Mamata Banerjee to contest WB polls
ANI :West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee on Monday announced that she will contest from Nandigram Assembly seat in the...
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Alexei Navalny: EU and US demand release of poisoned Putin critic
BBC Online :The United States and several European governments have demanded the release of opposition leader Alexei Navalny from Russian detention.Mr Navalny, 44, was detained...
India’s BJP conducted 2019 air raid to win polls: Pakistani PM
Al Jazeera :Pakistan says a 2019 air raid by India was a “false flag” operation conducted by India’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for electoral...
Coronavirus found on ice cream in Chinese city
AP, Beijing :The coronavirus was found on ice cream produced in eastern China, prompting a recall of cartons from the same batch, according to the...
Indonesia hunts for survivors as quake death toll hits 73
Reuters :At least 73 people have been killed after an earthquake struck Indonesia’s West Sulawesi province on Friday, the disaster mitigation agency (BNPB) said on...
Gunmen assassinate two Afghan women judges in Kabul
AFP :Gunmen shot dead two Afghan women judges working for the Supreme Court in an early morning ambush in the country’s capital Sunday, officials said,...
Trump signs Malala education act into law
Dawn.com :In his last week in office, US President Donald Trump signed into law an act that would award at least 50 per cent of...
Guatemala cracks down on US-bound migrant caravan from Honduras
Reuters :Guatemalan authorities on Saturday escalated efforts to stop thousands of Hondurans, many of them families with children, traveling in a migrant caravan bound for...
Amid vaccine rollout, Global Covid-19 death toll tops 2 m
Reuters :The worldwide coronavirus death toll surpassed 2 million on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, as nations around the world are trying to procure...
UN rights body picks Fiji’s first ever vote
AFP :The UN Human Rights Council elected Fiji’s ambassador as its 2021 president in an unprecedented secret ballot after a diplomatic stand-off blocked the usual...
South African scientists discover new chemicals that kill malaria parasite
Reuters :South African scientists have discovered chemical compounds that could potentially be used for a new line of drugs to treat malaria and even kill...
US troop levels cut to 2,500 each in Afghanistan and Iraq, lowest mark in two decades
AFP :The US military has cut troop levels in Afghanistan and Iraq to 2,500 each, their lowest levels in the nearly two decades since the...