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Sri Lanka: Former Prez Gotabaya to stay in Singapore for two more weeks
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], August 6 (ANI): The Sri Lanka government has requested Singapore authorities to allow former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to stay in the country for another 14 days, local media reported on Saturday citing sources.
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Bangladesh hikes fuel prices by 50 pc, highest in history
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], August 6 (ANI): Bangladesh has increased fuel prices by around 50 per cent, the highest hike since the country's independence in 1971, local media reported on Saturday.
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Over 60 booked for assaulting education officials in Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 6 (ANI): More than 60 Pakistani officials from the education department including teachers, and clerks were booked for violence, assaults and obstructing other officials of the department from performing their duties, local media reported on Saturday.
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Pakistan: Election Commission announces bypolls on 9 Assembly seats on Sep
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 6 (ANI): The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday announced that by-elections on nine National Assembly (NA) seats will be held on September 25, local media reported.
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US: 3 killed in lightning strike near White House
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 6 (ANI):Three people are dead and one injured following a lightning strike across the street from the White House on Thursday night, according to local media reports.
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Faced with heavy rains, Pakistan imposes 'Monsoon Emergency'
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 6 (ANI): Amidst the ongoing devastation and wreckage caused by heavy rains and floods in different parts of Pakistan, the Federal Ministry for Climate Change in Pakistan has warned of more rains in the coming weeks as the federal cabinet declared a "monsoon emerg
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Pakistan Election Commission serves two notices to Imran Khan over poll c
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 6 (ANI): The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) served two notices on former prime minister and the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan on Friday in two references relating to the case of prohibited foreign funding, in which the ECP had ruled that
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Pakistan: Family moves court over fears Christian 'child bride' sold off b
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], August 4 (ANI): The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday ordered Gujranwala district police in Pakistan to recover and present in court a Christian girl alleged to have been forcibly converted and married after her family expressed fears that the child had been sold off by he
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Pakistan: PTI seeks removal of top poll officer found guilty in illegal fo
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 4 (ANI): A day after the announcement of the verdict by the Election Commission of Pakistan in the prohibited funding case, Imran Khan's Party Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Wednesday moved a reference before the Supreme Judicial Council against Chief Election Commiss
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Pakistan: Lt Gen Asif Ghafoor appointed Corps Commander Quetta
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Quetta [Pakistan], August 4 (ANI): Lieutenant General Asif Ghafoor on Wednesday was appointed Commander 12 Corps, Quetta, replacing Lieutenant General Sarfraz Ali who was killed in a helicopter crash in Balochistan, the Pakistan military said, reported the local media.
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3 killed, 6 injured in China kindergarten stabbing
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Beijing [China], August 3 (ANI): Three people were killed and six others injured in a stabbing attack on Wednesday at a private kindergarten in China, local media reported.
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Pakistan reports 9 COVID deaths in last 24 hours
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 3 (ANI): Pakistan has reported nine deaths and 806 fresh coronavirus cases during the past 24 hours, local media reported on Wednesday citing data from the National Institute of Health (NIH).
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