Sat 20 April 2024: Tesla chief Elon Musk has postponed a planned trip to India where he was to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday and announce plans to enter the South Asian market, three people familiar with the matter said on Saturday. Reuters could not immediately determine why Musk postponed the trip. Tesla […]
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Fri 19 April 2024: Voters are casting ballots in the first of the seven phases of India’s mammoth general elections. The polls are primarily pitting the National Democratic Alliance led by two-time Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) against the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance, spearheaded by the main opposition party, Indian National […]
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Fri 19 April 2024: India’s government-owned public broadcaster, Doordarshan, has faced criticism for its decision to change its logo colour to saffron. The broadcaster announced a logo-designing contest in 2017, which received over 10,000 entries, indicating the level of interest and engagement from the public. The change has been met with opposition and concerns from […]
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Fri 19 April 2024: Former Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen was freed on Thursday after the country’s High Court overturned a conviction against him by a lower court for money laundering and bribery. The former president was sentenced to 11 years in prison on December 25, 2022, by the Criminal Court on charges of bribery and […]
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Thu 18 April 2024: India on Thursday carried out a successful test flight of an indigenous technology cruise missile, according to a Defense Ministry statement. India’s Defense Research and Development Organization did a successful test flight of an Indigenous Technology Cruise Missile from the Integrated Test Range, Chandipur off the coast of Odisha state, the […]
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Thu 18 April 2024: Authorities in Kyrgyzstan on Thursday announced a temporary suspension of access to the popular TikTok platform. Following a request from the Kyrgyz State Committee for National Security, the Digital Development Ministry has decided to implement restrictions on access to TikTok by April 18. Upon reviewing the request, the ministry found it […]
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Thu 18 April 2024: A volcano in northern Indonesia erupted multiple times, forcing more than 11,000 people to flee and disrupting air travel in the area. Tuesday at 9:45 p.m. (13:45 GMT), Mount Ruang in North Sulawesi Province initially erupted, sending billowing clouds of ash and smoke high into the sky. The Indonesian volcanology agency […]
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Tue 16 April 2024: Two persons including a man who allegedly opened fire outside Bollywood actor Salman Khan’s residence in Mumbai have been arrested from Gujarat, police said on Tuesday. The Bishnoi gang, accused of several murders and extortion rackets, hails from a wider desert-based religious sect that considers the species to be the reincarnation […]
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Tue 16 April 2024: Hundreds of people have killed in Pakistan and Afghanistan as a result of lightning and torrential rains. Officials said on Tuesday that at least fifty people were killed in Pakistan as a result of the storms that have been battering the nation, and they asked emergency services to stay on high […]
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Sun 14 April 2024: In 2023, Bangladesh recorded the worst air quality of 134 countries monitored by the Swiss climate group, IQAir. Pakistan and India were close behind, with the report showing that South Asia suffers from the worst pollution in the world overall. Here are some insights from the report and what it tells […]
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