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Pakistan anti-graft body introduces new legal amendments to access tax rec
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 27 (ANI): National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Sunday asked the Pakistani government to allow the anti-graft body to access local and offshore tax records of all politicians, bureaucrats and their families by introducing new legal amendments before approval of t
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India responds to UN, says new IT rules 'designed to empower ordinary user
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 20 (ANI): India's permanent mission at the United Nations has clarified that India's new IT rules are "designed to empower ordinary users of social media" and that they were finalised after the government held broad consultations with civil society and other stakeh
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Madhish Parikh, National Youth Award Winner featured as COVID Hero by Dett
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 15 (ANI/ThePRTree): The Better India and Dettol India have partnered to recognize India's COVID Heroes - ordinary people who are doing extraordinary work to help India battle the pandemic. Dettol India has amplified the inspirational work done by the COVID Heroes thro
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Imran Khan govt wants to steal next general elections, says Pak opposition
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], June 13 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has alleged that the Imran Khan-led incumbent government wants to 'steal' the next general elections by passing the bill on electoral reforms and introducing the electronic voting machine (EVM).
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Pakistan National Assembly adopts bill to give right of appeal to Kulbhush
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 10 (ANI): Pakistan's National Assembly has approved a bill allowing Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav to appeal his conviction in the high courts of the country.
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ADB sells $5.5 billion dual tranche 3- and 7-year global benchmark bonds
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Manila [The Philippines], June 3 (ANI): The Asian Development Bank (ADB) returned to the US dollar bond market with the pricing of a three-year global benchmark bond worth $4 billion and a seven-year global benchmark bond worth $1.5 billion, proceeds of which will be part of ADB's ordinary c
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Proposal for regulatory authority opposed by media bodies in Pakistan
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], June 2 (ANI): Pakistan's media organisations representing journalists, broadcasters, editors and news directors have rejected the proposed Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA) ordinance, describing it as an 'unconstitutional and draconian law'.
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Researchers find new technology that lets ordinary microscope see in super
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
California [US], June 1 (ANI): A technology that improves the resolution of an ordinary light microscope so that it can be used to directly observe finer structures and details in living cells has been developed by a team of electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego.
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Pak opposition rejects govt's proposed media ordinance, calls it 'draconia
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 31 (ANI): Pakistan's opposition parties have rejected the Imran Khan government's newly proposed media ordinance, with both PPP and PML-N criticising the ordinance on Monday.
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Civil, rights body in Pakistan condemn new media ordinance
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 30 (ANI): A collective group of civil and rights bodies in Pakistan has outrightly rejected the proposed Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA) Ordinance 2021 that the country's federal government intends to impose.
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Centre respects right of privacy: Ravi Shankar Prasad on WhatsApp row
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 27 (ANI): A day after WhatsApp moved the Delhi High Court against the Centre's recent IT Rules, Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment, Communication and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday said the central government fully recognises a
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Richa Chadha starts social media initiative to celebrate everyday heroes a
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 25 (ANI): Amid the raging second wave of COVID-19, Bollywood actor Richa Chadha has started a new community-based initiative called 'The KINDry', which aims to celebrate ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
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