DUBAI: With foreign workers making up the vast bulk of private sector jobs in the United Arab Emirates, the Gulf’s second-largest economy wants to boost opportunities for its own citizens. The UAE — like other oil-rich Arab Gulf states — has often used the public sector as an employment vehicle for its nationals. But times […]
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A 17-year-old from the Shalhar area of central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district has written “Some Black Pages” – a story of a girl who shares everything with a diary as she has no one to talk to. Sania Zahra, daughter of Ghulam Mohammad Mir, is a 12th-class student at Higher Secondary School in the Sumbal area […]
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Srinagar: The government Monday constituted a 16-member committee to oversee the preparations related to G20 event in Jammu and Kashmir. According to on order, the committee would be headed by Financial Commissioner Home Department, J&K, R K Goyal. “In view of the visit of officials from G20 participating countries and organisations to J&K, sanction is […]
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Taiwan will extend mandatory military service from four months to one year, President Tsai Ing-wen has said. The decision comes amid growing tensions with China, which claims the self-ruled island as its territory. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, President Tsai announced new plans to bolster Taiwan’s defence in the event of an attack […]
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A Myanmar junta court will give its verdicts on five remaining charges in the 18-month trial of jailed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday, a legal source told AFP. Suu Kyi has been a prisoner since the military toppled her government in February last year, ending the Southeast Asian nation’s brief period of […]
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Srinagar: Brand Kashmir is soaring high after the famed Pashmina shawls were gifted to thousands of VIP guests during the recently concluded FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Sources said reputed Kashmiri Handicrafts Company `Khazir Sons’ made these specially designed shawls for the FIFA World Cup. Pashmina Shawls were official souvenirs of Qatar. Officials were presenting […]
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KARACHI: The ongoing political unrest and smuggling of US dollars to Afghanistan continue to put pressure on Pakistani currency, foreign exchange dealers said on Monday. “Pakistan is currently dealing with problems on several fronts, the political crisis being the first and biggest one. The dollar crisis is also connected with it,” said Malik Bostan, the […]
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NEW DELHI, Dec 26 (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday said he sought India’s help with implementing a “peace formula” in a phone call with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.The conversation comes at a time when India is seeking to strengthen trade relations with Moscow while Western nations introduce new measures to limit Russia’s […]
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Dec – A powerful blizzard that paralyzed western New York over Christmas weekend has killed at least 25 people, Erie county officials said on Monday, as road and utility crews faced a long day of digging out the snowed-in region around Buffalo.Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz told reporters at a Monday morning briefing that the […]
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China is staging one of its biggest incursions so far in the seas and skies around Taiwan, according to data from the island’s defence ministry. It said that 71 Chinese air force planes, including fighter jets and drones, had entered Taiwan’s so-called air defence identification zone. Taiwan is self-ruled – but China sees it as […]
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