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Pakistan: Punjab curbs wheat movement, launches geotagging to avert crisis
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Punjab has imposed wheat movement restrictions and launched geotagging of stocks to prevent shortages after floods destroyed crops, Dawn reported. Authorities cracked down on hoarding, boosting flour mill reserves and lowering wheat prices from PKR 3,800 to PKR 3,000 per 40kg, as protests er
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Pakistan: Punjab's wheat movement ban sparks flour crisis, provinces prote
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Punjab's curbs on wheat movement have caused flour shortages and soaring prices in other provinces. Critics call the move unconstitutional and against deregulation, while Punjab defends it as essential for food security. KP and Sindh have condemned the restrictions, urging federal interventi
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Pakistan journalists, activists raise alarm over press freedom restriction
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Journalists and rights activists in Islamabad expressed concerns over growing restrictions on press freedom, comparing it to censorship under General Ziaul Haq. Tributes were paid to veteran journalists Nisar Osmani and CR Shamsi, while speakers urged unity to resist media curbs and uphold a
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China's easing of export curbs useful, but self-reliance India's only shie
Updated : 6 months, 3 weeks ago IST
China's recent move to ease export restrictions on fertilizers, rare earths, and tunnel-boring machines to India is a welcome step, but self-reliance remains the only real safeguard for New Delhi against its widening trade deficit with Beijing, the Global Trade Research Initiative (GTRI) sai
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Macron seeks visa curbs on Algerian diplomats amid migration row
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
French President Emmanuel Macron has ordered tighter visa rules for Algerian diplomats, suspending a 2013 exemption deal. The move follows rising tensions over deportation disputes, migration issues, and recent security concerns involving Algerian nationals, according to France 24.
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UP: Kashi Vidwat Parishad introduces a new Hindu Code of Conduct; bans dow
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
The code addresses the ban on dowry, restrictions on lavish wedding expenditures, and encourages daytime Vedic marriages. The code also limits the traditional funeral feast to just 13 people. Additionally, modern practices such as pre-wedding shoots and engagement ceremonies before marriages
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Mehbooba Mufti says "dil ki doori" will end when Centre accepts Kashmir's
Updated : 8 months ago IST
People's Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday said that the "dil ki doori (distance of hearts)" between Kashmir and the rest of India would end when the Centre accepts Kashmir's heroes as its own, just as Kashmiris have embraced national figures.
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"Blatantly undemocratic move": JK CM Omar Abdullah slams curbs on visit to
Updated : 8 months ago IST
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday alleged that several homes were "locked" from the outside, central forces were deployed as "jailers," and bridges in Srinagar were blocked to "stop" people from visiting a "historically important" graveyard.
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India to boost rare earth magnet production amid China’s supply curbs: G K
Updated : 8 months ago IST
Speaking to ANI, the minister said, "The Central Government has decided to produce rare earth magnets in Hyderabad. Our Mining Ministry's NFTSM institute is working diligently, along with various industries, to manufacture the necessary machinery."
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"Today an undeclared Emergency exists": Samajwadi Party leader Rajendra Ch
Updated : 8 months, 3 weeks ago IST
"When the emergency was imposed and the struggle that followed, it became the second freedom struggle. I am also a political activist and was active in that struggle; I witnessed it... The country's situation was dire; nobody could speak or write. There was complete censorship of the press..
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Govt imposes import restrictions on certain gold-containing precious metal
Updated : 8 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry has announced new import restrictions on certain precious metal alloys containing gold, as well as colloidal metals and chemical compounds.
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India's auto sector least impacted by rare earth curbs as over 95% vehicle
Updated : 9 months ago IST
Electric vehicles (EVs), along with hybrid passenger vehicles and electric two-wheelers, are likely to face the most impact from China's recent restrictions on rare earth materials (REMs), according to a report by Nuvama.
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