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UAE adopts amendments to grant citizenship to investors and other professionals
Published On: January 31, 2021 07:24 AM NPT By: Reuters
DUBAI, Jan 31: The United Arab Emirates has adopted amendments that would allow the Gulf state to grant citizenship to investors and other professionals including scientists, doctors and their families, the government said on Saturday.
India cuts Internet near Delhi as hundreds of farmers begin hunger strike
Published On: January 31, 2021 07:13 AM NPT By: Reuters
SINGHU, India, Jan 31: India blocked mobile internet services in several areas around New Delhi on Saturday as protesting farmers began a one-day hunger strike after a week of clashes with authorities that left one dead and hundreds injured.
India cuts Internet near Delhi as hundreds of farmers begin hunger strike
Published On: January 30, 2021 05:15 PM NPT By: Reuters
SINGHU, INDIA, Jan 30: India blocked mobile internet services in several areas around New Delhi on Saturday as protesting farmers began a one-day hunger strike after a week of clashes with authorities that left one dead and hundreds injured.
Iran hangs Baluch militant for killing of two Revolutionary Guards, judiciary says
Published On: January 30, 2021 01:50 PM NPT By: Reuters
IRAN, Jan 30: Iran executed on Saturday an ethnic Baluch militant convicted of killing Revolutionary Guards members, the judiciary’s official website reported, a day after the United Nations urged Iranian authorities to spare his life.
Protesting Indian farmers begin hunger strike after week of clashes
Published On: January 30, 2021 12:22 PM NPT By: Reuters
NEW DELHI, Jan 30: Indian farmers began a one-day hunger strike on Saturday in protest against new agricultural laws after a week of clashes with authorities that left one dead and hundreds injured.
J&J COVID-19 vaccine is 72% effective in the U.S., and 66% overall in large trial
Published On: January 29, 2021 07:05 PM NPT By: Reuters
NEW JERSEY, Jan 29: Johnson & Johnson on Friday said its single-dose vaccine was 72% effective in preventing COVID-19 in the United States but a lower rate of 66% was observed globally in the large trial conducted across three continents and against multiple variants.
Indian economy shrinks 7.7% in fiscal 2020-21 amid pandemic
Published On: January 29, 2021 05:04 PM NPT By: Associated Press
NEW DELHI, Jan 29: India’s economy contracted by 7.7% in the 2020-21 financial year, battered by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report released Friday.
China will not recognise British passport for Hong Kong residents
Published On: January 29, 2021 03:56 PM NPT By: Reuters
BEIJING/LONDON, Jan 29: China said on Friday that it would not recognise the British National Overseas (BNO) passport as a valid travel document from Jan. 31, just as Britain offered a path to citizenship to millions of Hong Kong people eligible for it.
India’s opposition shuns Parliament, backs farmers’ demands
Published On: January 29, 2021 02:51 PM NPT By: Associated Press
NEW DELHI, Jan 29: Major Indian opposition parties boycotted the opening day of Parliament’s budget session on Friday in solidarity with protesting farmers engaged in a 2-month standoff over new agricultural laws the government refuses to repeal.
Fire at COVID-19 hospital in Romania kills four patients
Published On: January 29, 2021 01:22 PM NPT By: Republica
BUCHAREST, Jan 29: A fire killed four patients at a COVID-19 hospital in the Romanian capital Bucharest early on Friday and 102 others were evacuated, officials said, the second deadly hospital fire in the European Union state in under three months.
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