Tue 04 June 2024: Indian stocks have suffered their worst intraday fall since March 2020 and foreign investors sold the most on record, as vote-counting trends in the general election suggested Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alliance was unlikely to win the overwhelming majority predicted by exit polls. With over half the votes counted on Tuesday, Modi’s Bharatiya […]
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Tue 04 June 2024: Vote counting in India’s general elections began Tuesday morning after the seven-phase mega polls concluded last week with millions casting their votes across the South Asian country. The vote count began at 8 a.m. local time (0230GMT), with the final official results expected by the end of the day, according to the […]
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This undated handout photo taken by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) and released on June 4, 2024 shows a general view of of the surface of the Moon, which was shot by the panoramic camera attached to the Chang’e-6 lunar probe before it started collecting samples [Handout/China National Space Administration. Tue 04 June […]
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Mon 03 June 2024: A Pakistani court on Monday acquitted former Prime Minister Imran Khan in a case that accused him of leaking state secrets. The ex-cricket star had been sentenced to 10 years in prison by a lower court on charges of making public a cypher, a classified cable sent to Islamabad by Pakistan’s […]
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Sun 02 June 2024: China has successfully landed an uncrewed spacecraft on the far side of the moon, a significant milestone in its mission to collect the first rock and soil samples from this lunar hemisphere. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced that the Chang’e-6 spacecraft touched down in the South Pole-Aitken Basin at […]
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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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