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India Offers To Host Boxing Olympic Qualifiers

New Delhi: The Indian Olympic Association on Thursday requested Morinari Watanabe, the chairman of the International Olympic Committees Task Force for Boxing, to consider the Boxing Federation of India’s (BFI) offer to host the Asia-Oceania Olympic qualification event in India. The event was to be held from February 3 to 15 in Wuhan, China. BFI […]

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Death Toll In China's Coronavirus Climbs To 25 With 830 Confirmed Cases

Beijing: The death toll in China’s alarmingly new coronavirus afflictions has climbed to 25 with confirmed cases rising sharply to 830, the Chinese health authorities said on Friday. The pneumonia situation had resulted in 25 deaths, including 24 in central China’s Hubei province and one in north China’s Hebei, the National Health Commission said. By […]

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US-Iran Tensions May Aid Pak Get Off FATF Grey List

New Delhi: Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global watchdog for terror funding may remove Pakistan from the punitive “grey list” in its upcoming review meeting. Sources told IANS that the FATF is “satisfied” with Pakistan’s efforts to crack down on terror funding and money laundering, even though Pakistani terrorists have been continually infiltrating into […]

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18 killed as 6.8-magnitude quake hits eastern Turkey

Elazig (Turkey): A powerful earthquake has killed at least 18 people and injured hundreds in eastern Turkey, as rescue teams searched through the rubble of collapsed buildings for survivors early on Saturday. At least 30 people were missing following the magnitude 6.8 quake, which had its epicentre in the small lakeside town of Sivrice in […]

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China's Coronavirus afflictions claim 41 lives, nearly 1300 confirmed cases, 237 critical

Beijing: The deadly Coronavirus continues to wreak havoc in China and aborad as the death toll due to it in this Far East country rose to 41 with 1287 confirmed cases, China’s National Health Commission announced on Saturday. Of the 1,287 confirmed cases as of Friday night, the condition of the 237 is stated to […]

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Death toll in China's coronavirus rises to 56, confirmed cases near 2000

Beijing: The death toll in the deadly new coronavirus in China rose to 56 on Sunday with confirmed cases of viral affliction reaching 1,975 and 324 of them being critical, Chinese health authorities said. The new type of pneumonia, officially being described as 2019-nCoV, has resulted in 56 deaths, the National Health Commission said. A […]

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India is Nepal's key development partner and largest friend in many sectors: PM Oli

Kathmandu: India is not only a key development partner of Nepal, it is also the largest friend in multiple fields such as trade, transit and technology, and the understanding on a range of sectors will lead both the countries to a “win-win situation”, Prime Minister K P Oli said on Sunday. In his message on […]

  • Tuesday, 20 April 2021
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Kim Jong-un's Aunt Makes 1st Public Appearance In Over 6 Yrs

Pyongyang: Kim Kyong-hui, a once-powerful aunt of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, has made her first public appearance in more than six years, Pyongyang’s state media said on Sunday. In a report, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said that Kim Jong-un attended a concert celebrating Lunar New Year’s Day on Saturday at the Samjiyon […]

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Prince William Gets New Role From Queen

London: Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, has been handed a new role by the Queen as his younger brother Harry prepares to step back from the royal family, a media report said. Prince William has been made the Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, The Telegraph reported. This […]

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Four rockets land near US embassy in Baghdad

Baghdad: Four Katyusha rockets on Sunday landed near the US embassy in the heavily fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad, capital of Iraq, an Interior Ministry official said. The attack took place in the evening when the four rockets landed near the US embassy in the Green Zone, which also houses some of the main […]

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China reports 2,744 confirmed cases of coronavirus, 80 deaths

Beijing: Chinese health authorities announced Monday that 2,744 confirmed cases of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), including 461 in critical conditions, had been reported in the country by the end of Sunday. During the past 24 hours, 769 new confirmed cases, 3,806 new suspected cases and 24 deaths (24 in Hubei) from the […]

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Plane Carrying 83 Crashes In Taliban-Held Afghanistan Area

Kabul: A Boeing jet belonging to state-owned Ariana Afghan Airlines caught fire and crashed in central Ghazni province in Afghanistan on Monday, a media report quoted officials. The passenger plane had 83 people on board when it crashed due to technical reasons, Mail Online report quoted officials on the incident. There was no information as […]

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Bolton's Claim On Ukraine Aid Overshadows Trump Defence At Trial

New York: At least three Republican senators have said they were open to witnesses like former National Security Adviser John Bolton being called to testify at the Senate trial overshadowing the defence of President Donald Trump after his reported claims about Trump freezing military aid to Ukraine. The Democrat’s demand for witnesses hung in the […]

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Coronavirus Toll In China Rises To 106; Confirmed Cases Climb To Over 4,500

Beijing: China has reported 24 more deaths from coronavirus epidemic, taking the number of fatalities to 106 as the confirmed cases of pneumonia caused by the outbreak stand at 4,515, the health authorities announced on Tuesday. Barring Tibet, all Chinese provinces have reported the virus cases, posing a major challenge for the health authorities to […]

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WHO Identifies Novel Coronavirus As 'High Risk'

New Delhi: The World Health Organization (WHO), which is yet to declare the novel coronavirus as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) despite over 100 fatalities in China, identified the disease as “high risk.” In a statement on Monday, the WHO also claimed to be in touch with all the Health Ministers of […]

  • Tuesday, 20 April 2021
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