18-11-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India has temporarily shut down five coal-fired power plants around the capital New Delhi as part of its drive to combat air pollution, according to an order from the federal environment ministry panel on air pollution. The Commission for Air Quality Management has also banned …
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18-11-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ KUNDZ/ ISLAMABAD: The Taliban have arrested a man for allegedly selling dozens of women in northern Afghanistan after duping them into believing they would be marrying into money, officials said Tuesday. The man was arrested in northern Jowzjan province late on Monday, Damullah Seraj, …
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18-11-2021 TEHRAN/ SANA’A/ UNITED NATIONS: A UN monitoring mission in Yemen stressed the withdrawal of Saudi-led mercenaries from Hudaydah and called for new talks, as Saudi warplanes strafed areas south of the city and Yemeni army forces advanced and gained ground. Warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition bombed areas to the …
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18-11-2021 KHARTOUM: Thousands protested in Sudan’s capital Wednesday against last month’s coup, chanting “no to military power” in defiance of a crackdown that has already claimed 24 lives. Several rallies broke out across Khartoum, even though telephone lines were cut and internet services have been disrupted since the October 25 …
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17-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies MELBOURNE/ COLOMBO/ ISLAMABAD: Australia has released four (4) refugees after ten (10) years. The detainees were of different countries were held in altered immigration centers without any charge or convection…..It’s the real face of Australia…..It’s the so-called and self-declared civilized nation…..It’s …
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17-11-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies MOSCOW/ NEW DELHI: Russia has started supplying India with S-400 air defence missile systems, Russian news agencies reported on Sunday citing Dmitry Shugayev, the head of the Russian military cooperation agency. The supplies put India at risk of sanctions from the United States under a …
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17-11-2021 UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations says it has released emergency funds to help provide life-saving humanitarian assistance and protection to civilians caught up in Ethiopia’s spiraling conflict. UN aid chief Martin Griffiths said on Monday that he had released a total of $40m aimed at scaling up emergency operations …
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17-11-2021 BEIJING: China is battling its biggest COVID-19 outbreak caused by the highly transmissible Delta variant, with some areas restricting entry by people from a northeastern city where infections have grown faster than elsewhere in the country in the past week. A total of 1,308 domestically transmitted infections with confirmed …
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17-11-2021 CANBERRA/ DOHA: A group of Australian women who were strip-searched and examined at Doha airport are suing authorities in Qatar. The women were ordered off a flight and checked for whether they had given birth after a baby was found in a bin at Hamad Airport in October 2020. …
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16-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ NEW DELHI: A contingent of some 3,000 Sikh pilgrims will arrive in Lahore via the Wagah border crossing to attend the celebrations for Baba Guru Nanak’s 552nd birth anniversary in Kartarpur. During their stay in Pakistan, the Sikh pilgrims would pay obeisance …
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