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19 Feb

India signs free trade agreement with UAE

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India and the UAE on Friday inked a milestone Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) and uncovered a guide for extension of by and large ties at a virtual summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheik Mohammed canister Zayed Al Nahyan. In his comments, Modi dove into different features of ties among India and the United Arab Emirates and said both the countries will stand "side by side" against psychological warfare while alluding to the new fear-monger assaults in the Gulf country. On CEPA, Modi noticed that the two sides could close the arrangements on…

18 Feb

Singapore PM invokes Jawaharlal Nehru in Parliament to argue how democracy should work

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Discussing how a democracy should work in Singapore, the country's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, on Tuesday, 15 February, during a Parliamentary session, invoked Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister. Starting with what actions the parliament should debate on, having received the report of the Committee of Privileges (CoP) on complaints about untruths spoken by the previous lawmaker of the Workers' Party Raeesah Khan, he put forth three fundamental questions to discuss. Delivering a speech in Singapore’s Parliament on February 15 on a report by the Committee of Privileges, which was looking into charges of lying by members of the…

18 Feb

Russia’s military builds bridge in Belarus near Ukraine border, satellite images reveal

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The Russian Army has begun building a tactical bridge and a new road across the important Pripyat River in southern Belarus. Commercial satellite images uploaded on social media on February 16 claimed to show a military-style pontoon bridge at the Pripyat River, just 4 miles from the Ukrainian border and 14 miles northwest of the number 4 nuclear reactor, which notoriously melted down in the 1986 Chernobyl accident. "There's what Russia says. And then there's what Russia does. And we haven't seen any pullback of its forces," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in an interview. "We continue to…

17 Feb

Hundreds of Indian Students in crisis-hit Ukraine

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20,000+ Indians are presently in Ukraine out of which 18,000 are students. Ukraine to India flights have become costlier and are only available after 20th February. The latest updates are as following:- According to the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, 24% of overseas students in Ukraine are from India.Around 25 students from Indore, Madhya Pradesh are stuck in Ukraine. The MP of Indore's Lok Sabha Shankar Lalwani said, “He has written a letter to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar.”Around 1,000 students from Rajasthan are in Ukraine out of which 40 students are from Kota. Bundi's Congress leader Charmnesh…

16 Feb

Volkswagen’s mid-size sedan will have its global unveil on March 8, 2022

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Volkswagen announced that its upcoming mid-size sedan will have its global premiere on 8th March for the Indian car market. There is much action that is happening in the mid-size sedan space with the Volkswagen offering, likely to be called Virtus, closely following on the heels of the Skoda Slavia that will also launched in March. In the past several months it is spotted on test runs across the country. The Volkswagen sedan is based on the MQB A0 IN platform which also underpins the Taigun SUV that was launched in the previous year. After the launched the sedan will…

15 Feb

Russia says some troops pulling back from Ukraine border

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Moscow is starting to return some troops at the Ukrainian border to their bases, the Russian government announced Tuesday — but Ukraine's president and Western officials have urged caution over taking Russia's claims at face value. In a statement early Tuesday, Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense, said troops that had recently been posted to Russia's southern and western military districts — which share a border with Ukraine — had completed their military drills and "have already begun loading onto rail and road transport and will begin moving to their military garrisons today." It came amid…

10 Feb

Apex Medical body warns the Medical Aspirants

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The top medical education regulator of India NMC has issued its advisory for medical students after the Ministry of External Affairs warned against China universities that is offering admissions in medical colleges. The medical universities of China have informed that the courses will be conducted online because of Coronavirus expansion. The NMC has declared that the online medical courses will not be recognized by the commission. It has been said that, "It has come to the notice of the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, that few universities in People's Republic of China have started issuing notices for admission…

02 Feb

Winter Olympics Manager of Indian contingent tests positive for Covid-19 upon arrival in Beijing

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Manager for India’s Winter Olympics, Mohammad Abbas Wani has been tested positive for COVID-19 after the team’s arrival at Beijing Airport. Abbas Wani is a part of the six-member Indian delegation at the Winter Olympics for which Kashmir skier Arif Khan is the only athlete from the country to have qualified this time. Arif will be competing in Slalom and Giant Slalom events during the Games. The contingent also includes Harjinder Singh, Ludar Chand Thakur, Puran Chand as technician and Rop Chand Negi as its chef de mission, as alpine coach and as team official respectively. Indian Olympic Association (IOA)…

27 Jan

Asian Games 2022 will take place from September 10 to September 25, 2022

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The Asian Games 2022 will take place from September 10 to September 25, 2022, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China and there will be five co-host cities. The multi-sporting event will feature 40 sports with a total of 61 disciplines, including Olympic sports like swimming, archery, athletics, badminton, equestrian, fencing, football, hockey, judo, kabaddi, and much more. E-sports and breakdancing will debut in the 2022 Asian Games as full medal sports after being approved by the Olympic Council of Asia this year, while Cricket will be back at Asian Games in T20 format to raise the excitement of the viewers. India has…

19 Jan

Pakistan’s new security policy seeks peace’ with India

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On January 14, Pakistan PM Imran Khan unveiled the countrys first National Security Policy, which purportedly focuses on the ‘security of its citizens. It aims to define the country's security priorities between 2022 and 2026, including relations with India. Prepared by the National Security Division of the government, the original version of the NSP remains a classified document. But a shorter public version stresses on human security, geoeconomics, regional connectivity, prosperity, trade and investment. It makes all the right noises and gives an impression of fresh thinking from the Pakistani establishment. The policy appears to be an expanded form of…