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India's coronavirus infections surpass China but officials upbeat
May 16, 2020 12:30India’s total novel coronavirus cases rose to 85,940 on Saturday, taking it past China, where the pandemic originated last year, though a strict lockdown enforced since late March has reduced the rate of contagion.
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Workers in India set to face longer days, lower pay in ‘race to the bottom’
May 13, 2020 08:51Workers in India are set to face longer days and lower pay in a ‘race to the bottom,’ academics, activists and unions said, as six states plan to suspend labor laws to help industry recover from the coronavirus lockdown.
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Iran’s Chabahar sees 15-fold rise in basic commodity arrivals
May 11, 2020 07:12Iran’s import of basic commodities in the current Iranian year –a period of around 7 weeks- via the southeastern Port City of Chabahar has risen by more than 15 times compared to the corresponding period a year earlier, an official said.
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India, China troops scuffle along disputed border: Indian army
May 11, 2020 04:59Indian and Chinese soldiers have reportedly engaged in verbal and physical clashes along the disputed border between the two countries, as a result of which several troops have been injured on both sides.
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Khan: India could launch false flag operation against Pakistan, under infiltration pretext
May 07, 2020 08:41Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan says India can use the current tension between the two nuclear-armed countries to launch a purported "false flag operation" against Islamabad under the pretext of infiltration.
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Indian forces kill top separatist commander in Kashmir
May 07, 2020 06:41India’s security forces have killed a senior separatist leader along with four other fighters in separate gun battles in the Indian-controlled Kashmir.
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6 dead, 1,000 hospitalized after gas leak at India chemical plant
May 07, 2020 03:02At least six people have been killed and at least a thousand hospitalized after a gas leak at a chemicals plant on the east coast of India, police said Thursday.
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Indian ministry website crashes in repatriation ‘panic’ amid pandemic
May 06, 2020 10:01The Indian civil aviation ministry’s website crashed on Wednesday as panicked citizens abroad rushed to register for a mass repatriation of almost 15,000 nationals from 12 countries on planes and naval ships.
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Iran: US ‘religious freedom’ report flawed, founded on misinformation
May 01, 2020 00:51The Iranian Foreign Ministry condemns as fundamentally flawed an annual report by a US panel that has blacklisted Iran as, what it calls, a “religious freedom” offender alongside countries like India, where scores of Muslims have been massacred by Hindu radicals so far.
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India committing war crimes in Kashmir under cover of coronavirus pandemic: Imran Khan
Apr 30, 2020 14:02Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has accused New Delhi of committing war crimes against Muslims in the Indian-administered Kashmir under the cover of the coronavirus pandemic.