December2016
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Indian finance panel to grill RBI’s Patel later on cash crunch
Dec 21, 2016News Hour: Indian central bank Governor Urjit Patel will not appear on Thursday before parliament’s finance committee to brief it on the government’s decision to scrap high-value bank notes, the panel’s chairman said on Wednesday. The... -
India’s central bank retracts directive for lenders to question depositors
Dec 21, 2016News Hour: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday retracted a directive for banks to question individuals depositing more than 5000 rupees ($74) in discontinued currency, just two days after issuing the order. The central... -
Pakistani cleric-turned-politician says sectarianism in his past
Dec 21, 2016News Hour: Masroor Nawaz Jhangvi, a Muslim cleric whose father was one of Pakistan’s most infamous sectarian figures, said he has become more moderate and distanced himself from his previous anti-Shia rhetoric after winning a regional... -
Famous Bangladeshi folk singer Abdul Gafur Hali passes away
Dec 21, 2016News Hour: Legendary folk singer and composer Abdul Gafur Hali died of old age complications here at the age of 88 early today, reports BSS. Hali, lyricist of Bangla folk, mystical and local songs, and composer... -
Nearly 1.8 million people still displaced in North-East Nigeria
Dec 21, 2016News Hour: IOM has identified 1,770,444 people as displaced across Nigeria through its Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM). This is a decrease from the 1,822,541 recorded in late October, reflecting the continuing trend of internally displaced persons... -
German police hunt Tunisian asylum-seeker over Christmas market attack
Dec 21, 2016News Hour: German police are looking for an asylum-seeker from Tunisia after finding an identity document under the driver’s seat of a truck that plowed into a Berlin Christmas market and killed 12 people, officials and... -
U.S. government loses to Russia’s disinformation campaign
Dec 21, 2016News Hour: The U.S. government spent more than a decade preparing responses to malicious hacking by a foreign power but had no clear strategy when Russia launched a disinformation campaign over the internet during the U.S.... -
Aid to reach more conflict-affected areas of South Sudan
Dec 21, 2016News Hour: IOM teams are now providing lifesaving humanitarian assistance, including emergency medical support, to displaced and conflict-affected families in insecure and hard-to-reach areas of South Sudan. Response teams are currently operating in the Greater Equatoria... -
Gunmen attack house of Afghan member of parliament
Dec 21, 2016News Hour: Gunmen attacked the house of an Afghan member of parliament in the capital Kabul on Wednesday night, killing as many as five people, officials said. One police official said three gunmen attacked the house... -
Aleppo evacuation resumes after day-long hold-up
Dec 21, 2016News Hour: Buses carrying Syrian civilians and fighters began leaving the last rebel-held enclave of Aleppo on Wednesday after being stalled for a day, aid officials and pro-government media reports said. Obstacles hindering evacuations from east...
