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Amnesty International tells leaders to support Nepal in fight against COVI
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], June 14 (ANI): Amnesty International on Monday has called on international community to increase aid supply as well as vaccines to Nepal as it continues to battle COVID-19 pandemic's second wave.
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Russia slaps new fines on Facebook, Telegram over failure to remove illega
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], June 11 (ANI/Sputnik): A Moscow district court on Thursday slapped additional multi-million-ruble fines on Facebook and Telegram for failing to remove banned content in accordance with the Russian media watchdog's requirements, Zulfiya Gurinchuk, the court's spokeswoman, tol
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Afghan human rights watchdog calls for probe by international body into ta
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 7 (ANI): Relying on its assessments about some recent targeted attacks on the Hazara community, Afghanistan Human Rights Commission on Sunday reiterated that such attacks require comprehensive and deep investigation by an international team that should be picked by
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UK, EU competition watchdogs investigate Facebook over possible anticompet
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], June 4 (ANI/Sputnik): The UK and the European Union competition regulators both announced on Friday that they are investigating Facebook to determine whether the online social media platform has unfairly used the data obtained from its advertising and single sign-on to gain adva
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DGCA orders probe into mid-air marriage episode, crew taken off duty
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 24 (ANI): India's aviation watchdog, Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Monday initiated an investigation over reports of mid-air marriage ceremony and has ordered taking the crew off duty.
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Pfizer applies for permit to administer COVID-19 vaccine to teens
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], May 8 (ANI/Sputnik): US drugmaker Pfizer has applied to Switzerland's medicines regulator for the extension of the use of its coronavirus vaccine to teens of 12-15 years, the watchdog said on Friday.
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Pak accountability watchdog's inquiry process perturbs country's Chief Jus
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 6 (ANI): Amid the pending inquiry in graft cases of Pakistan's accountability watchdog, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Gulzar Ahmed on Tuesday pulled up the National Accountability Bureau's (NAB) for no progress in case pertaining to corruption charges on NAB offic
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Russia preparing documents to register COVID-19 vaccine for animals abroad
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], April 30 (ANI/Sputnik): Russia's Federal Center for Animal Health, which is subordinate to veterinary watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor, is preparing documents to have its Carnivac-Cov vaccine against COVID-19 for animals registered abroad, an adviser to Rosselkhoznadzor chief annou
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Media watchdog calls China as biggest jailer of journalists
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Paris [France], April 21 (ANI): China continues to take internet censorship, surveillance and propaganda to unprecedented levels making it one of the world's worst countries for journalists and the 'biggest jailer' of scribes, according to a latest report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
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Pak Supreme Court slams accountability watchdog for random arrests, late f
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 13 (ANI): Pakistan Supreme Court on Monday slammed the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), for "randomly" arresting people, and filing a reference against them after a year-and-a-half.
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Over 80 cases of British Covid-19 strain confirmed in Russia
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], April 6 (ANI/Sputnik): More than 80 cases of the British coronavirus variant have been registered in Russia, all of them are imported cases, Anna Popova, the head of the Russian public health watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, said.
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Russian scientists find new strain of South African COVID-19 variant
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Moscow [Russia], March 24 (ANI/Sputnik): Scientists at the Russian Vector laboratory have found a new isolate of the South African COVID-19 variant, the press office for the Russian consumer watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, said on Wednesday.
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