Sun 02 June 2024: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led alliance is projected to win an emphatic majority in the general election, TV exit polls say, suggesting the right-wing party would do better than expected by most analysts. Most exit polls on Saturday projected the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) could win a two-thirds […]
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Fri 31 May 2024: China allegedly deployed J-20 stealth fighter jets to a location less than 150 kilometers (93 miles) from the state of Sikkim in northeastern India, according to a report by Indian broadcaster NDTV on Thursday. The report, citing satellite imagery, claimed that six of the aircraft were stationed at a dual-use military […]
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Tue 28 May 2024: A Karkardooma Court judge in Delhi rejected scholar and activist Umar Khalid’s bail plea today, May 28. Khalid has been jailed since September 2020 in connection with what Delhi police claims is the Delhi riots’ ‘conspiracy’ case. Khalid is an undertrial. Additional Sessions Judge Sameer Bajpai of the court dismissed the […]
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Mon 27 May 2024: Temperatures in Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh soared above 52 degrees Celsius (125.6 degrees Fahrenheit), marking the highest reading of the summer and nearing the country’s record high amid a persistent heatwave, the meteorological office reported on Monday. International scientists attribute the extreme temperatures experienced throughout Asia over the past month […]
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Mon 27 May 2024: Russia has invited Afghanistan’s Taliban to its biggest annual economic forum as Moscow moves to remove a ban on the extremist group, a senior Russian diplomat was quoted as saying on Monday. Since the Taliban seized power in August 2021 as U.S.-led forces withdrew after 20 years of war, Russia has […]
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Sun 26 May 2024: Cyclone Remal has struck Bangladesh’s low-lying coast, prompting authorities to evacuate hundreds of thousands of residents. The storm began hitting the southern district of Khepupara around 8 pm (14:00 GMT), according to meteorologist Shamim Ahsan. With winds reaching up to 120 kilometers per hour (75 mph), the cyclone led officials to […]
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Sun 26 May 2024: A fire at a children’s hospital in New Delhi has resulted in the deaths of at least seven infants, according to a fire service official. Twelve newborns were rescued from the hospital and transferred to another facility, but five succumbed to smoke inhalation, reported fire officer Atul Garg on Sunday. Five […]
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Sun 26 May 2024: After radical modification and what is being called as “sinicisation”, China’s last major mosque – which once had Arabic-style architectural features – has now lost its domes and minarets, according to a report published in The Guardian. China’s grandest mosque, the Grand Mosque of Shadian, is located in a small town in southwestern Yunnan province. Till last […]
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Sat 25 May 2024: The UN human rights office on Friday said that an estimated 45,000 Rohingya reportedly fled to areas near the Bangladesh border amid the ongoing fighting. “We are receiving frightening and disturbing reports from northern Rakhine State in Myanmar of the impacts of the conflict on civilian lives and property. Some of […]
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Afghan girl walks past the cliffs pockmarked by caves where people still live as they did centuries ago in Bamiyan, Afghanistan on October 3, 2021. — AFP Thu 23 May 2024: Bamiyan officials announced that the Italian organization Vento, in collaboration with the University of Florence, will construct 100 houses for local cave dwellers. […]
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