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COVID-19 Impact: How Southeast and South Asian Airlines are faring
Updated : 1 week, 3 days ago IST
Singapore, February 22 (ANI): Recovery in air travel appears to have stagnated. This was one of the findings in a report published earlier this month by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) based on its December data.
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SAARC virtual meet: India invites Pak to COVID-19 workshop
Updated : 2 weeks, 1 day ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 17 (ANI): India will host a health secretary-level meet virtually with other South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation countries on Thursday to discuss the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. Pakistan has also been invited to attend the workshop.
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China forces countries in Indian Ocean region to 'trade debt with
Updated : 2 weeks, 6 days ago IST
Taipei [Taiwan], February 12 (ANI): China has created financial dependence amongst several South Asian and Southeast Asian countries and has pushed its agenda of establishing commercial bases in the Indian Ocean region to the extent of trading debt with sovereignty, said Taiwan Times weekend
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A ride for humanity by Kiran Chukkapalli
Updated : 2 weeks, 6 days ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], February 12 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Every year, thousands of people from South Asian countries are forced to flee their homes because of persecution and conflict and enter India in search of a safe life.
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Sovereign, united Afghanistan essential to South Asian prosperity:
Updated : 3 weeks, 2 days ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], February 9 (ANI): Reiterating Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call for a terror-free region, Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani, on Tuesday, said that a sovereign and united Afghanistan is essential to South Asia's prosperity.
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Rejection of British National Overseas passports leaves ethnic min
Updated : 1 month ago IST
Hong Kong, February 2 (ANI): Thousands of members of ethnic minority communities in Hong Kong - Indians, Pakistanis, Nepalese - who only have a British National Overseas BN (O) passport are facing fresh hurdle in going abroad after the government said it no longer recognised the document
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Quess amongst 50 Largest Staffing Firms globally
Updated : 1 month ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], January 27 (ANI/NewsVoir): Quess Corp, the "Made in India" business services provider and the nation's largest domestic private sector employer, has been ranked 50th on the Largest Global Staffing Firms 2020 list by Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA), a global ad
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European, South Asian countries need to adopt a multifaceted respo
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
Amsterdam [Netherlands], January 27 (ANI): The discourse on security has shifted from 'traditional' security issues such as inter-State conflict and nuclear war to 'non-traditional' threats by non-State actors such as the Al-Qaeda, IS and Lashkar-e-Taiba. European and South Asian countrie
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"IWIL India StartUp Marathon saw more than 100 StartUps, 30 Global
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 20 (ANI/ IWIL India Foundation): Indian Women Institutional League (IWIL India) is a non-profit that incubates entrepreneurs, MSMEs, and Business School students. It brought 35 business schools, 30 Global Mentors, 20 patrons, and 100s of StartUps from across Ind
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South Asian human rights body slams Pak over forced conversion of
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 24 (ANI): In light of a 17-year old Hindu girl who died by suicide in October this year after she was allegedly raped last year, in Pakistan's Tharparkar district, a body of South Asian human rights groups has slammed Islamabad for unchecked forced conversion o
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Protest outside Pak mission in Washington, demonstrators demand ap
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Washington [US], December 14 (ANI): A US-based Bangladeshi organisation along with other South Asian minorities held a protest outside the Pakistani Embassy in Washington, demanding an apology for the 1971 'genocide' named Operation Searchlight.
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'Highly unacceptable', says Europe think tank on failure to nail P
Updated : 3 months ago IST
Amsterdam [Netherlands], November 28 (ANI): The international community's failure to nail Pakistan for Mumbai terror attacks even after the 12 years is "highly unacceptable," according to an European think tank, which said the Pakistani military establishment, was "eminently culpable" in the
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