MUZAFFARABAD: A “hunger strike unto death” by as many as 30 office-bearers of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir School Teachers Organisation (AJK STO) entered its second day on Tuesday with participants showing no signs of giving up until acceptance of their demands. The hunger strike camp has been set up along a busy roundabout in […]
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Kashmir Cultural Centre, Vienna along with SPÖ (Social Democratic Party) of Austria organised a seminar on “Socio-Economic development in Kashmir- A people’s perspective” inside Rathaus Hall, the seat of the Vienna state government. Mr. Peter Florianschutz, member of Vienna State parliament and Chairman of State Committee for European and International Affairs, Ms. Safak Akcay, member […]
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The government reportedly wants to speed up the naturalization process to make it easier for migrants to become German citizens. Easier dual citizenship is also on the cards.Germany’s coalition government is working on making it easier for migrants to become German citizens, according to local reports.German newspaper Bild reported on Friday that the Interior Ministry was […]
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Recent murders have drawn public attention to gender-based violence in India, where officials have failed to track such attacks. As the UN compiles femicide statistics, DW looks at why India is likely to come up short.On November 12, news broke of a young woman in Delhi who was strangled and dismembered by her live-in partner. […]
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LONDON: Indian students have for the first time overtaken Chinese as the largest group of foreign students studying in the UK with a massive 273 per cent hike in visas granted over the past few years, according to the country’s official immigration statistics released on Thursday.The UK Home Office data collated by the Office for […]
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NEW DELHI: Just days before his retirement, Pakistan Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Wednesday said that the East Pakistan debacle of 1971 was a political failure and not a military one.The army chief rejected the commonly held notion that 92,000 soldiers surrendered in the 1971 war and claimed that there were […]
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ISLAMABAD: Former premier Imran Khan has lamented that the US has been using Pakistan like a “hired gun” in the war against terror and America’s ties with his country are “very undignified” as compared to a very “civilised relationship” with India.His comments came days after Khan signaled his readiness to mend ties with the United […]
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Srinagar, Nov, 24, (KIF) : Senior political leader and former Deputy Chief Minister, Muzaffar Hussain Beig on Thursday said that situation in J&K stabilized a lot in past three years and hoped it will be improved further in times to come. “Though many are contesting the claims of normalcy but the fact is the situation […]
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PRAGUE/WARSAW, Nov – Eastern Europe’s arms industry is churning out guns, artillery shells and other military supplies at a pace not seen since the Cold War as governments in the region lead efforts to aid Ukraine in its fight against Russia.Allies have been supplying Kyiv with weapons and military equipment since Russia invaded its neighbour […]
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NEW DELHI, Nov – India, the world’s third biggest oil import, hopes to convert the current global oil challenges from the Ukraine crisis into an opportunity to secure affordable energy, Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Thursday, a day after the European Union failed to agree on a Russian oil price cap.India, which rarely […]
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