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  'No voice and bare faces': Taliban's new 'vice' laws impose tighter restrictions on women

  World | August 22, 2024 23:32 IST

  Afghanistan's new laws issued by the ministry for the “propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice” impose fresh curbs on women, such as their voices and bare faces. Women are banned from singing or reading aloud in public and looking at men they are not related to by blood or marriage.

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  International flights unlikely to reopen soon, says official as demand doesn't meet pre-Covid level

  India | October 21, 2021 21:36 IST

  Scheduled international passenger flights to and from India remain suspended since March last year amid the coronavirus pandemic. India has air bubble arrangements with more than 25 countries for operating international flights.  

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  Mumbai to remain in level 3 of COVID-19 curbs

  India | June 26, 2021 8:25 IST

  Mumbai will continue to be in category 3 of the Maharashtra government's five-level unlock plan that seeks to ease coronavirus-induced curbs as per infection positivity rate and oxygen bed occupancy numbers.

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  China re-imposes travel curbs on province after virus cases

  World | May 31, 2021 11:55 IST

  China on Monday re-imposed anti-coronavirus travel controls on its southern province of Guangdong, announcing anyone leaving the populous region must be tested for the virus following a spike in infections that has alarmed authorities.

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  Rating agency Care wants curbs on iron ore fines export

  March 03, 2014 19:45 IST

  Mumbai:  Advocating curbs on exports of iron ore fines, the rating agency Care today said the domestic reserves are likely to last only 28 years if export continues.  “Assuming the ongoing expansion in steel capacity,