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September 7 ,2021
Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti claimed on Tuesday that she has been put under house arrest. In a...
CHINA TESTS NEW TRADE ROUTE WITH MYANMAR IN SHOW OF SUPPOR...
September 7 ,2021
China held a test run of a new overland trade route with Myanmar last month in a show of support for its neighbor, which has been hit w...
MYANMAR JUNTA STEPS UP ARRESTS OF STRIKING CIVIL SERVANTS
September 7 ,2021
Myanmar’s regime has intensified arrests of striking civil servants, including teachers, medics and administrators, who joined th...
The Palestinian cause no longer binds the Arab world
September 7 ,2021
In the first years after Israel’s founding, David Ben-Gurion promoted an “alliance of the periphery”. The father...
Malaysia's Ismail Sabri faces battle to curb COVID and spu...
September 7 ,2021
Malaysia's new Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob speaks during a National Day address at his office in Putrajaya, Malaysia, on Aug....
The symbolism of Muzaffarnagar
September 7 ,2021
On Sunday, farm unions, demanding a repeal of three farm laws, organised a kisan mahapanchayat in Muzaffarnagar in west Uttar Pradesh (...
Post-Suga, Tokyo’s ties with Delhi
September 7 ,2021
Even after Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (top right) demits office, New Delhi can expect the relationship to strengthen fu...
Days of unilateralism are over: What Jaishankar said on Qu...
September 7 ,2021
The Indian foreign minister said we have entered a new phase of international relations and the full impact of China's re-emergence wil...
New Zealand terrorist got refugee status by posing as a “T...
September 7 ,2021
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The 32-year old Ahamed Aathill Mohamed Samsudeen from Kathankudy in East Sri Lanka, who knifed seven...
What’s next for farmers’ protests in India
September 7 ,2021
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha, a large platform of farm unions, hopes to mount a countrywide opposition to the Modi government’s econo...
Moment of truth
September 7 ,2021
History has come full circle in Afghanistan with the Taliban regaining power after 20 years of war. In post-America Afghanistan the Tal...
What caused the Sri Lankan economic crisis?
September 7 ,2021
The story so far: Sri Lanka’s government declared an economic emergency last week amid rising food prices, a depreciati...
Sri Lanka's food emergency heightens fears of militarizati...
September 7 ,2021
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The future of American power
September 7 ,2021
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Google locks Afghan gov’t emails to keep from Taliban: Rep...
September 7 ,2021
Google has temporarily locked down an unspecified number of Afghan government email accounts, according to a person familiar with the m...
India probes late Kashmir separatist’s family under terror...
September 7 ,2021
Indian paramilitary soldiers guard at a closed market in Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir [Mukhtar Khan/AP]
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India denying subsidised food grains to millions of its po...
September 7 ,2021
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September 7 ,2021
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'Afghanistan has right to be recognised': Taliban spokesma...
September 7 ,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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