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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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    Indian elite security unit soldier kills four colleagues

    The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) soldier fired indiscriminately at four senior officers at the barracks in Aurangabad district in eastern India's Bihar state before trying to flee. 

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    Will head Muslim alliance on 3 conditions:Sharif

    Former Pak Army Chief General (retd) Raheel Sharif has put forth three conditions to assume the command of a 39-nation Islamic military alliance, a retired army officer claimed today.

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    Pakistan mulls bringing back military courts

    Pakistan government is planning to revive controversial military courts set up for the speedy trial of hardcore terrorists as they played an extremely important role to combat extremism, two days after they were wound.

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    Indian Police accused of mass rape during operation

    India's rights watchdog said more than a dozen tribal women were raped and sexually assaulted by police in restive Chhattisgarh state, with the victims' lawyer slamming authorities over delays in arresting.

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    Ex-Pak Army chief to head Saudi led military alliance

    Pakistan’s recently retired army chief Gen Raheel Sharif will head the Saudi Arabia-led 39-nation Islamic military coalition formed to combat terrorism, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said today.

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    Police in India urged to investigate New Year sexual assaults

    Reports of sexual assaults on women revellers at New Year's Eve celebrations in India's southern information technology hub of Bengaluru have spurred women's rights activists to demand that police investigate.

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    US started process for solving India-Pak water dispute

    The US administration has initiated a process for resolving a water dispute between India and Pakistan “without waiting for an invitation” to get involved in the matter according to a Pakistani media report.

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    Pakistan approves Hindu marriage bill

    In what appears to be a New Year's gift for Hindu minorities in Pakistan, the Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights unanimously approved the much-awaited Hindu Marriages Bill on Monday.

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    India says unable to help British aid worker

    India External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has expressed inability in helping a British woman charity worker of Iranian origin who has been sentenced to one year imprisonment by a court in India.

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    Pakistan seeks US support for Indus Waters Treaty

    Pakistan has sought the support of United States on the implementation of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) with India.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had a telephone conversation with Pakistan Finance Minister.

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    China blocks India's bid to blacklist Masood Azhar

    China has blocked India’s request to add the head of the Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) to a UN Security Council blacklist of groups linked to al Qaeda.

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    Pak rejects new formula for NSG membership

    Pakistan's Foreign Office has rejected a new formula for evaluation of the candidature of non-Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) states for the Nuclear Suppliers Groups (NSG) membership as "discriminatory" and "unhelpful".

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