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Afghan authorities take back their citizens stranded in border towns with
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Landi Kotal [Pakistan], May 7 (ANI): Thousands of Afghan citizens, mostly ailing women and children, stranded in extreme conditions near Pakistan-Afghanistan border for nearly a week, were permitted to cross to their country, via Torkham border, officials said.
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Lucknow's Chikankari industry badly hit by virus lockdown
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 6 (ANI): Lucknow's Chikankari industry has been badly hit due to the lockdown, affecting thousands of artisans.
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American companies lay off thousands of workers while continuing to reward
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 6 (ANI): At a time when the coronavirus pandemic has squeezed them, multi-national companies in America are laying off workers while paying cash dividends to their shareholders. Thus making the workers bear the brunt of the sacrifices while the shareholders continu
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MEA appoints state-level coordinators to facilitate returns of stranded In
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 06 (ANI): Ministry of External Affairs has appointed state-level coordinators to ensure close coordination with various ministries, state government, and the center during the return of hundreds of thousands of Indians stranded around the world because of the corona
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PIA gets approval to operate direct repatriation flights to US
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 30 (ANI): The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has for the first time in history been granted the permission to operate direct flights to the US, without having to stop for a security clearance, to bring back thousands of Pakistani citizens who are stranded i
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COVID-19: US wireless carriers to deliver phone chargers to hospitals
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], April 30 (ANI): To make the life easier of the COVID-19 patients, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon have partnered with iHeartMedia to deliver thousands of phone chargers to hospitals.
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Migrant workers protest at IIT-Hyderabad demanding to return home
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], April 29 (ANI): After not getting salary for past three months, thousands of migrant workers working in Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad (IIT-Hyderabad) staged a huge protest on Wednesday demanding to send them back to their native states.
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Garment factories in Bangladesh reopen amid lockdown
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], April 28 (ANI): Thousands of textile workers have returned to work in factories in Bangladesh amid a nationwide coronavirus lockdown, raising fears of an increase in the spread of the contagion.
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Lockdown yielded positive results, country managed to save thousands of li
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 27 (ANI): Lockdown has yielded positive results as the country has managed to save thousands of lives in the past one and a half months, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday while interacting with Chief Ministers via video conference on the prevailing COVID
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Pakistan removes thousands of names from terror watch list: Report
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 21 (ANI): Pakistan has removed thousands of names from its terrorist watch list in what the country says is an effort to meet its obligations ahead of a new round of assessments by a global anti-money-laundering watchdog.
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Tamil Nadu CM requests MEA to provide basic needs to fishermen stranded in
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], April 20 (ANI): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami on Monday wrote a letter to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar requesting food, water and other basic needs be provided to thousands of Indian fishermen stranded in Iran.
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Thousands of candidates appear for IIHM's first E-Chat Home Online Exam fo
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 20 (ANI/PRNewswire): The International Institute of Hotel Management (IIHM), one of the leading and finest hospitality education institutions in the country, created history with the first phase of the E-Chat Home Online Exam, on April 14, 15 and 16.
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