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May 6 ,2021
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May 6 ,2021
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US BACKS PLAN TO WAIVE COVID-19 VACCINE PATENTS
May 6 ,2021
US president Joe Biden’s administration on Wednesday announced support for a global waiver on patent protections for Covid-19 vac...
INDIA REMINDED OF JADHAV CASE RAMIFICATIONS
May 6 ,2021
Kulbhushan Jadhav — a serving commander of the Indian Navy associated with Indian spy agency Research and Analysis Wing —...
PAKISTAN SUGGESTS MEDICAL CORRIDOR FOR PEOPLE OF OCCUPIED...
May 6 ,2021
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SAUDI ARABIA ASSURES PAKISTAN OF SUPPORT IN PEACE EFFORTS
May 6 ,2021
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday assured Pakistan of its support in its initiatives for regional peace and stability.
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G-7 echoes Biden and Suga on need for Taiwan Strait stabil...
May 6 ,2021
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Facebook oversight board upholds Donald Trump’s suspension
May 6 ,2021
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Saudi Arabia considers barring overseas haj pilgrims for s...
May 6 ,2021
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Third Covid wave inevitable, didn’t foresee current feroci...
May 6 ,2021
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Peace is possible in Afghanistan
May 6 ,2021
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May 6 ,2021
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Myanmar’s shadow government College forms the People’s De...
May 6 ,2021
Some would-be members of the PDF undergo military training somewhere on the border.
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Concerned at Chinese firms being kept out of India’s 5G tr...
May 6 ,2021
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G7 meet: 2 Indian delegation members test positive for Cov...
May 6 ,2021
The Indian delegation led by external affairs minister S Jaishankar to the G7 foreign ministers’ meeting in London was self-isola...
Sri Lanka’s rate of infections now higher than India
May 6 ,2021
Sri Lanka’s rate of coronavirus infections is higher than that reported in India at present, Public Health Inspectors (PHI) said....
Bangladesh to give 10,000 vials of Remdesivir to India tom...
May 6 ,2021
Bangladesh will hand over 10,000 vials of injectable anti-viral Remdesivir to India on Thursday, officials have said.
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Pakistan says 4 soldiers killed in ambush by Afghan milita...
May 6 ,2021
Four Pakistani soldiers were killed and six others were wounded along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border on Wednesday in an ambush by mili...
India will be front-line state in Myanmar civil war
May 6 ,2021
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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...
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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...
