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  Taliban captures second provincial capital in Afghanistan

  World | August 07, 2021 18:57 IST

  Sources said that security forces are stationed only at the provincial airport in Khwaja Dako district, which is the hometown of former vice president Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum and is located 17 kilometers from the city of Sheberghan.  

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  Nepal President sacks all province chiefs

  World | November 03, 2019 19:10 IST

  The President relieved the governors from their posts in accordance with the constitutional provisions at the recommendation of the Council of Ministers, the President's office said in a statement

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  Lanka tells India devolving powers to provinces not possible

  World | June 04, 2014 21:52 IST

  Colombo: Sri Lanka today said it had made it clear to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that devolving police powers to the provinces, including the Tamil-dominated areas, was not possible saying “it has nothing to do

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  Salman Khurshid meets Rajapaksa, visits Northern Province

  World | October 08, 2013 23:13 IST

  Colombo: India's External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, on a two-day visit to Sri Lanka, Tuesday met President Mahinda Rajapaksa and later visited the Tamil-majority Northern Province where he said that India is committed to implementation

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  Blast hits city in east Afghan province

  World | September 08, 2013 15:48 IST

  Kabul: A powerful explosion went off next to an Afghan intelligence office not far from the capital on Sunday, a provincial lawmaker said. There was no immediate word on casualties, but gunshots also were heard

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  27 killed in riots China's Xinjiang province

  World | June 26, 2013 15:32 IST

  Beijing, Jun 26: At least 27 people, including 9 security personnel, were killed today as knife-wielding rioters attacked police stations and government building in China's restive Xinjiang province in one of the worst violence since

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  Punjab province refuses to house Afridi in Adiala Jail

  World | June 11, 2012 22:12 IST

  Islamabad, Jun 11: Authorities in Pakistan's Punjab have turned down a request from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province to lodge Shakeel Afridi, the doctor arrested for helping the CIA track Osama bin Laden, at the Adiala Jail in

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  Taliban Twin Bombers Kill 42 At Shrine, 100 Injured

  World | April 04, 2011 12:13 IST

  Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan, Apr 3 :  A pair of Taliban suicide bombers struck one of Pakistan's most important Sufi Muslim shrines on Sunday, killing 42 people and wounding 100 who were celebrating the anniversary