Mon 26 August 2019: President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has announced that two regencies in East Kalimantan are to be the site of the country’s new capital city. “The government has conducted in-depth studies in the past three years and as a result of those studies the new capital will be built in part of North Penajam […]
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Sun 25 August 2019: Dubai launches commemorative stamps to mark 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi Emirates Post is issuing 6,000 commemorative stamps, which are available at Emirates Post Central Happiness Centres in Dubai. On Saturday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and His Highness Shikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi […]
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Sat 24 August 2019: The march aims to show solidarity with Kashmiri people and journalists Pakistani and Azad Kashmiri journalists on Saturday began a protest march toward the Line of Control (LoC), a de facto border dividing Kashmir valley, to show solidarity with Kashmiri journalists and civilians. Hundreds of journalists from across the country reached […]
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Sat 24 August 2019: Arun Jaitley, India’s former finance minister and a key member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first-term Cabinet, died on Saturday. He was 66. The All India Institute of Medical Sciences announced Jaitley’s death on Saturday. He was admitted to hospital two weeks ago after he complained of breathlessness and restlessness. Jaitley […]
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Fri 23 August 2019: Sri Lanka has ended a four-month state of emergency declared after Easter suicide bombings by extremists that killed 258 people, officials said Friday. President Maithripala Sirisena has been extending the emergency on the 22nd of each month since the April 21 attacks on three hotels and three churches. However, his office confirmed that […]
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Thu 22 August 2019: In a startling revelation, US-based cyber security firm FireEye said on Thursday that hackers broke into a leading India-based healthcare website, stealing 68 lakh records containing patient and doctor information. Without naming the website, FireEye said cyber criminals — mostly China-based — are directly selling data stolen from healthcare organisations and […]
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Wed 21 August 2019: In images shared online, the students can be seen parading through the university campus in single file with their new buzzcuts, past security personnel and other staff at the Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences in Safai village on Tuesday. Authorities in Uttar Pradesh are investigating a mass hazing incident at […]
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Tue 20 August 2019: A nationwide bid to tackle the Southeast Asian nation’s mammoth marine waste problem. As the country celebrated its 74th Independence Day anniversary, volunteers and civil servants scoured for plastic rubbish and other debris, collecting truckloads of trash across the 17,000 island archipelago. Numbers were still being tabulated, but it was estimated […]
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Tue 20 August 2019: Some 3,500 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have been cleared to return home to Myanmar beginning this week, a top official said Monday, nearly two years after a military crackdown sparked their exodus. Some 740,000 Rohingya fled to Bangladesh in August 2017 from a military offensive in Myanmar — joining 200,000 already […]
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Hassan Taib Chief of Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN). Mon 19 August 2019: A Thai deputy prime minister dismissed on Monday a demand made by a Malay Muslim group to free those detained over alleged links to the long-running insurgency in Thailand’s mainly Muslim south as a pre-condition for formal talks. Officials of the Barisan Revolusi […]
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