‘DELTA PLUS’ VARIANT MAY SPARK MAHARASHTRA 3RD WAVE: HEALT...
June 17, 2021
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By: SAM Staff
With a state-appointed task force Wednesday expressing apprehension that a third wave of the pandemic could hit Maharashtra in a month or two if Covid...
CHINA LAUNCHES CREWED SPACECRAFT SHENZHOU-12 IN HISTORIC M...
June 17, 2021
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By: SAM Staff
China launched a spacecraft on Thursday carrying three astronauts to part of a space station still under construction for the longest stay in low Eart...
MYANMAR JUNTA TROOPS ACCUSED OF LOOTING ABANDONED VILLAGE
June 17, 2021
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By: SAM Staff
Residents of a village in Kayah State’s Demoso Township said junta forces looted their shops and houses while they were away.
Ngwe Taung villag...
INDIRA GANDHI DETERMINED TO SEND REFUGEES BACK
June 17, 2021
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By: SAM Staff
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi today reiterated that she would send back Bangladesh refugees as soon as normalcy was restored.
"I am just going...
ISRAEL STRIKES HAMAS SITES OVER FIRE BALLOONS; WOMAN SHOT...
June 17, 2021
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By: SAM Staff
Israel carried out air strikes on the Gaza Strip early yesterday after militants in the Palestinian territory sent incendiary balloons into the south...
The view from Russia: What to expect from the Putin-Biden...
June 15, 2021
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By: SAM Staff
A “killer” with “no soul” whose government is “paranoid”.
That is how US President Joe Biden has previously descr...
NATO to call out China’s behaviour as ‘systemic challenge’
June 15, 2021
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By: SAM Staff
NATO is expected to formally call out China’s behaviour as a “systemic challenge” in its final summit statement, a first for the all...
Can Lapid-Bennett coalition keep it together?
June 15, 2021
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By: SAM Staff
If all goes according to plan, Yamina leader Naftali Bennett will be sworn in as Israel’s 13th prime minister on June 13. The following day he w...
Pakistan FM accuses previous gov’t of ‘mishandling’ Jadhav...
June 15, 2021
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By: SAM Staff
Pakistan’s foreign minister has blamed the country’s previous government for “mishandling” the case of Kulbhushan Jadhav, an I...
Elderly Muslim man attacked in Ghaziabad, assailants chop...
June 15, 2021
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By: SAM Staff
An elderly Muslim man was attacked in Loni, in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad district, on June 5 while on his way to offer prayers at a mosque.
Acc...
Trial of Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi gets under way
June 15, 2021
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By: SAM Staff
The trial of deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has gotten under way, more than four months after a military coup.
On Monday, the court heard a...
Indian man believed to have headed ‘world’s largest family...
June 15, 2021
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By: SAM Staff
A photograph of the Chana family on January 30, 2011, in Baktawang, Mizoram, India [File: Richard Grange/Barcroft India/Getty Images]
An Indi...
Pakistan outperforms India in manpower exports
June 15, 2021
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By: SAM Staff
Pakistan Economic Survey 2020-21 revealed that Pakistan’s exports of skilled manpower had reached 224,705 against India and Bangladesh who could...
BJP would have called BR Ambedkar, father of Indian Consti...
June 15, 2021
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By: SAM Staff
The BJP would have called even BR Ambedkar, the father of Indian Constitution, as pro-Pakistan had he been alive, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said on...
Biden should follow G7 pragmatism in approach to China
June 15, 2021
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By: SAM Staff
President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference after attending the G7 summit, in Newquay, Britain. Photo: AP
The Group of Seven, comprising...
G-7 agrees on infrastructure plan to counter China's Belt...
June 14, 2021
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By: SAM Staff
Leaders of the Group of Seven convene for a session during the summit in Cornwall, Britain, on June 11. © Kyodo
The Group of Seven le...
Erdogan: US can count on Turkey after Afghanistan troop pu...
June 14, 2021
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By: SAM Staff
Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkey will be the "only reliable" country left for stabilising Afghanistan after the US pul...
Iran elections: Towards an ‘Islamic government’
June 14, 2021
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By: SAM Staff
Out of the 529 people who registered to take part in Iran’s June 18 presidential election, only seven have secured permission from the Guardian...
‘Betrayed’: The Afghan interpreters abandoned by the US
June 14, 2021
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By: SAM Staff
Fourth from the left, back row, Zabiullah Zyah, who worked as an interpreter for the US military in Afghanistan for less than two years between 2010...
NATO leaders to bid symbolic adieu to Afghanistan at summi...
June 14, 2021
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By: SAM Staff
U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts will bid a symbolic farewell to Afghanistan on June 14 in their last summit before America winds up...
Rajnath Singh approves nearly Rs 499 crore for defence res...
June 14, 2021
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By: SAM Staff
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved budgetary support of nearly Rs 499 crore for research and innovation in the defence sector for the next fi...
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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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