Thu 12 September 2024: Pakistan’s deputy prime minister has accused the IMF of stalling on a loan deal, prompting concerns over its fate. Islamabad, Pakistan – When Pakistan reached yet another staff-level agreement (SLA) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in July for a $7bn, three-year loan programme, it was hailed as a lifeline for both […]
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Thu 12 September 2024: Australia has moved to strip senior military officers of their distinguished service medals over alleged war crimes committed on their watch in Afghanistan. The announcement on Thursday comes after the 2020 Brereton Report found credible evidence that Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel in Afghanistan were involved in the unlawful killing of […]
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Wed 11 September 2024: A NIA-ATS court in Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow on Wednesday sentenced renowned Islamic scholar Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui, along with Umar Gautam and ten others, to life imprisonment in a 2021 case related to religious conversion. Judge Vivekanand Sharan Tripathi delivered the verdict. The life imprisonment is under IPC section 121A —conspiracy to commit an […]
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Image Courtesy: Interpol twitter.. Wed 11 September 2024: A total of $1.04 billion indrugshave been confiscated after a 16-day Interpol operation with South Korea and six other nations, Seoul-based Yonhap News reported Wednesday. The operation was conducted in Thailand, Myanmar and Laos — dubbed the Golden Triangle — where 29 convicts were arrested. Police said the operation codenamed […]
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Wed 11 September 2024: Timor-Leste has had much to celebrate recently. August 30 marked 25 years since the Popular Consultation – or “The Referendum”, as many call it – when more than 98% of the population braced themselves against brutal repression to vote for their freedom. Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, recently visited. This was […]
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On the occasion of the International Disappearance Week, the family members of the missing persons formed a human chain in Dhaka to return the missing persons. May 27, 20223 Wed 11 September 2024: Only three of more than 150 persons who went missing during Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year rule have been reunited with their families. Dhaka, […]
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Tue 10 September 2024: Eskandar Momeni, Iran’s Interior Minister, has called on Afghan migrants residing in Iran to “return to their own country and work to rebuild it”. Speaking during a televised programme about the “Regulation of Foreign Nationals” plan, Momeni stated, “Iran cannot handle this volume of migration”. He added, “The priority is to […]
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Tue 10 September 2024: India’s Supreme Court, on Monday, dismissed a public interest litigation which had sought an order for the federal government to halt licenses to Indian firms exporting arms to Israel, Anadolu Agency reports. “We cannot enter into the nation’s foreign policy domain,” said a bench comprising Chief Justice, D Y Chandrachud, and […]
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Mon 09 September 2024: Typhoon Yagi, the most powerful storm to hit Asia this year, has left a trail of destruction in Vietnam, claiming at least 59 lives as landslides and floods wreaked havoc across the country. The storm, which made landfall on Vietnam’s northeastern coast on Saturday, had already caused significant damage in China […]
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Mon 09 September 2024: In an ambitious study, researchers have delved deep into the genetic makeup of India’s diverse population to trace the origins and migrations that shaped one of the world’s oldest civilizations. The study, spearheaded by population geneticist Elise Kerdoncuff from the University of California, Berkeley, analyzed the genomes of 2,762 Indians from […]
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