International

13 Apr

‘India ready to supply food stocks to world if WTO permits’: PM Narendra Modi

editor0 CommentsIndia, InternationalPM modi

India is prepared to provide meals stocks to the world if the WTO (World Trade Organization) permits, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday. Mentioning his dialog with US President Joe Biden on the Ukraine war, PM Modi said: “Today the world is dealing with an unsure state of affairs as nobody is getting what they want. Petrol, oil and fertilizers are challenging to procure as all the doorways are getting closed. Everybody needs to invulnerable their shares after this (Russia-Ukraine) combat began." “The world is dealing with a new venture now—the meals stock of the world is diminishing. I…

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10 Apr

Former PM Imran Khan Out, Shehbaz Sharif And Shah Qureshi In Race For Pak PM

editor0 CommentsInternational, Politicalpakistan

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan became the first US Prime Minister to be ousted by a vote of no confidence. Mr Khan, who was defiant "till the last ball", was gracefully ousted shortly after midnight after much drama in the day-long Pakistan Assembly. On the other hand, Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Party nominated Shah Mahmood Qureshi as their candidate. The National Assembly will go with the new Prime Minister tomorrow. The Joint Opposition - a rainbow of socialist, liberal and radical spiritual events - secured the lead of 174 participants in the 342-member assembly, more than the 172 required to…

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09 Apr

Sri Lanka May Have No Diesel By April End Despite India’s Help

editor0 CommentsInternational, Politicalsri lanka crisis

Sri Lanka is predicted to exhaust $500 million in fuel resource furnished by means of India to mitigate the island nation’s power crisis with the shipping of 120,000 tons of diesel and 40,000 heaps of petrol over the subsequent two weeks. India is scheduled to ship three 40,000 ton-shipments of diesel on April 15, 18 and 23, with a petrol cargo of the equal volume to be despatched on April 22. India on Wednesday despatched two extra fuel consignments to Sri Lanka – 36,000 lots of petrol and 40,000 heaps of diesel. Amid fears Sri Lanka may run out of…

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08 Apr

Pakistan court sentences 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed to 32 years in jail

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An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has sentenced Lashar-e-Taiba co-founder Hafiz Saeed to 31 years in prison after he was found guilty in two separate cases of terror financing. Saeed, the mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, is an UN-designated terrorist and one of India's most wanted. On Friday, the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) decided to extend the 32-year sentence to Saeed in two FIRs registered using the Punjab Police's Counter-Terrorism Department, court docket authorities said. He further said that he was sentenced to 15.5 years and 16.5 years respectively. Following his arrest, Pakistani authorities confiscated Saeed's notable community mosques, schools, seminaries…

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08 Apr

39 person Killed and 100 Injured In Ukraine Train Station Rocket Attack

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At least 39 people were killed today in a rocket attack on a command station in the Jap Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, which was used for civilian evacuation. Russia has denied the attack. At least 39 people, including four children, were killed in Russian rocket fire in eastern Ukraine as civilians tried to flee to safer parts of the country, the country's security services said. In addition, the country's railway company said that more than a hundred were injured. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described Russia as "boundlessly evil" after the rocket attack. “They are brutally destroying the civilian population. It…

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08 Apr

Sri Lanka establishes expert panel, imposes tax on rich

editor0 CommentsPolitical, Internationalsri lanka crisis

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has formed a professional panel to bail out his United States from an exceptional financial disaster characterized by shortages of essential goods and massive protests. A panel of eminent economists has been mandated to come up with a solution of $8. 6 billion dollars in debt and inflation, luring the IMF and various potential lenders. The President's Advisory Group on Multilateral Engagement and Debt Stability will include Indrajit Kumaraswamy, former Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and former Director of Financial Affairs at the Commonwealth Secretariat, an announcement issued from the Office of…

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07 Apr

Sri Lankan president revokes emergency amid growing protests

editor0 CommentsPolitical, Internationalsri lanka crisis

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa revoked the emergency rule ordinance that had long past into effect on April 1 the day gone by as protests spread in the island united states amid the nation's worst economic disaster in decades. Earlier on Tuesday, Sri Lanka's President lost his parliamentary majority as former allies advised his resignation. Severe shortages of food, fuel and different necessities -- along with file inflation and crippling power cuts -- have inflicted large misery in the country's most painful downturn since 1948. Massive protests reflect public anger which is at a fever pitch in the united states…

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05 Apr

I&B Ministry blocks 18 Indian, 4 Pak-based YouTube channels for spreading false news

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The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting blocked 18 Indian and four Pakistan-based YouTube information channels for posting fake information and anti-India content. In a statement, the ministry stated these YouTube channels used logos of TV news channels and false thumbnails to misinform viewers. The ministry utilised the emergency powers underneath the IT Rules, 2021 and issued orders on April 4,2022 for blocking off of twenty-two YouTube-based information channels, three Twitter accounts, one Facebook account, and one news website. The blocked YouTube channels had a cumulative viewership of over 260 crore, and had been used to spread fake news, and coordinated…

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01 Apr

PM Narendra Modi Meets Russian Foreign Minister Amid Pressure To Take Anti-Moscow Stand

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi met visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov this evening amid global pressure on India to take a stand against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.PM Modi and Russian Foreign Minister held a meeting for 40 minutes. The Prime Minister has not publicly met any other visiting ministers from the UK, China, Austria, Greece and Mexico in the past two weeks. Earlier today, Mr Lavrov said he wanted a "personal message" from President Vladimir Putin to Prime Minister Modi. "The president (Putin) and the prime minister are in daily contact with each other and I will file with the…

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01 Apr

Protests took place in front of Sri Lanka President’s residence as economic crisis deepens

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Police fired tear gas and water cannons at angry protesters demanding his resignation after they gathered in front of the residence of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Thursday, as the island nation grapples with its worst financial crisis in decades. Sri Lanka's foreign trade crisis has led to shortages of essential commodities such as fuel. cooking gas, and power cuts that remain off for up to thirteen hours a day. Protesters chanted slogans, expressing their anger at what they characterized as gross mismanagement by the Rajapaksa regime that has exacerbated Sri Lanka's foreign exchange woes. Protesters carrying placards saying…

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