NEW DELHI: Ministry of Finance is considering cutting special taxes in gasoline and diesel to cushion the impact of record domestic prices, said three government officials close to the discussions. The doubling of the price of crude oil in the last 10 months has contributed to registering fuel prices at …
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The drug regulator authorizes vaccines developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, based in the United Kingdom, and another developed by Bharat Biotech of India. India has authorized the emergency use of two coronavirus vaccines developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, and by local pharmaceutical firm Bharat …
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The approval paves the way for the launch of the vaccine in the second most affected country in the world. India’s drug regulator has approved a coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford for emergency use, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters news agency. …
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Dozens of people arrested, including a local Islamic leader, after a Muslim mob destroyed a temple in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. A Hindu temple in Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that was destroyed by a Muslim mob earlier this week will be rebuilt with funds from the provincial government, its …
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Pakistan police arrested more than a dozen people in night raids the day after Shri Paramhans Ji Maharaj Samadhi, a Hindu temple, was burned down and badly damaged by a mob in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakthunkhwa, authorities said on Thursday. The attack on the temple on Wednesday in …
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Videos circulating on social media showed men using hammers to damage the temple after a speech by Muslim leaders. Hundreds of Muslims attacked and set fire to a Hindu temple in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, police and witnesses said. Videos circulating on social media showed men using hammers to damage …
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Indian police on Sunday accused an army officer and two associates of planting weapons on the bodies of three workers killed in Kashmir to make it appear they were armed fighters in an organized shooting. Their deaths in July sparked a furor in Indian-administered Kashmir. Captain Bhoopendra Singh has been …
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The arrests came after an anti-Modi alliance won a majority of seats in local elections last week. The Indian government arrested at least 75 Kashmiri political leaders and activists to prevent political unrest after an alliance of Kashmiri regional political parties won local elections, leaders and a police official said …
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Sheikh was acquitted of Pearl’s murder earlier this year, but has been detained while Pearl’s family appeals the acquittal. A provincial court in Pakistan has ordered the release of a British-born Pakistani accused of the 2002 murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl. Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the main suspect in …
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The alliance that favors self-government in Kashmir has won 112 out of a total of 280 seats in the municipal elections. An alliance of political parties in Indian-administered Kashmir that opposes India’s policies in the region has won the most seats in local elections, the first since New Delhi revoked …
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