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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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    India, Pakistan foreign secretaries to meet in Kabul

    Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale will come face to face with his Pakistani counterpart, Tehmina Janjua, in Kabul this week for the Kabul conference

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    Maldives declines India's invite for 16-nation 'Milan' naval exercise

    Maldives has declined India's invitation to participate in the biennial naval exercise Milan, which starts March 6, Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba said on Tuesday.

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    Jordan King arrives in India; talks on regional and defense on the cards

    Jordanian King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein will arrive on a three-day visit to India today. The King will be accompanied by a business delegation during the visit, scheduled from February 27 to March 1. 

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    Pakistan says will follow UN resolution, ban JuD

    Federal Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal has said that Pakistan will follow the UN’s resolutions and ban the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF), according to a report published by Express Tribune.

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    Villagers flee as Pakistan, India trade artillery fire

    India and Pakistan have exchanged artillery fire in the disputed Kashmir region forcing hundreds of people to flee, police in India-held territory said, raising doubts about a 15-year-old ceasefire between.

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    India seizes jeweler's farmhouse, power plant after PNB fraud

    Indian authorities said on Saturday they seized a farmhouse, a solar power plant and land belonging to billionaire jeweler Nirav Modi, at the center of an alleged $1.8 billion.

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    Pak back on terror financing watchlist as China stays silent

    The Financial Action Task Force on Friday decided to place Pakistan back on its terror financing watch-list on a list of countries that financially aid terrorism with effect from.

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    Petition in Pakistan court for renaming roundabout in Lahore after Bhagat Sing

    A petition has been filed in a Pakistani court seeking renaming of Lahore’s Shaadman Chowk where freedom fighter Bhagat Singh was hanged 86 years ago and installation of his statue there.

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    Indian army chief threatens Pak with 'surgical strike option'

    Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat, on Wednesday said Indian army will give Pakistan a reply “sooner rather than later” for the February 10 attack on a military camp allegedly.

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    Trump ‘not satisfied’ with Pakistan’s anti-terror actions, says White House

    United States President Donald Trump is “not satisfied” with the progress shown by Pakistan in its fight against terrorism, said the White House deputy press secretary.

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    India's Modi meets Canada PM Trudeau amid controversy

    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has met his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau, nearly a week after he arrived on his first state visit.The meeting comes a day after Canada withdrew.

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    Canada rescinds invitation to Sikh militant to dine with Trudeau

    Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau admitted on Thursday that a convicted Sikh extremist had been invited to dine with him in New Delhi, just the latest controversy to dog his visit to India.

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