Chief of defence staff Gen Bipin Rawat's chopper crashes,...
December 8 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
An army chopper carrying Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat and 13 others crashed today in Tamil Nadu, the Indian Air Force said.
Five...
India is among the most unequal countries, says World Ineq...
December 8 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Representative image. | Reuters
The top 1% of India’s population earned more than one-fifth (21.7%) of the country&rsquo...
8 Bangladeshis named in Pandora Papers
December 8 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
A document of the Pandora Papers was released on Monday night (Bangladesh time) where eight Bangladeshis were named.
All eight of...
Indians are in ‘extreme pain’, says Nobel Laureate
December 8 ,2021
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By: KS Kumar
Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, who shared a 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics with Michael Kremer, shown answering questions during a...
Afghan women entrepreneurs defy Taliban curbs on women's e...
December 8 ,2021
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By: Shereena Qazi
As an education advocate, Pashtana Durrani has worked through her charity LEARNAfg to provide education to children in rural areas, esp...
China bids farewell to Indian envoy with hopes for easing...
December 7 ,2021
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By: Kinling Lo
Tensions between China and India along their shared Himalayan border have yet to be resolved. Photo: AFP
Beijing : Chinese For...
Modi-Putin summit expected to finalize joint AK rifle prod...
December 7 ,2021
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By: Kiran Sharma
The summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi may see the start of Indian produc...
BBIN motor vehicle pact to go ahead without Bhutan
December 7 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Bangladesh, India and Nepal have decided to go ahead with a regional motor vehicles agreement without Bhutan as the country pulled out...
Nagaland killings: Army fired with ‘intention to murder, i...
December 7 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Charred remains of vehicles of security personnel after they were put on fire in Nagaland's Mon district on Sunday. | PTI Photo...
Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to four years in prison for inc...
December 7 ,2021
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By: Rebecca Ratcliffe
Aung San Suu Kyi Photograph: Christophe Archambault/AFP/Getty Images
Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to four years in pri...
Nepal: K.P. Oli returns to helm a smaller CPN (UML), vows...
December 6 ,2021
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By: Kamal Dev Bhattarai
K.P. Sharma Oli. Photo: PTI
Kathmandu: Former Nepal prime minister K.P. Sharma Oli has been re-elected chairman of...
‘Afghanistan should not become a playground of major power...
December 6 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Maj Gen ANM Muniruzzaman (L) makes a point at the Dhaka-Tribune-BIPSS roundtable on the impact of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan...
Afghanistan food crisis prods India, Pakistan to cooperate...
December 6 ,2021
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By: Kanika Gupta
Millions of Afghans are facing food insecurity or worse as winter approaches. (Photo by Kanika Gupta)
NEW DELHI -- The deepening h...
Extreme food prices slam inflation-ridden Turkey and Sri L...
December 6 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Shoppers at a street market in Istanbul on Nov. 18. The country's annual food price inflation came to 27.4% in October. ©...
China-India border: building boom in the Himalayas as Beij...
December 2 ,2021
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By: Minnie Chan
The PLA has been building underground facilities along its borders with India in the Himalayas. Photo: Handout
China has built und...
AUKUS sub deal triggers debate on nuclear safeguards
The USS Missouri departs Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam: Australia announced a nuclear submarine pact with the U.S. and U.K...
Myanmar troops' northwest push fuels humanitarian crisis
December 2 ,2021
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By: Marwaan Macan-Markar
A man holds up a photo of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a demonstration on Nov. 19 organized in New Delhi by the Chin R...
Over 6 lakh Indians gave up citizenship in last 5 years, s...
December 2 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Why are people surrendering the Indian passport? | Stock Photo
Replying in the parliament on the behalf of Ministry of Home Affair...
Pakistan's flag, cricket jersey unmasked Bangladesh’s grow...
December 1 ,2021
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By: Faisal Mahmud
On November 25, a court in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka received a rather unusual lawsuit from a man named Mohammad Al Ma...
The human cost of India’s yearlong farmers’ protest
December 1 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Lovepreet Singh showing a photo of his late father Gurpreet Singh on his mobile phone [Sukhman Billing/Al Jazeera]
Fatehgarh Sahib...
Over 6 lakh Indians have given up Indian citizenship since...
December 1 ,2021
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By: Moushumi Das Gupta
Proceedings in the Lok Sabha on 30 November | Representational image | ANI
New Delhi: Over 6 lakh Indians gave up Indian citi...
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