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‘Satellite images show China built villages, road near border in Arunachal’
New Delhi: Satellite images show that China has built villages on their side of the India-China border abutting Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang, and the PLA army has also constructed a road on that…
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India’s Chief of Naval Staff in Sri Lanka on 4-day visit
Colombo: India’s Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Admiral R. Hari Kumar is on a four-day official visit to Sri Lanka during which he is scheduled to call on President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Prime…
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Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed visits Indonesia’s Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque
Abu Dhabi: Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed, Member of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Office, on Sunday visited the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Surakarta, Indonesia,…
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12th World Hindi conference in Fiji from 15 to 17 February 2023
Auckland: The 12th World Hindi Conference is being organized by the Ministry of External Affairs in collaboration with the Government of Fiji from 15 to 17 February 2023 in Fiji. According to…
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India’s Chief of Naval Staff in Sri Lanka on 4-day visit
Colombo: India’s Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Admiral R. Hari Kumar is on a four-day official visit to Sri Lanka during which he is scheduled to call on President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Prime…
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5 Sri Lanka fishermen missing after cyclone Mandous
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Fisheries on Tuesday announced that five fishermen disappeared while at sea during cyclone Mandous. The five from three multi-day fishing vessels are residents of Batticaloa, Trincomalee and…
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Forest fires destroy 13,000 hectares of land in Chile this yr
Santiago: Up to 1,587 forest fires have razed more than 13,000 hectares of land in Chile this year, Agriculture Minister Esteban Valenzuela said. While the fires were 9 per cent fewer than…
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2 cops among 6 dead in Australia shooting incident
Brisbane: Two police officers were among six victims of a shooting incident in Australia’s Queensland state, police said on Tuesday, adding that a major investigation is underway. The incident took place in…
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A new dynamic in the Af-Pak Great Game
Kabul: Pakistan’s role in Afghanistan has changed drastically ever since takeover of the Taliban in Kabul. The nature of engagement from the initial days of the Taliban government when one witnessed the…
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UN witnesses notable advances on achieving gender equality: Guterres
United Nations: Five years since a United Nations system-wide gender parity strategy was adopted, the world body has witnessed notable advances on achieving gender equality, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. In 2017,…
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Sacked British-Indian cop says didn’t know of husband’s drug-dealing
London: An Indian-origin Met police officer, who was sacked from the force last month, claimed that she was unaware that her husband was a drug dealer. Constable Rasvinder Agalliu, a former model…
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India condemns OIC secretary general’s visit to PoK
New Delhi: India on Tuesday strongly condemned the visit of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretary General to Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK), and said that any interference in the country’s internal affairs…
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UK economy rebounds in Oct but recession still looms
London: The British economy is estimated to have grown by 0.5 per cent between September and October, statistics showed, but a lengthy recession is still expected in the UK. October’s rebound followed…
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Putin scraps annual year-end news conference
Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual year-end news conference will not take place for the first time in 10 years, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has confirmed. Addressing media persons here on Monday,…
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Australia biz operator fined $30k for not paying Indian worker
Melbourne: A vehicle repair business operator in Australia has been fined AU$30,000 for not paying back-pay entitlements to a worker from India, the court said. The Federal Circuit and Family Court imposed…
