South Asia Newsline - Dec 09, 2020 News Bulletin :
-Security forces gun down three terrorists in India's Jammu and Kashmir
-PDM chief Fazlur Rehman asks Pakistan opposition lawmakers to resign by December 31
-225 Children Killed in First Half of 2020, says Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission
Three terrorists were neutralised by security forces in an encounter that broke out in Pulwama district of India's Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday.Over 60 foreign envoys on Wednesday visited India's Hyderabad-based leading biotech companies, Bharat Biotech and Biological E., where they were apprised of India's vaccine development programmes in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.Authorities in India are investigating if organochlorines used as pesticides or in mosquito control caused the death of one person and hospitalisation of more than 400 in southern Andhra Pradesh state in the past few days. The Pakistan Democratic Movement announced that all the national and provincial lawmakers belonging to its constituent parties will hand over their resignations individually to the heads of their parties by Dec 31 hours. The number of Covid-19 cases in Bangladesh jumped to 481,945 on Wednesday with 2,202 people testing positive and 32 fatalities reported in the last 24 hours until Tuesday morning. With the aim of bolstering diminishing forests in Pakistan, authorities in capital Islamabad have started a new tree-planting campaign called "Throw and Grow". A four-day martial arts competition held in Srinagar city of India's Jammu and Kashmir, witnessed participation of scores of enthusiasts.
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