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    Mt Everest's snow cover receded by 150 mtr this winter

    Analysing NASA satellite images from October 2023 till early January 2025, trends illustrated "a rise in snow line through January in both 2024 and 2025", glaciologist Mauri Pelto, a professor of environmental science

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    'We missed you a lot': Trump showers praises on PM Modi

    PM Modi is among the first few world leaders to visit the US following Trump's re-election and was invited to visit within just three weeks of the new administration taking office.

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    PM Modi, President Trump launch ASIA initiative

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday (February 13, 2025) kick-started a new initiative named Autonomous Systems Industry Alliance (ASIA) to scale industry partnerships and production

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    Jaishankar slams 'double standards' on India’s neighbors

    While delivering the keynote address at the IIC-Bruegel Annual Seminar in Delhi, the Minister emphasised that the agenda can no longer be set by some only to be observed by the rest.

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    Pakistan's new cyber law sparks free speech concerns

    According to Patricia Gossman of Human Rights Watch, Pakistan's amended Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act "neither respects fundamental human rights nor protects the public from legitimate online security threats."

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    Bangladesh removes Mujib from banknotes, bans Hasina’s speeches

    Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal on Thursday ordered a ban on disseminating deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s hate speeches in the mainstream media and social media networks as the tribunal is set to try

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    Freight train to link Pakistan with Russia; trial in March

    Russia and Pakistan are set to be linked by freight train line that will pass through Iran and Azerbaijan with the first trial run likely to take place in March next year, a Pakistan minister has said in an interview...

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    Fear grips Pakistan’s Kurram district as 50 killed in cold blood

    Fear gripped Pakistan’s northwestern Kurram district on Friday as the death toll from two terror attacks rose to 50, with authorities imposing a curfew and suspending mobile phone services in the remote region

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    Air emergency in Delhi: smog halts life, schools closed

    India’s capital New Delhi switched schools to online classes on Monday until further notice as worsening toxic smog surged past 60 times the World Health Organisation’s recommended daily maximum.

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    Sri Lanka’s leftist ruling coalition wins election in landslide

    Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s leftist coalition has achieved a landslide victory in snap elections, delivering the Marxist-leaning leader a powerful mandate to ease punishing austerity measures

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    Suicide Bomber Kills 26 At Pakistan Railway Station 

    Saturday’s assault came a little over a week after a powerful bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded near a vehicle carrying police officers assigned to protect polio workers in the province

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    India & Canada expel envoys in Sikh separatist killing row

    India on Monday asked Canadian diplomats in Delhi to leave country by Saturday after Ottawa said it was investigating its Indian ambassador and other diplomats as "persons of interest", after killing of a Sikh leader

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    Malala returns to Pakistan for first time since attack

    Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai returned to Pakistan on Thursday, officials said, in her first visit to her native country since she was shot in the head by a Taliban.

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    Water dispute: Top Pakistani diplomat in India for talks

    Acting Pakistan Commissioner for Indus Waters (PCIW) Mehar Ali Shah left for India on Wednesday to hold talks with his Indian counterpart on the ongoing water conflict.

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    Sri Lanka’s police, politicians accused of joining anti-Muslim riots

    Police and politicians backed by the country’s former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa joined anti-Muslim riots that rocked Sri Lanka’s Kandy district this month, according to.

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    US sanctions seven Pakistani firms for ‘nuclear trade’

    The Trump administration has added seven Pakistani companies to a list of foreign entities that presumably pose a significant risk to the national security and policy interests of.

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    New data leak hits India’s national ID card database

    India’s biometric ID programme, Aadhaar, has been hit by another major security lapse, allowing access to private information, business technology news website.

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    Babri Masjid case: Top Court's Query ‘is mosque integral to Islam’

    In a new Indian Supreme Court has said that politically sensitive Ayodhya land dispute case will be delayed as the Supreme Court on Friday said it will first decide whether the apex court’s 1994 decision.

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    Pakistan celebrates National Day with military parade

    Pakistanis celebrated on Friday their National Day with a military parade in the capital, Islamabad, showcasing short- and long-range missiles, tanks, jets, drones and other hardware.

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    Indian court jails 11 men for life over ‘beef’ murder

    An Indian court has sentenced 11 men to life in prison for killing a Muslim meat trader they suspected of transporting beef, in the first convictions over so-called “cow vigilantism”.

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    Pak acquires powerful missile tracking system from China

    In what considered to be an unprecedented deal, China has sold Pakistan a powerful tracking system that could speed up the Pakistani military’s development of multi-warhead missiles.

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    Maldives lifts state of emergency after 45 days

    Maldives President Abdulla Yameen on Thursday lifted a 45-day state of emergency which had outlawed protests amid political upheaval on the Muslim-majority Indian Ocean island chain.

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    India successfully test-fires supersonic cruise missile BrahMos

    Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman took to Twitter and congratulated the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for the successful fight test while stating how it will be a

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    '39 Indians abducted by Islamic State in Iraq are dead'

    All the 39 Indians abducted by Islamic State in Iraq’s Mosul in 2014 were dead, Indian external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj told the Rajya Sabha on Monday, dashing hopes of families.

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