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Sri Lanka records highest elephant deaths in world

Sri Lanka records highest elephant deaths in world

Hindustan Times 2020-12-13 15:32:27

Sri Lanka has recorded the highest number of elephant deaths in the world due to the human-elephant conflict, according to a media report. The island-nation’s Committee on Public Accounts (COPA...

Israel, Bhutan establish diplomatic relations at Delhi ceremony

Israel, Bhutan establish diplomatic relations at Delhi ceremony

-- 2020-12-13 11:03:19

Israel established relations on Saturday with Bhutan, a majority-Buddhist nation neighbouring India, as it looks to continue to expand its diplomatic links internationally. Israel’s accord with...

Indonesia arrests cleric over alleged lockdown breaches

Indonesia arrests cleric over alleged lockdown breaches

-- 2020-12-12 19:20:58

Indonesian Islamic cleric Rizieq Shihab was arrested in Jakarta on Saturday on suspicion of having breached coronavirus restrictions by holding events that drew thousands of followers in the city, his...

South Korea logs record 950 cases in COVID-19 'emergency'   

South Korea logs record 950 cases in COVID-19 'emergency'  

-- 2020-12-12 17:44:38

South Korea reported a record 950 daily coronavirus cases on Saturday, exceeding the late February peak of 909, with the president calling the country’s third wave of COVID-19 an “emerge...

Royal Bengal Tiger spotted at a height of 3,165 m above sea level in Nepal, raising concerns about impact of global warming

Royal Bengal Tiger spotted at a height of 3,165 m above sea level in Nepal, raising concerns about impact of global warming

-- 2020-12-12 17:44:02

The Royal Bengal Tiger has been sighted at an altitude of 3,165 m above sea level for the first time in Nepal, raising concerns about the impact of global warming on wildlife. The departments of fore...

Iran executes journalist who encouraged 2017 anti-govt protests

Iran executes journalist who encouraged 2017 anti-govt protests

-- 2020-12-12 12:37:19

Iranian dissident journalist Ruhollah Zam, who was convicted of fomenting violence during the 2017 anti-government protests, was executed on Saturday, Iran’s state television reported. Iran&rsq...

India prepares for 600m Covid vaccine doses in next 6-8 months

India prepares for 600m Covid vaccine doses in next 6-8 months

Reuters 2020-12-12 10:48:21

India will deploy its vast election machinery to deliver 600 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to the most vulnerable people in the next six to eight months through conventional cold chain systems, t...

Pakistan accuses arch-rival India of funding disinformation campaign in EU

Pakistan accuses arch-rival India of funding disinformation campaign in EU

Reuters 2020-12-12 10:17:26

Pakistan accused arch-rival India of funding a long-running disinformation campaign against it on Friday and said it would raise the matter in global forums. In making its claim that India attempted...

Rohingya widow demands compensation from Myanmar for killing her husband

Rohingya widow demands compensation from Myanmar for killing her husband

Reuters 2020-12-11 23:23:48

A Rohingya woman is seeking $2.0 million in compensation for the death of her husband who was killed by government soldiers during a 2017 military crackdown in western Myanmar, lawyers said. Legal Ac...

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai charged under national security law

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai charged under national security law

-- 2020-12-11 20:49:41

Hong Kong democracy activist and media tycoon Jimmy Lai, 73, has been charged under the city’s national security law on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces, his Apple Daily newspaper repo...

Morocco agrees to normalise Israel ties as fourth Arab country

Morocco agrees to normalise Israel ties as fourth Arab country

-- 2020-12-11 19:10:39

Israel and Morocco agreed on Thursday to normalise relations in a deal brokered with US help, making Morocco the fourth Arab country to set aside hostilities with Israel in the past four months. It j...

India allows surgeries by traditional practitioners, one million doctors on strike

India allows surgeries by traditional practitioners, one million doctors on strike

-- 2020-12-11 17:30:32

Around a million doctors in India went on a day-long strike on Friday amid the coronavirus pandemic to protest against a new federal government rule that allows practitioners of the traditional scienc...

Australia halts vaccine production due to false HIV positives

Australia halts vaccine production due to false HIV positives

-- 2020-12-11 16:21:34

Australia cancelled the production of a locally made vaccine against COVID-19 after trials showed it could interfere with HIV diagnosis, with the government instead securing additional doses of rival...

Where water turns to snow: South Korean warehouse prepares to store Pfizer's vaccine

Where water turns to snow: South Korean warehouse prepares to store Pfizer's vaccine

-- 2020-12-11 13:54:30

Some of the rooms in Korea Superfreeze Inc’s coldest warehouse are so frigid that a cup of warm water thrown into one will immediately turn into snow. Located 65 km (40 miles) below Seoul and b...

India gears up for vaccine race

India gears up for vaccine race

Reuters 2020-12-11 09:12:48

India, the world’s biggest vaccine maker, is getting set for the massive global blitz to contain the coronavirus pandemic with its pharmaceutical industry and partners freeing up capacity and ac...

Lebanese judge charges PM, ex-ministers over Beirut port blast

Lebanese judge charges PM, ex-ministers over Beirut port blast

Reuters 2020-12-10 19:42:57

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon’s investigating judge charged caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab and three former ministers with negligence over the Beirut port blast that killed 200 people and rav...

India raids cement giants UltraTech, LafargeHolcim units

India raids cement giants UltraTech, LafargeHolcim units

Reuters 2020-12-10 11:14:18

India’s antitrust body on Wednesday conducted raids at offices of UltraTech Cement and two subsidiaries of the world’s largest cement maker LafargeHolcim, two sources close to the matter t...

UAE says Sinopharm vaccine has 86pc efficacy

UAE says Sinopharm vaccine has 86pc efficacy

-- 2020-12-09 16:20:11

An experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) has 86 per cent efficacy, the health ministry of the United Arab Emirates said on Wednesday, citing an...

India mulls amending farm reform to end protests

India mulls amending farm reform to end protests

Reutesr 2020-12-09 15:28:53

India's government will consider amending reforms that have sparked protests by farmers fearing the end of guaranteed crop prices but it will not abandon the plan, a government official said on Wednes...

Saarc can realise full potential only in terror-free atmosphere, says Modi

Saarc can realise full potential only in terror-free atmosphere, says Modi

Hindustan Times 2020-12-08 20:14:20

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday the full potential of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) can only realised in an atmosphere free of terrorism and violence...

A year on, markets buzzing in Chinese city where coronavirus cases popped up

A year on, markets buzzing in Chinese city where coronavirus cases popped up

-- 2020-12-08 19:44:46

Hundreds of shoppers pack a wet market on a December weekday morning in the Chinese city of Wuhan, jostling to buy fresh vegetables and live fish, frogs and turtles, reports Reuters. Almost a year si...

New Zealand mosque shooter visited India before attack: Report

New Zealand mosque shooter visited India before attack: Report

-- 2020-12-08 19:39:43

Brenton Tarrant, the Australian-born attacker who killed 51 Muslim worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch in 2019, travelled extensively around the world, including India where he spent nearly thr...

China, Nepal announce new height of Mount Everest as 8848.86 metres

China, Nepal announce new height of Mount Everest as 8848.86 metres

-- 2020-12-08 17:15:40

China and Nepal jointly announced the new height of Mount Everest, known as Mount Qomolangma in China, as 8848.86 metres on Tuesday, ending years of debate over the three-metre difference that the two...

Kuwait emir reappoints Sheikh Sabah al-Khalid as PM

Kuwait emir reappoints Sheikh Sabah al-Khalid as PM

-- 2020-12-08 16:42:41

Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah reappointed Sheikh Sabah al-Khalid al-Sabah as prime minister on Tuesday following parliamentary polls in the Gulf Arab state, which faces its worst econom...

800-page report reveals how New Zealand mosque shooter eluded detection

800-page report reveals how New Zealand mosque shooter eluded detection

AP 2020-12-08 15:36:49

A comprehensive report into the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings in which 51 Muslim worshippers were slaughtered sheds new light on how the gunman was able to elude detection by authorities as he pl...

India reports lowest daily coronavirus cases in five months

India reports lowest daily coronavirus cases in five months

Reuters 2020-12-08 15:08:31

India reported 26,567 new coronavirus infections, data from the health ministry showed on Tuesday, the lowest daily increase since July 10, according to a Reuters tally. Daily cases have been falling...

Japan targets boosting birth rate by funding AI matchmaking

Japan targets boosting birth rate by funding AI matchmaking

-- 2020-12-08 12:28:58

Japan plans to boost its tumbling birth rate by funding artificial intelligence matchmaking schemes to help residents find love. From next year it will subsidise local governments already running or...

China’s FM hopes US policy on China can return to objectivity

China’s FM hopes US policy on China can return to objectivity

-- 2020-12-07 19:17:18

China’s State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Monday he hoped and believed that US policy on China could eventually “return to objectivity and rationality”. China&rs...

India arrests 10 men under new anti-conversion law

India arrests 10 men under new anti-conversion law

-- 2020-12-07 18:25:45

Police in northern India have arrested 10 men for allegedly compelling women to change their religion after getting married, using a new anti-conversion law popularly called the "Love Jihad" law, offi...

India's indigenous tribes find remedies for coronavirus in forests

India's indigenous tribes find remedies for coronavirus in forests

Reuters   2020-12-07 15:46:14

A few weeks ago, Mukteshwar Kalo, a member of the Kondh tribe in eastern India, suddenly came down with a fever, cough and aches. Nearly anywhere else, these symptoms would be enough to raise fears o...