 13 people were injured during an attack conducted by the Afghan government forces in southern Helmand province, two provincial officials said on Monday. The incident occurred on Sunday night when Afghan forces raided a house that the officals said was being used by the […]
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Sat 21 September 2019: Many of thousands of people including politicians, activists and common people who were detained in Indian-administered Kashmir after the Indian government revoked special status of Jammu and Kashmir last month were moved to jails outside the state. In northern Indian city of Agra in Uttar Pradesh, which is famous for the […]
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Sat 21 September 2019: India is expecting the same narrative on Jammu and Kashmir from Pakistan at the upcoming UN General Assembly session, its envoy said Friday. On a question posed to him over Kashmir, Ambassador Syed Akbaruddin, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, said: “What you’re telling me is that it will be more […]
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Fri 20 September 2019: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Thursday that $100 million earmarked for an energy project would be returned to the US treasury, while an additional $60 million in planned assistance would be nixed.Pompeo claimed that the funds were being withheld as punishment for Kabul’s “inability to transparently manage US government […]
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Thu 19 September 2019: In the past few weeks, Malaysia and neighboring Singapore have been choked by smoky air blown in from forest fires started to clear land for plantations, forcing schools to shut and many people to wear masks so as to avoid inhaling smog particles. Malaysia will push its Southeast Asian neighbors to […]
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Tue 17 September 2019: Indonesia’s parliament has revised the country’s marriage law to lift the minimum age at which women can marry by three years to 19, a move welcomed by campaigners as a step toward curbing child marriage in the world’s biggest Muslim majority-country. All factions in parliament agreed the revision at a plenary […]
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Mon 16 September 2019: Under influence of drug, the accused abducted child who was sleeping by her father Another minor girl has been raped in India. This time a six-year-old in Ludhiana in the Indian state of Punjab. Shocked Twitter users shared news reports and the horrific details of the case on September 15. Media […]
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