Tue 15 October 2024: The Maldives has announced a ban on vaping and related products, according to an official statement. The archipelago nation’s President Mohamed Muizzu directed his administration to take concrete steps to ban vaping, said the statement, released on Tuesday. “President Dr. Muizzu stated that he has instructed the relevant authorities to initiate […]
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Tue 15 October 2024: Retired Indian diplomats have expressed surprise at the possibility of a cabinet minister getting involved in ‘operational matters’. On its part, the Canadian side seems even more sure of its case than before with Trudeau now speaking of “clear and compelling evidence”. New Delhi: Canadian officials have told the Indian government that […]
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Sun 13 October 2024: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he had a “brief exchange” with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a summit in Laos this week, a year after he accused India’s government of involvement in the killing of a Canadian Sikh activist in B.C. It’s the second time Trudeau’s come face to […]
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Sat 12 October 2024: A National Geographic team has reportedly discovered the remains of Andrew “Sandy” Irvine, a British mountaineer who vanished on Mount Everest nearly 100 years ago, according to National Geographic. National Geographic reported in an exclusive news story that Irvine, along with George Mallory, attempted to summit the world’s highest peak in […]
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Sat 12 October 2024: Iran has stepped up efforts to deport Afghan migrants and said that by the end of March next year, two million undocumented migrants will be “expelled” from the country. According to Iranian media reports, Ahmad Reza Radan, the commander-in-chief of Iran’s law enforcement, stated that “over 750,000 illegal migrants” have already […]
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Saudi Investment Minister Khalid A. Al-Falih. Fri 11 October 2024: Saudi Arabia is set to purchase a minority stake in the Reko Diq copper and gold mining project in Pakistan, according to Gulf Online. Saudi Investment Minister Khalid Al-Falih announced at an economic conference in Islamabad yesterday that Saudi’s Manara Minerals Investment Company will acquire […]
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Fri 11 October 2024: The 2024 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to South Korean author Han Kang. Han was recognized for “her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life,” the Nobel committee announced on Thursday. The author was born in 1970 in South Korea, where she […]
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Thu 10 October 2024: Southeast Asian economy on track to reach milestone within four years after 2024 growth forecast raised to 4.9 percent. Malaysia could reach high-income nation status as early as 2028 amid better-than-expected economic growth and a strengthening currency, a top World Bank economist has said. Malaysia is on track to hit the […]
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Wed 09 October 2024: New Delhi: Two months after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Bangladesh, her whereabouts are again in the news, with Dhaka asking India and the UAE about her status and claiming to have received no answers. In recent days, Bangladeshi social media has been filled with speculation that Hasina has left India […]
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Wed 09 October 2024: A shocking incident has come to light in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, where a brother and sister were brutally assaulted on a road, allegedly over a religious dispute. The siblings, who were returning home on a bike, were intercepted by a group of men who thrashed the boy. The 41-second video, which […]
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