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Afghanistan’s embassy in Pakistan said around 800 Afghans living in the capital have been detained by authorities, including some who are registered with the UN’s refugee agency. It warned in a statement late on Monday (January 7, 2025) that uncertainty around the visa process for Afghans in Pakistan has caused “troubling cases of arbitrary detention…
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File picture of Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. | Photo Credit: PTI President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will visit China from January 14 to 17, the Cabinet Spokesman announced on Tuesday (January 7, 2025), confirming the Sri Lankan leader’s second state visit abroad, a month after he visited India. President Dissanayake will be accompanied by…
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court collegium on Tuesday recommended Patna High Court Chief Justice K Vinod Chandran to be appointed as a judge of the top court. The five-judge collegium led by Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna in a meeting held on Tuesday recommended the name of Justice Chandran, who was appointed as a…
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World number one Aryna Sabalenka will be hot favourite to secure an Australian Open hat-trick, having won the past two years at Melbourne Park. In-form Coco Gauff and Iga Swiatek are her biggest threats, but Zheng Qinwen could be primed for a Slam breakthrough after a stellar 2024, while emerging talent Mirra Andreeva…
On January 6th, the outgoing president Joe Biden condemned the Capitol attack which happened the same day in 2021. “We should be proud that our democracy withstood this assault…And we should be glad we will not see such a shameful attack again this year,” Biden wrote, in an opinion post in The Washington Post. Biden…
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File image of Naomi Osaka and Cordae.© X (Twitter) Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka says she and her American rapper boyfriend Cordae have split up just days ahead of the Australian Open. The couple have been together since 2019 and share a young daughter, Shai. “Hi everyone, just wanted to say that Cordae…
File image of Jannik Sinner.© AFP World number one Jannik Sinner said Tuesday his “amazing” 2024 was history as he warmed up for the defence of his Australian Open title with a tough exhibition match victory on Melbourne’s centre court. The Italian is coming off a breakthrough year in which he backed up…
New Delhi: The use of an improvised explosive device by Maoists to kill eight police personnel and a civilian driver – carrying out their largest strike in two years and the first major assault of 2025 – has raised a series of questions about possible lapses in compliance with the standard operating procedure (SOP). The…
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Guangzhou FC, China’s most successful football team and former Asian champions, have been thrown out of the country’s professional leagues because of “heavy historical debt”, the club say. The effective demise of the eight-time Chinese Super League (CSL) winners, once managed by Marcello Lippi and also Fabio Cannavaro, signals the end of an…
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Gondia: Three men were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly causing the death of a tigress in eastern Maharashtra’s Bhandara district, forest officials said. As per the preliminary probe, the accused had laid electrified wire to kill a wild boar, but the tigress came in contact with it and was electrocuted. The carcass of the three-year-old…
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