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October 12, 2016 4:51 PM

Aung San Suu Kyi to embark on three day-visit to India

The State Counsellor of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi will pay a three day-visit to India from 17th of this month. The visit will take place immediately after the conclusion of the BRICS-BIMSTEC outreach summit to be held in Goa on October 16, to which the State Counsellor will lead the Myanmar delegatio...

October 12, 2016 4:24 PM

Sri Lanka: TNA rejects PM's claim to give Buddhism foremost place

Sri Lanka's Opposition and main Tamil party, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has rejected Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's claim that his party has agreed to give Buddhism the foremost place in the new constitution. TNA's spokesman and MP Sumanthiran told a local daily that his par...

October 12, 2016 4:24 PM

US express concern over difficulties faced by journalists in Pakistan

US have expressed concern over the difficulties and dangers faced by journalists in Pakistan. State Department spokesman, John Kirby said in Washington that it is obviously an issue that US continue to raise regularly with the government of Pakistan. He said US is concerned about the efforts to limi...

October 12, 2016 2:22 PM

France: Paris attacker's lawyers resign

In France, lawyers for the only known survivor of a group of Islamist militants today resigned from the role, saying his continued refusal to testify was due to the conditions of his detention. The suspect, Salah Abdeslam, killed 130 people in Paris last year. Abdeslam held in a solitary confinement...

October 12, 2016 12:55 PM

Ivory Coast: National Assembly approve draft of new constitution

In Ivory Coast, the National Assembly has approved the draft of a new constitution proposed by President Alassane Ouattara to ease nationality rules for presidential candidates, a move the government says will end prolonged instability. <br/><br/>The new proposals soften the nationality ...

October 12, 2016 9:07 AM

India conveys opposition to Russia over joint exercise with Pakistan

India has conveyed its opposition to Russia over its joint exercise with Pakistan, a nation which, it said, sponsors and practises terrorism as a matter of state policy. In an interview to Russian news agency Ria Novosti, Indian Ambassador to Moscow Pankaj Saran said, the exercise will create furthe...

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