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Worldwide coronavirus cases surpass 81.3mn amid fast spread of new variant
Dec 29, 2020 12:32The new coronavirus has now infected over 81.3 million people and killed more than 1.7 million others across the globe, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
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India arrests 75 in restive Kashmir following local polls
Dec 26, 2020 10:14Indian authorities have arrested at least 75 Kashmiri political leaders and activists in anticipation of an uprising following the triumph of an alliance of Kashmir's regional political parties in a local election, a senior police official unveiled.
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India’s PM rejects farmer protests over controversial laws as politically motivated
Dec 25, 2020 10:12India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has dismissed as politically motivated recent protests by farmers against three laws enacted by his administration while boasting the success of an agricultural plan initiated last year.
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Indian opposition leader demands repeal of farm laws after weeks of massive protests
Dec 25, 2020 05:32India's main opposition party has pressed the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to call a special parliamentary session to withdraw controversial agricultural reform laws that have sparked massive protest across the country over the past weeks.
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Kashmir local political parties win over Hindu nationalist BJP
Dec 23, 2020 05:02An alliance of local parties has emerged victorious in Indian-controlled Kashmir elections. The elections come after India stripped Kashmir's semi-autonomous status last year.
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Indian farmers reject government request for more talks
Dec 22, 2020 11:45Indian farmers have rejected a government request to hold further talks over their weeks-long protest sit-ins against agricultural reform laws, saying they will continue the protests until New Delhi withdraws those laws.
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India becomes latest country to suspend all travel to UK as fears of new coronavirus variant intensifies
Dec 22, 2020 03:51India has become the latest country to suspend all travel to the UK effective from December 23-30 due to mounting concerns about the potency of a new variant of Covid-19.
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India's Modi visits iconic temple in New Delhi amid mass farmer protests
Dec 20, 2020 06:05Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made a surprise visit to a historic Sikh temple in the capital New Delhi at a time when the community is leading massive protests against his farm reforms.
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Iranian Navy dispatches new flotilla of warships to high seas
Dec 20, 2020 02:51A flotilla of Iranian warships has left the country’s southern port city of Bandar Abbas for high seas on a routine mission to maintain the Islamic Republic’s power and safeguard its interests in international waters.
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Indian farmers protest near capital, as deadlock continues over agricultural laws with government
Dec 13, 2020 09:16Tens of thousands of Indians take to the streets on the border with the capital New Delhi, against a series of a series of newly passed farm bills that farmers say will ravage their livelihoods.