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Bangladesh withdraws duty on sugar import to stabilise local market

Dhaka: Bangladesh’s National Board of Revenue (NBR) withdrew import duty on both raw and refined sugar in order to enable consumers to get the sweetener at reduced rates. In a notification, NBR…
Sri Lankan opposition-led protest march comes under police tear gas, water cannon attack

Colombo: Sri Lankan police on Sunday fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse a protest march organised by the country’s main opposition coalition here against the delay in local body polls.…

Russia halts oil supply to Poland: Polish refiner

Warsaw: Russia has halted oil supplies to Poland via the Druzhba pipeline, Poland’s leading oil and gas conglomerate PKN Orlen said. Local media reported that the supply halt through the pipeline, exempted…
China’s Communist Party begins key meeting to discuss major revamp, government

Beijing: China’s ruling Communist Party on Sunday began a key meeting to carry out a major revamp of the party and the government ahead of next month’s annual session of the Parliament.…
Indians get lion’s share of Pakistani citizenship to foreigners in last 5 years

Islamabad: The Pakistan Interior Ministry has granted Pakistani citizenship to 214 foreigners during the last five years over multiple reasons, including marriage, and family relationships among others, media reports said on Sunday.…
Oppose unipolar world running in US interests: Putin

Moscow: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Sunday said that the main cause of his country’s difference with the US and its allies was its strong opposition to creation of a unipolar world…
Nikki Haley says if voted to power, she will cut foreign aid to countries which hate America

Washington: Indian-American Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has vowed that if voted to power, she will cut every cent in foreign aid for countries which hate America. She mentioned Pakistan, China, Iraq…

4 killed in a blast in Pakistan’s Balochistan province

Islamabad: At least four people were killed and 14 wounded in an explosion inside the Rakhni market in Barkhan in Pakistan’s Balochistan province on Sunday morning, police and health officials said, local…
US, Israel discuss Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Jerusalem: Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant spoke to US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin by phone over a series of regional issues, according to a statement by the Israeli Defense Ministry. The…
UK mulls immigration curbs on foreign student families

London: International students are likely to be restricted from bringing their spouses and children to the UK unless they study “high-value” degrees under government plans. According to The Times, foreign students granted…
Japan struck with 6.1 magnitude quake, no tsunami warnings issued

Hokkaido, Japan’s second-largest island, witnessed an earthquake of 6.1 magnitude on the Richter scale on Saturday night, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The earthquake shook…
Scientists discover new layer at Earth’s inner core

Sydney: A team of researchers has found evidence of a new layer to the planet sitting within the inner core. According to seismologists from The Australian National University (ANU), data gathered from…
Florida teacher’s aide knocked unconscious by student for taking away his game

A 17-year-old was arrested for knocking his high school teacher’s aide after she took away his video game. According to Fox News Digital, the incident was captured on the security camera where…
Moroccan singer Saad Lamjarred sentenced to 6 years in prison

Moroccan singer Saad Lamjarred was sentenced by a Paris court to six years in prison for allegedly raping and assaulting a young French woman, Laura Priolle, in a hotel room in 2016,…
Indian-American jailed for wire fraud targeting elderly

New York: An Indian-American has been sentenced to 51 months in prison for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud targeting the elderly, the US Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Virginia announced.…