13 NAXALS KILLED IN ENCOUNTER WITH POLICE’S C-60 COMMANDOS...
May 21 ,2021
At least 13 Naxals were killed in an encounter with police’s C-60 commandos in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra early on Friday...
AT 259,000, INDIA RECORDS LOWEST DAILY CASES IN A MONTH
May 21 ,2021
Only 24 hours after recording less than 4,000 deaths, India on Friday once again breached the grim milestone as daily fatalities due to...
BANGLADESH LOCKS DOWN ROHINGYA CAMPS AFTER SPIKE IN COVID...
May 21 ,2021
Bangladesh authorities on Thursday imposed a lockdown in five Rohingya refugee camps in the country’s southeast after a spike in...
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May 21 ,2021
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Demonstrators hold Palestine and Syrian flags in support of Palestine in midtown Man...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 21 MAY
May 21 ,2021
PICTURE OF THE DAYNEW YORK, UNITED STATES
Demonstrators hold Palestine and Syrian flags in support of Palestine in midtown Manhattan,...
Israel-Gaza conflict: world leaders hail ceasefire after 1...
May 21 ,2021
World leaders have hailed a ceasefire that took hold in the early hours of Friday morning, and vowed to help rebuild Gaza after an Isra...
Mirwaiz remains under house arrest on father’s death anniv...
May 21 ,2021
Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq remained under house arrest on his father’s death anniversary on Thursday. Meanwhile, Jammu...
ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN CEASEFIRE COMES INTO FORCE AFTER 11 DAY...
May 21 ,2021
A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist movement which controls the Gaza Strip, came into force early Friday after 11 days o...
Twins in India lived together - and died together - of Cov...
May 21 ,2021
The touching story of twins Ralfred (left) and Joefred Gregory has spread fast and wide on Indian social media. PHOTO: NYTIMES...
China breaks ground on Russian-designed nuclear reactors
May 21 ,2021
Cooling towers of a Czech nuclear power plant with Soviet-developed reactors. The four reactors under construction in China...
Malaysia's 1MDB debt looms over next election and coming d...
May 21 ,2021
Years after the scandal broke, 1MDB continues to haunt Malaysian politics -- and limit the government's financial maneuvering room. &...
8 years after rana plaza disaster, activists fear Banglade...
May 21 ,2021
In this Monday, April 29, 2013 file photo, a Bangladeshi worker leaves the site where a garment factory building collapsed in the Sav...
Despite Covid, 100+ IAF personnel are in Russia on S-400 m...
May 21 ,2021
File image of Russia's S-400 Triumf multi-layered air defence system | Photo: Snehesh Alex Philip | ThePrint
Over 100 personnel of...
Tibetans have a new political leader. Here’s what to expec...
May 21 ,2021
Penpa Tsering, left, talks to his predecessor as leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile Lobsang Sangay, right, in Dharamsala, Indi...
US envoy: fears of Taliban conquering Kabul are overblown
May 21 ,2021
Predictions that the Taliban will quickly overrun Afghan government forces and conquer Kabul once U.S. and coalition forces have fully...
Junta lifts age limit for Min Aung Hlaing position
May 21 ,2021
Myanmar military Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing was scheduled to retire in July when he turns 65. © Reuters...
Pakistan to inaugurate Chinese-made nuclear power plant
May 21 ,2021
Pakistan and China are enjoying unprecedented and deep-rooted friendship and cooperation in almost all spheres of life; and the energy...
Celebrations in Gaza as ceasefire takes hold: Live
May 21 ,2021
A ceasefire came into force in the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Friday morning after Egypt brokered an agreement between Israel and...
'Our lives are shaped by violence': Kashmiri artist detain...
May 21 ,2021
Mudasir Gull. Photo: Jehangir Ali
Mudasir Gull, an artist based in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar, shot to instant fame last w...
Bengal is paying the price for BJP's failure to ‘Conquer’...
May 21 ,2021
Security personnel stop Trinamool Congress workers who were protesting at the CBI office at Nizam Palace, following the arrest of TMC...
Pakistan's key role in Afghanistan echoes in US Congress
May 21 ,2021
Lawmakers from both Republican and Democratic parties expressed concern about Afghanistan’s future after the withdrawal of Amer...
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Takeaways from the Indian elections: an overview
Although the elections just held in four States and one Union Territory in India were provincial, they had immense national importance because national issues and national conditions impinged on them...
Ikram Sehgal
Karachi Canvas
Pandemic has sharpened geo-political conflicts
The Corona pandemic that the world is struggling with for the second year now has brought home to us some truths about ourselves. The first thing is that...
