FARMERS HANG ON AMIDST INCREASED TENSION AT PROTEST SITES The Delhi Police have arrested 44 people at Singhu border between Delhi and Haryana, the epicentre of the two-month long farmers' protest against three central laws.
PHILIPPINES SETS CONDITIONS ON ENTRY OF FOREIGNERS STARTING FEB. 1 MANILA The inter-agency task force leading the country's COVID-19 response has set conditions on the entry of foreign travelers into the country next month, Malacañang said on Friday. The IATF, which met on Thur
WHO TEAM LEAVES WUHAN QUARANTINE TO START COVID PROBE A World Health Organization (WHO) team emerged Thursday from a Wuhan hotel used for 14 days quarantine and boarded a bus to begin its probe into the first known coronavirus cases. Outside the hotel, reporters were kept distant by yell
PROTESTORS THINNING AS SECURITY TIGHTENED, LOCALS PUT PRESSURE ON FARMERS After the violence that rocked the Capital on Republic Day, it may be an uphill task for farm leaders to keep the agitation against the Centre's farm laws on course as the first signs of resistance to their sit-ins
RUSSIA OKs EXTENSION TO ARMS CONTROL PACT WITH US Russian lawmakers on Wednesday quickly approved the extension of the last remaining nuclear Russia-US arms control treaty, a fast-track action that comes just days before it's due to expire. Both the Houses voted unanimously to extend the
MANILA - The Philippines' gross domestic product contracted anew in the fourth quarter shrinking 8.3 percent to bring the full year 2020 growth to -9.5 percent, the state statistics agency said Thursday. In contrast, the Philippine economy grew 6.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2019, and post
FARMERS UNIONS CALL OFF PARLIAMENT MARCH, ALLEGE PLOT TO BREAK THEM Its negotiators with the government named in Republic Day violence FIRs and under pressure following cracks within over the direction of the protest, the Samyukta Kisan Morcha, the umbrella organisation of farmer unions
US SETS NEW DAILY RECORDS OF 3,700 COVID DEATHS, 250,000 CASES The United States set a double record on Wednesday registering more than 3,700 deaths and over 250,000 new Covid-19 cases in just 24 hours, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University. With the new reported fatalities,
ASEAN PARLIAMENTARIANS URGE DUTERTE ADMIN TO 'END RED-TAGGING' OPPOSITION LAWMAKERS MANILA - Parliamentarians from Southeast Asia on Thursday called on President Rodrigo Duterte to end the dangerous campaign of red-tagging opposition lawmakers which is allegedly an attempt to silence his
FARMERS' PROTEST, DAY 21: NO MEETING GROUND BETWEEN THE TWO SIDES Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar Wednesday said that the ongoing protest by farmers at Delhi borders was an "exception" and "limited to one state". "The ongoing protest is an exception and the agitation is l
