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UN agency to build 2,300 earthquake-resilient houses in Afghanistan
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 23 (ANI): UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency announced the start of a more than USD 14 million community-based construction effort to build 2,300 earthquake-resilient houses to help residents in the southeastern Afghanistan region devastated by the deadly June 22 earthq
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IREDA to provide loans to MAHAPREIT for green energy projects
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 22 (ANI): Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd (IREDA) has signed an agreement with Mahatma Phule Renewable Energy and Infrastructure Technology Ltd (MAHAPREIT) to provide loans for green energy projects.
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IS terrorist detained in Russia confesses to planning attack on political
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], August 22 (ANI): An Islamic State (IS) terrorist detained by Russian security agency for planning an attack in India has confessed that he was preparing an act of terror targetting "one of the representatives of the ruling circles of India," the Russian news agency report
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Russia detains IS suicide bomber plotting terrorist attack in India
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], August 22 (ANI): The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) on Monday said that its officers had detained a suicide bomber, a member of the Islamic State terrorist group, who was plotting a terrorist attack against one of India's leadership elite, Russia news agency Sputn
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Biden, European leaders discuss Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant fears
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 22 (ANI): US President Joe Biden on Sunday called the leaders of France, Germany and the United Kingdom and expressed concern about the importance of protecting the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in Ukraine.
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"Explosive supplier" named as 26th accused in NIA's fresh chargesheet in k
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] August 20 (ANI): An alleged "explosive supplier" has been charge-sheeted as the 26th accused in a case of the killing of five police personnel in Kukruhaat Bazar area in Jharkhand's Saraikela region in 2019, said the NIA on Saturday.
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Pakistan Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb demands Imran Khan's arre
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 20 (ANI): Pakistan's Information and Broadcasting Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb demanded the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan in the foreign funding case.
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NASA identifies candidate regions for landing next Americans on moon
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 20 (ANI): As NASA prepares to send astronauts back to the Moon under Artemis, the agency has identified 13 candidate landing regions near the lunar South Pole. Each region contains multiple potential landing sites for Artemis III which will be the first of the Artemis
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UN chief warns Russia against cutting nuclear plant from Ukraine grid
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Odesa [Ukraine], August 19 (ANI): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday said that the electricity generated at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant belongs to Ukraine, after the reports emerged that Kremlin could divert the electricity to Russia-occupied parts of Ukraine.
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WikiLeaks' Assange would not be behind bars if he disclosed "dirty secrets
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], August 19 (ANI): China on Friday said that if WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had disclosed the "dirty secrets" of a country other than the US, Assange would not have been put him behind bars and he might have received honor from the CIA.
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IAEA delegation likely to visit Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], August 19 (ANI): A delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency is likely to visit Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in early September.
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Pakistan: FIA to send another notice to Imran Khan on party's foreign fun
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 19 (ANI): Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is in trouble as the country's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) is sending another notice to him on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf 's (PTI) foreign funding case, media reports said citing sources.
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