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2022-10-31 15:30:26+00:00
📹The Russian Defense Ministry has published footage showing Tor aid defense missile systems in combat as part of the special military operation in Ukraine.
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2022-10-31 15:00:25+00:00
🇮🇳A part of a canal culvert collapsed in Saraiya village of Chandauli district in Uttar Pradesh during Chhath celebrations.
Few bricks slipped into the river, but, fortunately, no one was injured, local media reports.
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2022-10-31 14:42:08+00:00
🏏⭐️What are you ready for to get closer to your idol?
A fan of Team India talisman Virat Kohli trespassed into his hotel room in Perth and filmed his personal belongings.
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2022-10-31 14:32:53+00:00
⚡️ The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the draft from the reserve as part of partial mobilization has been completed in Russia
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2022-10-31 14:30:01+00:00
🇮🇳🐶India’s PM Narendra Modi watched the dogs trained at the National Training Centre for Dogs perform their skills.
The Centre is located in Tekanpur city of Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. It is the Premier K-9 Training Centre that has gained its reputation by preparing indigenously bred dogs for border guarding and police duties for the first time as a part of Atmanirbhar Bharat initiative.
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2022-10-31 14:15:00+00:00
🌐The 21st meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of the SCO member states will be held on November 1 in the virtual format. India's External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar will represent India at the meeting, the Ministry of External Affairs said.
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2022-10-31 14:03:01+00:00
🇮🇳💰e-Rupee Debut: starting from Tuesday, the digital rupee will be used to settle secondary market transactions in government securities.
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2022-10-31 13:53:55+00:00
🇮🇳🇺🇳India provides $2.5 million to UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) for the welfare of Palestinian Refugees, Representative Office of India to the State of Palestine announced.
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2022-10-31 13:32:01+00:00
✈️🇷🇺🇮🇳 Goa is a desirable destination, especially given that it is a hub of many pharmaceutical companies and other perishable goods, and India is the primary exporter of essential pharma supplies to Russia and CIS countries.
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2022-10-31 13:29:56+00:00
🌐🇷🇺 Moscow says expects to continue boosting cooperation with Brazil after Lula's victory, including within BRICS & G20
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2022-10-31 13:16:01+00:00
📹WATCH: Russian Forces perform high-precision strikes on Ukraine's military control and energy systems (the video is courtesy of Russia’s MoD)
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2022-10-31 13:01:41+00:00
⚡️ Morbi bridge update: Nine people have been arrested following the interrogation in connection with the tragic accident in Gujarat
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2022-10-31 13:00:49+00:00
🇮🇳🚫Not the assault itself, but the investigation of the crime as well can be offensive. In this regard, the Supreme Court of India on Monday issued a ban on two- or three-finger vaginal tests for rape survivors, as they are both inconclusive and re-traumatizing.
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2022-10-31 12:44:02+00:00
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🇮🇳📜India commemorates Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
▪️Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel was India’s first Deputy PM and first Home Minister of India. He also served as a senior leader of the Indian National Congress, playing the key role in the country’s struggle for independence.
▪️Vallabhbhai Patel is generally referred to as Sardar, a title meaning "chief" in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Persian. Meanwhile, Patel is widely known as "Iron man of India" for his uncompromising commitment to political integration of the nation.
▪️Under Patel, about 565 self-governing provinces were released from British suzerainty. He also organized relief efforts for partition refugees fleeing to India’s Punjab and Delhi.
▪️His legacy was immortalized with a huge Statue of Unity; the world’s tallest statue totals 182 meters in height.
▪️In 2014, PM Modi announced Patel's birthday anniversary will be celebrated as National Unity Day in order to commemorate the senior leader's achievements.
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2022-10-31 12:29:43+00:00
🇵🇰 Pakistani PM has rejected Imran Khan's proposal on appointing the next army chief, the Express Tribune reported Monday, and instead, proposed that Khan "discuss the Charter of Democracy and Charter of Economy."
In mid-October, Pakistan Army Chief Qamar Jawed Bajwa announced his resignation after five weeks, adding that he would not seek an extension.
Former PM Imran Khan has been at odds with both the Sharif gov't and the country's military establishment ever since his ouster in April.
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2022-10-31 12:08:55+00:00
🇮🇳🤝"India’s unity has been an eyesore for our enemies," India's PM Narendra Modi said on the occasion of National Unity Day, naming it not an obligation, but a specialty of the country.
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2022-10-31 11:39:02+00:00
🇮🇳⚽️Government of India signs MoU with FIFA and AIFF
Union Minister for Education and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Dharmendra Pradhan signed a Memorandum of Understanding with FIFA and the All India Football Federation (AIFF) for the 'Football4School' initiative in India on behalf of the Ministry of Education.
The Presidents of FIFA and the All India Football Federation signed the MoU on behalf of their respective organizations.
'Football4School' is aimed at empowering 25 million young boys and girls in India through sports-integrated education.
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2022-10-31 11:33:29+00:00
❗️Latest statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:
▪️Russia continues to maintain contact with Turkey and the UN on the grain deal;
▪️There are no exact dates for a Putin-Lukashenko meeting at the moment;
▪️The grain deal is unlikely to be implemented without the Russia;
▪️Russia in all countries supports those who share the opinion about the need for a mutually beneficial partnership;
▪️Russia will continue to defend its interests in connection with the freezing of gold and foreign exchange reserves in the West, as hope dies last;
▪️Kiev invited the grain deal’s collapse through its actions, undermined an atmosphere of trust;
▪️So far we can only guarantee Russia's readiness to compensate for undelivered supplies at our own expense;
▪️Statement of Russian Defense Ministry about attack on the Russian Black Sea fleet is absolutely credible.
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2022-10-31 11:25:12+00:00
⏰🐊The best alarm clock is… a crocodile!
A family from Jaitia, a village in the Etawah district of Uttar Pradesh, woke up when an enormous eight-foot crocodile crept into their house late in the evening searching for prey.
The owner of the house informed a local wildlife expert, Dr. Ashish Tripathi, who advised him to lock the house, and the members of the family stayed awake all night following the recommendation.
🗯"We checked the crocodile and found that it is eight foot long. The reptile's age is between 1.5-2 years. The villagers were very scared but we decided against carrying out the rescue operation at night as this crocodile is very aggressive," said Dr. Tripathi.
Later the animal will be released into its natural habitat, he added.
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2022-10-31 11:09:01+00:00
🇮🇳🚐Toyota Fortuner carjacked at gunpoint
A 35-year-old resident of Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut district was allegedly carjacked by three men at gunpoint in south-west Delhi's Chhawni area, the police said. The Delhi Cantt police station received information about the carjacking from National Highway-8 near Jhareda village.
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2022-10-31 10:55:44+00:00
🇮🇳💰 These illegal apps provide short-term loans or micro-credit at exorbitant interest rates with processing fees or hidden charges, especially to vulnerable and low-income people. The initial probe found that lenders use the borrowers' confidential personal data like contacts, location, photos and videos for blackmail and harassment.
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2022-10-31 10:37:09+00:00
🇮🇳🇳🇿Two Royal Australian Navy ships, the HMAS Adelaide and HMAS Anzac, arrived in Visakhapatnam on Monday to join the Indian Navy in the 'Indo-Pacific Endeavour' exercise.
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2022-10-31 09:58:31+00:00
🇮🇳💰Indian businessmen and a billionaire Gautam Adani has become the third richest man in the world. After adding another $314 million to his fortune on Monday, Adani's wealth now stands at $131.9 billion. Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos' net worth has plummeted to $126.9 billion after the e-commerce giant forecast a weak holiday season for its business on Thursday.
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2022-10-31 09:07:24+00:00
🇮🇳🇨🇳 The Chinese foreign ministry has extended condolences and sympathy to the victims and their families over the tragedy in Gujarat.
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2022-10-31 08:56:14+00:00
🇮🇳🇳🇵 Nepal's PM Sher Bahadur Deuba has extended his condolences to India over the tragic bridge collapse in Gujarat
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2022-10-31 08:44:30+00:00
🇮🇳🇧🇷 India's Prime Minister congratulates Brazil's Lula de Silva on winning the presidential elections
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2022-10-31 08:44:28+00:00
🇮🇳💰🌐 India is in talks with more than ten African states regarding the transfer to national currencies in mutual trade, the Indian Economic Trade Organization (IETO) said.
🗯“We are engaging with a group of smaller countries which may be interested in bilateral trade via dedicated rupee accounts," said Asif Iqbal, president, IETO. "We are helping to kickstart bilateral talks after which we will make a pitch for the UPI payment system involving NPCI. Such baby steps will help the rupee gain international clout gradually through non-dollar bilateral trade," he continued.
Such steps will allow the Indian rupee to gain weight in international trade through bilateral deals, bypassing the US dollar, Iqbal added.
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2022-10-31 08:28:17+00:00
🚗Seat belts will become compulsory for all car passengers in Mumbai
🗯“All motor vehicle drivers and all commuters in vehicles, whoever travels on the road of Mumbai City are hereby informed that, it will be mandatory for drivers and all passengers to wear seat belts while traveling from November 1st,” the Mumbai Police said.
Local authorities have also ordered that cars be equipped with seatbelts before the date in case they do not have them.
Delhi police have conducted a campaign to increase awareness about the safety rules; they’ve started fining commuters Rs 1,000 for refusing to wear seatbelts. On September 21st, India’s Road, Transport and Highway Ministry issued draft rules for carmakers, requiring that seat belt alarms be installed in all car seats.
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2022-10-31 08:06:27+00:00
❗️🇷🇺 Russian Ambassador to India on Monday offered his condolences over the tragedy in Gujarat:
"An awful tragedy happened yesterday in Morbi! Profound condolences to the relatives of those many perished, to Prime Minister Modi and all the people of India and Gujarat! Speedy recovery to the injured!"
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2022-10-31 07:49:05+00:00
⚡️As many as 12 family members of Mohanbhai Kalyanji Kundariya, a BJP MP from Rajkot, lost their lives in the Morbi bridge collapse, the parliamentarian told India Today TV.
He added that five children were among his 12 relatives who died in the tragedy. The deceased belonged to Kundariya’s sister’s family.
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2022-10-31 06:25:38+00:00
📹Indian media have shared a CCTV recording of the cable bridge collapse in Gujarat's Morbi.
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2022-10-31 06:25:23+00:00
❗️Warning: the following footage is disturbing and may offend sensibilities
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2022-10-31 06:08:19+00:00
🇮🇳🇦🇪Union Petroleum and Natural Gas & Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep S. Puri will visit the UAE on October 31wt to attend the opening ceremony of the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC-2022).
The minister is going to have bilateral discussions with his counterparts from the UAE, as well as other countries. India-UAE relations are aimed at strengthening energy cooperation within the overall framework of the India-UAE Strategic Partnership.
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2022-10-31 05:38:33+00:00
⚡️Russia’s President Vladimir Putin expresses condolences to President and Prime Minister of India in connection with tragic consequences of bridge collapse in state of Gujarat
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2022-10-31 05:33:03+00:00
🔸The cable bridge accident in Morbi, Gujarat has claimed the lives of 140 people; 177 have been rescued so far. Search and rescue operations by Indian Army, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard, NDRF and SDRF teams are underway.
🔸The US dollar has gained 13 paise; the closing USD/rupee exchange rate was 82.34 in early trading.
🔸The second edition of the 2022 Naval Commanders' Conference will begin today in New Delhi. The four-day event will become a platform for Naval Commanders to hold talks on important maritime matters.
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2022-10-31 05:12:18+00:00
⚡️Air raid alert sounds in Kiev and several Ukrainian regions
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2022-10-31 05:12:01+00:00
🇮🇳🦠 India reports 1,326 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours
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2022-10-30 17:48:56+00:00
‼️ More than 90 people are reported dead after the bridge collapse
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2022-10-30 16:17:58+00:00
❗️UPDATE: At least 40 people have died and more than 100 are still missing after the bridge collapse in Gujarat, local media report
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2022-10-30 14:49:40+00:00
🇮🇳📹A cable bridge collapsed in Gujarat’s Morbi district into the Machchhu river.
The accident occurred just five days after the bridge was restored and opened for the public. A number of people were left injured and some of them fell in the water when the bridge collapsed. Ambulances were rushed to the spot, and a rescue operation is underway.
No casualties have been reported so far, local media reports.
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2022-10-30 14:35:58+00:00
🇵🇰Two people were killed and four were injured when an unknown man opened fire on a police post in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The gunman targeted the police post located in the Dera Ismail Khan district, bordering South Waziristan, early in the morning on Sunday.
No group has claimed responsible for the attack.
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2022-10-30 14:16:16+00:00
🇮🇳Five people were killed and two were injured when a two-story building collapsed in Amravati, a city in Maharashtra state.
The incident occurred in the in the Prabhat Cinema area of the city, where the dilapidated house crashed.
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2022-10-30 13:35:11+00:00
📹WATCH a huge crowd gather at Delhi’s Kalindi Kunj ghat to offer prayers on the occasion of Chhath.
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2022-10-30 13:19:53+00:00
❗️Key points from Russia's MoD on the terrorist attack in the Black Sea:
▪️The results of the examination of marine drones involved in the attack on Sevastopol showed that they were launched from the Odessa region;
▪️Specialists arrived from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation after the attack on the ships of the Black Sea Fleet; they conducted an examination of Canadian–made navigation modules installed on marine UAVs;
▪️After the attack on the ships of the Black Sea fleet and civilian vessels was repelled, the wreckage of the used marine drones was raised to the surface;
▪️The coordinates of the movement of one of the marine drones indicate the starting point in the water area of the security zone of the "grain corridor" in the Black Sea;
▪️During the attack on the Black Sea Fleet, the UAVs moved through the security zone of the "grain corridor", then changed course and went to the ships' base in Sevastopol;
▪️One of the drones involved in the attack on Sevastopol could have been launched from a ship chartered by Kiev for the export of agricultural products.
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2022-10-30 12:49:57+00:00
🇵🇰PTI ha shared the video from the third day of the rally in support on country’s former PM Imran Khan, showing people packed like sardines on the streets of Islamabad.
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2022-10-30 11:47:00+00:00
🇮🇳✉️A thief from Madhya Pradesh stole valuables from a temple, but returned the items four days later. According to the apology note he left at the site, his act caused him sufferings.
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2022-10-30 11:05:17+00:00
⚡️Kiev and London sabotaged grain deal to add food crisis to nuclear blackmail, Moscow says
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2022-10-30 11:02:39+00:00
🇮🇳🍵🌱India's tea production is estimated to have been 190,000 tons in September, 16.5 percent higher than in September 2021, the Tea Board of India said.
Tea production in Assam, the largest tea manufacturer among the Indian states, is estimated at 109,000 tons compared to 92,000 tons in the same period of the previous year.
In the meantime, Bharatiya Cha Parishad (BCP) Chairman Nalin Khemani said last week that Assam's tea industry is currently facing a major challenge due to price stagnation, high production costs and low productivity.
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2022-10-30 09:54:42+00:00
🇮🇳🍫🚫When a multinational confectionery company Cadbury published an advertisement, featuring poor lamp seller named "Damodar," who is allegedly modelled on PM Narendra Modi’s father, it erupted a row with a hashtag #BoycottCadbury trending on social media.
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2022-10-30 09:34:04+00:00
⚡️Vladimir Putin has sent a telegram of condolence to the President of South Korea following the death of a large number of people in a Seoul stampede - Kremlin
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2022-10-30 09:28:31+00:00
❗️Russia is ready to talk with the West to reduce tensions, but only if there are realistic suggestions based on mutual respect - Lavrov
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2022-10-30 09:06:30+00:00
📹 President Biden failed to vote in the midterms; he had to call for the help of a volunteer and ask him a few questions.
🥴 Meanwhile, the president's granddaughter did it in less than a minute.
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2022-10-30 08:40:47+00:00
❗️ The desire of the United States to listen to the concerns of the Russian Federation, including those related to security, could become a platform for conversation between President Putin and Biden, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov says
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2022-10-30 07:44:48+00:00
🇮🇳Indian PM Narendra Modi and President Droupadi Murmu extend greetings on another Hindu celebration - Chhath - the festival commemorating the God of Sun.
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2022-10-30 07:01:08+00:00
🇮🇳🌫Amid Air Quality Index remaining ‘very poor’ in Delhi-NCR, local authorities imposed measures under stage III of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP III) banning construction and demolition activities in the area.
The Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) is a set of anti-air pollution measures followed in the capital and its vicinity according to the severity of the situation. The plan is divided into four stages with the third one rating ‘very poor’ brought to action now.
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2022-10-30 06:33:36+00:00
🇮🇳📚✏️13 states and three Union Territories have signed a memorandum of understanding with India’s Ministry of Education for upgradation of their schools under the Pradhan Mantri Schools For Rising India (PM-SHRI) scheme.
🗯“The upper limit for each state is two schools per block. MoU is the first stage. The states would still have to go through the next two stages before reaching the stage of final selection of the schools," an Education Ministry official said.
14,500 schools are going to be modified under the scheme. They will become exemplary schools and offer mentorship to other schools in their vicinity.
Along with a number of changes in the program schools will incorporate environment-friendly aspects like solar panels and LED lights, nutrition gardens with natural farming, waste management and so on.
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2022-10-30 05:38:03+00:00
🔸US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has discussed Ukraine, as well as joint counterterrorism efforts, with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, US State Department Spokesperson Ned Price said.
🔸Four people dead, six injured after a landslide at Ratle hydroelectric project in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district on Saturday. The rescue team deputed to the site was also trapped under the debris, Union Minister of State Jitendra Singh said.
🔸India’s PM Narendra Modi will lay foundation stone for C-295 aircraft manufacturing facility in Gujrat's Vadodara today. As well as manufacturing 40 units of C-295 transport aircraft, the facility will also produce an additional aircraft for Indian Air Force’s requirements and exports, India’s Defense officials said.
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2022-10-30 05:24:45+00:00
🇷🇺 Russia is ready to completely replace Ukrainian grain on the world market, Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council (upper chamber of the Russian parliament) Konstantin Kosachev said following Moscow’s decision to suspend its participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
💬 "At least 50 countries are critically dependent on our grain, including the poorest countries in Africa. Given the huge harvest in the country, Russia is ready to completely replace Ukrainian grain on the world market. Our export potential in the current season is estimated at more than 50 million tonnes," Kosachev said on Telegram.
▪️ According to the senior lawmaker, outside of the Istanbul grain deal, about 10.5 million tonnes of Russian grain have already been sent to countries in Asia and Africa.
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2022-10-30 05:02:29+00:00
🇮🇳🦠India records 1,604 new Covid-19 cases.
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2022-10-30 04:21:36+00:00
⚡️Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar is “deeply shocked” by the deadly stampede in Seoul, South Korea
“Deeply shocked at the loss of so many young lives due to the stampede in Seoul. Our condolences to the families of those who lost their dear ones. We stand in solidarity with the Republic of Korea during this difficult time,” he tweeted.
At least 151 people were killed and 150 others injured in the stampede at a Halloween event in Seoul on Saturday.
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2022-10-29 18:33:48+00:00
⚡️120 people died, 100 injured in Seoul Halloween crush, local media reports, citing authorities
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2022-10-29 17:38:40+00:00
⚡️At least 59 people died and 150 injured, as a result of a stampede in the capital of South Korea at Halloween parties, local media reports, citing authorities
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2022-10-29 17:38:09+00:00
⚡️Russia has officially notified UN Secretary-General Antonio Gutteres of the suspension of participation in the "grain deal," according to the letter, obtained by Sputnik
Russia requested a meeting of the UN Security Council on Monday in connection with the attack of the Ukrainian military on Russian ships and civilian vessels
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2022-10-29 16:48:00+00:00
📹Videos showing the aftermath of the Itaewon stampede in Seoul
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2022-10-29 16:37:59+00:00
❗️About 50 people received CPR after suffering from cardiac arrest in Seoul's Itaewon as huge crowds stampeded at Halloween parties, as per fire authorities.
▪️Emergency officials received at least 81 calls from people with breathing difficulty, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reports
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2022-10-29 16:04:33+00:00
📹Footage showing how a number of people being treated on the street by emergency services, surrounded by large crowds in Seoul
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2022-10-29 16:01:10+00:00
🇷🇺 📹 Russia’s MoD has revealed footage showing the training of the armored crewmen of the Western Military District on T-72B3 and T-80U tanks
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2022-10-29 15:08:42+00:00
⚡️Russia is working on practical steps in connection with the involvement of UK specialists in the preparation of a terrorist attack in the Black Sea, the Russian Foreign Ministry says
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2022-10-29 15:03:55+00:00
🌐 The UN Counter-Terrorism Committee has adopted the Delhi Declaration, which focuses on the use of new technology for terrorist purposes, Indian media said.
📍The declaration highlighted the need for member states to continue cooperation to work on more effective means to counter the use of new technology by militant groups.
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2022-10-29 14:49:13+00:00
⚡️An air alert has been declared in all regions of Ukraine, local media reports
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2022-10-29 14:47:55+00:00
❗️The move comes after Kiev staged terrorist attacks in Sevastopol, the Defense Ministry explained
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2022-10-29 14:44:02+00:00
⚡️Russia suspends participation in the grain deal, the Russian Defense Ministry says
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2022-10-29 14:22:50+00:00
📍The 75-year-old man was the oldest prisoner at Guananamo Bay and was held for suspected ties with al-Qaeda*, but was never charged with a crime. His release was approved in May 2021 after more than 17 years in custody.
* terrorist organization outlawed in Russia and many other states
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2022-10-29 13:44:20+00:00
🇮🇳🚫 India condemns the attack on the Shah Cheragh mausoleum in the Iranian city of Shiraz and expresses its condolences to the families of the victims and the people of Iran, the Indian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
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2022-10-29 13:29:47+00:00
⚡️ Moscow will draw the attention of the international community, including the UN Security Council, to the terrorist attacks in the Black and Baltic seas, as well as Britain's engagement in them, Russian Foreign Ministry says
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2022-10-29 13:20:11+00:00
🇮🇳🇬🇧 "India is a powerful voice on the international stage and an important partner for the UK," British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said as he met with India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Saturday.
📍According to Indian media, during the meeting, the two high-level officials discussed the Ukraine crisis among other issues, for which India has maintained a well-balanced position despite pressure from the Western countries.
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2022-10-29 12:19:02+00:00
🤔 Sometimes it can be quite a task to make a new friend, however, sometimes you can find new acquaintances in very unusual places.
🦭 Netizens were left in 'aww' by a viral video showing a scuba diver who was lucky enough to befriend a seal underwater.
🫶🏼 While these guys are enjoying each other's company, let's cherish and appreciate the friends we have; at least we don't have to dive too deep to find them.
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2022-10-29 11:45:45+00:00
🇮🇳 The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully test-fired its heaviest rocket's engine.
🚀 The CE-20 engine tests were performed at the High Altitude Test facility of the ISRO Propulsion Complex at Mahendragiri in Tamil Nadu.
🌠 The CE-20 engine is set to be assigned to a mission which will launch several satellites in January.
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2022-10-29 11:23:46+00:00
❗️The preparation of the morning drone attack on Sevastopol was carried out under the guidance of UK specialists in the city of Ochakov, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.
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2022-10-29 11:07:49+00:00
❗️ Ukraine Armed Forces used nine air and seven sea drones in the attack on Sevastopol - Russian Defense Ministry.
✊🏼 As a result of the measures taken by the forces of the ships of the Black Sea Fleet, all air targets were destroyed.
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2022-10-29 10:50:19+00:00
⚡️ British Navy officers took part in the planning and implementation of the terrorist acts on the Nord Stream pipelines, the Russian Defense Ministry says
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2022-10-29 08:55:47+00:00
🚫 The tragedy occurred when some gas cylinders leaked as a family was cooking for a Chhath Puja celebration at 2:30 in the morning.
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2022-10-29 08:24:50+00:00
⚡️Ukrainian troops attempt to land near Zaporozhye NPP, retreat after suffering heavy losses, local authorities say
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2022-10-29 08:23:02+00:00
❗️This year, a number of countries in South Asia have been hit by devastating floods that have resulted in numerous casualties and severe economic damage.
Check out Sputnik's infographic to learn more about the floods
in 🇮🇳India, 🇵🇰Pakistan and 🇧🇩Bangladesh.
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2022-10-29 07:58:13+00:00
🗺 A RQ-4B Global Hawk American reconnaissance drone which took off from Sicily, has been circling for several hours over the neutral waters of the Black Sea near Crimea, according to Flightradar’s data
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2022-10-29 07:20:04+00:00
⚡️ Air defense systems in Sevastopol, Russia repelled drone attacks for several hours; all UAVs were shot down, and a surface drone was also destroyed, the governor says
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2022-10-29 07:19:47+00:00
🇮🇳 India has extended the restrictions on sugar exports by one year, to October 31, 2023, Indian media said.
🗓 Earlier, the restrictions were supposed to end on October 31, 2022.
📍The initial idea behind the export restrictions was to ensure more stable sugar prices and sugar stock availability in India.
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2022-10-29 06:34:56+00:00
❗️India’s Ministry of Civil Aviation has ordered an investigation into an incident that happened on Friday night when the engine of an IndiGo aircraft on a Delhi-Bangalore flight with more than 180 people aboard suddenly caught fire.
✈️ Fortunately, the plane returned safely to Delhi airport. A video of the incident shared by one of the passengers has gone viral on social media.
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2022-10-29 06:06:20+00:00
🚫 The threat of terrorism is growing despite all the efforts of the UN, India’s EAM says
🇺🇳 Addressing the UNSC’s special meeting of the Counter-Terrorism Committee in New Delhi India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said that “the threat of terrorism is only growing and expanding, particularly in Asia and Africa.”
💭 He also highlighted that the internet and social media platforms have turned into potent instruments used by militant groups to spread their ideas. “Another add-on to the existing worries for governments around the world is the use of unmanned aerial systems by terrorist groups,” he added.
🇮🇳 Concluding his speech, the minister announced that India will make a contribution of half a million dollars to the UN Trust Fund for Counter Terrorism to support the member states in their struggle against the threat of terrorism.
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🔸The second day of UN Security Council (UNSC) Counter-Terrorism Committee's special meeting will be held in New Delhi today, with a focus on the ways to combat the use of new technologies for terrorist purposes.
🔸A seminar on trade between Russia and India in local currencies took place at the Russian House in Trivandrum on Friday, where the most recent developments on this issue were discussed. The participants mentioned that Indo-Russian trade has shown an increase after the Western sanctions were imposed on Russia and that the ruble-rupee trade will help to reduce the dependency on the US dollar.
🔸British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly is set to meet External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Saturday in New Delhi to discuss cooperation between the UK and India over the next decade under the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.
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2022-10-29 05:02:09+00:00
🇮🇳🦠 India reports 1,574 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours
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2022-10-28 19:59:51+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇳🗯 Check out President Putin’s statements on India & Prime Minister Modi in his latest speech at the Valdai Discussion Club in Sputnik’s compilation video.
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2022-10-28 15:50:54+00:00
📹 Russia's MoD has published footage showing the Western Military District's Army Aviation helicopter crews destroying AFU armored hardware and military infrastructure facilities.
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2022-10-28 15:20:56+00:00
🎨 While to many of us it may seem difficult to draw even one picture properly, a young girl from India's Uttar Pradesh has left everyone stunned with a video of her drawing the portraits of 15 Indian freedom fighters simultaneously.
🎥 In the video, the girl can be seen preparing a four-square wooden scaffolding with 15 pens tied to them to prepare as many portraits. She then holds the entire wooden structure by hand and starts drawing on the 15 squares on a piece of paper, which is kept on a flat surface.
📍Along with netizens, Indian Business tycoon, Anand Mahindra, chairman of Mahindra Group, was completely taken aback by the video of her talent and took to Twitter asking netizens if anyone living closer to her or who knows her can verify the achievement so that he can offer her a scholarship to support the girl's talent.
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2022-10-28 14:49:15+00:00
📹WATCH: Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reports to Russian President Vladimir Putin that partial mobilization activities in Russia have been completed
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2022-10-28 14:42:24+00:00
⚡️WATCH: Russian President Putin Meets Defense Minister Shoigu to Discuss Partial Mobilization
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2022-10-28 14:40:47+00:00
🇮🇳🇷🇺💭 "I, as an Indian, was flattered to listen to his words. I hope he's right, because he obviously has more information on these issues than I do, " Nandan Unnikrishnan, a distinguished fellow at the Observer Research Foundation, told Sputnik.
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2022-10-28 14:18:02+00:00
✊🏼 Goal to mobilize 300,000 people in Russia completed, military will now accept only volunteers, Shoigu explained
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2022-10-28 14:15:28+00:00
❗️Shoigu tells Putin activities related to partial mobilization in Russia completed
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2022-10-28 14:12:00+00:00
⚡️Russian President Vladimir Putin holds meeting with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu
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2022-10-28 14:08:02+00:00
🇮🇳🇨🇳 Xiaomi shuts its financial services business in India - report
Xiaomi is closing its financial services business four years after launch, media reported Friday, meaning that the Mi Pay app – which allowed users to pay bills and transfer money – is no longer available in India.
India is Xiaomi's biggest market outside of China. However, the company has come under fire over alleged tax evasion, as a result of which, $676 million worth of its assets have been frozen in the country.
Since the 2020 border standoff between India and China, around 300 Chinese apps have been banned in India for security reasons, including popular ones like TikTok.
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2022-10-28 13:50:44+00:00
🇮🇳🇬🇧 One of the organizers of the protest told Sputnik that in the past 18 years, "the bias has gotten worse, and it is now openly anti-Hindu and Hinduphobic."
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2022-10-28 13:45:47+00:00
#Faz_Lul_Haseeb commented on the security situation in Kashmir and its influence on tourism.
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2022-10-28 13:12:02+00:00
🤔 Elon Musk, who reportedly bought Twitter, intends to abolish the permanent bans of accounts on the social network because he does not believe in lifelong restrictions
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2022-10-28 13:08:01+00:00
🇮🇳🌐💬 The minister’s remarks come days after China put on hold a proposal moved by India and the US to blacklist Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)* terrorist Shahid Mahmood. LeT was behind the November 26, 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
*a terrorist group banned in Russia
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2022-10-28 12:32:02+00:00
#Faz_Lul_Haseeb told Sputnik about his vision of Kashmir's tourism industry in the future.
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2022-10-28 12:12:01+00:00
🇮🇳👮🏾♂️ "The 'One Nation, One Uniform' for police is just an idea. I am not trying to impose it on you. Just give it a thought. It may happen, it may happen in five, 50, or 100 years. But let's give it a thought," PM Modi said.
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2022-10-28 12:01:32+00:00
🇮🇳🇬🇧 The UK foreign secretary, James Cleverly, arrived in India on Friday for his first official visit since he was reappointed by PM Rishi Sunak three days ago.
👉 The fate of the free trade agreement between India & the UK has been recently put under threat of 'collapse', following UK Home Secretary's comments that it would undermine Brexit objectives and encourage immigration to the UK.
London has been courting Delhi in recent years, as it is trying to expand its trade relations with non-EU members, following Brexit.
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2022-10-28 11:54:01+00:00
🇦🇫🇮🇳 Afghan exports to India have increased 25%, Abdul Salam Javad, spokesman for the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, told local media.
💭 “In the first six months of this year we progressed in our trade and have 30 tons of export to India and earned 14 billion afghani (about $160 million),” the spokesman said.
📍According the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Investment, fresh and dry fruits, such as pomegranates and apples, constitute the main exports.
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2022-10-28 11:41:01+00:00
#Faz_Lul_Haseeb spoke about some schemes initiated by the Indian government to develop tourism in Kashmir.
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2022-10-28 11:19:02+00:00
🇮🇳 Bali Jatra, the largest open-air fair celebrating the rich maritime history of India's Odisha state, is gearing up to enter the Guinness World Records.
📍Scheduled to be held from November 8 to 14 in the vicinity of Barabati Fort on the bank of the Mahanadi river, the event will be judged by dignitaries visiting from the organization's London headquarters and a five-member team from the Mumbai branch office of Guinness World Records.
⛵️In an attempt to make a world record and celebrate the magnificent history of Odisha, around 10,000 paper boats are likely to be made within 15 minutes.
💪 Scores of students and people from various walks of life will be participating and be trained to make paper boats as per the size and weight set in the protocols by the Guinness World Records.
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2022-10-28 10:55:42+00:00
📍“Our rules and laws for intermediaries remain the same regardless of who owns the platforms,” Indian Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said, adding that “the expectation of compliance with Indian laws and rules remains.”
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2022-10-28 10:45:41+00:00
#Faz_Lul_Haseeb commented on the decline in international tourists visiting Kashmir as well as on the latest development affecting international tourists in the region.
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2022-10-28 10:12:35+00:00
🇵🇰🇿🇼🏏 Pakistani comedian Asif Muhammad visitied Zimbabwe in 2016 posing as Mr. Bean —the main character in the widely acclaimed British sitcom.
Ever since, this episode has remained a sour point between the two countries.
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2022-10-28 09:55:50+00:00
🇨🇳 Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin commented on the words of 🇷🇺Russian President Vladimir Putin on 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia's possible entry into the BRICS, saying that China supports the organization’s expansion and stands ready
to work together with its other members to boost this process.
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2022-10-28 09:35:44+00:00
Sputnik spoke with #Faz_Lul_Haseeb, who is currently serving as the Director of the Kashmir region's tourism department.
💭 The Indian Administrative Service officer commented on how his department is trying to streamline mechanisms and processes which will help boost Kashmir’s development as a tourist hotspot and a favorite destination not only for Indian but also international travelers.
Check out an exclusive interview in two parts!
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2022-10-28 09:10:01+00:00
🇵🇰 As Imran Khan is leading what appears to be the largest march of his supporters yet, the Pakistani government has boosted security around the country's capital, with reportedly 30,000 law enforcement officers deployed to the city.
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2022-10-28 08:50:50+00:00
❗️PTI has shared the first video clip showing Imran Khan’s supporters heading to the march due to take place in Islamabad today.
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2022-10-28 08:25:36+00:00
📹 Russia's MoD has published footage dedicated to the 74th anniversary of Army Aviation
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2022-10-28 08:05:45+00:00
The whole world is celebrating World Lemur Day!
🐾 World Lemur Day is celebrated on the last Friday of October. It was first celebrated in 2014. Its aim is to raise awareness about the need to preserve these endangered species.
Check out some interesting facts about these wonderful creatures:
🇲🇬 All lemurs originated on the island of Madagascar.
🌍 Lemurs are the oldest living group of primates in the world.
👀 They are also the only primates that can have blue eyes, other than humans.
🤓 Lemurs are quite intelligent - they can remember pictures and put them in the correct order. Remarkably, they can also understand basic math.
❗️According to the IUCN Red List, 98 percent of lemur species are now in danger of extinction because of environmental issues, climate change and the exotic pet trade.
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2022-10-28 07:43:55+00:00
📹 The FSB has published a video of the detention of supporters of Ukrainian nationalists who planned to blow up one of the administrative buildings in Stavropol.
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2022-10-28 07:05:02+00:00
💬 "[The FSB] foiled the illegal activities of an organized group (four people) who were planning to commit a terrorist attack in the Stavropol Territory... Being supporters of the ideology of Ukrainian nationalist organizations, the perpetrators planned to commit an attack on one of the administrative facilities in the region," an official statement said.
▪️ Over the past months, Russian authorities registered multiple attempts by Ukrainian agents to stage terror attacks throughout the country.
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2022-10-28 06:50:17+00:00
❗ FSB arrests supporters of Ukrainian radicals preparing terror attack in Stavropol region
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2022-10-28 06:10:47+00:00
🙏🏼 26/11 will never ever be forgotten, India’s EAM says
🇮🇳 India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar inaugurated the meeting, saying that "We have endeavored to bring the mastermind and the perpetrators of the terrorist attack to justice. This task remains unfinished. Therefore, the coming together of the UNSC's counter terror committee to this venue is both special and significant."
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2022-10-28 06:08:34+00:00
🌐 UN Counter Terror Committee meeting begins at Mumbai's Taj hotel, with participants from all over the world paying homage to the 26/11 victims.
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2022-10-28 05:36:30+00:00
🔸Russian President Vladimir Putin paid special attention to India in his Thursday speech at the Valdai Discussion Club, saying that Russia and India have always supported each other, noting that the supply of fertilizers to the country has increased 7.6-fold. He also said that Russia is continuing negotiations with India on energy supplies, praising Modi's independent policy on this issue, comparing his persistent course to an icebreaker.
🔸A two-day counter-terrorism meeting of the UN Security Council begins in India today. The meeting, under the chair of the Counter-Terrorism Committee, will be held in Mumbai on October 28 and in New Delhi on October 29.
🔸Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to his UK counterpart Rishi Sunak and congratulated him on the assumption of the office. In a tweet, Modi said that the two countries will work together to strengthen their strategic partnership as well as to reach a free trade agreement as soon as possible.
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2022-10-28 05:00:35+00:00
🇮🇳🦠 India reports 2,208 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours
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2022-10-27 17:15:27+00:00
❗️Putin on Indian PM Modi: "He is one of those people who is capable of carrying out an independent foreign policy which serves the interests of its people. Despite all attempts to impose some kind of restrictions on India, he is like an ice-breaker and continues moving in the direction which the Indian state needs."
The Russian president added that India has achieved tremendous success in its development and has a great future ahead, and Russia and India have a special relationship built on the foundation of close cooperation.
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2022-10-27 16:02:28+00:00
❗️BJP Parliamentarian Gautam Gambhir complained that Delhi's State Chief Arvind Kejriwal had ignored repeated requests that he visit the Ghazipur landfill, and now Kejriwal is giving speeches and touring the site, only because of looming municipal polls.
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2022-10-27 15:57:51+00:00
📹 Vladimir Putin: Even at the height of the Cold War, nobody denied the existence of the culture and art of the opponent.
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2022-10-27 15:13:46+00:00
📹 Vladimir Putin: The West’s world domination is a bloody, dangerous, and dirty game.
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2022-10-27 15:02:42+00:00
❗️Putin says it is time to consider changing structure of the United Nations organization and the UN Security Council: it should reflect the world's diversity.
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2022-10-27 15:02:42+00:00
Combat work of reconnaissance units and anti-tank guided missile "Kornet" crews (Russian MoD video)
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2022-10-27 14:58:14+00:00
❗️Key points from Vladimir Putin's speech at the Valdai Discussion Club
▪️Erasing all differences has become the calling card of the West;
▪️Confidence in one's own infallibility is a very dangerous state, one step away from destroying those they don't like;
▪️Russia does not consider itself an enemy of the West;
▪️It’s impossible to blame everything on the machinations of the Kremlin;
▪️For the survival of Western civilization, it’s necessary that the entire planet remains a living environment;
▪️No one can dictate to the Russian people what kind of society we should build.
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2022-10-27 14:54:58+00:00
❗️Putin says trading in national currencies will dominate in the future
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2022-10-27 14:50:47+00:00
⚡️ It is the traditional societies of the East, Latin America, Africa, and Eurasia that form the basis of world civilization, Putin says
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2022-10-27 14:38:57+00:00
Check out the highlights from Putin’s speech at Valdai discussion forum:
🔸In the past few months, the West has taken several steps to escalate tensions.
🔸There is no unity in the West. Sooner or later, new centers of the world order and the West will have to start a dialogue.
🔸Even during the Cold War, none of the countries affected by the conflict ever thought about cancelling the culture and arts of their opponents.
🔸Any alternative point of view is seen in the West as subversive propaganda, a threat to democracy, they see 'Kremlin's tricks' everywhere.
🔸The US has nothing to offer the world except its dominance.
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2022-10-27 14:36:02+00:00
📍 Speaking at an official event organized in Jammu and Kashmir’s summer capital of Srinagar on the occasion of 'Shaurya Diwas', the minister said that “we have [initiated] the development of this area. Our journey will be completed when we implement the 1994 resolution passed in the Indian parliament on retrieving our remaining territories [and] reaching Gilgit and Baltistan.”
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2022-10-27 14:19:27+00:00
⚡️ WATCH: President Putin Delivers Speech at Valdai Discussion Club Meeting
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2022-10-27 14:12:59+00:00
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2022-10-27 13:31:07+00:00
✊🏼 The Indian cricket board's secretary, Jay Shah, took to social media to announce the move: "I'm pleased to announce BCCI's first step towards tackling discrimination. We are implementing a pay equity policy for our contracted women cricketers. The match fee for both Men and Women Cricketers will be the same as we move into a new era of gender equality in Indian Cricket."
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2022-10-27 13:19:51+00:00
⚡️One militant was killed during a clash with security forces in the Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir, local media said.
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2022-10-27 13:16:31+00:00
🇷🇺❄️ When the cold season comes to Russia, there are several ways one can stay warm:
🔸 The first winning strategy is wrapping yourself up in a blanket and eating as many delicious snacks as you can;
🔸Another one is physically exercising to stay warm, and fit as well.
🐼 Zhui, a panda in the Moscow Zoo, is setting the right example by performing air yoga in its enclosure.
🤔 Well, maybe it’s time to take a cue.
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2022-10-27 12:17:02+00:00
📍India considers it “deeply objectionable” that “politically motivated exercises by extremist elements” are being allowed to take place in a friendly country such as Canada.
🇨🇦 At the same time, Canada's ambassador to India Cameron MacKay said, that all faiths are welcome in Canada and that his nation supports the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India.
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2022-10-27 11:49:11+00:00
🚫 The West will soon "declare" 🇮🇳 India as its rival, just as it has done with 🇷🇺 Russia and 🇨🇳 China, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said.
💭 “The United States and the European Union consider Russia as a direct threat, waging a hybrid war against it […]. China is positioned by both the US and the EU as a strategic rival or competitor. I am sure that with such an ideological approach, rapidly developing India will soon be included in the ranks of the West’s rivals," he said at the Verona Eurasian Economic Forum.
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2022-10-27 10:31:01+00:00
🇺🇸🚫 The influence of the United States as the issuer of the world’s main reserve currency is coming to an end, and the position of countries like 🇮🇳India, 🇨🇳China, and 🇷🇺Russia can no longer be ignored, CEO of Rosneft Oil Company Igor Sechin said.
💭 "The world has changed for everyone. Including for the United States. And the resource that they received in the last century as the issuer of the world currency, the ability to influence billions of the world's population by controlling the global network, thanks to which they believed in their omnipotence, they are running out of this resource. Civilizational algorithms have led to the development of other centers of influence," Sechin said at the Verona Eurasian Economic Forum in Baku.
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2022-10-27 10:17:01+00:00
🇨🇳🇮🇳 Last month, the two countries completed the disengagement at Gogra-Hot Springs following a year of negotiations. However, the border issues have yet to be resolved in other outstanding areas, such as the Depsang Plains and Demchok. Despite that, China remains one of India's main trading partners.
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2022-10-27 09:54:51+00:00
⚡️⚡️🇷🇺 Russian FM Lavrov to hold talks with his counterpart S. Jaishankar in Moscow on November 8 — Russian MFA
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2022-10-27 09:30:25+00:00
⚡️🇷🇺 Russian president Vladimir Putin offers his condolences to the Iranian president following the terrorist attack in Shiraz on Wednesday.
At least 40 people suffered injuries after an armed group of people opened fire near the Shah Cheragh mausoleum.
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2022-10-27 09:27:49+00:00
🇷🇺🚫💰 Russia’s banishment from the dollar and the euro is irreversible, so being able to make payments in national currencies is the most important task, Andrey Kostin, head of Russia's second-largest bank, VTB, said during the XV Verona Eurasian Economic Forum.
💭 He added that taking into account the current trend, such countries as 🇮🇳India, 🇨🇳China, the Eurasian Economic Union countries, 🇹🇷Turkey, the states of the Near and Middle East, Latin America, and the African continent will become Russia's main foreign trade partners in the near future.
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2022-10-27 08:52:11+00:00
⚡️ Air raid sirens go off throughout Ukraine
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2022-10-27 08:49:43+00:00
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan wants to contribute to business dialogue in Greater Eurasia. This year the country is hosting the XV Verona Eurasian Economic Forum, with representatives from 🇮🇹 Italy, 🇮🇳 India, 🇷🇺 Russia, 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan, and other nations taking part. Morning sessions today are dedicated to geopolitical situation, technological revolution, green solutions, oil and gas supply chains. Situation in Ukraine has impacted business relations between Russia and the EU greatly, but Italian experts I’ve met this morning agree that once the situation around Ukraine improves, there will still be room for restoring the dialogue. Subscribe to @BolotskySputnik
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2022-10-27 08:11:46+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇳 Russia's share of Indian imports increased by 2.5 times, from 1.6 percent in April to 4 percent in May 2022, because of a surge in energy supplies, said CEO of Rosneft Oil Company Igor Sechin, speaking at the XV Verona Eurasian Economic Forum.
🤝 He added, that Rosneft values cooperation with oil and gas companies in India and continues to work on joint major projects.
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2022-10-27 08:01:39+00:00
#Sputnik_reminder
🇮🇳 On 27 October, the Indian Army celebrates 'Infantry Day'
📍On this day in 1947, the 1st Battalion of the Sikh Regiment landed at Srinagar airbase to thwart a Pakistani raid aimed at taking over Kashmir. This was India's first military action as an independent nation.
🔹 Infantry Day comes hot on the heels of Accession Day: on 26 October 75 years ago, the last Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, Hari Singh, signed the instrument of accession and the region became part of India.
🔹The Maharaja requested India's help after Pakistan’s regular soldiers entered Jammu & Kashmir on 22 October disguised as tribals, aiming to forcibly integrate the region into Pakistan.
🔹 This year both the Indian Army and the Indian Air force are celebrating today as ‘Shaurya Diwas’, or ‘Victory Day’.
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2022-10-27 07:31:30+00:00
❗️Check out the latest statements from CEO of 🇷🇺Rosneft Oil Company Igor Sechin:
🔸The high volatility of the energy market that has been observed over the past decade has now become limitless;
🔸A price cap on hydrocarbons encroaches on the fundamentals of the market and sovereignty, introduces the principle of "right" and "wrong" countries;
🔸 Europe lacks technology needed to implement a truly efficient energy transition.
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2022-10-27 07:06:03+00:00
🇮🇳🇨🇳 India and China should work closely to resolve any economic, geopolitical and other issues, China's Ambassador to Bangladesh, Li Jiming, said.
💭 “We have never seen India as a strategic rival or strategic competitor to China,” the envoy added.
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2022-10-27 07:05:24+00:00
⚡️ There is no loner any single energy market in the world, there are no rules — CEO of Russia's Rosneft oil company
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2022-10-27 06:57:52+00:00
🪔 "Brilliant to drop into tonight's Diwali reception in No10. I will do everything I can in this job to build a Britain where our children and our grandchildren can light their Diyas and look to the future with hope," Sunak wrote in his greeting message on Twitter.
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2022-10-27 06:32:10+00:00
🇮🇳 Rules on genome-edited plants will be simplified in India as the country approved the use of a genetically modified (GM) food crop for the first time.
🌾 According to Indian media, locally developed, GM mustard seeds have been given environmental clearance by an Indian government panel.
📍Hours after clearance was given, the government said that regulations for developing genome-edited plants will be simplified as the technology is promising and offers huge economic potential.
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2022-10-27 05:59:03+00:00
🔸On the 76th Infantry Day, India’s Defense Minister Rajnath Singh has sent his greetings to members of the infantry, saying that it has shown the utmost courage and professionalism.
🔸The Russian Geographical Society (RGS) center will be opened in Trivandrum, Kerala to expand research in the field of geography and organize new expeditions, Ratish Nair, the Director of the Russian Cultural Centre in Trivandrum, announced.
🔸The 7th ASEAN-India Ministerial Meeting on Agriculture and Forestry, co-chaired by Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, took place virtually with the participation of the ASEAN members' agriculture ministers. The participants agreed on cooperation to ensure sustainable growth for agricultural development.
🔸India and a number of Quad countries will conduct military drills near the LAC with China from 8 to 18 November. Battleships, submarines, aircrafts and helicopters will be deployed during the exercises.
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2022-10-27 05:02:24+00:00
🇮🇳🦠 India reports 1,112 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours
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2022-10-26 17:19:34+00:00
🇬🇧 42-year-old Rishi Sunak is making headlines as a sensation after becoming the first person of Indian origin to take over the UK's Tory leadership. But surely, he is not alone on the list of world leaders with Indian background to have held key political roles.
🔸Kamala Harris, US Vice President
Born in California to a family of migrants — a Jamaican father and an Indian mother, Kamala Harris is both the first woman and first person of color to become US vice president.
Harris’ mother, Shyamala Gopalan, a breast cancer researcher, brought her and her sister Maya up as a single mother after moving to the United States from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu to get a degree, although she has also worked as a civil rights activist.
🔸Pravind Jugnauth, Prime Minister of Mauritius
Hailing from a family of politicians, Pravind Jugnauth has been the prime minister of Mauritius since 2017, leading the Militant Socialist Movement (MSM) party since April 2003.
Jugnauth was born into a Hindu family of Ahirs. His ancestors hail from India's state of Uttar Pradesh. In the 1870s, his great-grandfather migrated to Mauritius.
👉 Are you familiar with any other notable people of Indian origin in global politics? Check out our listicle on Sputnik’s site.
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2022-10-26 15:35:51+00:00
The Russian Defense Ministry has published a video of the launch of a Sineva ballistic missile from a submarine in the Barents Sea during a training session of Russia's strategic forces.
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2022-10-26 15:05:06+00:00
❗️UPDATE: Air raid alert issued in all regions of Ukraine.
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2022-10-26 15:01:02+00:00
🤔 Experts point out that the new leader of the Conservative Party is the descendant of the Indian elite that enjoyed a privileged status during the British Empire, which dominated India from 1858 to 1947. Yes, Sunak is a son of migrants, but one who bears very few similarities with the vast majority of ordinary Indians and Pakistanis.
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2022-10-26 14:53:04+00:00
⚡️ Air raid alert announced in Kiev
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2022-10-26 14:19:03+00:00
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2022-10-26 13:20:41+00:00
Launch of a Sineva ballistic missile from a submarine in the Barents Sea during a training session of Russia's strategic forces
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2022-10-26 12:54:01+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇳 Russia’s second-largest bank, VTB, has received permission from the Reserve Bank of India to open accounts in rupees and to launch a special account in its Indian branch.
💸 According to the bank, the move will make it possible for import-export contracts between India and Russia to be settled more easily in Indian rupees. It also opens new opportunities to Russian companies for greater investment in the Indian market.
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2022-10-26 12:30:12+00:00
Check out the highlights from the address of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who spoke at a meeting of heads of CIS states' security agencies and special services:
🔸Members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) need to step up the protection of their critical infrastructure.
🔸A number of geopolitical players do not shun direct sabotage and the tactics of blackmail and direct intimidation in the CIS space.
🔸Members of the CIS have not yet faced such terrorist threats as they do now, their common task now is to protect the population.
🔸There are still risks of man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS) and high-precision weapons from Ukraine's black market falling into the hands of terrorists.
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2022-10-26 12:22:11+00:00
❗️Air raid alerts declared in almost all regions of Ukraine - local media
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2022-10-26 12:07:45+00:00
Russia's Tu-95MS missile carrier during a drill of strategic forces
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2022-10-26 11:54:52+00:00
Launch of the Yars intercontinental ballistic missile during a drill of the Russian strategic forces
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2022-10-26 11:49:38+00:00
⚡️Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Ukraine has become an instrument of US foreign policy and has practically lost its sovereignty.
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2022-10-26 11:38:39+00:00
⚡️ Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that Russian troops have taken part in drills to deliver a massive nuclear strike in response to an enemy nuclear strike
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2022-10-26 11:19:18+00:00
🇬🇲 The Gambian parliament holds an extraordinary debate on Wednesday following the death of nearly 70 children linked to several India-made cough syrups imported to the country by the US-based company Atlantic Pharmaceuticals
The tragedy hit the West African nation earlier this month, when a slew of reports suggested that Gambian children, most of whom were reportedly aged one and two years old, had been diagnosed with “serious kidney problems.”
❗️Following the reports, the WHO issued global alert against four syrups, with Gambian President Adama Barrow assembling a special commission to launch an investigation into the matter
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2022-10-26 10:45:27+00:00
❗️Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov's latest statements:
▪️Kiev is preparing a terrorist provocation with the use of a “dirty bomb,” and Moscow will continue to urge the world to prevent this irresponsible action. Russia will continue to convey its point of view to the international community to encourage it to take active steps to prevent such irresponsible behavior by the Kiev regime.
▪️On deployment of the US Army 101sts Airborne in Romania: the closer US troops are to Russian borders, the more we need to strengthen our security.
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2022-10-26 09:57:01+00:00
🔮💭 Giving a new spin to a traditional industry, Puneet Guptam, an Indian tech entrepreneur, launched his “Astrotalk” app five years ago, raising the question as to whether people will turn to the “new-generation Astro.”
Sputnik spoke with the entrepreneur to learn the answer to this question — and more.
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2022-10-26 09:50:02+00:00
❗️ Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu held phone conversation with his Indian counterpart, conveyed concerns about possible provocations from Kiev with use of 'dirty bomb', Russian defense ministry said.
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2022-10-26 09:31:02+00:00
🇮🇳🌫 Deal with it, or quit: BJP challenges Delhi gov't over air pollution
Lambasting the Arvind Kejriwal gov't over its failure to tackle rising pollution levels in the Indian capital, BJP leaders have called on the AAP politician to resign.
💬 According to MP Manoj Tiwari, former BJP Delhi unit chief, contrary to popular belief, the air quality in Delhi was worse before Diwali, meaning the most favorable Hindu festival is not to blame for the air pollution.
Delhi's air quality improved on Wednesday, but remained in the “poor” category on the Air Quality Index.
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2022-10-26 09:10:44+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇳 The Cabinet of Ministers of the Russian Federation will discuss ratifying the agreement between the Russian and Indian governments on how to protect technologies connected with cooperation in space.
🤝🚀 It was specified, that the cabinet is to consider the Bill, which proposes ratifying the agreement that was signed in Moscow and Bangalore on 1 December 2021.
📍On December 6, 2021, Russia's President Putin and India's Prime Minister Modi welcomed the signing of an intergovernmental agreement on measures to protect technology in space.
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2022-10-26 09:10:13+00:00
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2022-10-26 08:41:47+00:00
⚡️ 53 wagons of a goods train carrying coal was derailed today at Gurpa railway station between the stations of Koderma and Manpur, the East Central Railway said. No casualties have been reported.
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2022-10-26 08:10:50+00:00
🇮🇳 The Indian Coast Guard on Wednesday rescued 20 Bangladeshi fishermen post-landfall of Cyclone Sitrang.
They will be handed over to the neighboring state in accordance with the existing MoU.
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2022-10-26 07:57:57+00:00
🇵🇰🇨🇳 Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif will pay an official visit to China on November 1, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Wednesday.
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2022-10-26 07:38:02+00:00
❓What can help a country to get its economy back on track? According to Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, God's blessing will be just right!
💭 "We need a lot of efforts to get our economy back on track, but along with that, we also need blessings of our gods and goddesses," Kejriwal said.
As a guaranteed solution, he asked Prime Minister Modi that images of Lord Ganesha and goddess Lakshmi be printed on fresh banknotes.
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2022-10-26 07:15:15+00:00
⚡️🇧🇩 At least 21 people have died in Bangladesh due to Cyclone Sitrang, seven are reported missing, according to the local Daily Star newspaper.
Around 10,000 homes have been destroyed and more than 6 hectares of farmland flooded due to the cyclone, the authorities said, adding that 80,000 people have been left cut off internet and communication links.
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2022-10-26 06:41:18+00:00
🇮🇳❔Sunak, who has always been proud of his Hindu background, has made waves on social media, especially in India. Though many netizens applaud Britain's inclusivity, some are not sure whether Sunak differs all that greatly from his predecessors.
Sputnik has assembled the most striking takes on the new British PM.
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2022-10-26 05:47:49+00:00
⚡️Mallikarjun Kharge officially took charge as Congress president at All India Congress Committee headquarters
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2022-10-26 05:40:03+00:00
🔸A terrorist has been killed in the Sudpora area of Jammu and Kashmir along the Line of Control, as security forces prevented an infiltration attempt. Local media has said that incriminating items, including arms and ammunition, were recovered and that a search for other terrorists is ongoing.
🔸India and China should recognize that their common interests greatly outweigh their differences, and they should uphold the principle of not interfering in each other’s internal affairs, the outgoing Chinese ambassador to India, Sun Weidong, said. He added that China has optimized the visa application process for Indian citizens.
🔸Mallikarjun Kharge will take charge as Congress president today. Before assuming his role, he visited Raj Ghat - the memorial to Mahatma Gandhi in Delhi - to pay tribute to the independence campaigner.
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2022-10-26 05:01:24+00:00
🇮🇳🦠 India reports 830 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours
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2022-10-26 04:56:10+00:00
🇮🇳 Indian Major General B.K.Sharma (retd.) has reflected on India-Pakistan relations in light of internal political struggle in Islamabad when I interviewed him at the @valdaiclub discussion forum outside Moscow. He said that his country wants a stable 🇵🇰 Pakistan, which will have a strong government without too much military influence on its functioning: "As long as [a] strong government emerges and whatever dialogue they have with India that is withheld and not a helpful state to terrorism, we would be very happy to cooperate with Pakistan.” @BolotskySputnik
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2022-10-25 16:56:32+00:00
🎥 New Delhi woke up to “very poor” air quality after Diwali, according to the Air Quality Index. This came as an unpleasant surprise to some, as Delhi authorities have taken strict measures to curb air pollution with a ban on firecrackers. However, many revelers decided to defy the law so as not to abandon their precious tradition, as firecrackers were heard going off around the capital.
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2022-10-25 15:51:35+00:00
🇵🇰 Pakistan’s Imran Khan to begin long march from Lahore towards Islamabad on Friday.
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2022-10-25 15:33:02+00:00
Su-34 crews detect and destroy ground targets (video by Russian MoD)
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2022-10-25 15:08:02+00:00
Footage shows combat work by the TOS-1A Solntsepyok heavy flamethrower system (images courtesy of Russia's Ministry of Defense)
220-mm shells are guaranteed to destroy manpower, lightly armored vehicles, weapons and command posts of the enemy, creating favorable conditions for assault groups to operate in.
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2022-10-25 14:56:19+00:00
🇮🇳🇨🇳China has optimized visa application process for Indian citizens who want to travel to China and for the students pursuing long-term studies.
Beijing has also resumed the processing of visa applications for people conducting business, work and family visits, the Chinese Ambassador to India said during his farewell remarks.
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2022-10-25 14:42:01+00:00
🇮🇳🇬🇧India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Tuesday received a call from the UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly regarding the Ukraine crisis.
The conversation comes against the backdrop of the UNSC to hold talks over Ukraine’s ‘dirty bomb’ when US and other Western states rejected Russia’s statement that Ukraine wants to make a provocation using the weapon with radioactive remains.
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2022-10-25 14:26:15+00:00
☢️ Russian diplomats and senior military officials are sounding the alarm about Kiev's possible preparations to stage a false flag attack involving the detonation of a dirty bomb on its own territory to accuse Russia of nuclear terrorism. What are dirty bombs? How do they differ from nuclear weapons? Why are they so dangerous? Check out this Sputnik explainer to find out.
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2022-10-25 14:13:01+00:00
🇮🇳For several days before Diwali poor air quality was reported in Delhi and other parts of the country. However, BJP authorities think that it is not the beloved festival which is to blame, but the capital's Chief Minister.
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2022-10-25 13:53:27+00:00
🇮🇳🐾Five dwarf and one common spotted cuscus (a type of possum) were found hidden inside the luggage of a passenger travelling from Bangkok, Thailand by Chennai customs officers on 23 October.
The six animals were detained and the passenger was arrested, customs officers said.
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2022-10-25 13:20:50+00:00
🇮🇳💸🚫Google has been fined for the second time in less than a week
US company Google has been fined in India for the second time time in less than a week for abusing its dominant position with its Play Store app. The company was slapped with a penalty of INR 9.364Bln ($110Mln) because police felt that the US tech giant was abusing its market position to promote its payment app and in-app payment system.
On Thursday, Google was fined INR 13.38Bln ($160Bln) for anticompetitive practices related to Android.
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2022-10-25 12:52:33+00:00
🇮🇳 Kashmiri locals also shared pictures of the solar eclipse they witnessed on Tuesday.
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2022-10-25 12:26:10+00:00
📹🌘WATCH footage of the solar eclipse at dawn in Russia’s city of Novosibirsk.
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2022-10-25 12:09:17+00:00
🇮🇳🇸🇦Talks between Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi's crown prince and newly appointed prime minister, and India’s PM Narendra Modi, which are to take place on 14 November, will focus on trade and investment, sources say.
However, the program of the visit is still under discussion.
India is looking to export more to Saudi Arabia as the kingdom is already a big market for Indian textiles and footwear. In the meantime, Saudi is hoping to occupy a bigger share in India’s petrochemical sector.
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2022-10-25 11:43:49+00:00
❗️Amid political changes in the UK, Sputnik talked to Mark Garnett, a senior lecturer at the department of politics, philosophy and religion at Lancaster University. He commented on the current political situation in the state and the challenges that Rishi Sunak, the newly elected PM, will have to face.
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2022-10-25 11:12:30+00:00
"Rashee Sanook": Joe Biden mispronounces name of the UK's new Prime Minister in congratulatory speech
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2022-10-25 10:59:33+00:00
🇬🇧UK's new prime minister Rishi Sunak in his address from Downing Street pledges to fix Truss' "mistakes", says "difficult" choices are ahead
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2022-10-25 10:59:01+00:00
🇮🇳To ward off evil, state chief in India gets whipped in Diwali ritual
Whipping or flogging as part of religious rituals is common in many Indian states, including Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, and Maharashtra.
The chief minister of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, Bhupesh Baghel, got whipped on his hand as part of a traditional religious ritual.
👉The ritual is a part of 'Gauri-Gaura Puja' (Worship of Lord Shiva, Goddess Parvati), performed on Diwali, which was celebrated across India the day before. It is believed that taking blows on the hand brings good luck and averts evil. Though some Indians consider it an act of superstition, the tradition has continued for centuries.
This is not the first time Baghel has participated in this ritual: last year, he visited the village of Jajangiri in the Durg district for the same thing.
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2022-10-25 10:33:50+00:00
⚡️ Rishi Sunak officially appointed Britain's prime minister as King Charles III asks him to form a new government
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2022-10-25 10:33:15+00:00
PHOTO: Rishi Sunak meets King Charles III
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2022-10-25 10:31:00+00:00
Rishi Sunak has arrived at Buckingham Palace where King Charles III will ask him to form a new government
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2022-10-25 10:28:01+00:00
🇮🇳🐶Kukur Tihar is an annual festival celebrated by Hindus in Nepal.
It comes on the second day of the festival Tihar to commemorate Yama – the Hindu god of the dead – and consists of praising dogs as they are considered to be the god's envoys.
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2022-10-25 10:26:14+00:00
Kremlin spokesman Peskov after Macron's call to the Pope and the US to talk with Putin: At the same time, Kiev, which rejected negotiations, is not called for talks
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2022-10-25 10:16:44+00:00
⚡️It is unacceptable to deny Kiev's plans to create 'dirty bomb' against backdrop of danger Moscow is talking about - Kremlin
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2022-10-25 10:04:48+00:00
⚡️ King Charles III accepts Liz Truss' resignation
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2022-10-25 09:11:22+00:00
⚡️ Macron in Vatican: "We need the US at the negotiating table to advance the peace process in Ukraine"
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2022-10-25 09:09:01+00:00
⚡️🇧🇩 At least 12 people have been killed, mostly by falling trees, as Cyclone Sitrang wreaks havoc on Bangladesh’s southern coast, media reports say.
The cyclone - the West Pacific equivalent of hurricanes or typhoons in the Atlantic - made landfall in Bangladesh late on Monday, with heavy downpours flooding cities, including Bangladesh's capital of Dhaka.
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2022-10-25 08:55:28+00:00
🇮🇳🌉The construction of India's first vertical lift railway sea bridge - Pamban Bridge, connecting India's mainland to Rameswaram on Pamban Island - is 81 percent complete, India's Ministry of Railways tweeted.
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2022-10-25 08:35:05+00:00
👛💸I’ve been saving for it for ages!
In the Rudrapur city of India's Uttarakhand a young man paid Rs 50,000 in Rs 10 coins to buy a TVS Jupiter scooter he had been dreaming of.
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2022-10-25 08:33:23+00:00
❗️ WhatsApp users report technical problems; outages reported from the UK to Singapore
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2022-10-25 08:09:31+00:00
#Sputnik_reminder
🗳 On this day in 1951, India held its first general elections
🔸After India gained independence from British rule in 1947, the country was run by an interim legislature called the Indian Constituent Assembly.
🔸The first general elections in the country kicked off on October 25, 1951 and ran until February 21, 1952, with all citizens above the age of 21 eligible to vote. There were 1,874 candidates from 53 parties in the elections, but it was the Indian National Congress that had a landslide victory with 364 seats. Its closest rival, the Communist Party of India, won only 16.
🔸 It is worth saying that before the official elections there were "mock elections", as the country of 360Mln people was unfamiliar with the process. It was the initial steps India took to becoming the "World's Largest Democracy" as the country is now known.
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2022-10-25 07:30:53+00:00
🇮🇳☀️🌑A partial solar eclipse will be seen in India on Tuesday
The eclipse will be most visible in northern parts of the country, including Leh in Ladakh and Delhi. In the capital, the eclipse will start at 16.29 (10.59 GMT) and the greatest fraction will be visible at 17.30 (12.00 GMT).
🔺Because of the eclipse, major Hindu temples, such as those in Badrinath and Kedarnath in Uttarakhand, will be closed for nearly 12 hours on 25 October as it is believed that a solar eclipse generates negative energy.
👉Hindus also fast during the eclipse as all food and water is considered to be cursed. They do not perform prayers at home as they are believed to be ineffective and even harmful on this day, and pregnant women are afraid to give birth when there is solar eclipse. After the eclipse ends, Hindus take a cold bath to wash negative energy away.
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2022-10-25 06:59:08+00:00
🇮🇳🔥A major fire broke out in Naharlagun market in Arunachal Pradesh, gutting 700 shops.
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2022-10-25 06:19:21+00:00
❗️IAEA to visit two nuclear facilities in Ukraine as Russia warns of 'dirty bomb' threat
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2022-10-25 05:39:34+00:00
🔸Delhi's Air Quality Index (AQI) has worsened to "very poor" after Diwali; Mumbai's AQI is rated as "medium".
🔸India's High Commissioner to Kenya Namgya Khampa met with Kenyan President William Samoei Arap Ruto and asked that the kidnapping of two Indian citizens be investigated.
🔸Rishi Sunak will be formally installed as Prime Minister of the UK after meeting with King Charles III.
🔸At least seven people were killed and thousands evacuated from the coastal town on Cox's Bazar in the south of Bangladesh after Cyclone Sitrang made landfall in the country.
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2022-10-25 05:13:18+00:00
🇮🇳🦠 India reports 862 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours
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2022-10-24 17:08:12+00:00
🇮🇳🇬🇧Narendra Modi congratulates Rishi Sunak on becoming the UK Prime Minister
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2022-10-24 14:51:10+00:00
🇬🇧WATCH: UK's newly elected PM Rishi Sunak arrives in 10 Downing Street in London.
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2022-10-24 14:27:41+00:00
💰📈Muhurat trading: Sensex jumped 635.12 points to reach 59,942.27 in the first session of Samvat year 2079; Nifty is trading above 17,750.
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2022-10-24 14:21:14+00:00
🇷🇺Russia's special operation in Ukraine: See Sputnik's map of the military situation.
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2022-10-24 14:14:15+00:00
⚡️Russian Chief of General Staff Gerasimov spoke by phone with UK counterpart Radakin - Russian Defense Ministry
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2022-10-24 14:13:03+00:00
🇬🇧 UK PM for 40 days Liz Truss has expressed her support for Rishi Sunak’s candidacy for the UK next prime minister.
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2022-10-24 14:01:26+00:00
🇮🇳🎉🪔One of the most important and brightest Hindu festivals, Diwali, is celebrated not only in India but in countries all over the world. It marks the beginning of the new year for Hindus and celebrates the goddess Lakshmi - the deity responsible for wealth and prosperity.
Watch Sri Lankan Hindus celebrate Diwali on Sputnik's latest video!
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2022-10-24 13:51:31+00:00
🇬🇧 Meanwhile, Britain's favorite Downing Street mouser Larry the Cat has a reason to be excited about the new PM.
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2022-10-24 13:31:01+00:00
❓🔎 In a curious incident, 144kg of marijuana worth more than $10,000 was stolen from a police station in Anand district of India's Gujarat state, media reported on Monday.
According to Shobhana Vaghela - chief constable at the Virsad police station - she noticed that one bag of confiscated marijuana was lying apart from the others when she arrived at the station on Saturday morning. Later, after checking with her colleagues, they discovered that out of 58 bags of marijuana seized by police in a 2018 case, four were missing.
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2022-10-24 13:20:12+00:00
Dr. Philani Mthembu, executive director of the Institute for Global Dialogue, an independent foreign policy think tank based in South Africa's Tshwane, whom I interviewed this morning, weighed in on Saudi Arabia’s plans to join BRICS and a the concept of the world without superpowers. Dr. Tshwane is certain that "when it comes to the actual expansion of BRICS, obviously there will be modalities that need to be worked out", but, he says that "ultimately it will actually contribute towards creating a multipolar world order."
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2022-10-24 13:05:40+00:00
⚡️⚡️🇬🇧 Rishi Sunak officially becomes the UK's first prime minister of Indian origin
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2022-10-24 13:02:21+00:00
⚡️🇬🇧 UK's Penny Mordaunt pulls out of Tory leadership race, paving way for Rishi Sunak to become the next PM
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2022-10-24 13:01:02+00:00
🐢 Police in Chhattisgarh saved an Indian flapshell turtle from men who planned to sacrifice it on the occasion of Diwali, apparently sure it would bring them wealth and prosperity, the Press Trust of India reported Monday.
A group of six has been arrested in the case. The turtle, whose species is protected under Schedule 1 of the Wildlife Protection Act, is safe and sound.
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2022-10-24 12:35:48+00:00
🇮🇳🍬 On the occasion of Diwali, Indian Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari met with troops deployed along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu & Kashmir and distributed candies to the soldiers.
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2022-10-24 12:19:02+00:00
❗️Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif was "shot dead" in Kenya, his wife confirmed on Monday, without providing any additional details about his death
According to the Pakistani authorities, Sharif was shot at a police checkpoint at an hour’s distance from Nairobi, but they could not tell anything precise until details are shared by the Kenyan government.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has already spoken with Kenyan President William Ruto over the phone, and the latter promised ‘all-out’ help and a thorough investigation into the incident.
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2022-10-24 12:01:35+00:00
🇮🇳🗯 Deepak Ram Niwas Hooda has come a long way, from a young boy who lost both his parents at an early age to becoming the captain of India's national Kabaddi team, widely respected as the 2016 World Cup winner.
Sputnik spoke with Hooda about his life struggles and future dreams.
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2022-10-24 11:39:02+00:00
🇮🇳🎉🏏 As India celebrates a nail-biting win over Pakistan at the T20 World Cup, the country’s popular Zomato delivery service has taken this as another chance to troll a rival company.
This time, Zomato took a shot at Pakistani food delivery brand Careem Pakistan on Twitter:
🗯 “Happy Diwali, will you have some sweets or have you decided to fill your stomach with tears of defeat?” reads Zomato’s tweet, in response to an earlier jab posted by the Pakistani company.
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2022-10-24 11:21:05+00:00
❗️Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's latest statements:
▪️Russia will raise the issue of Ukraine making a “dirty bomb” at the UN;
▪️Russia has double-checked the information on Kiev’s plans to make a “dirty bomb,” it’s not an unfounded accusation;
▪️Russia has no information about the IAEA sending experts to Ukraine.
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2022-10-24 11:21:01+00:00
🇮🇳📈 India is set to increase its share in global exports to 3% by 2027, and up to 10% by 2047 – Economic Times
🔸The share of exports in India's GDP is set to reach 25% by 2047, when the nation celebrates the 100th anniversary of its independence.
🔸Sources also told the newspaper that the Modi gov't plans to ensure India will be among the top three in the global services trade in the areas of tourism, finance, healthcare & education.
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2022-10-24 11:09:49+00:00
Russia's MoD: Work on the creation of Ukraine's "dirty bomb" is in its final stages. Information has emerged about contacts Zelensky's office has with representatives of the UK on the issue of obtaining technology to create nuclear weapons
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2022-10-24 11:04:01+00:00
🌾🔥 Stubble or farm burning is considered one of the major causes behind rising air pollution levels in India.
💬 Sputnik spoke with experts and farmer representatives to learn more about possible solutions to the issue.
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2022-10-24 10:46:02+00:00
🇮🇳A suspicious bag containing a small gas cylinder and urea was found in orchards near the Parimpora area of Srinagar city in Jammu and Kashmir.
The number of terrorist attacks in the border state has risen recently.
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2022-10-24 10:35:37+00:00
⚡️Air raid alert issued in all regions of Ukraine.
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2022-10-24 10:30:11+00:00
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🌐 On this day 77 years ago, the founding document of the United Nations — the UN Charter — came into force.
🔹The UN became the 2nd international organization with a multipurpose agenda after its predecessor the League of Nations, which was created by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and disbanded in 1946.
🔹 For decades, the UN has been tackling the most acute global issues and played a key role in addressing regional problems, ranging from peacekeeping efforts & humanitarian relief to arms control & climate change.
🔹However, the UN’s ability to adequately respond to modern crises has come under scrutiny: calls have been raised to expand the UNSC membership to include 'rising powers,' such as India, Brazil & Nigeria, who argue that the UNSC board does not reflect the current multipolar world order.
🔹Many believe that today's UN, with hundreds of sub-bodies and related agencies, is mired in bureaucracy, which makes its work ineffective.
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2022-10-24 10:26:37+00:00
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov's latest statements:
▪️Many Russian assets, including gold and foreign exchange reserves, have been illegally stolen by the West.
▪️Macron and Scholz show no desire to listen to Russia. Erdogan has taken a different approach.
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2022-10-24 10:07:01+00:00
🇮🇳🌐As the United Nations turned 77, India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Monday that India will always try to strengthen the effectiveness of the United Nations.
🗯"India's ongoing tenure as a member of the UNSC reflects our principled approach of promoting dialogue and diplomacy to meet contemporary challenges. We will always stand with the Global South and try to strengthen the UN’s effectiveness,” Jaishankar wrote on Twitter.
The External Affairs Minister also said that India aims to ensure that the United Nations remains relevant.
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2022-10-24 09:56:11+00:00
⚡️ Ukrainian 'dirty bomb' threat is real, up to West whether they want to believe it or not, Kremlin says
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2022-10-24 09:47:01+00:00
💰🔄Stock exchanges in India are closed on Diwali with normal trade resuming on Tuesday.
The only exception today will be from 18.15 to 19.15 (12.45GMT to 13.45 GMT) when exchange platforms will open for the so-called Muhurat trading. During this one-hour window, investors place orders for shares according to their whim which they believe will be auspicious and bring in good returns.
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2022-10-24 09:45:41+00:00
More than half of Conservative MPs are now supporting Rishi Sunak in the leadership race - Sky News
Some 178 Tory MPs are supporting Sunak - more than half of the party's 355 tally
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2022-10-24 09:26:01+00:00
🇧🇩🌪Cyclonic Storm Sitrang is likely to become severe and arrive on the coast of Bangladesh between the islands of Tinkona and Sandwip, near Barisal city in the early morning of 25 October.
Barisal is one of the major cities of Bangladesh and one of the oldest of its river ports, as well as the third-largest information technology and financial hub.
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2022-10-24 09:01:13+00:00
🇬🇧British bookmakers say that there is a 95 percent probability that the UK's former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, will become the country’s new PM, Sky News has reported.
The campaign aimed at returning Boris Johnson to the post by persuading Sunak and leader of the House, Penny Mordaunt to quit the race (the so-called trading day) has failed, according to the Financial Times. Furthermore Johnson only managed to secure few more than 50 votes from the Conservative Party.
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2022-10-24 08:48:09+00:00
🇮🇳🇳🇵India has broken China's eight-year monopoly in exporting ammunition to Nepal
An Indian private company has supplied two million rounds of the 5.56x45mm ammunition for the Nepalese army’s assault rifles.
Nepal used for a long time to buy ammunition produced in India until the deadly encounter with Maoists in 2005 in which 43 Nepalese soldiers were killed. After that Nepal described Indian rifles as being “substandard” and claimed that there would have been a different outcome had the army used other rifles.
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2022-10-24 08:33:52+00:00
❗️🇵🇰The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has rejected former Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s plea to instantly suspend the decision of his disqualification in the Toshakhana case made by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), Pakistan's ARY News agency reports.
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2022-10-24 08:03:02+00:00
🔥🔍 The state's BJP chief suggested that some terror organizations were still active in Tamil Nadu and called Stalin to take measures against them.
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2022-10-24 08:01:10+00:00
Russia's Foreign Intelligence Chief Sergei Naryshkin said: The world should not allow Kiev to have nuclear weapons; Russia is very worried by the rhetoric of the West about the possibility of using nuclear weapons, this is unacceptable
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2022-10-24 07:38:01+00:00
🇮🇳🎉🪔 As India is celebrating Diwali with full vehemence two years after the COVID-19 pandemic, Sputnik spoke with a few stakeholders in Delhi in a bid to gauge consumer sentiment and the festivities’ impact on inflation.
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2022-10-24 07:16:18+00:00
❗️Rishi Sunak should become the new Prime Minister, the UK's Foreign Minister said on Monday
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2022-10-24 07:00:26+00:00
🇮🇳🏏🥇Afghan cricket fans were seen celebrating the win of their neighboring country following India’s victory over Pakistan in the T20 cricket world cup.
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2022-10-24 06:53:01+00:00
"A World Without Superpowers" is the key topic of today's session at the Valdai Club discussion outside Moscow. I will be interviewing political scientists, military and economy experts from India, South Africa, Indonesia on the sidelines of the main event. Stay tuned! @BolotskySputnik
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2022-10-24 06:45:38+00:00
🇮🇳📹WATCH: India’s PM Narendra Modi takes part in singing ‘Vande Mataram’ with the soldiers of the Indian Army in Kargil, Ladakh.
🗯"For me, all of you have been my family for years now... it's a privilege to celebrate Diwali amid all of you," he said to the soldiers.
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2022-10-24 06:26:06+00:00
The Speaker of Russia's State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin on the possibility of Kiev using a “dirty bomb”:
▪️The threat of a terrorist attack in the US and Europe with the use of such a bomb existed until 2011, when Osama bin Laden was destroyed
▪️Osama bin Laden and Zelensky have the same methods of conducting nuclear terror
▪️The Kiev regime has instructed atomic scientists to create a “dirty bomb”
▪️Kiev continues to shell the critical infrastructure of nuclear power plants (in Zaporozhye and Kursk), causing a humanitarian catastrophe
▪️The US President and the heads of European states, became sponsors and accomplices of nuclear terrorism as soon as they provided financial and military assistance to the Zelensky regime
Earlier, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu expressed concerns about possible provocations by Ukraine with the use of a "dirty bomb" when talking to colleagues from France, the UK, the US and Turkey.
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2022-10-24 06:18:18+00:00
🇬🇧Rishi Sunak looks set to become Britain's first PM of Indian origin
Former UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has withdrawn from the leadership challenge, according to British media. Johnson took himself out of the race to become the Conservative Party's next leader, despite claiming to have the necessary support. Consequently Rishi Sunak is the frontrunner to become Britain’s first PM of Indian origin.
Johnson defended his decision to withdraw by saying that running as a candidate “would simply not be the right thing to do” as he couldn't “govern effectively unless [he had] a united party in Parliament”.
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2022-10-24 05:47:24+00:00
🔸Ayodhya in the state of Uttar Pradesh and the birthplace of supreme deity Rama, has entered the World Guinness Records for staging the "largest display of oil lamps", lighting more than 1.576Mln earthen lamps on the final day of the Deepotsav festivities.
🔸An Air Quality Index (AQI) reading of 298 - which in simple English means "very poor" - has been recorded in Delhi on the morning of Diwali. On Sunday, a day before Diwali, Delhi reported an AQI of 259, the lowest 24-hour-average on the day before Diwali in seven years.
🔸India thrashed Pakistan in the T20 cricket world cup on Sunday, putting great force behind bid to gain the T20 World Cup for the first time since 2007.
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2022-10-24 05:14:56+00:00
🇮🇳 Modi has landed in Kargil, where the Indian PM is going to celebrate Diwali with the army
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2022-10-24 05:09:37+00:00
🇮🇳🦠India records 1,334 new Covid-19 cases.
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2022-10-23 15:05:18+00:00
📹 Russia's MoD has published footage showing Su-25 ground attack jets on sorties
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2022-10-23 14:34:25+00:00
🇮🇳🔮Ayodhya completely drenched in color for Deepotsav
For the past five years, Ayodhya has celebrated the grand festival of lights ahead of Diwali which has always been much-awaited. The festival is organized to spread awareness about the rich culture and heritage of the city.
Deepotsav is held during Choti Diwali (Small Diwali), when the entire city is lit up with earthen lamps to mark the occasion.
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2022-10-23 14:17:47+00:00
❗️🇵🇰In an exclusive interview with Sputnik, Hamza Ghaznavi, a political analyst based in Toronto and co-founder of digital media production agency, ProperGaanda, shared his views on what Imran Khan's disqualification means for Pakistan's political landscape and what will happen next.
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2022-10-23 14:02:03+00:00
🇮🇳🌪According to the forecast, states such as Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Mizoram, Manipur, and Tripura, which are home to over 30 million people, are anticipated to face moderate to heavy rainfall and thunderstorms on Monday due to the wake of of Cyclone Sitrang.
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2022-10-23 13:46:31+00:00
⚡️Sergey Shoigu had a phone conversation with Britain’s Minister of Defense Wallace, Russian Defense Ministry said.
▪️He conveyed his concerns about possible provocations by Ukraine with the use of a "dirty bomb".
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2022-10-23 12:53:09+00:00
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🇮🇳🐯Today is World Snow Leopard Day
▫️Snow leopards, also known as ounces, are a big cat typically living in Central and South Asia. They are listed as vulnerable with fewer than 10,000 mature animals left across the globe. Ounces live at elevations of 3,000-4,000 meters ranging from eastern Afghanistan, the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau to southern Siberia, Mongolia and western China.
▫️Nowadays, snow leopards are endangered due to poaching and habitat destruction caused by infrastructural development.
▫️They are the state animal of Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh in India, as these mountainous areas are inhabited by the big cat. The Indian government takes a range of measures to protect this gorgeous species, for instance keeping a pulse on the snow leopard population using robust monitoring tools and applying poaching controls.
▫️Their efforts seem to have proven successful: according to the recent snow leopard census, the number of these big cats has increased from 86 to 121.
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2022-10-23 12:02:14+00:00
🇮🇳🚀Congratulating the space scientists on the launch of India’s most powerful rocket, the LV Mark III (LVM-3), Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday described the successful launch of the country's heaviest launch vehicle, LVM-3, as the emergence of India in the global commercial launch market.
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2022-10-23 11:44:01+00:00
⚡️Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu held phone talks with Turkish Defense Minister - Russian MoD
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2022-10-23 11:35:30+00:00
❗️Russia Investigative Committee’s latest statements on the military plane crash in Irkutsk:
▪️ A case has been opened to determine whether there was a violation of safety rules in the operation of air transport in response to the Su-30 crash in Irkutsk.
▪️ The crashed Su-30 belonged to the airline and was performing a test without ammunition.
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2022-10-23 11:17:37+00:00
⚡️Two pilots died in plane crash in Irkutsk, no victims among the population, fire on the ground localized - Ministry of Emergency Situations
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2022-10-23 11:13:59+00:00
📹 More footage from the scene
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2022-10-23 11:12:06+00:00
❗️ What is known so far about the military plane crash in Irkutsk, Russia:
▪️ The Su-30 aircraft crashed in Irkutsk, a city in Siberia near Lake Baikal, during a test flight, Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations (EMERCOM) reports
▪️ The plane crashed within the city of Irkutsk, and fire and rescue units are working on the spot, according to information provided by EMERCOM.
▪️ The area affected by the warplane's impact measured 200 square meters, and included a private two-story residential building, according to EMERCOM.
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2022-10-23 11:00:01+00:00
📹 Footage depicting the exact moment the plane crashed in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, Russia
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2022-10-23 10:55:14+00:00
📹Eyewitnesses share footage of the aftermaths of the plane crash in Irkutsk.
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2022-10-23 10:50:01+00:00
⚡️According to preliminary data, a SU plane fell on a two-story house in Russia's Irkutsk, the city’s governor said, leaving for the site of the crash.
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2022-10-23 10:45:57+00:00
❗️Russia's Defense Minister and his French counterpart discussed the situation in Ukraine, which has demonstrated a steady tendency towards further, uncontrolled escalation, Russia’s MoD reported.
▪️In addition, Shoigu conveyed his concerns about possible provocations by Ukraine with the use of a "dirty bomb".
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2022-10-23 10:35:49+00:00
⚡️Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu held phone talks with France’s Minister of Defense – Russia’s MoD
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2022-10-23 10:11:02+00:00
🇮🇳🇦🇫The export of Afghan goods to India via the Attari border checkpoint has been stopped
The route via the Wagah-Attari border checkpoint, passing through Pakistan, only operates in one direction – Pakistan does not allow the export of Indian goods (except humanitarian aid) to Afghanistan for political reasons.
The Wagah-Attari checkpoint closed on Sunday morning after Afghan truckers staged a protest after their colleague was detained in India on October 3rd after 435 g of heroin was released from his car. Other truckers say that the drugs were put into his car by someone else while he was going through Pakistan.
India imports about 10% of dry fruits from Afghanistan with an annual value of $480 mln.
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2022-10-23 09:30:18+00:00
🇵🇰❓The former Pakistan's PM Imran Khan has been charged with many crimes, ranging from terrorism to rioting. Now he is accused of an attempted murder following a complaint by Mohsin Nawaz Ranjha of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-N.
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2022-10-23 08:59:26+00:00
🇮🇳🇸🇦New Delhi is preparing for Saudi Crown Prince PM Mohammed Bin Salman's visit, ahead of PM Narendra Modi's trip to Bali, Indonesia to attend the G20 summit.
The visit of Mohammed Bin Salman comes as India’s PM Narendra Modi may miss the ASEAN-India summit in Cambodia; a final call is yet to be made, officials say.
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2022-10-23 08:24:20+00:00
🇮🇳🪄❌Firecrackers have been banned in three districts of Madhya Pradesh: Gwalior, Singrauli and Katni, due to the poor Air Quality Index (AQI).
A notice issued to the Gwalior district reads: "Only green firecrackers are allowed to be set off between 8 pm and 10 pm in the district outside the municipal corporation limits." In Singrauli, the use of firecrackers has been banned between October 22 and November 5.
On the other hand, firecrackers are allowed from 8 pm to 10 pm in cities where the AQI ranks medium or better.
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2022-10-23 07:31:18+00:00
🇷🇺 🇨🇳 President Putin has sent a congratulatory telegram to Xi Jinping, who was elected General Secretary of the Communist Party of China for a third term, stressing that he [Russia’s leader] would be happy to continue constructive dialogue and work closely together to develop a comprehensive partnership between Russia and China
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2022-10-23 07:30:49+00:00
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🇮🇳💊🌱Today the world celebrates Ayurveda Day
🔸Ayurveda is a traditional system of medicine that is more than 3,000 years old and originates in India. It is based on a holistic approach, and in a broad sense can be referred to as a philosophy of wellness and prosperity.
🔸Ayurveda is widely practiced in India and Nepal, where 80% of people say that they use Ayurvedic methods to treat illnesses and sustain health.
🔸Ayurveda uses a wide range of practices such as herbal medicines, special diets, meditation, yoga, massage, laxatives, enemas, and medical oils. Along with plant-based substances, Ayurveda uses animal products and opium-containing substances.
🔸India now celebrates Ayurveda Day every year; it falls on Dhanvantari Jayanti – the birthday of the Hindu God of medicine. The celebration involves daily lectures, presentations and workshops regarding the benefits of traditional Indian medicine and ways to use it and prepare Ayurvedic substances.
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2022-10-23 06:21:16+00:00
📹A sleeper bus collided with a truck on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway in Uttar Pradesh's Etawah district on Sunday, leaving four dead and 42 injured.
The accident occurred at about 2:30 am, when the bus hit the truck from behind.
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2022-10-23 05:47:17+00:00
🔸China and Pakistan are going to launch three new China-Pakistan Economic Corridors (CPEC), including health and digital corridors, in November. The projects are planned to be launched during Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's visit to China next month following the invitation by President Xi Jinping.
🔸ISRO is likely to launch its Chandrayan-3 mission in June 2023, the organization’s chairman Dr. S. Somanath said on Sunday while addressing the media after the LVM3-M2/OneWeb India-1 launch.
🔸The Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) license of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (RGF) has been cancelled by the government due to alleged law violations, officials said.
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2022-10-23 05:22:02+00:00
❗️ President Xi Jinping has been elected as the CCP’s general secretary for the third consecutive term
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2022-10-23 05:18:44+00:00
⚡️🇮🇳The heaviest ISRO rocket to date, LVM3-M2/OneWeb India-1, has taken off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota.
It will place 36 broadband communications satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for a UK-based customer.
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2022-10-23 04:56:46+00:00
🇮🇳🦠India records 1,994 new Covid-19 cases.
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2022-10-22 16:02:01+00:00
📹WATCH: 2S9 ‘Nona’ self-propelled artillery gun units in combat action. (Video courtesy of Russia’s MoD).
120-mm artillery guns suppress manpower, armored vehicles and control points of the Ukrainian Army.
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2022-10-22 14:50:07+00:00
🇮🇳A 26-year-old woman working for a well-known IT company was reportedly gang-raped and her boyfriend was trashed by ten men West Singhbhum district of India's Jharkhand state.
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2022-10-22 14:37:18+00:00
🇮🇳🇩🇪India’s Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar and his German counterpart have held phone talks – the first conversation between the two sides since German comments regarding Kashmir caused friction between both countries.
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2022-10-22 14:20:14+00:00
🇮🇳🎤#Mohit_Bhan told Sputnik how Kashmir politics play out at the international and regional levels, and what the region’s place in the current geopolitical balance of power.
(part 4)
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2022-10-22 14:19:18+00:00
🇮🇳🎉🚗YouTuber Amit Sharma, who lives in Rajasthan's Alwar city, burst more than 100,000 firecrackers stuck to a car and recorded the whole incident on camera. The video is going viral on social media.
Earlier some state governments set limits for firecrackers. They were banned in the capital Delhi despite being sold widely on the occasion of Diwali, increasing the level of air pollution immediately after the festival.
Looks like Amit wants to make only one single, huge firecracker for the whole of India so that more air pollution isn't caused but so that everyone can enjoy the festival.
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2022-10-22 13:43:01+00:00
🇮🇳🎤#Mohit_Bhan told Sputnik what Kashmiri youth’s aspirations and concerns for their future are, as well as the risks for them migrating to other parts of the country due to the situation in their homeland.
(part 3)
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2022-10-22 13:31:06+00:00
🇮🇳🐯Ahead of International Snow Leopard Day, India's Forest Department and Wildlife Institute has published encouraging results of the census of the species: the number of big cats in Uttarakhand has increased from 86 to 121.
Snow leopards only inhabit 12 countries in the world, and India is one of them.
Happy with the results, the state’s forest minister said that the local government will further develop wildlife tourism.
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2022-10-22 13:12:01+00:00
🇮🇳🎤The People’s Democratic Party lost ground with over 15 top leaders leaving the party to join other groupings. #Mohit_Bhan shared his view on the reasons behind this exodus.
(part 2)
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2022-10-22 12:41:13+00:00
🇮🇳🎤Sputnik spoke to #Mohit_Bhan – spokesperson of the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party.
He talked about current issues in the region and its role in international and domestic policy.
Bhan said that the killing of Kashmiri Pandits signals an alarming situation in the region regarding the security of the community. He pointed out the spike in murders that have been taking place over the past three years and how it leads to the transfer from the rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits to reverse migration.
Check out an exclusive interview in four parts!
(part 1)
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2022-10-22 12:14:33+00:00
🇮🇳📸Smog can be seen covering the sky in Delhi notwithstanding the firecracker ban imposed by the government ahead of Diwali.
Amid reports of poor air quality, ANI News shared visuals showing the Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Setu flyover and Sarai Kale Khan in a foggy atmosphere.
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2022-10-22 11:19:23+00:00
📍The search operation was stopped as the fifth body was found after the helicopter crash in Arunachal Pradesh, India’s Army spokesperson said.
Three columns of army personnel and two helicopters were involved in the operation.
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2022-10-22 09:37:00+00:00
🇦🇫The terror attack in the Kaaj educational center was reportedly organized by Daesh* terrorists.
Daesh* has not officially pleaded guilty to the attack on the educational center.
According to the Taliban**, authorities managed to find a Daesh* hub in the 8th security district after two terrorists were arrested. Authorities later took it by storm, killing six Daesh* terrorists. Weapons, grenades and various explosives were recovered from the site.
During the operation, a Taliban** soldier was killed and another injured.
*a terrorist organization banned in Russia
**The Taliban is under UN sanctions for terrorism
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2022-10-22 09:24:02+00:00
🇵🇰🗯"Whatever I have is to fight these thieves. The Election Commission is part of the mafia. As long as I am alive, I will fight them," Pakistan's former PM Imran Khan said, accusing Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja of being biased, after he was barred from contesting elections in the country for five years.
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2022-10-22 08:58:25+00:00
📹🚀The Russian Ministry of Defense has published footage showing Soyouz-2.1v light carrier rocket launches from Plesetsk Cosmodrome.
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2022-10-22 08:43:49+00:00
🇮🇳✈️The Indian Air Force plans to induct new fighter jets.
According to Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, the manufacturer of LCA Tejas, the company will start delivering the next version of the Tejas Mark 1A plane from February 2024.
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2022-10-22 08:40:48+00:00
🇨🇳🗻5.0-magnitude earthquake jolts southwest China
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 occurred in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan on Saturday, the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC) said. Sichuan Province is one of the most seismic regions in China, where earthquakes occur regularly.
The quake was recorded at 13:17 p.m. local time (05.17 GMT) in the Luding County of the Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. The epicenter of the earthquake was at a depth of 12 kilometers (7.4 miles).
There is no official information about casualties or any property damage.
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2022-10-22 07:53:55+00:00
🇮🇳🪂The Army Para-Special Forces (SF) in the Eastern sector have successfully carried out a high altitude combat free-fall mission during the joint Indian Air Force and Army military drills, defense officials said.
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2022-10-22 07:27:31+00:00
🇮🇳📲The chairman of Reliance Jio, Akash Ambani, has launched the Jio 5G services in Nathdwara and Rajsamand cities of India's Rajasthan.
Reliance Jio, along with Airtel and Vodafone Idea, is one of the providers of 5G that was launched by India’s PM Narendra Modi on October 1. According to the PM, the new kind of connection will provide “seamless coverage, a high data rate, low latency and highly reliable communications”.
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2022-10-22 06:50:30+00:00
🇮🇳🤝🇷🇺Western sanctions will be nothing but a powerful impulse for India-Russia cooperation as the lack of western companies will decrease the competition at the Russian market, president of the Indian Chamber of International Business (ICIB) Manpreet Singh said.
He pointed out that Indian manufacturers of clothes, shoes, food and other everyday goods want to enter the Russian market and increase their exports to Russia.
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2022-10-22 05:43:40+00:00
🔸Pakistan has been removed from Financial Action Task Force (FATF) ‘grey list’. The country has been under the supervision of the global watchdog for four years for terror financing and money laundering, FATF says.
🔸Four people dead, one injured in after a landslide hits three houses in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand.
🔸14 dead, 35 injured as bus collides with a truck in Rewa district of Madhya Pradesh on the way from Gorakhpur to Hyderabad. The incident took place around 11.30 pm IST. Most of the bus passengers were laborers travelling home to celebrate Diwali, officials say.
🔸‘Rozgar Mela’ – a recruitment drive for 1 mln employees – will be inaugurated by India’s PM Narendra Modi today. The occasion is aimed at providing additional job opportunities and ensuring citizens’ welfare.
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2022-10-22 04:59:09+00:00
🇮🇳🦠India records 2,112 new Covid-19 cases.
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2022-10-21 16:02:49+00:00
📹 Russia’s MoD has published footage showing the combat routine of Tor-M2 air defense crews
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2022-10-21 15:28:02+00:00
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka's parliament passed a 22nd constitutional amendment aimed at trimming presidential powers and helping to find a solution to the unprecedented economic crisis on Friday.
💭 "This amendment will not only help bring about the system change demanded by Sri Lankans [but] it will also help in securing an IMF program and other international assistance to rebuild the economy," Justice Minister Wijedasa Rajapakshe said.
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2022-10-21 14:55:03+00:00
❗️Investigative Committee of Russia investigates the Ukrainian shelling of a civilian crossing in Kherson, Sputnik correspondent reports.
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2022-10-21 14:32:19+00:00
🇸🇦Saudi energy minister held talks with his 🇮🇳Indian and 🇨🇳Chinese counterparts amid split with US over OPEC+ decision, Bloomberg says
🤝 Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman held an online meeting with China’s National Energy Administrator Zhang Jianhua, during which they agreed to bolster “the bilateral relationship between the two countries in the field of energy. The kingdom continues to be China’s most reliable partner and supplier of crude oil,” a joint statement published in the Saudi press on Friday said.
📍According to Bloomberg, the Saudi minister likewise traveled to New Delhi where he met several Indian officials, including Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri. The Indian government, however, didn’t make any statement about the meetings.
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Is it edible? Then I will eat it!
🐘🐘 Two elephants were spotted eating the covering of a truck, which must have been made of something very delicious.
🚨Netizens were amused by these two gourmets, calling them
a 'Jungle Tax Service'.
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2022-10-21 13:37:02+00:00
⚖️ ❔ As expected, the court wasn't impressed with the allegations levied on the highest constitutional authority of the country.
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2022-10-21 13:35:00+00:00
⚡️ The remains of four out of the five individuals have been recovered by rescue teams. The details of the cause of the crash and the rescue operation to recover the remains of the last crew member are underway.
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2022-10-21 13:07:42+00:00
❗️ Shoigu, Austin hold phone conversation - Russia's MoD
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2022-10-21 13:07:02+00:00
🇵🇰🚚 Pakistani authorities have already seized more than 700 containers to prevent Khan's "Freedom March" from taking shape.
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2022-10-21 12:47:17+00:00
🎥🚀 WATCH Agni Prime New Generation Ballistic Missile successfully test-launched off the coast of Odisha
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2022-10-21 12:24:29+00:00
❗️ Ten journalists were wounded and one killed when Ukrainian troops hit a civilian crossing in Kherson - official
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2022-10-21 11:33:09+00:00
🇮🇳😁 “India should come to England and be like, 'Look, look, look, we hate to do this, but you guys don't know how to govern yourselves. We have to fix this entire thing’,” he quipped.
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2022-10-21 10:55:45+00:00
❗️UPDATE: Two bodies have been recovered after the chopper crash in Arunachal Pradesh. Efforts are underway to recover the bodies of three more crew members, the Indian Army said.
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2022-10-21 10:46:38+00:00
🇵🇰 WATCH: Protests erupted all over the country against Pakistan's Election Commission's decision.
People are taking to the streets to express their dissent and blocking Islamabad's main highways.
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2022-10-21 10:32:20+00:00
🇮🇳🚀 India on Friday successfully test-fired a new generation nuclear capable Agni Prime ballistic missile.
During the test flight, the missile travelled the maximum range & all test objectives were successfully met.
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2022-10-21 09:38:15+00:00
⚡️ PTI politician and ex-cabinet member Fawad Hussain says that the disqualification of Imran Khan from contesting elections will not apply to next general election in 2023
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2022-10-21 09:29:52+00:00
⚡️⚡️ Pakistan Army Chief Qamar Jawed Bajwa says will retire from the post after five weeks.
The Army chief said he will not seek an extension.
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❗️Former foreign minister and PTI politician Shah Muhammad Qureshi said that Imran Khan will remain the chairman of the party, though as per the verdict, Imran Khan can not hold the position.
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UPDATE: PTI announced that the party will challenge the verdict in the Islamabad High Court
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2022-10-21 09:15:49+00:00
❗️ Pakistan's Election Commission has also ordered that a criminal case be filed against ex-Pakistani PM Imran Khan.
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❗️Fawad Hussein, a PTI member, has called on Pakistanis to come out to protest against the decision
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2022-10-21 09:09:01+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇳 The massive rise in bilateral trade was mainly fueled by a surge in the purchase of oil, coal and fertilizers from Russia.
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2022-10-21 09:07:02+00:00
⚡️🇵🇰 Imran Khan Barred From Contesting Pakistan Elections for Five Years
🔹The case against Imran Khan started in August when National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf moved a reference to the Election Commission of Pakistan seeking a life-term disqualification from contesting the election in the light of the “Toshakhana scam.”
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2022-10-21 08:41:03+00:00
🇱🇰📈 Inflation in Sri Lanka reaching its peak, but there is “still some way to go” — report
🔹In August, consumer inflation in Sri Lanka topped 70 percent, mostly driven by high food and fuel prices. In mid-April, the island defaulted on its external debt for an interim period, pending a restructuring of the obligations under an IMF-supported economic adjustment program.
💬 “We think we are seeing the peak of inflation,” the country's central bank governor Nandalal Weerasinghe told western media in a interview.
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2022-10-21 08:19:01+00:00
📈🇮🇳 India worst affected among G20 nations by CO2 emissions-induced heat, losing 5.4% of GDP — Climate Transparency report
🔸According to the 'Climate Transparency Report 2022', exposure to extreme temperatures and, as a consequence, reduced working hours, have led to substantial income losses in most areas of India's economy; among those mostly affected have been labor migrants and low-income households, while yields of wheat crops also decreased.
👉 Meanwhile, India accounted for only 3% of global emissions: the US ranked first, contributing 25%, followed by the EU with 22%.
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2022-10-21 08:01:03+00:00
🇵🇰🌐 The international watchdog on money laundering and terror-financing, FATF, is set to remove Pakistan from its notorious "gray list" on Friday.
The move is designed to allow for crisis-hit Pakistan to get foreign funds to tackle its precarious financial situation, years after the FATF alleged that Islamabad had failed to adequately respond to money laundering or combat terror financing.
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❗️WATCH footage from the scene of the helicopter crash in Arunachal Pradesh earlier on Friday
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2022-10-21 07:45:02+00:00
🇮🇩🤝 Indonesia may join the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) as a full member, Indonesian Ambassador to Russia Jose Tavares says.
💬 "I heard our president speak in favor of this before the BRICS summit. And there is a high probability of full membership of Indonesia in the BRICS, but so far the embassy has not received any additional information on this issue," he said.
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2022-10-21 07:28:01+00:00
🦠 In 30% of dengue cases, which turn serious, the platelet count decreases as blood cells are affected by the virus that causes platelet damage, and platelets are transfused in the patient.
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2022-10-21 07:18:26+00:00
🇬🇧 😁 The famous lettuce, which lasted longer than Truss, was projected onto the wall of the British Parliament at night, the Daily Star, which organized the competition, reports.
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2022-10-21 07:07:49+00:00
⚡️ The Indian Army's Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) has crashed in Arunachal Pradesh near the village of Migging.
❗️According to Indian media, search and rescue operations are complicated by the fact that the site of the accident is not connected by road. Further details are awaited.
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2022-10-21 07:00:59+00:00
🇮🇳🙏🏼 Narendra Modi has once again amused netizens with an authentic outfit.
🧥 The Prime Minister was seen wearing a Chola Dora, a traditional Himachali dress, as he reached Uttarakhand and offered prayers at Kedarnath temple.
🎁 According to media reports, Modi's outfit was crafted by women from Chamba, a town in Himachal Pradesh, and presented to the prime minister during his recent visit to the state.
❄️ The prime minister promised to wear it the first time he visits a cold place — and he kept his promise.
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2022-10-21 06:28:01+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇩 Russian and Indonesian officials in banking and financial systems are discussing the possibility of accepting Mir cards by Indonesian banks, Ambassador to Russia Jose Antonio Morato Tavares told Sputnik.
Tavares noted that Indonesia is aware of Russia’s intention to introduce its payment system Mir in several other countries, including 🇻🇳Vietnam, 🇹🇷Turkey, 🇰🇿Kazakhstan, and 🇧🇾Belarus.
👉 In March, both Visa and Mastercard announced that they were suspending operations in Russia over Moscow’s special military operation in Ukraine. Visa and Mastercard cards issued by Russian banks no longer work outside the country or in foreign online stores.
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2022-10-21 06:05:29+00:00
🇷🇺 The Interpol General Assembly will consider three draft resolutions proposed by Russia, including the one on the depoliticization of this international organization.
📍According to Russian media reports, Russia proposed to the 90th Interpol General Assembly, held in New Delhi, the following draft resolutions:
▫️"Commitment to Interpol’s non-interference in political issues";
▫️"The impact of voluntary membership in Interpol on the goals of the organization";
▫️"Application of Article 2 of the Charter of Interpol in the context of processing information through the organization's channels."
💭 Speaking at the opening of the Interpol General Assembly, its president Ahmed Naser Al-Raisi said that it is the job of the global police organization to ensure that all countries are supported equally, adding that Interpol must not become politicized.
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🔸India's bilateral trade with Russia reached an all-time high of $18,229.03 million in just five months (April-August) of this fiscal year, the Indian Express said, citing the latest data available from the Department of Commerce.
🔸Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UN Secretary General António Guterres on Thursday discussed climate change and other global and regional issues, including the situation in Ukraine, a statement by India’s MEA read.
🔸India's deputy envoy to the UN R. Ravindra on Thursday expressed concerns over an increasing attempt to remove women from public life in Afghanistan, saying that the world cannot look the other way when the rights of women and minorities are being trampled upon.
🔸Indian Home Minister Amit Shah paid tribute to the nation’s law enforcement personnel on Police Commemoration Day, noting a positive change in the country's internal security.
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2022-10-21 05:01:51+00:00
🇮🇳🦠 India records 2,119 new Covid-19 cases.
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2022-10-21 04:51:39+00:00
⚡️ Air alert activated in Kiev, local authorities say
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2022-10-20 15:31:11+00:00
📹 Russia's MoD has revealed footage of Lancet kamikaze drone strikes on Ukrainian military equipment during the special operation
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2022-10-20 14:55:47+00:00
📍Lashing out at Tharoor, Indian National Congress’ election chief Madhusudan Mistry argued that, “We accommodated your request and despite that you went to media alleging Central Election Authority was conspiring against you.”
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❗️The head of the Conservative Party's steering committee said that a new British Prime Minister could be chosen by October 28.
▪️The favorites for the office are the same as six weeks ago: ex-Finance Minister Rishi Sunak (bookmakers give him an advantage), leader of the House of Commons Mordant and Defense Minister Ben Wallace.
▪️In addition, Boris Johnson is reportedly expected to throw his hat in the ring.
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2022-10-20 14:16:02+00:00
🇵🇰 Khan, who had accused the intelligence agency of snooping the PM’s house, has also urged the Supreme Court to hold the officials behind the audio leaks accountable.
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2022-10-20 13:54:34+00:00
🇮🇩🌐 Widodo Ekatjahjana, the head of the Indonesian Directorate General of Immigration of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights, said on Thursday that the country had introduced a visa-free regime for G20 delegates and foreign journalists covering the summit.
The 2022 G20 summit is scheduled to take place on the Indonesian island of Bali from November 15-16.
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2022-10-20 13:38:01+00:00
🌫 The average PM2.5 pollution in Delhi in the winter season has come down by nearly 20% as compared to the pre-pandemic period, according to a report released by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on Thursday.
The winter of 2021-22 was less polluted as compared to 2020-21 for most NCR cities.
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🇬🇧😺 Meanwhile, netzines are joking that it's high time for Larry the Cat to take charge of the British politics
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🇮🇳 India holds international meetings to discuss intelligence sharing on sidelines of 90th INTERPOL General Assembly
📍During the course of the assembly, India has held bilateral meetings with delegations from a number of countries so far, namely 🇷🇺Russia, the 🇦🇪UAE, 🇧🇩Bangladesh, 🇳🇵Nepal, 🇱🇰Sri Lanka, 🇦🇹Austria, 🇿🇦South Africa, 🇲🇾 Malaysia, 🇲🇳Mongolia, the 🇬🇧UK, the 🇺🇸USA, 🇨🇦Canada and others.
🤝 The nations agreed to reinforce joint efforts to combat terrorism, the financing of terrorism and online radicalization, as well as cybercrimes and online child sexual exploitation. India also expressed hope for enhanced cooperation on criminal intelligence sharing and the geolocation of fugitives and criminals, Indian media said.
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🇮🇳💰 The Finance Ministry hopes that rupee-based trade will curb the dependency on hard currency such as US dollars or euros, among others. Under this mechanism, all exports and imports may be denominated and invoiced in rupees.
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2022-10-20 12:39:45+00:00
❗️Liz Truss says she will stay until the next Prime Minister is chosen
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⚡️⚡️🇬🇧 UK's Prime Minister Liz Truss announces her resignation
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2022-10-20 12:10:46+00:00
📹 Take a look at how the Crimean Bridge is being repaired after the terror attack conducted by Ukrainian special services
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2022-10-20 11:44:29+00:00
⚡️Pakistan Supreme Court has rejected the government's request to stop ex-PM Imran Khan's 'Long March'
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2022-10-20 11:37:19+00:00
⚡️🇵🇰 Terrorism surges by 51% in Pakistan since August 2021
At least 422 people were killed and 719 more injured as a result of 250 terrorist attacks conducted from August 15, 2021, to August 14, 2022, according to the data released by the Islamabad-based Pak Institute of Peace Studies (PIPS). In comparison, 165 terrorist attacks killed 294 people and injured 598 others from August 2020 to August 14, 2021.
"Pakistan is about to face yet another ordeal viz-a-viz terrorism," PIPS warned, due to the ongoing instability in neighboring Afghanistan.
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🇮🇳🚁 The Indian Army has issued a tender for the purchase of 1,000 surveillance copters under emergency acquisition powers to strengthen India’s operational preparedness at an early date, Indian media said.
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2022-10-20 10:42:37+00:00
❗️The explosion at an illegal fireworks factory in Madhya Pradesh claimed the lives of 4 people, while 7 seven others received injuries, Indian media reported on Thursday.
As a result of the explosion, the house where the illegal production was located collapsed, local police spokesman Bakki Karthikeyan said, as cited by the ANI news agency, adding that at least six people may be under the rubble.
The cause of the explosion is being investigated.
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🌊 Local authorities have said Sitrang could be life-threatening for the seaside villagers, who have been urged to leave for safer places.
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2022-10-20 08:03:33+00:00
📍Ahead of Diwali, Sputnik spoke with Delhi-based fireworks sellers who shared their sentiments about the ban that has ignited clashes between political parties and caused discontent from many citizens.
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2022-10-20 07:26:01+00:00
🤔🗳 As winner of the Congress presidential election, Mallikarjun Kharge is celebrating his victory, many still wonder: what happened to those 416 invalid votes?
According to Indian media reports, the ruined ballots actually hide entertaining stories behind them.
As such, Kharges’ rival Shashi Tharoor received a swastika drawn before his name, which, reportedly, implied a “conflict between the voter’s will and God’s will.” Meanwhile, several invalid ballot papers had Rahul Gandhi's name written on them.
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2022-10-20 06:57:01+00:00
🇮🇳 Smog blankets Delhi and the capital region as air pollution levels worsen ahead of winter season
The Air Quality Index (AQI) currently remains at the lower end of the ‘Poor’ category with fine particles (size < 2.5 micrometre) contributing nearly 42% to PM10.
Many blame stubble-burning, especially in the states of Haryana and Punjab, for the deteriorating situation.
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2022-10-20 06:34:00+00:00
⚡️ Air alert activated in Kiev, local authorities say
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2022-10-20 06:32:35+00:00
🚀 BrahMos Aerospace chief Atul D. Rane met Scientific Advisor to Defense Minister G. Satheesh Reddy today and briefed him on the most recent advances of the 🇮🇳🇷🇺 Indo-Russian joint venture missile program, Indian media said.
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2022-10-20 06:14:09+00:00
⚡️ Explosions heard in Nikolayev, air alert activated in the region, Ukrainian media report
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2022-10-20 06:11:43+00:00
⚡️Air alert announced in Odessa, Kirovogradskaya, Poltavskaya, Cherkasskaya Regions of Ukraine, local media report
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2022-10-20 05:43:54+00:00
🇺🇳🇮🇳 WATCH: Prime Minister Narendra Modi met UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres ahead of the Mission LiFE event in Kevadia, Gujarat.
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2022-10-20 05:32:27+00:00
🔸Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate in the 10th Heads of Missions Conference in Kevadia on Thursday, which will bring together more than 100 Heads of Indian Missions, including Ambassadors and High Commissioners from all over the world.
🔸The prime minister will also launch the Mission LiFE event in Kevadia in the presence of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, where various ways to protects the environment will be discussed.
🔸The Indian embassy in Kiev has urged its nationals to leave Ukraine “at the earliest” due to the deteriorating security situation.
🔸The Indian rupee hit a new record low on Thursday, closing at 83.08 against the US dollar.
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2022-10-20 05:05:35+00:00
🇮🇳🦠 India records 2,141 new Covid-19 cases.
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2022-10-19 16:02:59+00:00
🇨🇳🇮🇳 India’s total trade with China since the 2000s, when bilateral commerce began to boom, has exceeded $1 trillion, Indian media said.
💱 It is noteworthy that in 2021, bilateral trade surpassed $100 billion for the first time, reaching $125.6 billion, with India’s imports accounting for $97.5 billion.
📈 This year, the imbalance is expected to deepen, as India’s imports from China have already surged by 34.5%, reaching a record $57.51 billion by June.
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2022-10-19 15:34:48+00:00
🎥 Vladimir Putin introduces state of martial law in Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donetsk People's Republic, and Lugansk People's Republic during Russian Security Council meeting.
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2022-10-19 15:25:25+00:00
🇮🇳🎊 Purchasing and setting off firecrackers in New Delhi to be punishable by fines or imprisonment, Environment Ministry says
💭 According to Environment Minister Gopal Rai, the "production, storage, and sale of firecrackers in the capital will be punishable with a fine of up to Rs 5,000 and three years in jail under Section 9B of the Explosives Act." Setting off firecrackers on Diwali in Delhi may end in a jail term of up to six months and a fine of Rs 200, Rai added.
📍Earlier, a complete ban on the production, sale, and use of all types of firecrackers was re-imposed by the Delhi government untill January 1.
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2022-10-19 15:04:00+00:00
🎥 Russia's Defense Ministry has published footage of missile launches against Ukrainian military command centers and energy infrastructure.
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2022-10-19 14:32:47+00:00
⚡️Russia’s Federation Council Approves Putin’s Decree on Martial Law in DPR, LPR, Kherson & Zaporozhye Regions
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2022-10-19 14:11:36+00:00
🇮🇳 A fourth positive indigenization list, including 101 additional items that the armed forces will procure from domestic manufacturers, has been released by India’s Ministry of Defense at the ongoing DefExpo-2022 in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
📈 Consequently, the tally of products to be procured from domestic manufacturers has reached 411, Indian media said.
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2022-10-19 13:29:10+00:00
🇷🇺 The Russian Security Council developed additional measures to protect compatriots abroad, including in unfriendly countries, the council's secretary, Nikolai Patrushev, said.
"Additional measures have been worked out to protect our compatriots abroad who found themselves in a difficult situation as a result of the ardent Russophobic policy of unfriendly states," Patrushev told reporters following the Security Council meeting.
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🎇🪔 Hyderabad is witnessing a very high demand for traditional sweets such as “batasha” (a sugar candy sweet) and “khilone” (sugar toys) ahead of the Diwali season.
🍭 "Batasha" is a crispy sweet made of sugar syrup, while “khilone” is a toy made of sugar. Both of these dishes are offered to gods.
🙏🏼 The special sweets are prepared in huge quantities and have always been an integral part of Diwali celebrations.
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2022-10-19 12:39:15+00:00
🇷🇺🇱🇰🛢 Russia agrees to supply fuel to crisis-hit Sri Lanka on a long-term credit line
According to the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Russia, this could end up as a long-term procurement deal.
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2022-10-19 12:15:51+00:00
Check out the highlights from a meeting of the Russian Security Council held by Russian President Vladimir Putin:
🔸The Kiev regime is creating sabotage groups and sending them to Russia
🔸The decree on martial law in the DPR, LPR, Kherson, and Zaporozhye regions will immediately be sent to the Federation Council
🔸The decree provides for several levels of response to emerging security risks
🔸The governors will receive additional powers to ensure security in the regions. Their actions must correspond to the situation in the particular subject of the Russian Federation
🔸Russia is proud of everyone who serves their duty to defend the Fatherland, and soldiers must be provided with everything they need
🔸It is necessary to adjust the current concept of migration policy to the new reality
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2022-10-19 12:01:00+00:00
👨👩👧👦 The RSS has underlined the need for a population control policy amid limited resources in the country.
📍While addressing a press conference at the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) four-day meeting on Wednesday, the general secretary of the RSS said that “everyone must introspect on it and implement the policy for population control. There is a need to create awareness and awakening on the issue.”
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2022-10-19 11:48:36+00:00
⚡️ Martial law declared in DPR, LPR, Kherson & Zaporozhye regions
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2022-10-19 11:15:24+00:00
⚡️ Rupee hits a fresh record low, closing at 83.01 against the US dollar
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2022-10-19 10:59:15+00:00
⚡️The Russian Army continued strikes on Ukrainian military control center targets and energy infrastructure on Wednesday, all targets eliminated – Russian Defense Ministry
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2022-10-19 10:59:02+00:00
🇧🇩🇷🇺"This will help us to ensure a better life for the countrymen. I again thank Russia for helping us build this power plant," Hasina said while inaugurating the installation.
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2022-10-19 10:31:14+00:00
⚡️Air raid alerts have been declared in most regions of Ukraine. Aircrafts were scrambled over the Chernigov region to intercept missiles - local media reports
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🇱🇰Sri Lanka’s Olympic Committee proposes lifting sanctions against 🇷🇺 Russian and 🇧🇾 Belarusian athletes.
🏀🏋🏻♂️🥋The proposal came from Secretary General of Sri Lanka’s National Olympic Committee Maxwell da Silva during a speech at the General Assembly of the Association of National Olympic Committees in Seoul.
💬 According to Maxwell da Silva, sanctions should be lifted from athletes in order to strengthen the unity of the entire Olympic movement. He added that despite all the world’s conflicts, sportsmen should not be prevented from participation in international competitions.
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2022-10-19 09:51:47+00:00
❗️All Ukrainian attacks during an attempted offensive in the Kherson region have been repelled, the defense line is being held, local authorities say
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2022-10-19 09:43:32+00:00
⚡️ Air alert announced in Nikolaev and Nikolaev region, local media report
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2022-10-19 09:42:20+00:00
⚡️ Air alert announced in Odessa, local media report
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2022-10-19 09:22:01+00:00
🎂 Who would want to buy a 41-year-old piece of cake? You'd be surprised but per the New York Post, there will be a queue of people craving a piece of Princess Diana and King Charles’ wedding cake!
💍👰 A 41-year-old piece of cake from the 1981 wedding will be auctioned in the UK in the near future, as its previous owner Nigel Ricketts passed away last year. Although there were 23 cakes made for the wedding, this piece, packaged in its original box, is believed to have been taken from the centerpiece cake.
💷 In 2014, a slice of the same cake was sold for GBP £1,374, and this time its owners hope to make some real money as well.
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2022-10-19 08:53:01+00:00
🪔🎇 The news comes as Indians are anticipating the annual Hindu festival of lights Diwali, celebrated on October 24 this year.
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2022-10-19 08:31:25+00:00
It's official: Shashi Tharoor has conceded the defeat in the Congress presidential election to Mallikarjun Kharge.
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2022-10-19 08:18:55+00:00
⚡️🗳 Mallikarjun Kharge elected president of the Indian National Congress — the 6th time that the party receives a non-Gandhi family member as its chief
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2022-10-19 08:00:00+00:00
🇵🇰🇸🇦 Pakistan expressed solidarity with Saudi Arabia amid US criticism of OPEC+ decision.
❗️Earlier, Saudi Arabia supported the decision of OPEC+ countries to cut oil production by 2mln barrels per day from November in order to balance the global market after what the Kingdom was criticized by the 🇺🇸 US, who claimed that the move comes as support of 🇷🇺 Russia.
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2022-10-19 07:30:02+00:00
⚡️The Indian Army on Wednesday adverted a major terrorist attack after recovering a 20 kg improvised explosive device (IED) in Kupwara district of Jammu & Kashmir.
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2022-10-19 07:16:02+00:00
🇪🇺🤔 EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell now claims his metaphor comparing non-European world to a "jungle" was taken out of context.
The EU top official earlier faced criticism over his "colonial mindset" after suggesting that Europe was a "garden" and the rest of the world was a "jungle" that can invade this garden if "gardeners" do not take care of it.
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2022-10-19 07:15:34+00:00
🇷🇺🦎 The Moscow Zoo witnessed the birth of a baby of the Solomon Islands skink for the first time in 30 years.
🗺 These rare creatures are endemic to the Solomon Islands archipelago, what makes it extremely difficult for them to breed away from home, especially in Russia, which is apparently just a little too cold for these guys.
👼🏼 The newly born will live with its parents for a whole year after what he will move to its own "apartments".
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2022-10-19 06:46:01+00:00
Check out the highlights from the address of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who spoke in Mumbai on Wednesday:
🔸I congratulate India on its achievement over the last 75 years as the world's largest democracy and now as the fastest-growing major economy.
🔸India is the biggest provider of military, police personnel to UN missions, including first all-women UN police contingent to a peacekeeping mission.
🔸Fighting terrorism should be a global priority for every country on Earth and fighting terrorism is a central priority for the UN.
🔸I count on India’s support in mobilising G20 countries around debt relief.
🔸Diversity is a richness that makes India stronger; it must be nurtured, strengthened and renewed every day.
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2022-10-19 06:21:38+00:00
⚖️ ‘Justice has been served ‘
🍭 A three-year-old boy who reported his mother to the authorities for “stealing his candies” in a viral video, received a bicycle and chocolate sweets from Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra as a compensation.
🚲🍬 The minister who came upon the video online ordered to take ‘immediate action’, after which police officers visited the boy’s house and handed over the gifts.
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2022-10-19 05:55:32+00:00
🇺🇳🇮🇳 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who arrived in Mumbai last night, paid tributes to the victims of the 26/11 terror attacks at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel in Mumbai, as part of his three-day visit to India.
📍Guterres is expected to meet with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Mission LiFE event on October 20 and hold bilateral talks on global issues with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar.
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2022-10-19 05:30:39+00:00
🔸The militant behind a grenade attack in which two Uttar Pradesh workers were killed on Tuesday, was killed in a shootout with another militant, police in Jammu and Kashmir said.
🔸India's main opposition party Congress to get its first non-Gandhi president in 24 years as the counting of votes is take place at 10 am (IST) at the AICC headquarters in New Delhi.
🔸PM Modi inaugurated the DefExpo-2022, laying the foundation stone of 52 Wing Air Force Station Deesa. The PM also stressed that this is the 1st time such a venue take place in which Indian companies only are participating.
🔸Elon Musk-owned SpaceX has applied to India’s Department of Telecommunications for a license to launch broadband-from-space services in India under the Starlink brand. The move comes as Delhi is preparing to launch 5G services in every city of the country.
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2022-10-19 05:01:18+00:00
🇮🇳🦠 India records 1,946 new Covid-19 cases.
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2022-10-18 19:04:04+00:00
❗️Highlights from statement by General Sergei Surovikin, commander of Russian forces in the special military operation in Ukraine:
▪️The situation in the special operation zone can be characterized as tense.
▪️ Ukrainian forces continue to attack the positions of the Russian Army in the Kupyansk, Krasny Liman, and Nikolaevo-Krivorozhsky directions.
▪️The Ukrainian regime is seeking to break through the Russian defenses, pulling up all its reserves to the front line, mainly inexperienced territorial defense forces. In fact, Kiev is dooming them to destruction.
▪️The daily losses of the Ukrainian military range from 600 to 1,000 killed or wounded.
▪️The advance of the Russian Army on the battlefield is not the main goal; the army protects every soldier and methodically eliminates the enemy’s advances. This not only minimizes losses, but also significantly reduces the number of civilian casualties.
▪️The special operation has confirmed the effectiveness of Russian aviation and air defense systems.
▪️Russian aviation has carried out more than 34,000 sorties and over 7,000 guided weapons have been used. The latest Kinzhal hypersonic missile has proven itself well at eliminating targets.
▪️The fifth-generation Su-57 fighter jet is able to carry out a wide range of tasks, hitting both air and ground targets.
▪️More than 8,000 sorties have been carried out by UAVs, destroying more than 600 Ukrainian military targets.
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2022-10-18 16:01:58+00:00
❗️SPUTNIK EXCLUSIVE | Check out Sputnik's interview with Mira Erda, who opened up about her journey, challenges and future plans.
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2022-10-18 15:31:41+00:00
📹 The Russian Armed Forces are continuing to carry out strikes on Ukrainian military command and energy systems, as well as on arsenals with foreign-made ammunition and weapons, Russia’s MoD says
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2022-10-18 15:10:43+00:00
📍Gandhi's comments came in response to party workers in Karnataka who asked him if he had developed blisters while marching on foot for at least 20 kilometers daily during Congress' ongoing "Unity March."
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2022-10-18 14:58:57+00:00
🇮🇳🇫🇷 India and France have adopted the “Indo-French Roadmap on the Development of Green Hydrogen,” as a delegation headed by French Minister of State for Development, Francophonie, and International Partnerships of France Chrysoula Zacharopoulou is on an official visit to India.
♻️The adoption of the roadmap aims to establish a reliable and sustainable value chain for decarbonized hydrogen in both countries, Zacharopoulou explained.
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2022-10-18 14:54:58+00:00
🇮🇳 WATCH: A video showing two helicopters drawing a heart in the sky during an airshow at the Sabarmati River Front, Ahmedabad as part of DefExpo-2022, which has emerged on social media.
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2022-10-18 13:17:43+00:00
✊🏼 “When threats are global, the response cannot be just local. It is high time that the world came together to defeat these threats,” Modi said.
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2022-10-18 12:48:17+00:00
🐍 Snakes in 🇮🇳 India seem to have entered a new phase of evolution, as they have started to occupy various vehicles in the country.
❓While it’s not clear where Indian snakes want to go so badly, another video showing a snake inside a vehicle – this time, it somehow snuck into a motorcycle speedometer in Madhya Pradesh – is circulating on social media.
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2022-10-18 12:04:01+00:00
❗️SPUTNIK EXCLUSIVE | A Sputnik correspondent in New Delhi has spoken with the participants of the Yuva (Youth) initiative, who shared their dreams and aspirations for a brighter future.
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2022-10-18 11:39:02+00:00
🇮🇳🪙 Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the 90th Interpol General Assembly in New Delhi on Tuesday and released a postal stamp and ₹100 coins to commemorate the event.
💬 While addressing the assembly, he said that “Interpol is approaching a historic milestone. In 2023, it will celebrate its 100 years. This is a call for universal cooperation to make the world a better place. India is one of the top contributors towards UN Peacekeeping Operations.”
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2022-10-18 11:10:02+00:00
🚀 Tests of the new BrahMos NG missile may begin in 2023-2024, and a presentation of the new missile project will soon take place at Moscow’s NPO Mashinostroyeniya rocket design bureau, Director General of BrahMos Aerospace Atul Dinkar Rane said.
The new missile will initially be installed on Su-30MKI fighters, Rane added.
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2022-10-18 10:50:43+00:00
❗️🇮🇳 Delivering a keynote address at the Indian Foreign Ministry-linked think tank Center for Contemporary China Studies (CCCS) on Tuesday, the minister reiterated that peace in border areas “clearly remains the basis for normal relations.”
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2022-10-18 10:31:26+00:00
💬 According to Rajnath Singh, India will focus on arms exports to countries in Africa and the Indian Ocean region.
✊🏼 He added that India is rapidly moving towards taking an important place in global arms production. According to the minister, moving from the largest importer of defense products, the country is turning into a leading exporter to friendly nations.
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2022-10-18 10:09:04+00:00
🚨 Raids were conducted at more than 50 locations in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR). No arrests have been made so far, officials said.
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2022-10-18 09:54:19+00:00
🤝 India and Russia continue active defense cooperation despite the Ukraine crisis - India’s Ministry of Defense.
🇮🇳🇷🇺"We have a long-standing partnership that has been beneficial for both countries. There are many joint projects between India and Russia that are based on the fact that we cooperate very closely," Pankaj Agarwal, additional secretary and director general (acquisition) of the Indian Ministry of Defense, told Sputnik during DefExpo 2022.
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2022-10-18 09:38:10+00:00
🇮🇳🇷🇺 India's Oil and Natural Gas Corp is to take a 20 percent stake in the new Russian company that will manage the Sakhalin 1 project, sources familiar with the matter told the Times of India.
📍Earlier, Russia’s president issued a decree, stating that the Sakhalin 1 project will be authorized by a new Russian operator rather than Exxon Mobil Corp of the US.
💬 According to one of the sources cited by the Times of India, Oil and Natural Gas Corp's international subsidiary, ONGC Videsh - which holds a stake in the project - will retain its share which means it will take a stake in the new entity. Sources also said that ONGC will consider buying more shares in the project if it finds it promising.
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2022-10-18 09:30:47+00:00
Check out the highlights from the address of Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Tuesday.
🔸There is nothing new about the latest sanctions introduced by Canada against Russia.
🔸No meeting is planned between Russia’s President Putin and IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi, but one will be arranged if needed.
🔸Peskov said, that he does not have any information regarding the alleged acquisition of Iranian drones by Russia.
🔸The Kremlin is not surprised by the first conclusions of European states in the Nord Stream investigation that the explosions were sabotage; this is what Russian intelligence said immediately after the incidents.
🔸Nord Stream probe conducted without Russia’s participation a priori adjusted so that Moscow can be held responsible, this is absurd, Pesov said.
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2022-10-18 08:51:41+00:00
✊ While nations all over the world strive to inform people about their rights and how they can defend themselves, India has left all others standing, as was made apparent when police received a complaint from a three-year-old boy from Madhya Pradesh who wanted to report his mother for allegedly stealing his candy.
🍭🚓 In a video of the incident, which has gone viral, the boy can be heard saying, "Ammi stole my candies. Put her in jail."
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2022-10-18 08:05:30+00:00
🇱🇰🏆 Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka has won the Booker Prize for his novel 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida'.
📍The prize was awarded to Karunatilaka by Camilla, the Queen Consort. Karunatilaka said that his book was "a ghost story where the dead could offer their perspective," and he decided to write it in 2009 after the end of the Sri Lankan civil war, "when there was a raging debate over how many civilians died and whose fault it was."
🇷🇺📚 Although Shehan Karunatilaka’s book has not been translated into Russian yet, it will soon attract readers in Russia and globally, chief editor of the Russian book service "LitRes" Ekaterina Pisareva told Sputnik.
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2022-10-18 07:44:02+00:00
🚫 WATCH: The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) shared footage from the scene of the crash.
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2022-10-18 07:36:39+00:00
⚡️🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia has expressed interest in joining the BRICS grouping (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa), South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said upon his return from the Kingdom, where he was on an official visit.
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2022-10-18 07:03:28+00:00
❗️UPDATE: At least six people died in the helicopter crash in Phata, Indian media said.
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2022-10-18 06:56:59+00:00
⚡️A helicopter carrying Kedarnath pilgrims has crashed in Uttarakhand's Phata. A rescue operation is underway and further details are awaited, Indian media said.
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2022-10-18 06:55:33+00:00
❗️ India doesn’t believe in a hierarchical world order where few countries are superior to others, India’s Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said.
💬 “We do not believe in making or becoming a client or satellite state, and so, when we partner any nation, it is on the basis of sovereign equality and mutual respect. Forging relations comes naturally to India, as we work towards mutual economic development,” the minister added.
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2022-10-18 06:35:37+00:00
🇮🇳🌍 India remains united with African countries in their quest for peace, security, stability, growth and prosperity, India’s Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said during the India - Africa Defense Dialogue (IADD) which is being held on the sidelines of the DefExpo-2022 in Gandhinagar.
📍According to the minister, India is willing to work together with African countries in the areas of mutual interest and India's defense and security partnership with the African continent is guided by New Delhi's traditional goodwill towards African people.
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2022-10-18 06:12:54+00:00
❗️ Explosions in Kiev are reported by local media
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2022-10-18 06:07:51+00:00
🇮🇳🚀 Prime Minister Narendra Modi is aiming to boost India’s defense exports to $5Bln by 2025, Atul Dinkar Rane, chairman of BrahMos Aerospace, told DefExpo-2022 which is underway in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar.
💬 “We are hoping to get more orders from the Philippines and we are talking to Vietnam, Malaysia and many other countries about exports,” he added.
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2022-10-18 05:49:27+00:00
🔸The five-day DefExpo-2022 kicks off in Gandhinagar, the capital of Gujarat on Tuesday. The exhibition, taking place at the Helipad Exhibition Center, is dedicated to ground-based and maritime national security systems, and will be open to visitors till October 23.
🔸UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres begins his two-day visit to India, where he is to attend the Mission LiFE event and meet with PM Modi.
🔸Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the 90th Interpol General Assembly at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi on Tuesday. The meeting, which is held annually to take key decisions related to the functioning of the organization, will be attended by the representatives of 195 member countries.
🔸An anti-terrorist operation is underway in the Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir, where two Uttar Pradesh workers were killed in a grenade attack.
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2022-10-18 05:30:56+00:00
⚡️ Air raid alert throughout Ukraine is reported by local media
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2022-10-18 05:01:40+00:00
🇮🇳🦠 India records 1,542 new Covid-19 cases.
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2022-10-17 19:11:10+00:00
◾'Let Us Breathe': A Look Inside Pakistan's Growing Epidemic of Gender Violence
Pakistan is among the worst-ranked countries in the index, where domestic violence is widespread, and thousands of women and girls are murdered or assaulted annually. Noor Mukadam was one of them. Although the numbers are grim, small steps are being taken to raise awareness and implement change.
According to the World Economic Forum, Pakistan ranked 153rd out of 156 nations on the Global Gender Gap 2021 index. The report further said that to close the gender gap, the country would need 136.5 years.
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2022-10-17 17:57:19+00:00
🇺🇸🇵🇰"The US is confident of Pakistan's commitment and its ability to secure its nuclear assets," says the State Department, days after President Joe Biden called Pakistan "one of the most dangerous nations in the world."
"What I think is maybe one of the most dangerous nations in the world: Pakistan. Nuclear weapons without any cohesion," the 79-year-old US leader said last week.
Over the weekend, Islamabad summoned the US ambassador over Biden's remarks, while Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said:
"As far as the question of the safety and security of Pakistan's nuclear assets are concerned, we meet all – each and every – international standard in accordance with the IAEA."
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2022-10-17 16:08:56+00:00
❗️India's Border Security Force shoots down a Pakistani drone near a border post in Punjab
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2022-10-17 14:50:05+00:00
🇮🇳On October 14, students of the all-women Miranda House College in Delhi organized a Diwali fest on campus. Within an hour of the celebration beginning, long queues of students from other colleges wrapped around the area. When they were denied entry, some men decided to climb over the fence to get onto the premises.
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2022-10-17 14:30:04+00:00
🇮🇳🌐UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will be on his first official visit to India on October 18-20.
This will be Guterres’s first visit since his second term started in January 2022 that will begin with paying tribute to the victims of the 26/11 terror attacks at the Taj Palace Hotel in Mumbai.
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2022-10-17 14:24:57+00:00
⚡️Ukrainian media report explosions, air raid sirens in Odessa
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2022-10-17 14:10:24+00:00
🇷🇺 WATCH: Russia's Ministry of Defense on Monday published footage of missile launches at Ukrainian military command & energy facilities
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2022-10-17 13:57:17+00:00
🇮🇳🎉PM will celebrate Diwali with soldiers once again
India’s PM Narendra Modi is planning to celebrate Diwali among soldiers of the Indian Army.
Since taking over as Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has made it a tradition to meet soldiers in the border area on Diwali, starting with his visit to Siachen in 2014. He celebrated the festival twice with soldiers in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district in 2019 and 2021.
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2022-10-17 13:39:41+00:00
🇷🇺Russia's special operation in Ukraine: See Sputnik's map of the military situation.
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2022-10-17 13:38:17+00:00
🇨🇳China delays the release of economic data without any explanation
Analysts were expecting Beijing to release its weakest quarterly growth figures since 2020, with the economy reeling under Covid-19 protocols and a property crisis.
However, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said it would "postpone" the release of growth figures for the third-quarter, as well as several other economic figures, without giving any reason for the delay or any clue of when the figures will be released.
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2022-10-17 13:22:36+00:00
⚡️Russian Deputy Defense Minister Fomin, UN Under-Secretary-General Griffiths discuss 'Food Deal', Russia's exports within it - Defense Ministry
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2022-10-17 13:22:17+00:00
🇮🇳🌫Delhi's air quality in "poor" category in the run-up to Diwali
Just a week before Diwali, the Air Quality Index (AQI) in India's capital Delhi, has fallen into the "poor" category, and in some areas it has been recorded as "severe".
According to the forecast from the Air Quality Early Warning System, the index in Delhi will stand at "poor" for eight more days. However, the Central Pollution Control Board data showed that the AQI in Delhi's Anand Vihar region had reached 428, putting it in the "severe" category.
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2022-10-17 13:15:11+00:00
🇮🇳 🇲🇷India’s Defense Minister Rajnath Singh has met with his Mauritanian counterpart in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar on the sidelines of the 12th DefExpo.
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2022-10-17 13:01:16+00:00
#Sputnik_reminder
🌐🏚Today is the International Day for Eradicating Poverty
🔹The event dates back to 1987, when on 17 October, thousands gathered at the Trocadéro in Paris - where the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed in 1948 - to honor the victims of extreme poverty, violence and hunger.
🔹According to the World Bank, 674 million people around the world live below the lowest poverty line of $1.90 a day. South Sudan, Burundi, Chad, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and others are among the poorest countries in the world.
🔹As for India, the government has adopted a wide range of programs to eradicate poverty. The Integrated Rural Development Program started in 1978-79, aimed at supporting the rural poor in the form of subsidies and bank credits. The Employment Assurance Scheme, launched in 1993, creates employment opportunities in drought-prone, desert, tribal and hill areas where there is no agricultural season.
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2022-10-17 12:42:53+00:00
🇵🇰🌧🏡More than half the flood victims from the worst-hit Sindh province have returned to their home over the past three weeks, Pakistani officials have said.
The statement was made after the country’s PM Shehbaz Sharif visited the province.
For the past three months, Pakistan has been deluged with unprecedented floods. The Indus River, that has caused most of the devastation in the province, has now returned to normal levels but it will take another two months to drain the water completely, authorities say.
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2022-10-17 12:10:13+00:00
🇱🇰🗳Rajapaksa's SLPP launched a nationwide campaign months after Gotabaya Rajapaksa was forced to resign from the presidency and flee abroad in the wake of unprecedented public unrest. He returned to the island nation in the first week of September after spending more than 50 days in exile - in Thailand and Singapore and is ready fight for presidential post.
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2022-10-17 11:22:00+00:00
🇵🇰📃Last week, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) granted protective bail to Khan until October 18 in the same case. The Pakistan Tehreek-e Insaf (PTI) chief, who appeared before the special court, had now moved a bail plea again to prevent the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) from arresting him.
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2022-10-17 10:53:45+00:00
🇮🇳🗣Sanjay Tickoo, the president of the Kashmiri Pandit Sangarsh Samiti, a non-governmental organization advocating for the rights of the community, shared the concerns and demands of Kashmiri Hindus with Sputnik. The interview comes amid the recent killing of another Kashmiri Pandit.
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2022-10-17 10:40:16+00:00
🇮🇳♟Indian Grandmaster Arjun Arigasi defeats five-time world champion
Rameshbabu "Pragg" Praggnanandhaa, an Indian chess grandmaster, has defeated Magnus Carlsen thrice this year.
On Saturday night, it was the turn of another talented Indian teenager, Arjun Arigasi, to best the five-time world champion. In the seventh round of the Aimchess Rapid – an online rapid tournament – Arigasi defeated the Norwegian in 54 moves for the first time in his career.
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2022-10-17 10:19:17+00:00
🇮🇳🚘The co-founder of Ola Cabs and Ola Electric, Bhavish Aggarwal, has put pressure on Elon Musk with his ultra-affordable electric cars.
Aggarwal said that Ola Electric could be India's answer to Elon Musk's Tesla. He added that Ola will be a much more affordable alternative to the posh cars.
🗯"The cheapest Tesla costs $50,000, which is out of most people's price range. We've a chance to lead the EV revolution with a different set of options priced between $1,000 and $50,000," Aggarwal commented.
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2022-10-17 09:49:17+00:00
🇮🇩💊❌Indonesia has banned the sale of cough syrup in its capital Jakarta while an investigation into the death of 20 people from kidney failure is underway.
The deaths allegedly occurred after the victims took medicine to treat a cough, news website AsiaOne reports.
👉Indonesia opened an investigation after more than 60 children died in Gambia from the same cause after taking cough syrup made in India. According to AsiaOne, the World Health Organization has found dangerous levels of diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol in the drugs manufactured by Indian company Maiden Pharmaceuticals.
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2022-10-17 09:31:08+00:00
🇮🇳🚫The residence of the chairwoman of Delhi’s commission for women was ransacked by an unidentified person. Cars which were parked nearby were also vandalized.
🗯“Just a while back an assailant entered and attacked my house. Cars belonging to me and my mother have been damaged badly. Thankfully we were not at home, otherwise I don’t know what would have happened! Whatever you do, I will not be afraid…” Swati Maliwal, known for her diligence and professionalism, tweeted in Hindi.
Earlier, Maliwal claimed that she has also been threatened with rape. She suggested that the threat came from someone who wanted revenge for the fact that she had campaigned for film director and alleged sex pest, Sajid Khan, to be excluded from the Bigg Boss show.
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2022-10-17 09:12:38+00:00
🇮🇳📸Veteran actress backlash for scoffing at paparazzi
Bollywood actress Jaya Bachchan is facing a barrage of criticism on social media after she was seen lashing out at a paparazzi during her appearance at the Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai on Sunday.
In a video widely shared online, Jaya, who is also the wife of Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan, is seen entering the venue of the event with her granddaughter Navya Naveli Nanda when a photographer falls on the ground while clicking them.
Jaya is heard telling him, "serves you right." The actress doesn't stop there as she continues, "I hope you double up and fall."
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2022-10-17 08:46:40+00:00
⚡️🇵🇰 Ex-Pakistani premier Imran Khan filed a petition in a special court in Islamabad on Monday, seeking pre-arrest bail in a case against him & other PTI leaders over the party allegedly receiving prohibited funding
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2022-10-17 08:18:17+00:00
🇮🇳🇷🇺The Russian AK-203 rifle will probably be manufactured in India by the end of the year, the boss of Rosoboronexport, Aleksandr Mikheyev, said.
According to Mikheyev, the AK-203 manufacturing plant in Korwa city of Uttar Pradesh state will be ready to start releasing the rifle by the end of 2022. There are also plans to upgrade the weapon and increase its production.
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2022-10-17 07:54:52+00:00
🇮🇳🇧🇼Botswana's Foreign Minister, Lemogang Kwape, is on his first official six-day visit to India which is beginning on Monday.
Diplomatic relations between the two countries have existed since 1966 and India established its diplomatic mission in Botswana’s capital Gaborone in 1987. Botswana established its mission in New Delhi in 2006.
Today, there are three major Indian companies - Shrenuj, Blue Star and KGK Diamonds - which have offices and factories in Botswana.
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2022-10-17 07:27:01+00:00
🇮🇳🇵🇰🕹India’s Border Security Force has shot down a drone coming in Amritsar which had come from Pakistani after receiving a report that drugs are being trafficked along the India-Pakistan border.
The incident comes only three days after another drone was shot down at the border with Pakistan.
A drone driven by four propellers and weighing 12kg was shot down by soldiers of the 22 battalion of the Border Security Force near the Raniya border post. A green package weighing about 2kg was found tied to the drone and it has been suggested that it contained drugs, local media has reported.
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2022-10-17 06:35:54+00:00
⚡️ Air raid alert throughout Ukraine is reported by local media
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2022-10-17 06:26:43+00:00
💰📈Rupee falls 19 paise to close at 82.38 against the US dollar in early trade.
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2022-10-17 06:22:29+00:00
🚌🐍An 11 feet long python got stuck under the seat of a school bus in Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh.
The snake was finally rescued by the Forest Department team after an hour-long operation, but refused to go out for some time. It probably didn't want to leave its belongings behind...
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2022-10-17 05:41:30+00:00
🔸India's BSF shot down a quad-copter drone suspected of carrying drugs along the international border in Amritsar region.
🔸 India’s PM Narendra Modi will inaugurate national farmers meeting “PM Kisan Samman Sammelan 2022” in Delhi today and also launch 600 PM Farmers Prosperity Centres (Kisan Samruddhi Kendras). The conference will unite about 10mln farmers, agricultural start-ups, researchers, policymakers and bankers.
🔸International Solar Alliance’s Fifth Assembly, presided by Union Power and New and Renewable Energy Minister, to be held in New Delhi on October 17-20.
🔸Toyota has launched the pilot project of the first-of-its-kind flex fuel-strong hybrid electric vehicle in India. With a flex-fuel engine and an electric powertrain, the vehicle can run on 100 per cent ethanol.
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2022-10-17 05:35:48+00:00
❗️🇵🇰 Major blow to Pakistan's ruling party as ex-premier PM Imran Khan wins six National Assembly (NA), and two Punjab Assembly (PA) seats in by-elections.
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2022-10-17 05:25:56+00:00
❗️ Air raid siren sounds in Odessa and Nikolaev region for the second time this morning, local authorities say
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2022-10-17 05:14:10+00:00
⚡️🇮🇳Polling for Indian National Congress President has started.
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2022-10-17 05:08:32+00:00
🇮🇳🦠India records 2,060 new Covid-19 cases.
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2022-10-16 14:36:15+00:00
🇮🇳🏏Maqsooma, a young girl from India-administered Ladakh has become an internet sensation after her batting skills left everyone impressed in a viral video.
In the clip posted on Twitter by the Directorate of School Education, a little girl, studying in the sixth grade, can be seen batting like a pro and driving the ball to the outer limits of the school ground.
🗯"I have been playing since childhood. I am still learning how to play - especially the 'Helicopter Shot.' After taking the second run, we get tired and do not feel like running for another," Maqsooma said in a video in Hindi.
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2022-10-16 14:12:42+00:00
🇮🇳🇪🇬India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has met with the Egyptian President during his two-day visit. He briefed the President on the discussions he held with the Egyptian foreign minister.
🗯“As independent-minded nations, India and Egypt contribute to global discourse. And promote the cause of peace, progress and development," S. Jaishankar shared on his Twitter.
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2022-10-16 13:56:50+00:00
🇱🇰🚫At least 16 people were detained during a protest against the rally held by political party Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (Sri Lanka's Popular Front - SLPP) in Nawalapitiya, a city in the centre of the island nation.
The row erupted after the arrival of party leader and Sri Lankan president from 2005 to 20015, Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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2022-10-16 12:42:39+00:00
🗯"India is a peace-loving nation which has never tried to hurt any country, but if any attempt is made to disrupt peace and harmony in the country, a befitting reply will be given,” India’s Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said referring to the continuing border row with China.
👉The minister also pointed out that supplying indigenous state-of-the-art weapons to the army is the government’s top priority.
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2022-10-16 12:14:38+00:00
🇷🇺🇺🇳Negotiations between Russia and the UN representatives on grain deal have started in Moscow, a Sputnik correspondent reports
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2022-10-16 11:45:59+00:00
❗️It is possible to redirect via Turkish hub all Nord Stream gas volumes, Gazprom CEO says
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2022-10-16 11:31:15+00:00
🇮🇳❓Two Indian teens have been missing for 56 days so far after they went to jungle to collect wild medicinal herbs
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2022-10-16 11:07:23+00:00
🇮🇳🤝India-Africa Defense Dialogue (IADD) will be held on October 18 on the sidelines of DefExpo 2022 in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, Indian Defense Ministry said.
The broad theme of the dialogue is ‘India-Africa: Adopting Strategy for Synergising and Strengthening Defense and Security Cooperation’.
India-Africa Defense Ministers Conclave was held for the first time in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh in conjunction with DefExpo on February 6, 2020. As a result, a Joint Declaration - ‘Lucknow Declaration’ - was adopted at the end of the conclave.
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2022-10-16 10:42:10+00:00
🇮🇳🚫Reacting to the Global Hunger Index report, India's government said in a statement that the report attempts to tarnish the country's image and present it as “a nation that does not fulfil the food security and nutritional requirements of its population”.
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2022-10-16 09:59:56+00:00
🇮🇳🗳India’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has announced another list of 12 candidates for the forthcoming elections to the Gujarat Assembly.
This is the fifth list the party has issued for the polls, bringing its total number of candidates in Gujarat to 53.
This is the first year the AAP has fielded so many candidates in elections for the state which has been controlled by the federally ruling Bharatiya Janata Party for the previous 24 years.
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2022-10-16 09:39:20+00:00
⚡️ Air raid alerts declared in several regions of Ukraine - local media
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2022-10-16 09:09:19+00:00
The air defense system worked in Russia's Belgorod, at least 16 explosions reported, Sputnik correspondent says
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2022-10-16 09:03:40+00:00
The Donetsk City Administration building was just taken out by Ukrainian forces with a US-manufactured HIMARS missile. With Kiev’s militants currently on the back foot in the region, an increasingly-desperate Zelensky regime is escalating its attacks on civilian infrastructure today.
My report from the scene:
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2022-10-16 08:27:42+00:00
🇮🇳✈️A businessman from Noida in the state of Uttar Pradesh was detained in a UAE airport after a facial recognition system misfired.
The businessman, Praveen Kumar, was returning from a week-long trip to Switzerland and had a connecting flight via Abu Dhabi in the UAE when a facial recognition system matched his face with that of a wanted criminal.
🗯"They kept me overnight, forced me to accept I was someone else, put me in a holding cell in the morning, took me to a different city, held me and questioned me again. I would like to thank PM [Narendra] Modi and [Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi] Adityanath for their quick action in the matter,” Kumar said after returning to India.
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2022-10-16 08:03:01+00:00
#Sputnik_reminder
📍 60 years since the Cuban Missile Crisis
👉 On this day in 1962, the CIA showed photos of the Soviet missiles deployed on Cuba to then-US President John F. Kennedy, which marked the beginning of the crisis.
🔹The deployment came in response to the US military, diplomatic & economic pressure on Cuba and following NATO missile deployment in Italy & Turkey. As a mirror measure, the Soviet Union deployed troops on the island, including missile forces codenamed "Anadyr".
🔹On October 27, an American U-2 reconnaissance aircraft was shot down in Cuba, the pilot was killed. Kennedy ordered to bomb the Soviet missile bases and authorized a military offensive against Cuba 2 days later: the world was on the brink of a nuclear war.
🔹The tensions lasted 13 days: on October 28, Khrushchev announced that the missiles would be removed from Cuba. As per reports, Kennedy had secretly promised to withdraw the nuclear-armed missiles from Turkey and allegedly committed the US to never invade Cuba.
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2022-10-16 07:30:38+00:00
🇮🇳🕹India’s Army has started stocking up on more drones and surveillance devices as its military confrontation with China continues.
The military is planning to order 80 locally produced mini remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS), 10 RPAS which can take off without a runway, 44 upgraded long-range surveillance systems and 106 immobile navigation systems in the next few days.
The weaponry will be used for high-precision strikes in areas of Ladakh at great altitude.
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2022-10-16 06:52:21+00:00
🇮🇳Nine people, four of them children, traveling in a delivery van have been killed in a traffic accident in the Hassan district of Karnataka state.
The van collided with a milk tanker and a bus belonging to the State Road Transport Corporation on a road in Hassan's region Arsikere late on Saturday night. Six of the nine fatalities were instant, police said, and another 10 were injured in the accident.
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2022-10-16 05:56:50+00:00
🔸India’s PM Narendra Modi will launch 75 digital banking units (DBUs) via video conference today. According to the country’s Finance Minister, the opening of 75 DBUs in 75 districts will commemorate 75 years of independence and boost financial evolution.
🔸The first coursebooks written in Hindi for the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) qualification will be released today and will be launched by Home Minister Amit Shah in Bhopal. Madhya Pradesh will become the first state to start teaching the MBBS course - including Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry - in Hindi.
🔸People have rushed to collect petrol from a ditch by the roadside in the Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh after a tanker overturned. The truck with more than 24,000 liters of petrol was stolen by a local thief but he lost control of the vehicle and it fell on its side, according to the police.
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2022-10-16 05:05:02+00:00
🇮🇳🦠India records 2,401 new Covid-19 cases.
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2022-10-15 14:52:08+00:00
📹WATCH: Russian Forces identify and then eliminate Ukrainian units, who trying to concentrate in the direction of Svatovo and Kremennaya
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2022-10-15 14:27:18+00:00
🇱🇰🚍At least 44 people were injured when a truck collided with a passenger bus in Sri Lanka's northern province.
The truck crashed into the bus carrying about 50 passengers when the latter made a sudden turn. The driver of the truck has been arrested, police said.
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2022-10-15 14:00:08+00:00
#Sputnik_reminder
🇮🇳India commemorates its 11th president today
▪️Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam was an aerospace scientist who served as the country’s 11th president from 2002 to 2007. Abdul Kalam is known for his civilian service and is widely referred to as the “People’s President”.
▪️He also received several prestigious civilian awards, including Bharat Ratna – India’s highest civilian award for civilian service. After a single-term administration, he returned to his work of education, writing and public service.
▪️Abdul Kalam is also called the "Missile Man of India" for his work on the development of ballistic missiles and launch vehicle technology, as well as in the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
▪️Indians celebrate Students’ Day on the birthday of the country’s 11th president to pay honor to his contributions in the field of education.
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2022-10-15 12:37:49+00:00
🗯"There is no shame left. Why are you making such comments? (...) We do not even pay attention to small leaders, but such a statement is not acceptable," BJP parliamentarian and former federal minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said after Lalan Singh, the leader of Janata Dal (United) (JD(U)), made derogatory remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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2022-10-15 12:16:09+00:00
🇮🇳🇪🇬India has invited Egypt to participate in G20 summit that will take place in New Delhi in September 2023, India’s FM S. Jaishankar said during his visit to the country.
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2022-10-15 11:52:06+00:00
❗️After Biden's "most dangerous country" remark, Pakistan has summoned the US Ambassador Donald Blom and issued an official demarche.
🗯"I am shocked by President Biden's remarks. We will make sure that our relations with the US continue in the right way,” Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said at the Geo TV channel press conference.
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2022-10-15 11:08:00+00:00
🇵🇰🚫🇺🇸"What I think is maybe one of the most dangerous nations in the world: Pakistan. Nuclear weapons without any cohesion," US President Joe Biden said during a Democratic congressional campaign committee reception on Friday.
In response, Pakistani former PM Imran Khan slammed the US leader, saying that he "has broken all records for incompetence”.
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2022-10-15 10:37:14+00:00
🇮🇳🎤#Basharat_Bukhari criticizes the PAGD for having no roadmap for their actions. He underlines that in a world where people have minute-to-minute information about global developments, there’s very little space for lies or betrayals.
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2022-10-15 10:31:24+00:00
⚡️China does not rule out the use of force in resolving the Taiwan issue, but only against supporters of independence and outside interference – Communist Party of China representative
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2022-10-15 10:21:12+00:00
🇮🇳✈️A flight of Akasa Air, a new Indian flying operator, was reportedly hit by a bird on the Mumbai-Bengaluru route on Friday.
Moments after take off, the flight had to return due to complaints of a burning smell and landed back in Mumbai airport. All the passengers and crew members are safe.
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2022-10-15 09:48:46+00:00
🇮🇳🎤A Sputnik correspondent spoke to #Basharat_Bukhari, the former law minister of India's Jammu and Kashmir. Bukhari has been a politician for over two decades and is currently a member of the region’s Peoples Conference Party which was a part of the government alliance from 2015 to 2018.
Earlier, Bukhari was a member of the region's National Conference Party, but developed differences with the party and parted ways. His new home, the Peoples Conference Party, has been a vocal opposition to the powerful regional alliance of political parties in Kashmir (People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration or PAGD) which advocates the return of the region’s autonomy revoked by the federal government in 2019.
He told Sputnik about the developments that took place inside the PAGD and the reasons he left the alliance and joined the People’s Conference.
Check out an exclusive interview in two parts!
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2022-10-15 09:32:46+00:00
🇱🇰🌧Two people have died and 21,888 have been affected by floods and landslides in the last 48 hours in Sri Lanka, the country’s Disaster Management Center (DMC) said on Saturday.
11 districts were affected by the disaster, including Hambantota, Galle, Trincomalee, Kilinochchi, Gampaha, Colombo, Puttalam and Kandy.
The island’s meteorological department forecasts more heavy rains in the South Asian country over the coming days.
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2022-10-15 09:14:47+00:00
🇮🇳An improvised explosive device was detected on the Sopore- Bandipore highway in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday morning, local officials have said.
The more-than-15 kg bomb was hidden in two gas cylinders on the route often used by the Indian Army, as well as civilians. The detection of the explosive by joint teams of the Rashtriya Rifles and Jammu and Kashmir Police averted a deadly attack.
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2022-10-15 08:30:18+00:00
🇮🇳A Kashmiri Pandit was killed by terrorists in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir. The entire area has been cordoned off to trace the attackers, the local police says.
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2022-10-15 07:37:16+00:00
🇮🇳🇺🇸🔧US automotive technology firm Pi Square Technologies opened its India tech center in Bengaluru on Friday.
The company currently serves about 50 firms across the world, inclusing several Fortune 500 companies.
The center, inaugurated by Karnataka IT minister Ashwath Narayan, will focus on innovative product development and embedded engineering services.
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2022-10-15 07:17:13+00:00
🇮🇳India now ranks behind its neighbors Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Myanmar in the Global Hunger Index, with the aforementioned nations securing the positions of 64, 84, 81, and 71 respectively.
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2022-10-15 06:43:13+00:00
🇵🇰🌧It may take 'about three years' for the country to recover from the devastating floods, Pakistan’s Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said.
More than 1,700 people died due to the floods and another 7.9 million had to leave their homes. According to the finance minister, the cost of rebuilding the damaged infrastructure would be more than $16 billion.
🗯"Reconstruction cannot be done overnight and it may take around three years. Although I am not an engineer," Ishaq Dar said.
The World Bank last month allocated $2 billion to Pakistan as instant relief.
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2022-10-15 06:25:12+00:00
🇮🇳🧬Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Society meeting began in New Delhi on Saturday morning.
The purpose of the occasion is to set goals for the organization for the next 25 years. PM Narendra Modi chaired the meeting.
CSIR is an organization comprising 37 national laboratories, 39 outreach centres, 3 Innovation Complexes, and five units with a pan-India presence. It covers a wide spectrum of science and technology disciplines, including oceanography, geophysics, chemicals, drugs, genomics and so on.
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2022-10-15 05:42:51+00:00
🔸India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar began his first bilateral two-day visit to Egypt on Saturday. During the visit, Jaishankar will discuss a range of bilateral, regional and international issues of mutual interest with his Egyptian counterpart.
🔸Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was caught in another 'audio leak' controversy on Thursday, days after the coalition government directed a high-level investigation into the alleged hacking and leak of sensitive audio conversations. On the latest audio, the PM talks about appointing special assistants from the ruling coalition with an unknown person, local media reports.
🔸Annual Half Marathon competition is to take place in New Delhi tomorrow. The event will be flagged off from Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium at about 5:30 am IST. Approximately 25,000 runners will take part in the event.
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2022-10-15 05:22:23+00:00
📹🇮🇳A massive fire broke out at an auto parts manufacturing factory in the Bilaspur Industrial area of Gurugram in the early hours of Saturday.
Fire brigade rushed to the spot. The cause of the fire has not been identified yet.
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2022-10-15 05:01:25+00:00
🇮🇳🦠India reports 2,430 new Covid-19 cases.
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2022-10-14 15:34:26+00:00
📹 Russia's MoD has published footage showing crews of army aviation helicopters from the Western Military District continuing to carry out missions to destroy the armored vehicles and military infrastructure facilities of the AFU
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2022-10-14 15:08:28+00:00
🇮🇳🇨🇦🚫The Indian High Commission in Ottawa, Canada, recently issued a demarche or official diplomatic protest to the country's Foreign Affairs Ministry regarding a referendum due to be held by Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) in Mississauga, a major city near Toronto, on November 6. New Delhi says that it will continue to press Ottawa to block such moves and prevent any kind of recognition of the creation of a state of Khalistan.
The Khalistan movement is a Sikh separatist movement seeking to create a homeland for Sikhs by establishing a sovereign state. The territorial claims of Khalistan include the existing Indian states of Punjab, Chandigarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi and some other regions of the states of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
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2022-10-14 14:49:25+00:00
🇮🇳🇨🇳The 25th meeting of the Working Mechanism for Advice and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs (WMCC) was held today.
The Indian delegation was led by the joint secretary (East Asia) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while the director general of the Department of Borders and Oceans of the Chinese Foreign Ministry led the Chinese delegation.
Both sides reviewed the situation along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the western sector of the India-China border. Recalling developments after the last WMCC meeting in May 2022, they welcomed the withdrawal in the area of Gogra-Hot Springs (PP-15) carried out in a phased, coordinated and verified manner between September 8-12, 2022.
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2022-10-14 14:39:18+00:00
🇮🇳India's Defence Minister Rajnath Singh launches website for citizens to contribute to Armed Forces fund
🔸The Armed Forces Battle Casualties Welfare Fund is a tri-service fund utilized to grant immediate financial assistance of ex-gratia to the next of kin and dependents of battle casualties.
🗯"I appeal everyone to contribute generously to this fund and support the families of India’s bravehearts. It is our moral duty to support them," Singh wrote on Twitter.
🔸While Delhi has initiated a large number of welfare schemes for soldiers killed or disabled during military operations in the line of duty, there has been a strong public sentiment and requests from patriotic citizens and corporate heads of industry to contribute to the cause of the soldiers and their families, according to the Defence Ministry.
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2022-10-14 14:24:40+00:00
'No need for talks with Biden:' Putin says "we should ask" US President "if he's ready to hold such talks with me or not. I don't see the need, to be honest"
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2022-10-14 14:24:25+00:00
🇮🇳🚀The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will launch 36 satellites for OneWeb at 12:07 am on Sunday
New Space India Limited, commercial arm of ISRO, has signed two launch services contracts with OneWeb to send their Low Earth Orbit (LEO) broadband satellites aboard GSLV-Mk3, marking its entry into the global commercial launch services market.
🗯"With this launch, OneWeb will have more than 70% of its planned Gen-1 LEO constellation in orbit as it progresses to deliver high-speed, low-latency connectivity services around the world,” OneWeb's official said earlier.
It will be very first commercial mission of the GSLV-Mk III, ISRO's heaviest and most modern launch vehicle.
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2022-10-14 14:10:13+00:00
🇮🇳🇵🇰India wants normal relations with Pakistan provided it is free from terrorism, a MEA spokeperson says
🗯"We want normal relations with Pakistan, [this] is a statement that we have always said. But it has to be in an atmosphere that is conducive and free from terrorism. I think that part is pretty well-known. I really don't need to get into details," Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said at a weekly press conference.
🔸Earlier, speaking at the sixth CICA summit, the prime minister of Pakistan mentioned Jammu and Kashmir and said that the responsibility for taking the necessary steps to achieve results-oriented solutions lies with India.
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2022-10-14 13:58:25+00:00
🇮🇳💰ED has conducted search operations and seized about Rs 65mln as unaccounted cash, as well as gold, bullion, etc.
Special Court of Raipur has taken three persons, including one Indian Administrative Service officer, into custody for eight days till October 21 under PMLA in a coal scam case.
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2022-10-14 13:37:24+00:00
🇮🇳📈💰India's forex reserves increase for the first time in 2 months
India's foreign exchange reserves rose to $532.87 billion in the week through October 7, the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) weekly statistical supplement said on Friday.
India's reserves increased by $204 million over the previous week, the first increase since the week ended July 29.
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2022-10-14 13:35:42+00:00
🇮🇳 WATCH: The Indian Navy successfully tested a submarine-launched Ballistic Missile on Friday, which was launched by the INS Arihant to a predetermined range.
It impacted the target area in the Bay of Bengal with high accuracy, validating all operational and technological parameters, the military said.
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2022-10-14 13:20:42+00:00
🇮🇳📈The La Vanguardia news daily published the image of a snake charmer with the headline "The hour of the Indian Economy" on its front page on October 9 to highlight how the country has emerged as one of the economic powerhouses in the last few years.
However, many social media users fumed at the portrayal, terming the description "racist", "stereotypical" and "insulting".
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2022-10-14 12:54:26+00:00
🌐SCO member states resolved to jointly combat the threats posed by terrorist groups
The Regional Counter-Terrorism Framework (SCO-RTS) meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization was held in New Delhi. At the meeting, member states resolved to implement joint measures to counter threats posed by international terrorist groups operating out of Afghanistan.
India's Deputy National Security Advisor chief Dattatreya Padsalgikar told that in the meeting the member countries have decided to conduct military exercises in 2023, which will be called 'Solidarity-2023'. The drills will be conducted in China.
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2022-10-14 12:49:11+00:00
📹🇷🇺Russia's Ministry of Defense published footage of the launch of Russian missiles to target an arsenal with Western weapons in Ukraine's Lvov region
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2022-10-14 12:49:07+00:00
⚡️No decision has been taken yet on his Trip to the G20 summit in 🇮🇩 Indonesia, President Putin says.
In September, President Putin said that his participation in the summit would depend on the situation in Russia, adding that he had been officially invited.
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2022-10-14 12:35:25+00:00
❗️WATCH LIVE Russian President Vladimir Putin Holds Press Conference in Astana
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2022-10-14 12:23:04+00:00
🇮🇳As India's population grows rapidly, the country's largest cemetery is running out of space. The government prohibited to make permanent graves to tackle the problem.
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2022-10-14 12:09:13+00:00
❗️🇮🇳🇺🇸SPUTNIK EXCLUSIVE | Amid India-US joint military drills that are reportedly being held on October 14-31, Sputnik spoke to strategic affairs expert Pravin Sawhney. He said, India should be “extremely careful” in cultivating close military ties with the United States as it risks being the “most vulnerable” country in the Asia-Pacific amid the ongoing tensions between Washington and Beijing.
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2022-10-14 11:43:26+00:00
📹🌧India's state of Uttar Pradesh has been hit by flash flood following heavy rainfall, with many of the eastern parts of the state still submerged.
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2022-10-14 11:35:37+00:00
🇮🇳🚀The nuclear submarine INS Arihant has successfully conducted a ballistic missile launch trial.
The missile was tested today to a predetermined range, impacting the target area in the Bay of Bengal with high accuracy and validating all operational and technological parameters, according to India’s Ministry of Defense.
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2022-10-14 11:27:26+00:00
🇮🇳🎓Indian students returning from Ukraine can finish their studies in Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan has offered 2,000 seats in its universities to medical students from India who had to interrupt their studies in Ukraine due to the beginning of the special military op, according to Dilshod Akhatov, Uzbekistan’s Ambassador in India.
Akhatov presented the provisional admission letters to the students who successfully passed the interview session conducted by the Government Higher Medical Institutes of Uzbekistan.
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2022-10-14 10:59:25+00:00
🇵🇰WATCH Imran Khan deliver special message to the nation ahead of October 16 by-elections.
He asked Pakistanis to cast their votes at the upcoming polls as they "decide the future of the country".
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2022-10-14 10:45:25+00:00
🇵🇰 ”Let him (Imran Khan) come to Islamabad. Imran Khan doesn't know what the government is planning to do with him this time around. We will hang him upside down,” Pakistan's interior minister Rana Sanaullah Khan claimed while speaking on Geo News channel program Capital Talk.
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2022-10-14 10:31:43+00:00
❗️ President Putin’s latest statements made at the sixth Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia:
▪️ Russia is ready to assist in the restoration of the unified energy system of Central Asia;
▪️ President Putin has called on Central Asian countries to join Russia's impost substitution projects;
▪️ The new format of the summit won’t be useless, as the increasingly unstable situation in the world has pushed for interaction;
▪️ It’s necessary to work with th current Afghan government.
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2022-10-14 10:29:25+00:00
🇮🇳🚄The 5th Vande Bharat Train will begin operations from November 10 on the Chennai-Bengaluru-Mysuru route.
The first Vande Bharat train was launched in 2019 on tje New Delhi-Kanpur-Allahabad-Varanasi route. Another three trains run between New Delhi, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra, Gandhinagar and Mumbai and on the New Delhi - Amb Andaura - New Delhi route.
The latter was inaugurated by India’s PM Narendra Modi on Thursday.
Vande Bharat trains are developed and produced in India and have proved to be a successful example of the ‘Make in India’ initiative of the Indian government.
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2022-10-14 10:16:41+00:00
🇮🇳⚡️Assembly polling in Himachal Pradesh will be held on November 12; vote counting will be held on December 8.
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2022-10-14 09:38:20+00:00
🇮🇳🍷25 more locations raided in Delhi liquor policy case
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday conducted raids at around 25 locations in Delhi, in connection with the alleged liquor policy scam. This comes after the probe agency conducted raids at 35 locations in Delhi-NCR, Punjab and some places in Hyderabad last week.
In total, more than 120 raids have been conducted so far, and Sameer Mahandru, a liquor businessman and managing director of the liquor manufacturing company Indospirit was arrested last month in the case.
The money laundering case in the liquor policy stems from a FIR saying that Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and some Delhi government bureaucrats were involved in the scheme.
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2022-10-14 09:29:49+00:00
🇮🇳⚡️Gyanvapi Mosque Case: Varanasi court rejects plea for carbon dating of 'shivling'.
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2022-10-14 09:29:08+00:00
⚡️ Air raid alerts declared in Odessa, as well as in Nikolaev, Poltava, Sumy and Cherkasy region
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2022-10-14 09:17:26+00:00
🇮🇳🌧In a now-viral clip, District Magistrate of Ambedkarnagar Samuel Paul was seen telling people that they would have to collect relief material, including food packets, from an outpost set up in the area despite harsh weather conditions, because police had not been tasked with delivering it to their homes.
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2022-10-14 08:46:25+00:00
🇮🇳🚌Indians are known for their inventiveness, which can still prove very useful, even given the advent of advanced technology.
A bus driver form Uttar Pradesh added a bottle of water to a defunct wiper in order to wash the front window of his vehicle. The driver controls the wiper's movement via a rope fastened to the opposite side operating the hanging water bottle as he moves the rope.
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2022-10-14 08:36:32+00:00
🇮🇳📲“Our 5G is not imported from someone else. It is our own product,” said Sitharaman, who is now on a five-day official visit to the US to attend the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, adding that India is ready to share the technology with other nations.
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2022-10-14 08:23:32+00:00
📹🇮🇳Netizens are buzzing over footage from India’s Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, where three women were seen breaking into a store and beating up an unfaithful husband and the girl he was caught cheating with.
The woman was visiting parents after having a quarrel with her husband and was on a shopping spree with her mother when she caught her spouse red-handed. Police are now looking into the incident after a complaint was filed - not by the unfaithful husband, as some may think, but by his wife.
The incident is even more ironic because that it took place on Karwa Chauth, a Hindu festival when married women fast all day and pray for the well-being of their husbands. The Karwa Chauth festival is celebrated with great zeal throughout the country, but especially in the northern parts of India, including Ghaziabad, where the beating took place.
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2022-10-14 07:42:58+00:00
🇱🇰⚖️ Sri Lanka's Court of Appeal on Friday directed the Colombo Fort Magistrate's Court to postpone the hearing of the private plaint field against former President Maithripala Sirisena over the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks for 10 weeks from today.
Sirisena was named as a suspect in the 2019 bombings over alleged negligence in responding to intel warnings prior to the terrorist attacks.
More than 250 people were killed in a string of bombings of hotels and churches in April 2019. Daesh* claimed responsibility for the attacks.
*a terrorist organization banned in Russia
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2022-10-14 07:33:31+00:00
🇮🇳🐕India’s Army are lying wreaths to the mortal remains of assault dog Zoom
Zoom passed away at 54 Advance Field Veterinary Hospital where he was treated after sustaining two gunshot injuries during Tangpawa operation in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir on October 9, Indian Army’s Chinar Corps say.
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2022-10-14 07:23:14+00:00
🇮🇳⛰550 tourists stranded in landslide saved by India’s Army
Troops from the Striking Lion Division conducted a rescue operation to help 550 tourists caught in a landslide due to a heavy rainfall in North Sikkim. They were provided medical aid and food and guided to safety despite harsh weather conditions, Indian Army officials say.
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2022-10-14 06:50:41+00:00
❗️ The more the United States is involved in the Ukraine conflict, the higher the risk of provoking a clash between the major nuclear powers, fraught with catastrophic consequences, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov has told Sputnik.
💬 "The logic of the current situation is simple: the more the US is involved in supporting the Kiev regime on the battlefield, the more it becomes a party to the military confrontation with Russia, and thus risks provoking a direct armed clash between the largest nuclear powers, fraught with catastrophic consequences," Ryabkov said.
▪️ The deputy minister drew parallels between the Cuban Missile Crisis and the current escalation of tensions between Moscow and Washington, adding that in both cases "we have to talk about the destructive for international security and strategic stability desire of Washington to gain a decisive military and strategic superiority."
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2022-10-14 06:44:25+00:00
🇵🇰WATCH: Pakistan’s Finance Minister Ishaq Dar was slammed and called ‘chor’ (‘thief’) by an unidentified individual.
Ishaq Dar arrived in the US to participate in an IMF meeting. An unknown person started to heckle him calling the minister a ‘liar’ and a ‘thief’ as he was leaving the airport.
The minister along with his companion tried to answer back, calling the man ‘a liar’ but didn’t manage to calm him down.
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2022-10-14 06:28:49+00:00
📹 The sixth Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA), chaired by Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, kicked off in Astana.
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2022-10-14 06:16:40+00:00
🇮🇳🇷🇺✈️Moscow – Delhi flight with almost 400 people on board receives bomb threat
On Thursday evening, New Delhi's Indira Gandhi Airport received a call threatening that a bomb had been planted on board Aeroflot Flight SU 232 en route to the Indian capital from Moscow.
The plane from Moscow arrived at Delhi airport at 03:20 local time. However, so far, passengers have not left the airport building due to strict screening. In total, according to the airport, 386 passengers and 16 crew members were urgently evacuated from the aircraft.
🗯"The plane was carefully searched, the luggage of the passengers was also carefully examined. Nothing suspicious was found. Passengers are gradually being let out of the airport building," the source told Sputnik.
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2022-10-14 06:08:02+00:00
🇮🇳🚍The 4x4 Quick Reaction Force Vehicle, a high mobility troop carrier, has been launched by the Indian Army’s Fire and Fury Corps for operations in the Ladakh sector.
The vehicle was made in India by private sector companies, Indian Army officials say.
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2022-10-14 05:44:06+00:00
🔸The World Bank has issued a warning that the global economy is dangerously close to a recession. The Bank’s President David Malpass says the 2023 growth forecast has been lowered from 3 percent to 1.9 percent for global growth.
🔸A drone entering the Gurdaspur sector in India’s Punjab was shot down by Border Security Forces (BSF). After the drone was spotted at 4:35 a.m. IST by BSF troops on patrolling duty, it was neutralized immediately and a search operation was launched to determine whether the drone had dropped any consignment in the area, a BSF senior officer said.
🔸The date for Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh legislative assembly elections will be announced today.
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2022-10-14 05:02:44+00:00
🇮🇳🦠India reports 2,678 new Covid-19 cases.
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2022-10-13 15:41:00+00:00
👑 A BJP spokesperson told the UK's Telegraph that the choice for Queen Camilla to wear the diamond in her crown would “transport” some “back to the days of the British Empire in India”.
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2022-10-13 15:10:59+00:00
📹 Russia’s MoD has published footage showing Buk air defense missile system crews detecting and destroying an air target that was approaching a large settlement following a ballistic trajectory.
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2022-10-13 14:31:18+00:00
🌻 Delhi purchased an approximate total of 160,000 tons of sunflower oil in September, nearly 16 percent higher than August, with Argentina supplying 68,032 tons and Russia 16,947 tons.
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2022-10-13 14:02:38+00:00
🇮🇳 India has unveiled its first sanctuary for the Slender Loris primate, spread across 11,806 hectares in Karur and Dindigul districts of Tamil Nadu state.
📍Slender Loris is usually found in the southern part of India, even in urban areas. The animal is totally harmless and spends most of its life in trees.
Unfortunately, Slender Loris is a precious trophy for poachers, who largely hunt this animal, which is why it needs to be cherished and protected.
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2022-10-13 13:30:15+00:00
📹 Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba, in a conversation with Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus, admitted that Kiev is behind the attacks on the territory of Crimea and the Belgorod region.
▪️ The pranksters called Kuleba on behalf of former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul.
💬 "Crimea is not the nearest operational target. But if you ask me who is blowing up something in Crimea or Belgorod, then in private communication I will tell you that, yes, it's us," Kuleba said.
▪️ The head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry also admitted that Kiev was preparing a counteroffensive in the south "in close cooperation with partners, firstly the United States and Great Britain."
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2022-10-13 13:10:53+00:00
❗️SPUTNIK EXCLUSIVE | “As far as India is concerned, the primary US objective is to wean us away from Russia. But I don’t see that happening. India’s longstanding ties with Russia are in our national interest and we have been vocal about that,” the director of the Indian think tank Chennai Centre for China Studies, Commodore (retd) Seshadri Vasan told Sputnik.
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2022-10-13 12:50:27+00:00
⚡️An air alert has been declared on the entire territory of Ukraine
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2022-10-13 12:46:23+00:00
‼️ The adoption of the UNGA resolution not recognizing the accession of new territories to Russia demonstrates that the West is solving its geopolitical tasks, with this confrontational initiative aimed at prolonging the conflict — Russian MFA
India was among the countries who abstained on the vote.
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2022-10-13 12:41:33+00:00
⚡️In Kiev an air alert has been announced
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2022-10-13 12:39:17+00:00
WATCH: Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Palestinian Authority head Mahmud Abbas during the Sixth CICA Summit in Astana.
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2022-10-13 12:28:26+00:00
🚓 The police were called in after he was summoned by the country's top women's organization, the National Commission of Women (NCW), in connection with the viral video clip.
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2022-10-13 12:00:47+00:00
❗️Maharashtra's drug regulator ordered checks of all oral liquid solutions sold in the state and requested reports on diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol levels after the death of over 60 Gambian children who took Indian-made cough syrups, Indian media reported.
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2022-10-13 11:54:24+00:00
🇵🇰🚫 A failure in the power transmission network has left a number of cities in southern Pakistan, including Karachi, without electricity, local media said.
💡According to the Ministry of Energy, the incident happened because of an "accidental failure" in the transmission system. The ministry also expressed hopes that supply will be fully restored by this evening and announced that it is already back in several parts of southern Punjab.
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2022-10-13 11:28:14+00:00
🇮🇳🇬🇲 India's Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar met with his Gambian counterpart Mamadou Tangara to discuss the recent developments over the cough syrup row.
🙏🏼 Jaishankar conveyed his "deepest condolences on the deaths of young children," which allegedly occurred as a result of poisoning caused by the Indian-made cough syrups.
💬 "Underlined that matter is being seriously investigated by appropriate authorities. We agreed to remain in touch," Jaishankar said in his twitter.
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2022-10-13 10:55:51+00:00
⚖️ Justice Gupta dismissed the pleas challenging the hijab ban in the state and upheld the ban while Justice Dhulia allowed them and set the ban aside.
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2022-10-13 10:36:12+00:00
⚡️⚡️ Erdogan says Turkey, Russia will work on the delivery of the Russian agricultural products to the countries in need
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2022-10-13 10:22:54+00:00
⚡️Air alert has been announced in Zaporozhye following explosions, Ukrainian media reports say.
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2022-10-13 09:59:01+00:00
🇱🇰🇷🇺 At least 60% of Sri Lanka’s crude imports since May have come from Russia, the Financial Times reports.
🛢 According to the newspaper, Sri Lanka, which has almost run out of fuel due to the financial crisis, has imported 2.6 million barrels of Russian oil since May, which is at least 60% of the total volume of hydrocarbons imported into the country.
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2022-10-13 09:44:33+00:00
❗️Russia supplied more than 20% of the EU oil market and 40-50% of the gas market - and where Europe will find these volumes is unknown, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said.
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2022-10-13 09:42:08+00:00
⚡️🇮🇶 At least nine people were left injured after three rockets hit the vicinity of the Green Zone in Iraq's Baghdad on Thursday, local media reported.
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2022-10-13 09:15:50+00:00
🇮🇳 Delhi has been involved in negotiations with several states to advance bilateral trade in local currencies in a bid to encourage non-dollar transactions & strengthen the Indian rupee.
👉 Check out Sputnik's infographics on India’s RuPay payment system as more countries wish to roll it out to ensure safe and stable financial operations in the wake of Western sanctions.
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2022-10-13 08:50:37+00:00
🦠🚫 The pandemic proved to be a major setback for poor people throughout the world, a recent World Bank report says.
😷 According to Indian media, a report by the World Bank has suggested that the pandemic has pushed 71 million people throughout the world into extreme poverty, adding that out of these, nearly 79% were from India.
📈 As result, the global extreme poverty rate has increased to 9.3 percent in 2020 as compared to 8.4 percent in 2019.
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2022-10-13 08:27:02+00:00
🇵🇰💸 In the charge sheet filed in 2021, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) mentioned dozens of “hidden” bank accounts that it believed were used to accumulate illegal wealth by Sharif and his sons.
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2022-10-13 07:57:01+00:00
🌐 WATCH: 🇮🇳 India's diplomat slams 🇵🇰Pakistan for raising the Kashmir issue during a vote on Russia
👉 In his remarks to the UNGA, Pakistan's diplomat spoke about “condemnation regarding India’s annexation of illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir”.
🗯 “It is important [...] to set the record straight. The entire territory of Jammu and Kashmir is and will always be an integral and inalienable part of India, irrespective of what the representative of Pakistan believes or covets,“ India’s Permanent Representative to UN Ruchira Kamboj.
She further asked Islamabad to act on cross-border terrorism instead.
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2022-10-13 07:40:40+00:00
🇷🇺🇦🇫 Afghanistan remains one of the most acute security challenges in the region, given that it proved unable to independently solve problems of terrorism after long but fruitless presence of the United States in the country, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
🚫 "After over 20-year military presence of the United States and NATO, and the failure of their policies, the country has proved unable to independently solve problems related to terrorist threats," Putin said at the sixth Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia.
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2022-10-13 07:16:02+00:00
📹Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks about the forming of an equal and indivisible security system during the Sixth CICA Summit in Astana.
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2022-10-13 06:50:09+00:00
⚡️The SpiceJet flight operating from Goa to Hyderabad had to make an emergency landing as smoke was detected in the cabin, Indian media said, adding that the plane landed safely at its destination.
✈️ Although some passengers were panicking during the flight and a women fell ill because of smoke, no passengers were injured or hospitalized.
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2022-10-13 06:27:02+00:00
🇵🇰❗️Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has called for urgent assistance to Pakistan, which has suffered from unprecedented floods that have affected about a third of the territory of the country.
💬 Speaking at the Sixth CICA Summit in Astana, Sharif said that according to initial estimates, the economy has suffered more than $30 billion in losses. He expressed gratitude to the UN, as well as to a number of countries that provided financial support to Pakistan and urged other nations to support his country during the next stage of its recovery.
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2022-10-13 05:57:02+00:00
❗️Check out highlights from President Putin’s speech at the Sixth CICA Summit in Astana:
🔸President Putin called for elimination of all artificial barriers to restore supply chains of goods;
🔸President Putin urged to unfreeze Afghanistan’s illegally blocked assets and compensate for the damage done to the country during years of occupation;
🔸There is a threat of famine and large-scale social upheavals, especially in the poorest countries;
🔸Russia does everything to establish an equal and indivisible security system.
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2022-10-13 05:53:49+00:00
⚡️🌐 The architecture of global security system should be developed anew, the world is more than five permanent members of the UN Security Council — Turkish President Erdogan
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2022-10-13 05:49:21+00:00
🔸India abstained from voting on a resolution condemning the referendums in the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions on joining Russia at the UN General Assembly yesterday. According to India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ruchira Kamboj, the decision is consistent with India’s well-thought-out national position.
🔸Ruchira Kamboj has also condemned Pakistan’s “pointless” remarks towards India, voiced during the UN General Assembly session of October 12. She highlighted that J&K is and will always be an integral part of India and called on Pakistan to stop cross-border terrorism.
🔸The price of vegetables has gone up in India and is expected to remain firm in the following month as standing corps and stocks have been influenced by unseasonal rain.
🔸Nearly 70,000 people have been affected by flooding in five districts of Assam; this is the third time this year. Neighboring East Siang district in Arunachal Pradesh has also been heavily flooded.
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2022-10-13 05:37:40+00:00
⚡️Serious changes are taking place in global politics, the world is becoming multipolar; Asia is beginning to play a key role, Russian President Vladimir Putin says
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2022-10-13 05:13:01+00:00
⚡️Zelensky's office has reported explosions at "critical infrastructure" facilities in the Kiev region, an air alert has been announced.
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2022-10-13 05:01:43+00:00
🇮🇳🦠 India reports 2,786 new Covid-19 cases.
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2022-10-12 18:02:35+00:00
📌 Check out Sputnik’s infographic showing which countries contribute to the raging conflict in Ukraine, as Australia's PM recently stated that Canberra would consider a request from the Ukrainian president to offer military training support to Kiev.
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2022-10-12 16:01:10+00:00
🦆Behind those feathers, there lies a 💪 tough cookie!
A little duck was seen walking fearlessly on crocodiles that have occupied a whole shore.
Who is the king of the pond now? 😏
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2022-10-12 15:26:06+00:00
📹The Russian Ministry of Defense has published footage showing Russian SU-25 aircraft in combat.
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2022-10-12 15:05:56+00:00
❗️SPUTNIK EXCLUSIVE | In an interview with Sputnik, the People Against Rapes in India (PARI) organization's founder and well-known anti-rape activist Yogita Bhayana talked about the reasons she launched the organization, steps that have been taken to prevent rape cases, and more.
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2022-10-12 14:55:48+00:00
❗️NEW development in the syrup row: It turned out that the four Indian-manufactured cough syrups were brought to the African country by a US pharmaceutical firm, Gambian police stated on Tuesday as part of its preliminary investigation.
🔎 According to the statement, US-based Atlantic Pharmaceuticals Company traded in 50,000 bottles of the reportedly dangerous syrups. The police added that the acute kidney injury outbreak, which claimed the lives of at least 66 children, began right after these medical items were released to retailers and consumers.
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2022-10-12 14:34:01+00:00
🤝 Member states of BRICS economic bloc - 🇧🇷 Brazil, 🇷🇺 Russia, 🇮🇳 India, 🇨🇳 China and 🇿🇦 South Africa - should improve intelligence sharing to protect their energy infrastructure in the wake of gas leaks at underwater gas pipelines in Europe, the executive chairman of Johannesburg-based African Energy Chamber Nj Ayuk told Sputnik on the sidelines of the ongoing 5th Russian Energy Week.
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2022-10-12 14:10:47+00:00
⛽️ The approved amount will be distributed among Indian Oil Corporation Ltd., Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd.
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2022-10-12 13:40:44+00:00
🇮🇩 Indonesia launches a probe into cases of acute kidney injury, which occurred in 20 children who died in Jakarta this year — report
🚫 The probe comes as Gambia stated that nearly 70 children in the country died from acute kidney injury after taking a locally-sold paracetamol syrup produced by the Indian company Maiden Pharmaceuticals, which was closed Wednesday by 🇮🇳 Indian authorities, Reuters reports.
🔎 Indonesia will investigate the matter in coordination with investigators from the World Health Organization (WHO) who have earlier found "unacceptable" levels of diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol in four products produced by the company.
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2022-10-12 13:20:20+00:00
🚫 A couple in India's Bengaluru city was saved in the nick of time by alert police and firemen after they threatened to immolate themselves if their home was demolished during the civic body's drive to remove alleged illegal structures.
⚡️In dramatic visuals doing the rounds on social media, a man and woman can be seen pouring petrol on themselves. Just as the couple was about to light a matchstick some policemen and neighbors interrupt and sprinkle water on them before pulling the two away from the rooftop of their house.
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2022-10-12 12:50:43+00:00
🌾🇵🇰 Pakistan's agricultural sector suffered more than $2.3 billion in losses as a result of unprecedented floods, the Express Tribune said.
❗️This year Pakistan witnessed devastating floods all across the country. According to the Pakistani Disaster Management Authority, at least 1,717 people have died and more than 12,800 have been injured in the devastating floods since mid-June, while over 13,100 km of roads have been washed out and more than 2.1 million houses destroyed.
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2022-10-12 12:20:46+00:00
📍Local manufacturers in collaboration with foreign firms are due to supply the required quantity of guns to the Army Aviation Unit, which is operating with almost 90 percent “obsolete” weapons, as per ex-army chief V.K. Singh.
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2022-10-12 11:55:57+00:00
🇮🇳🇵🇰 Indian security forces have registered 191 illegal entries of Pakistani drones to the country in the past nine months, Indian media reported.
🚫 171 out of the 191 drones attempted to enter the country via the India-Pakistan border near the Punjab sector, while the other 20 tried to infiltrate India near the Jammu frontier. It has been also revealed that most of the drones managed to flee, as only seven of them were shot down by the Border Security Forces.
📍According to Indian officials, Pakistani militants use their drones to transport weapons, narcotics and explosives across the border.
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2022-10-12 11:27:26+00:00
⚡️🇷🇺 Russia will not go against common sense and supply energy to countries that impose price caps, President Vladimir Putin said.
📍 The Russian president also said that the EU is making the situation worse when making decisions on price caps on Russian oil.
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2022-10-12 11:24:24+00:00
❗️OPEC+ decision looks to balance global market, Russian President Vladimir Putin says.
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2022-10-12 10:52:13+00:00
⚡️President Putin on accidents at Nord Stream pipelines: there is no doubt that this is an act of international terrorism
👉 This is a very dangerous precedent, competitors are forcing Europeans to buy energy for higher prices, he added.
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2022-10-12 10:30:59+00:00
🎓🇮🇳🇨🇳 Over 1,300 Indian students will be able to continue their studies in China as they have obtained Chinese visas after a two-year gap owing to strict COVID-19 travel restrictions imposed by the country, the Chinese foreign ministry informed.
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2022-10-12 09:45:07+00:00
🇮🇳💧Following record showers this month that saw Delhi log its highest rainfall in October in 66 years, the Indian capital city has registered its best air quality index (AQI) since August 2020.
💨 Delhi recorded an AQI of 44 on Monday, dipping below 45 for the first time in more than two years. The metropolitan city clocked an AQI of 55 on Friday, which went up to 56 on Saturday before dropping to a pleasant 48 on Sunday.
📉 The city's good air quality spell continued on Wednesday morning as the city's AQI dropped further to 42, according to statistics from the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR).
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2022-10-12 09:15:55+00:00
⚡️🇵🇰 The Islamabad High Court granted former PM Imran Khan protective bail until October 18 on Wednesday as part of a foreign funding case.
The Federal Investigation Agency filed a case against him and other party leaders for allegedly submitting false affidavits to the election commission.
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2022-10-12 08:40:45+00:00
❗️"I have been receiving rape threats on Instagram ever since I wrote a letter to the I&B minister to get Sajid Khan out of Big Boss. They clearly want to stop our work. I am filing a complaint with the Delhi Police. Register FIR and investigate. Arrest those who are behind them!" Swati Maliwal said on Twitter.
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2022-10-12 08:20:38+00:00
🇮🇳🦠 India has successfully conducted the second phase of clinical trials of VINCOV-19, its first SARS-CoV-2 antidote and cure, Indian media said.
💉 According to a statement by the University of Hyderabad, the Covid antidote is now ready for market authorization and simultaneous phase-3 clinical trials.
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2022-10-12 07:56:02+00:00
❗️SPUTNIK EXCLUSIVE | Sources told Sputnik that a number of Indian banks are eager to take part in the rupee-based trade mechanism as it would provide them with the opportunity to boost their presence in new regions.
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2022-10-12 07:36:01+00:00
🇮🇳💪 India's Congress party shared footage of Rahul Gandhi, who was challenged to do push-ups right in the middle of the street with the party senior leaders and a local boy.
📍Netizens praised the Congress party leader for being the only one among the participants who performed the push-ups correctly.
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2022-10-12 07:23:51+00:00
⚡️An air alert has been announced in the center and in the south of Ukraine, including Odessa, local media reports.
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2022-10-12 07:16:01+00:00
🚫🇮🇳🌧 The death toll in rain-related incidents grew to a 66-year record of 26 cases in New Delhi as six more people died as per data released by India’s Meteorological Department (IDM).
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2022-10-12 06:56:02+00:00
🚫 The Indian authorities have suspended the production of four cough syrups produced by an Indian pharmaceutical company, that may have caused the death of 66 children in Gambia, Reuters reports.
The World Health Organization (WHO) previously issued a warning against the Indian-manufactured cough syrups that were contaminated with dangerous diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol.
The four cough syrups include Promethazine Oral Solution, Kofexmalin Baby Cough Syrup, Makoff Baby Cough Syrup, and Magrip N Cold Syrup
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2022-10-12 06:37:30+00:00
⚡️📹Russia’s FSB has published a video of the inspection of the truck that exploded on the Crimean bridge and a photo of the truck’s contents at the customs post
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2022-10-12 06:16:44+00:00
⚡️ FSB statement on the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge:
▪️The organizer was the Main intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, its head Kirill Budanov, employees and agents;
▪️The explosive device was camouflaged in rolls with a construction polyethylene film and was shipped from the seaport of Odessa to Bulgaria's Ruse in early August;
▪️Three Ukrainian citizens, two Georgian citizens and an Armenian citizen were involved in organizing the transportation of cargo from Bulgaria to the Georgian port of Poti and then to Armenia, they have been detained.
▪️The investigation is ongoing, all organizers and accomplices, including foreigners, will be brought to justice in accordance with Russian law.
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2022-10-12 06:11:28+00:00
⚡️ Indian Navy's MiG 29K crashed on Wednesday during a routine sortie over the sea off Goa due to a technical malfunction.
The pilot ejected safely and has been recovered in a swift search and rescue operation.
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2022-10-12 06:07:01+00:00
❗️The refusal of 🇷🇺Russia and 🇨🇳China to accept payments in dollars is a positive step, the 🇮🇷Iranian Supreme Leader's top adviser for international affairs Ali Akbar Velayati told Sputnik.
"China and Russia, as members of BRICS, which also includes 🇮🇳India, 🇿🇦South Africa and 🇧🇷Brazil, carry out many transactions with each other without the use of a foreign currency (US dollars). The fact that they are not tied to the dollar, which depends on the will of the United States, – is a very good progress," Velayati said.
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2022-10-12 05:52:51+00:00
⚡️⚡️The main intelligence directorate of the Ukrainian defense ministry, its head are behind the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Wednesday
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2022-10-12 05:39:30+00:00
🔸Russia has allowed Indian security agencies access to a detained Uzbek Daesh* terrorist, who was reportedly planning to carry out a suicide bombing against BJP members in India, after getting the permission of Uzbekistan.
🔸Interpol has rejected India’s second request to issue a Red Corner Notice on terror charges against the Canadian-based founder of the pro-Khalistan organization Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, saying Indian authorities haven’t provided sufficient information supporting the allegations against him.
🔸40 million rupees were recovered by India's ED during yesterday’s raids of the premises of some senior officials in Chhattisgarh. A number of incriminating documents have also been recovered.
🔸Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Meenakashi Lekhi begins her two-day visit to Kazakhstan to participate in the 6th CICA summit, which will be held in Astana.
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2022-10-12 05:00:01+00:00
🇮🇳🦠 India reports 2,139 new Covid-19 cases.
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2022-10-12 04:48:14+00:00
⚡️An air alert has been activated in Kiev, local authorities say
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2022-10-11 15:31:10+00:00
🇮🇳🐼Red panda - one of the most adorable creatures on the world - is now on the edge of extinction. WWF experts revealed what resulted in critical decrease in the species population and what can be done to save this gorgeous animal.
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2022-10-11 15:27:20+00:00
📹 President Putin has begun his working meeting with the head of the IAEA in English.
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2022-10-11 15:07:02+00:00
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2022-10-11 14:53:01+00:00
🇮🇳🍏Apple is set to add support for 5G on compatible iPhones for Indian carriers through a software update as soon as December
Apple and the Indian provider of mobile telephony Airtel will meet this week to discuss why Apple's iPhones are not compatible with India's 5G networks, according to ET News.
Apple is reportedly already testing 5G support on iPhones in Mumbai and New Delhi, and an update to officially add support may be released in December.
Another report from Reuters says the Indian government is pressuring Apple and Samsung to bring 5G support to their latest smartphones.
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2022-10-11 14:44:14+00:00
🇮🇳💰📉 The IMF says next year, India will develop the most among the world's largest economies, growing by 6.1%
🔻The International Monetary Fund released its World Economic Outlook, which projects India's growth to be 6.8% for 2022 compared to the 7.4% it had estimated earlier in July. The reasons for the worse outlook include the impact of external headwinds and weaker-than-expected growth in the second quarter.
🔻Meanwhile, the three largest economies – the United States, the European Union, and China – will continue to stall.
🔻Global growth is forecast to slow from 6% in 2021 to 3.2% in 2022, and 2.7% in 2023.
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2022-10-11 14:41:01+00:00
🇱🇰💰Earlier in September, the IMF reached an agreement with the government of Sri Lanka for a loan of about $2.9 billion to support the country's economic reforms. Now the country's government has held another round of talks with IMF.
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2022-10-11 14:29:01+00:00
🇮🇳❗️During a discussion at Sydney-based think tank the Lowy Institute on Tuesday, Jaishankar warned that a “new set of problems” could be created between the developing nations and advanced economies if the questions of energy and food security exacerbated by the Ukraine crisis weren’t addressed.
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2022-10-11 14:17:54+00:00
🇵🇰 WATCH: Massive turnout witnessed at Imran Khan's rally on Tuesday
Meanwhile, Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has booked Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders including its chairman & former PM Khan, the party’s financial team and a manager of a private bank in a prohibited funding case, the Dawn newspaper reports.
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2022-10-11 14:10:19+00:00
🇮🇳🇵🇰🦟 Mosquitoes have always been a problem for the tropical climate zone, blamed for spreading dangerous diseases such as dengue & malaria.
To prevent mass infections in the wake of unprecedented floods, Pakistan decided to buy a batch of mosquito nets from its neighbor — despite being engaged in the dispute over Kashmir.
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2022-10-11 13:50:16+00:00
🇮🇳🛺 An auto rickshaw driver was hounded off the road in the Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh state.
The vehicle was trying to maneuver between a veritable cavalcade of luxury cars, but due to the potholes on the road, it fell on its side.
Sadly, no one appeared to be ready to help the poor driver.
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2022-10-11 13:42:01+00:00
👉 Check out Sputnik's infographic showing strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure as of October 11.
▫️Russia carried out strikes using precision-guided weapons against Ukrainian infrastructure intended for military supplies & connectivity in response to Kiev's terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge.
▫️On Tuesday, the Russian armed forces continued to target Ukrainian military command & energy facilities.
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2022-10-11 13:30:30+00:00
🇨🇳🦠New Omicron subvariants detected COVID-19 cases in China rise
Highly infectious new Omicron subvariants B.F.7 and B.A.5.1.7 have been found as China succumbs to a fresh wave of COVID-19 just before the 20th Party Congress.
This highly contagious virus was first detected in north-western China and then the BF.7 subvariant spread to other Chinese provinces. Subvariant B.A.5.1.7 was first detected in the Chinese mainland, the Deputy Director of the local Centers for Disease Prevention and Control said.
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2022-10-11 13:10:51+00:00
🇮🇳🦏A few days ago, Assam's Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma shared a video of a rhinoceros being hit by a truck.
Today, he released an update on the animal's health.
🗯"Our rhino friend, who was recently a victim of an accident in Haldibari, is doing well. It behoves all of us to be kind to animals. Go slow while passing through the paths which some animals can cross," Sarma tweeted.
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2022-10-11 12:57:55+00:00
💬 US supplies of air defense systems to Ukraine "will make the conflict longer and more painful for the Ukrainian side, but will not change our goal setting and the end result." Russia intends to achieve its goals in Ukraine efficiently and effectively, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said
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2022-10-11 12:40:12+00:00
🇮🇳🦁Animals such as lions and tigers fare better in their natural habitat than as domestic pets. These animals are wild and dangerous by nature, so they do not get along well in captivity.
An example of this was seen in this video that took the internet by storm.
In the video, some lion cubs are seen sitting on the trunk of a car. A man standing nearby calmly strokes them both but in an instant the cubs turn on the man and inflict life-threatening wounds.
Watch this video and remember - wild animals are not meant to be kept in captivity.
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2022-10-11 12:18:04+00:00
🇮🇳🚰🍷Water flowing from a hand pump won't come as a surprise.
But when alcohol starts pouring from it, you might be forgiven for thinking that you're in the presence of a miracle such as Jesus performed at the wedding at Cana a couple of millennia ago. That must have been the first thought that crossed the minds of Madhya Pradesh police who noticed that a pump was disbursing illicit liquor.
However, their wonder was short-lived. According to local media reports, when the police swooped down on the city of Guna in connection with the illegal sale of alcohol, they unearthed a surprising combination: the liquor dealer had a tank buried in the ground and a hand pump was installed on top.
A video of the mechanism spouting its intoxicating produce has now gone viral on social media.
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2022-10-11 11:58:58+00:00
🇮🇳🇦🇪After India discussed trading mechanism in national currencies with Russia, it moved on to UAE - its another biggest trading partner - to reach such an agreement.
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2022-10-11 11:55:46+00:00
A video of new missile strikes on Ukrainian military and energy facilities has been released by the Russian Defense Ministry
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2022-10-11 11:20:18+00:00
🇮🇳🇦🇫India has sent a 13th batch of medicine to Afghanistan.
The donation consists of necessary drugs as well as medical and surgical items, according to a tweet posted by Arindam Bagchi, spokesman of India's Ministry of External Affairs.
The goods were delivered to doctors at the Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital in Kabul.
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2022-10-11 11:06:05+00:00
🇵🇰👩🏾🦲Children’s rights activist and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai arrived in Pakistan, her home country, to visit areas severely damaged by the unprecedented monsoon rains.
She met with flood victims and called on the international community to focus “on the impact of floods in Pakistan and reinforce the need for critical humanitarian aid”.
Earlier, the Malala Fund issued a grant to provide flood relief and “protect the wellbeing of girls and young women in Pakistan”.
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2022-10-11 10:26:28+00:00
🇮🇳🐕An army dog was seriously injured during an encounter between security forces and terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district.
Security forces launched a search operation in the Tangpawa area of South Kashmir district late on Sunday night.
During this operation, the army dog Zoom attacked the terrorists and was shot with two bullets. Despite this, he continued his work and heroically killed two terrorists. According to the Indian Army's Chinar Corps, the dog is at present undergoing treatment in Srinagar.
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2022-10-11 10:23:31+00:00
❗️Ukrainian president Zelensky's decision on talks with Russia depends on his mood & instructions from the West, Lavrov added
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2022-10-11 10:12:45+00:00
💬Lavrov says Russia received no serious proposals on talks, calls US statements lies
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2022-10-11 10:09:03+00:00
⚡ Russian Armed Forces continue massive strike on military command and control facilities, energy system of Ukraine - Russian Defense Ministry
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2022-10-11 10:02:02+00:00
⚡️ Separatist politician Altaf Ahmad Shah has died of cancer at the age of 66
🗯 His daughter confirmed to Sputnik that Atlaf's family sought release on humanitarian grounds for the last few weeks to provide him urgent medical attention, and he was eventually transferred Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences, but passed away late Monday night.
Altaf Shah had been serving a sentence in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail for the past five years for colluding with Pakistan to finance militancy in Jammu and Kashmir.
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2022-10-11 09:39:24+00:00
🇵🇰🇱🇰Two South Asian states have been hit by devastating crisis this year. Pakistan has been severely flooded during the monsoon season that led to multiple people's deaths and property damages, and Sri Lanka is currently recovering from the worst crisis in the country's history. That is why these states were included to the list of the most 'debt-vulnerable' nations, according to the UN.
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2022-10-11 09:28:01+00:00
🇮🇳🗻Disaster strikes as two trekkers in 10-member group are taken ill on Kedarnath-Ransi track.
The group raised the alarm when two of their number fell severely ill on their return from their hike.
The State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) was immediately dispatched to the site of the emergency which was about 6km from Kedarnath and all the harder to reach because it was icy rocks. The SDRF saved only one of the hikers, and the other one died.
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2022-10-11 09:06:02+00:00
🌐🤝CICA's 30th anniversary to be used to convert forum into fully fledged international organization, says executive director
▪️In 30 years, CICA (Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia) has travelled far, having gone from being an idea to evolving into a de facto international organization nurturing cooperation on a vast continent. This is why it has been decided to use the summit as an opportunity to start the process of officially transforming the forum in Kazakhstan into an international organization, CICA’s executive director said.
▪️CICA unites 27 countries in the region, including Russia, India and more than 90 percent of Asia. It was created by Kazakhstan’s first president Nursultan Nazarbayev in 1992 to ensure peace, security and stability in Asia.
▪️It was reported earlier that Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif would attend the meeting. Prime Minister Modi has also been invited, but there has been no official confirmation from the Indian side.
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2022-10-11 08:58:55+00:00
⚡️Azerbaijan, Armenia reached agreements on fundamental points of peace treaty, Сavusoglu says
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2022-10-11 08:56:00+00:00
❗️Moscow urges that topic of nuclear threat is not artificially inflated - Lavrov
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2022-10-11 08:49:02+00:00
💰📈Rupee gains 6 paise against the US dollar closing at 82.34.
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2022-10-11 08:46:14+00:00
💬West needs to talk to Russia, ceasefire agreements cannot be reached without dialogue with Moscow - Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu
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2022-10-11 08:32:19+00:00
️⚡️ New explosions in Odessa, Rovno and Vinnitsa regions are reported by Ukrainian media
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2022-10-11 08:21:09+00:00
#Sputnik_reminder
🌐👨👧👧Today is the annual International Day of the Girl Child
🔸To ensure girls’ human rights and commemorate all the challenges they have faced, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution to make 11 October International Girl Child Day.
🔸The main purpose of the day is the empowerment of girls, especially in Asian countries. For instance, in certain countries, once a girl reaches menstruation she is considered a source of income and can be married off for a financial consideration.
🔸The day also aims to redress the imbalance between the sexes. The UN’s data for 2020 showed that India was the only country where more girls than boys below the age of one died. Fortunately, female infant mortality has steadily declined between 2015 and 2020 which has resulted in greater equality in the ratio of the sexes.
🔸The Indian government has launched several programs for the advancement of girls, including the ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ initiative.
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2022-10-11 08:18:35+00:00
⚡️ New explosions in Krivoy Rog are reported by Ukrainian media
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2022-10-11 08:03:09+00:00
⚡️ New explosions reported in Zaporozhye, Nikolayev region
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2022-10-11 07:39:07+00:00
📹WATCH footage of the aftermaths of bombing of the Ladyzhinskaya TTP in Vinnitsa region, circulating on social media.
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2022-10-11 07:31:53+00:00
🇮🇳⚖️The Chief Justice of India, Uday Umesh Lalit, handed his successor Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud a letter on Tuesday at 10:15am IST (4:45am GMT) designating him as the next CJI.
The letter was handed over in the presence of the other Supreme Court judges. Justice Lalit is the 49th Chief Justice of India, and was sworn in on 27 August. After he leaves his office on 8 November, Justice Chandrachud will take charge as the 50th CJI on 9 November and have a tenure of more than two years.
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2022-10-11 06:56:15+00:00
⚡️Multiple explosions are reported in Khmelnitskiy and Kiev regions
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2022-10-11 06:37:05+00:00
⚡️ Explosions in Rovno and Krivoy Rog are reported by Ukrainian media
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2022-10-11 06:16:42+00:00
⚡️Explosions are reported in Ukraine's Vinnitsa and Odessa region, local media says
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2022-10-11 06:03:54+00:00
⚡️ Air raid alert throughout Ukraine reported by Ukrainian media
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2022-10-11 05:48:21+00:00
🔸India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is on an official six-day visit to the US to attend the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. She will participate in the meeting for G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors today.
🔸The cremation of India's socialist leader and former defense minister Mulayam Singh Yadav will take place today with full state honors in Saifai, his native village in the Etawah district of Uttar Pradesh state, at 3pm IST (9:30am GMT).
🔸Section 144 - the Act prohibiting citizens from gathering in public - has been ordered and police deployed in the Mominpur area of West Bengal after fighting broke out between people from two different communities on 9 October.
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2022-10-11 05:34:57+00:00
⚡️ Vinnytsia region's governor has reported drone attack on Ladyzhynskaya TPP - Ukrainian media
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2022-10-11 05:07:42+00:00
⚡️ Air alert reported in Kiev by Ukrainian media
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2022-10-11 04:43:58+00:00
🇮🇳🦠India reports 1,957 new Covid-19 cases.
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2022-10-10 16:03:45+00:00
Ukrainian neo-Nazis raped a girl in Krasny Liman, after which she became mentally ill, a fighter from the Bars volunteer battalion told Sputnik
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2022-10-10 15:28:01+00:00
🇵🇰 📍Pakistan's Jacobabad was once famous for having the world's oldest camel fighting competition held every February. But now, it is flooded to such an extent that some parts still remain underwater, with more than 40,000 people reportedly living in temporary shelters, waiting for rescue.
💬 Sputnik got in touch with businessman and relief work volunteer Momin Zahur, who together with his wife and family traveled to Jacobabad from Lahore. They have been working hard for the past few months, aiding the flood victims.
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2022-10-10 15:03:01+00:00
🇮🇳🚫"Ten women accused Sajid Khan of sexual harassment during the #MeToo movement. All these complaints show the disgusting mentality of Sajid," the head of Delhi's Commission for Women, Swati Maliwal, revealed on Twitter on Monday. "Now this man has been given a place in Bigg Boss, which is wrong. I have written to Anurag Thakur to have Sajid Khan removed from this show."
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2022-10-10 14:44:01+00:00
🇮🇳🚰After India was rated the second most polluted country, even animals started to show environmental awareness.
In a bid to go green, this monkey closes the tap immediately after drinking water not to let it go waste.
🗯“The power of a tap is that it can trap,” the IFS officer, who published the video, wrote in the accompanying tweet.
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2022-10-10 14:42:06+00:00
❗️ New explosions reported in Ukrainian city of Kremenchug, Poltava region
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2022-10-10 14:31:01+00:00
🇮🇳🔮India has always been famous for its people affection to astrology as a way to predict future and help them make decisions on significant matters.
Today, Indians turn to pundits not only for personal queries, but also for political ones.
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2022-10-10 14:21:01+00:00
🌐💰📈The International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates the impact of higher import costs for food for developing countries at $9 billion shortfall on their balance of payment in 2022-2023, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Monday.
🗯"We took specifically to heart the issue of food. Why? Because you die when food is not available. This is not a trivial question. And we identified about $9 billion shortfall in terms of balance of payment coverage for this only, and now we are looking, of course, into the impact of energy on developing countries," she said during a joint discussion with head of World Bank.
She added that recession threatens countries that together account for one-third of global GDP, and global losses from the economic slowdown will reach $4 trillion by 2026.
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2022-10-10 14:09:01+00:00
🇮🇳🍷The ED has conducted three rounds of raids in various parts of the country as part of its money laundering probe into alleged irregularities in the Delhi government’s now-rolled-back liquor policy. In the past one, Indian authorities arrest a consultant in connection with Delhi’s botched liquor policy.
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2022-10-10 13:51:01+00:00
Map showing the main targets of the attack on Ukrainian infrastructure
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2022-10-10 13:42:42+00:00
🇮🇳Indian Embassy in Kiev has issued advisory to all Indian nationals in Ukraine.
Indians are advised to avoid all non-essential travel into and within Ukraine, requesting to inform the Embassy of the status of their presence in Ukraine so that the Embassy could reach out to them.
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2022-10-10 13:36:16+00:00
🇷🇺✈️💐The first Aeroflot flight has arrived in Sri Lanka after four months of suspension.
The cabin crew was welcomed with flowers and dancing.
👉Back in June, Aeroflot Airbus A330-300 flight from Colombo to Moscow was detained at the request of a leasing company. Later, however, Sri Lanka Transport Minister apologized for the incident, calling it a terrible mistake.
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2022-10-10 13:31:17+00:00
🇮🇳🗯“While Pakistan continues to internationalize the issue despite clear agreements in the past to discuss all issues bilaterally, New Delhi has always stuck to the bilateral track despite the fact that whole of Jammu and Kashmir is an integral and inalienable part of India,” Ambassador Anil Trigunayat, a distinguished fellow at the New Delhi-based think tank Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), told Sputnik, commenting on Pakistan saying that India is "increasingly isolated" concerning the Kashmir issue.
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2022-10-10 13:28:02+00:00
🇵🇰🎥 A Sputnik correspondent has shared videos of the aftermath of terrible floods in Pakistan.
📍These were recorded in the district of Jacobabad in Southern Sindh, where thousands of people are now homeless and sleeping in tents along the main roads.
Children are malnourished, women are sick, and there is very little help for them. People are sitting with their animals, waiting for help and rescue.
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2022-10-10 12:56:13+00:00
❗️📈The risks of recession have increased as a third of the world economy has been in decline for at least two quarters, the International Monetary Fund said.
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2022-10-10 12:50:19+00:00
🇮🇳🇨🇭Switzerland has provided details of the fourth set of bank accounts belonging to nationals and organizations as part of an annual automatic information exchange.
Indian authorities said that such details help unveil cases of multiple accounts associated with some individuals, corporations and trusts. The information can be used in investigations into tax evasion, money laundering and terrorism funding.
This year five new participants join the exchange procedure - Albania, Brunei, Nigeria, Peru and Turkey.
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2022-10-10 12:40:15+00:00
🇮🇳💰📲In a bid to help those who are in need, an Indian teenager has created an application that allows seamless connection of mass donors (individual donors or restaurants/stores/groups) with operating social NGOs or institutions to enable global donations.
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2022-10-10 12:37:28+00:00
🌐💰📈The price of wheat is rising rapidly on the Chicago stock exchange as a result of the Ukraine crisis - increasing geopolitical tensions have sown doubt among investors that Ukrainian grain will be able to be exported.
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2022-10-10 12:28:30+00:00
Rush in demand for gasoline and groceries reported by Ukrainian media: queues at gas stations and empty shelves in stores can be seen in videos
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2022-10-10 12:17:44+00:00
⚡️Air alert announced again in Kiev by the authorities
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2022-10-10 12:01:30+00:00
🇮🇳🎤#Aga_Syed_Ruhullah told Sputnik how he believes Kashmir will develop what with the dramatic transformation the world is going through, and he added that western powers are now in decline.
Ruhullah said it was a pity that at present "the international community is busy with bigger and bigger issues".
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2022-10-10 11:50:18+00:00
🇮🇳🗯“The western countries didn’t supply weapons to India and in fact considered the military dictatorship next to us as a preferred partner,” Jaishankar said in response to a question during a joint press conference with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong in Canberra on Monday, slamming the West for supplying weapons to Pakistan.
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2022-10-10 11:20:15+00:00
🇮🇳🎤 #Aga_Syed_Ruhullah was a minister in the coalition government of the Indian National Congress and National Conference in Jammu and Kashmir from 2008 to 2014.
He is one of the most prominent Shia Muslim politicians in Kashmir and has been very vocal on political developments in the region in recent years.
Aga Syed Ruhullah commented on what the locals regard as priorities given the present regional and national developments. The comment comes after Home Minister Amit Shah said during his recent visit to Kashmir that state elections would be held soon.
According to him, people are most interested in topics such as drains, roads, electricity, and so on.
Check out an exclusive interview in two parts!
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2022-10-10 10:53:32+00:00
⚡️ 📹 Russia’s MoD has published footage showing missiles being launched at Ukrainian objects of military command, communications and energy.
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2022-10-10 10:40:52+00:00
📹WATCH President Putin speak on the Ukrainian gov't conducting acts of terrorism
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2022-10-10 10:33:31+00:00
❗️All designated objects in Ukraine have been hit, the goal is achieved - Russian MoD said
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2022-10-10 10:18:13+00:00
👉 Check out key points from President Putin during today's meeting with Russia's security council:
🔹Ukraine’s security service (SBU) has already committed 3 terrorist attacks against the Kursk nuclear power plant;
🔹The Kiev regime attempted to blow up Turkstream;
🔹 Russia is not allowed to investigate the explosions on Nord Streams;
🔹If Kiev continues terrorist attacks against Russia, Moscow’s response will be tough.
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2022-10-10 10:08:19+00:00
⚡️Putin says massive strike with precision-guided weapons on Ukrainian infrastructure was carried out on Monday morning
🔺 The strikes targeted objects of military administration of Ukraine, communications & energy, he added.
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2022-10-10 10:03:38+00:00
⚡️⚡️ Kiev regime has been using terrorist methods for a long time, President Putin says in connection with the recent terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge
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2022-10-10 09:51:38+00:00
⚡️ G7 leaders to discuss situation in Ukraine during online meeting with Zelensky on Tuesday - Berlin
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2022-10-10 09:45:50+00:00
🇮🇳🇦🇪🚢Indian ships of the First Training Squadron, INS Tir and INS Sujata, along with Coast Guard Ship Sarathi, entered Port Rashid in Dubai as they are taking part in the long range training deployment.
The ships were received by the Defense Attache at the Embassy of India and the officials of the UAE Navy.
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2022-10-10 09:03:21+00:00
❗️Lukashenko says Minsk was warned about impending strike on Belarus from territory of Ukraine through unofficial channels
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2022-10-10 08:58:42+00:00
⚡️⚡️ Russia's President Putin and Belarus' President Lukashenko agree to deploy a joint regional group of troops — report
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2022-10-10 08:42:46+00:00
🇮🇳🌧At least nine people are dead in rain-related incidents in Uttar Pradesh. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the state registered 22.5 mm of rainfall on Sunday, a jump of 2,396 percent for a single day average.
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2022-10-10 08:28:51+00:00
🇮🇳🙏🏾Mulayam Singh Yadav, who passed away today, was the founder of the Samajvadi Party (Socialist Party) and the former Defense Minister of India.
▪️Being a long-serving member of parliament, he represented the Manipuri district in Lok Sabha (Lower house).
▪️Born in 1939, Mulayam Singh Yadav holds three degreed in political science - B.A. from Karm Kshetra Post Graduate College in Etawah,Uttar Pradesh, a B.T. (bachelor’s in technology) from A. K. College in Shikohabad, Uttar Pradesh, and an M.A. from B. R. College of Agra University.
▪️In the 1980s, he hit headlines by leading protests for backward classes, where he advocated for welfare schemes and reservations for them. Yadav gained immense popularity as a socialist leader among people at that time, later people started calling him Netaji (the admired leader).
▪️In 1992, he founded his Samajwadi Party. Later, he also served as the Defense Minister between 1996 and 1998.
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2022-10-10 08:14:22+00:00
⚡️Mass launch of Russian missiles has been reportedly registered
Earlier, explosions were reported in Krivoy Rog and Odessa.
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2022-10-10 08:01:52+00:00
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🌐🧠💆🏾♀️Today world nations celebrate World Mental Health Day
▪️World Health Day was first inaugurated 30 years ago on 10 October 1992 at the instigation of the World Federation for Mental Health (an organization founded in 1948). The day is meant to raise public awareness of mental disorders, how treat and prevent them, and how to improve mental health.
▪️Thanks to the plethora of ancient spiritual disciplines that are a way of life in India, the country has made a huge contribution to the mental health of millions of people all over the world. Yoga and meditation are recommended by the UN as the best way to deal with stress and mental health problems.
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2022-10-10 07:33:30+00:00
⚡️Air defenses activated in Odessa, Ukrainian media report
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2022-10-10 07:27:02+00:00
🇮🇳🦏A rhino was struck by a truck on the road in Haldibari Animal Corridor in Assam.
The driver of the truck was fined for his negligence to the wild animal. Luckily, the rhino survived, suffering minor injuries, according to social media reports.
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2022-10-10 07:14:40+00:00
⚡️Explosion reportedly heard in Russia's Belgorod
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2022-10-10 07:09:58+00:00
🇮🇳🇷🇺India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar praised defense ties with Russia during his address in Canberra, Australia
🗯“Our military supplies grew for various reasons - including the fact that for decades the West would not provide weapons to India, preferring in fact to be in partnership with the military dictatorship next to us. In international politics, we make judgments which will serve our future interests and present situation… We have a long-standing relationship with Russia, and this has served our interests well. We have a substantial supply of Soviet and Russian-origin weapons,” Jaishankar said.
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2022-10-10 07:00:09+00:00
⚡️Air alert was declared across Ukraine. New explosions were reported in Kiev, Lvov and Dnepropetrovsk, as well as in Kharkov and Rovenskaya region, Ukrainian media reports.
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2022-10-10 06:54:10+00:00
⚡️Attacks on energy infrastructure facilities occurred in Lvov region, Ukrainian media report
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2022-10-10 06:32:14+00:00
📹Netizens have shared a footage of the explosions in Kiev
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2022-10-10 06:27:36+00:00
⚡️📹Footage from the site of the explosions in Dnepr
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2022-10-10 06:21:39+00:00
⚡️Explosions were also reported in Lvov. Blasts in Kiev are continuing, according to Ukrainian media.
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2022-10-10 06:15:53+00:00
⚡️Ukrainian media report explosions in Ternopol and Khmelnitskiy in the west of the country
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2022-10-10 06:12:40+00:00
⚡️ ️Ukrainian media report dozens of missiles flying to different regions of the country
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2022-10-10 06:12:34+00:00
⚡️ Ukrainian media report explosions in Zhytomir and Kiev regions; the mayor of the city reported explosions in Dnepropetrovsk
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2022-10-10 06:09:46+00:00
⚡️ Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs’s official said that one of the missiles that hit Kiev fell on Vladimirskaya Street, where the SBU office is located, stressing the nearby location of Zelensky's office
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2022-10-10 06:01:45+00:00
⚡️📸 Footage from the scene
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2022-10-10 06:01:21+00:00
❗️ Kiev mayor, Vitaliy Klitschko, has confirmed the blasts
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2022-10-10 05:47:47+00:00
⚡️Multiple explosions were reported in the center of Kiev - Ukrainian media
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2022-10-10 05:46:34+00:00
🔸The country’s capital Delhi and other parts of the country have been deluged by heavy showers for the past 72 hours. Because of a rain alert from the Meteorological Department, schools in Noida and several other regions in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh, are closed today.
🔸India’s PM Narendra Modi will open a number of infrastructure projects in the cities of Bharuch and Jamnagar in India's western state of Gujarat. He will also open Modi Shaikshanik Sankul, a school in Ahmedabad for children with special needs.
🔸India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar received "a Tiranga welcome” in Australia's capital Canberra on Monday where he is holding talks with the country’s top leaders. This is the second time he has visited Australia this year.
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2022-10-10 05:16:35+00:00
⚡️The leader of the Samajwadi Party and the former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Mulayam Singh Yadav has passed away.
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2022-10-10 05:15:36+00:00
🇮🇳🦠India reports 2,424 new Covid-19 cases.
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2022-10-09 15:10:37+00:00
💬 The pledge that was made by people at the event was: “I will never hold Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh (Lord Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva) as gods and worship them. I will neither hold Ram and Krishna as God nor worship them ever. I will not believe in or worship Gauri (Goddess Parvati), Ganapti (Lord Ganesha) or any other deity of the Hindu religion.”
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2022-10-09 14:34:46+00:00
🇮🇳 WATCH: 3D projection light and sound show is currently underway at Surya Mandir in Modhera, Gujarat, where India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is present.
🌞 Earlier, the prime minister has officially declared that Modhera is India's first solar-powered village.
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2022-10-09 14:06:49+00:00
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of the hidden gaseous "bone" structure of a distant galaxy.
The galaxy, named IC 5332, is more than 29 million light-years away and is almost face-on with respect to Earth which means that its spiral arms can be seen clearly.
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2022-10-09 13:31:16+00:00
🇮🇳🚫🇨🇦 The reports also added that next week, the Indian Embassy in Ottawa would also raise its strong concerns with Global Affairs Canada.
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2022-10-09 12:59:16+00:00
⚡️🇵🇰 A massive fire breaks out in the Centaurus Mall in Islamabad, Indian media said. Further details are awaited.
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2022-10-09 12:40:37+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇳 Russia’s embassy in India shared some pictures of the Russian-Indian autumn festival which traditionally takes place in the museum complex of the Roerich estate in Kullu Valley in Naggar, Himachal Pradesh state.
🍁 Russia's Ambassador to India, Denis Alipov, took part in the event.
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2022-10-09 12:15:13+00:00
⚡️⚡️ Putin will hold a meeting with members of the Security Council on Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Sputnik
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2022-10-09 10:43:06+00:00
❗️In a statement issued on Saturday, Arindam Bagchi, the spokesman at the Ministry of External Affairs, said: "All serious and conscientious members of the global community have a role and responsibility to call out international terrorism, especially of a cross-border nature."
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2022-10-09 09:44:46+00:00
🐦 WATCH: A video showing a small adorable bird building a nest for her future chicks is circulating on social media.
Netizens were amused by this accelerated version of building a nest and called the bird
"a hard-working mommy".
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2022-10-09 08:14:25+00:00
📍The Muslim leader was referring to RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's statement that population imbalance leads to changes in geographical boundaries, adding that population control and religion-based population balance is an important subject that can no longer be ignored.
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2022-10-09 06:50:30+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇳 Russia’s sambo wrestlers have held a master class and a seminar in Mumbai as part of the 'Sambo for Friendship' conference, organized by the Indian side to promote the sport - which originally came from Russia - in India.
💪 According to the athletes, Indians have an aptitude for this sport and have every chance to take part in world championships. "We traveled to different cities in India, we were able to see different guys. They are all very interested and focused, and they enjoy what they do. When there is such a desire, any goal can be achieved," the athletes said.
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2022-10-09 06:15:26+00:00
❄️ Indian media has shared a video of Gurudwara Shri Hemkund Sahib covered in snow after a fresh fall.
🏔 At 14,000 feet, Hemkund Sahib is said to be the highest gurdwara in the world which is what gives it its great appeal, especially for Sikh pilgrims.
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2022-10-09 05:37:59+00:00
🔸PM Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone today and officially declare that Modhera, a village in Gujarat's Mehsana district, is India's first solar-powered village. The move is expected to accelerate the roll-out of renewable energy all around India.
🔸India's EAM S. Jaishankar addressed staff at the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) on 2022's IFS Day and said that in a rapidly changing world, their efforts to advance India’s interests abroad are greatly appreciated. He also said he was confident that the IFS will go from strength to strength in the coming years.
🔸Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning reacted to recent remarks by her Indian counterpart Arindam Bagchi, who said that the human rights of the people of Xinjiang should be respected. In response, Mao said that "the human rights of people of all ethnic backgrounds in Xinjiang are protected to the greatest extent possible".
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2022-10-09 05:03:50+00:00
🇮🇳🦠 India reports 2,756 new Covid-19 cases.
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2022-10-08 15:31:26+00:00
📹Footage of the combat work done by the Uragan MLRS during the special operation in Ukraine (Russian MoD video)
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2022-10-08 14:20:41+00:00
📍 Earlier this week, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) politician Sushil Kumar Modi said that whoever becomes the party leader will be a “puppet” of the Gandhi family.
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2022-10-08 13:37:23+00:00
❗️🇷🇺 Sergei Surovikin has been appointed as new commander of the Joint Group of Forces in the area of the special military operation, Russia’s MoD said.
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2022-10-08 13:23:48+00:00
❗️Crimea's head Aksenov: Vehicles have resumed movement across the Crimean Bridge, it is now open to cars and buses with a full inspection procedure
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2022-10-08 13:13:01+00:00
🥱 Stories about the smuggling and trafficking of weapons or narcotics are old hat - day after day, customs officials apprehend arrivals who are trying to smuggle into the country anything from cocaine to Kalashnikovs.
📦 So, it came as a refreshing surprise for staff at India’s Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) to discover 665 exotic animals in an import consignment at an Air Cargo Complex in Mumbai.
🦎🐍🐢 A whole gamut of exotic species - such as pythons, lizards, turtles, and iguanas - were reportedly found locked in containers with fish. The alleged exotic-animal runners have been detained and an investigation is now underway.
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2022-10-08 12:39:04+00:00
⚡️🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳 Russia's trade with China and India is increasing due to a growing number of goods categories, despite Western sanctions against Russia, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
🤝 "Our trade with China for eight months increased by a third, the trade with India for six months grew by 120%," Lavrov told Russian weekly newspaper 'Argumenty i Fakty'.
📍Commenting on the new sanctions package recently imposed by the EU against Russia, the Russian minister said that Moscow had means to protect its national interests and could use them "if necessary."
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2022-10-08 11:26:01+00:00
🇮🇳 The Indian government has approved the establishment of a new branch in the Indian Air Force, which would unite all weapon system operators under one entity focusing on the operational employment of ground-based and airborne weapon systems, the Indian Ministry of Defense said on Saturday.
📍The new branch would "encompass operators in four specialized streams" of surface-to-surface missiles, surface-to-air missiles, remotely piloted aircraft and weapon system operators in twin and multi-crew aircraft.
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2022-10-08 10:54:55+00:00
⚡️According to preliminary data, three people died as a result of an explosion on the Crimean bridge, Russian Investigative Committee said
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2022-10-08 10:42:22+00:00
🚫🐯 A tiger which killed nine people - four of them in only the past three days - was killed in Bagaha city in India’s state of Bihar, Indian media said.
📍The tiger's death was in accordance with an order issued by the Bihar government because the animal posed a risk to common life.
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2022-10-08 09:56:06+00:00
❗️SPUTNIK EXCLUSIVE | Recalling the initial years of Indian Air Force, which faced three wars between 1962 and 1971, Vijainder Kumar Thakur, former squadron leader of the Indian Air Force, told Sputnik that in the 1962 conflict with China, the IAF was trained to play a decisive role.
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2022-10-08 08:49:05+00:00
⚡️ Kiev Regime's reaction to the destruction of civilian infrastructure proves its terrorist nature, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
❗️Earlier, Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, actually admitted Ukraine's involvement in the explosion on the Crimean bridge, by tweeting that “Crimea, the bridge, the beginning. Everything illegal must be destroyed."
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2022-10-08 08:42:00+00:00
✈️🇮🇳 Indian Air Force unveils new combat uniform as part of the celebrations for Air Force Day in Chandigarh.
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2022-10-08 08:01:35+00:00
⚡️The Kerch Strait ferry line, which connects the Crimean peninsula and Russia's Krasnodar region, has resumed its operation, with the first ferry already en route for cargo loading, and three others in line to depart, the Russian Transport Ministry told Sputnik on Saturday.
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2022-10-08 08:00:57+00:00
🇮🇳✈️ Watch a special video prepared by Sputnik on the occasion of India's 90th Air Force Day!
The video contains a number of details about the history of India’s Air Force as well as on the role 🇷🇺Russia played in it.
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2022-10-08 07:22:41+00:00
❗️UPDATE: Fire on train carrying diesel on Crimean bridge has been put out, Russian Emergency Ministry said.
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2022-10-08 07:22:00+00:00
🇱🇰🇷🇺 Sri Lanka's central bank is considering the possibility of using Russia's Mir payment system on the island, the country's ambassador to Moscow, Janitha Liyanage, told Sputnik.
📍 The embassy emphasized that no agreement about the payment system has been signed yet, but when it is, tourists will be able to deposit money in rubles, and, once in Sri Lanka, will be eligible for cards from the People's Bank (the second-largest bank in Sri Lanka) and use them on the island.
💳 Mir - is a Russian payment system, which became widespread within Russia after Western sanctions targeted Visa and Mastercard.
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2022-10-08 06:56:25+00:00
WATCH: A video from surveillance cameras shows the moment the blast occurred on the Crimean bridge.
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2022-10-08 06:50:15+00:00
⚡️There are no forecasts on how long it will take to repair the Crimean bridge, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
According to the head of Republic of Crimea Sergey Aksenov, one motorway section of the bridge is "visually intact".
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2022-10-08 06:46:09+00:00
❗️Video showing the collapsed motorway of the Crimean bridge
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2022-10-08 06:40:31+00:00
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🇮🇳 Indian Air Force (IAF) celebrating its 90th anniversary
🎉 The Air Force Day was officially launched in 1932 when the IAF was established as an auxiliary branch of the UK's Royal Air Force. The purpose of this day is to raise awareness of the IAF's role in ensuring national security.
✈️ With around 170,000 personnel and 1,500 aircraft, the IAF is the fourth largest air force in the world after the US, Russia, and China. The Tejas and Rafale Indian aircraft are the most advanced in service, both being 4.5-generation jets. The production of a fifth- and sixth-generation platform is underway.
🇮🇳India and 🇷🇺Russia have a long history of cooperation in the field of military aviation. Currently, the main aircraft of the Air Force is the Su-30MKI, developed by the Russian corporation Sukhoi and built under license by the Indian company Hindustan Aeronautics Limited. The IAF is believed to have 272 of these aircraft in service.
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2022-10-08 06:10:27+00:00
🚫 At least 11 were killed and 38 injured after a bus in Maharashtra’s Nashik district was rammed by a truck early on Saturday morning.
Amol Tambe, Nashik's deputy commissioner of police, told reporters that an investigation is underway to determine the exact cause of the subsequent fire.
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2022-10-08 06:01:59+00:00
⚡️⚡️⚡️A cargo vehicle exploded on Crimean Bridge, Russia's National Anti-Terrorism Committee says
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2022-10-08 05:55:34+00:00
🔸Today India celebrates Air Force Day. On this occasion, a special event, attended by IAF chief Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari is underway in Chandigarh.
🔸The US updated its travel advice for India yesterday, urging Americans to exercise increased caution when travelling to the country because of “crime and terrorism”. The message sparked a furore among netizens who pointed out that the US is considerably more dangerous for Indians, as can be seen from the latest news about hate crimes against the Indian community.
🔸Union Minister of State for External Affairs & Culture, Meenakshi Lekhi, has started her four-day official visit to Georgia. After this, she will travel to Kazakhstan, where she will lead the Indian delegation to the 6th Summit meeting of the Conference of Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) on 12 and 13 October.
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2022-10-08 05:34:48+00:00
⚡️Zaporozhye NPP has been disconnected from Ukraine's power system, a local official said.
🚫 The Ukrainian troops have damaged the last high-voltage communication link, which connects the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant (NPP) to Ukraine's power transmission system, Vladimir Rogov, a senior official in the Zaporozhye regional government, told Sputnik on Saturday.
❗️The NPP automatically switched to operation on diesel generators, the official added.
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2022-10-08 05:03:33+00:00
🇮🇳🦠 India reports 2,797 new Covid-19 cases.
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2022-10-07 15:40:51+00:00
📹 Russia’s MoD has published footage showing how the Western Military District’s Mi-35 army aviation helicopter crews continue to destroy AFU armored equipment and military infrastructure facilities
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2022-10-07 15:40:50+00:00
❗️SPUTNIK EXCLUSIVE | While the manufacturers of the four alleged contaminated cough syrups - Maiden Pharmaceutical Limited -, which led to the death of 66 children in Gambia, remained unavailable for comment after frequent follow-ups, several pediatric doctors and pharma experts opened up to Sputnik about the horrific incident.
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2022-10-07 15:20:45+00:00
❗️One of the most important reforms that Tharoor mentioned was to limit the term of office for the party's state chiefs. At present, a state chief can serve multiple terms in office but Tharoor wants to limit this to just one term.
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2022-10-07 14:45:44+00:00
🇵🇰 WATCH: Imran Khan had supporters in stitches after playing a fake audio of Nawaz Sharif at a PTI rally on Friday
Nawaz Sharif was Pakistan's longest serving prime minister who has been in self-imposed exile in London on medical grounds since 2019. He was removed from power in 2017 over corruption allegations, and Khan was elected prime minister the following year.
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2022-10-07 14:20:46+00:00
❗️SPUTNIK EXCLUSIVE | In an interview with Sputnik, a former Indian diplomat has criticized the Biden administration for overlooking India’s concerns regarding terrorism amid an upswing in defense and political ties between the US and Pakistan in recent months.
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2022-10-07 14:00:48+00:00
❗️UPDATE: The death toll in the Uttarkashi avalanche tragedy has risen to 26, Indian media said.
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2022-10-07 13:40:49+00:00
🚫💰However, in what was perhaps one of the biggest drug busts in independent India, heroin worth $2.55 billion was seized from Mundra port in Gujarat last year.
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2022-10-07 13:39:55+00:00
✊🏼🇵🇰 WATCH: Imran Khan spoke during a public rally that took place in his ancestral hometown Mianwali today.
💬 During his powerful speech, he addressed his supporters as well as his enemies, saying that he stands ready to sacrifice his struggle for freedom, therefore he is not afraid of imprisonment.
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2022-10-07 12:56:16+00:00
⚡️ The Reserve Bank of India has issued a concept paper on digital currency, according to which a pilot e-rupee for specific-use cases will be launched in the near future.
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2022-10-07 12:53:28+00:00
🚫🇮🇳 While the exact reason behind the surge is not clear, the cases are getting more & more heartbreaking.
👉🏼 Check out just a few of the most recent cases of hate crimes against Indians living in the US and Canadians, which represent only a small fraction of the total.
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2022-10-07 12:20:52+00:00
WATCH: 🇮🇳India strongly objects to 🇺🇸US Ambassador Donald Blome's three-day visit to Pakistani-administered Kashmir, India’s Ministry of External Affairs Official Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said.
📍On Sunday, American ambassador to Islamabad Donald Blome stirred up a big row in India after he embarked on a trip to Pakistan-administered Kashmir. The unannounced visit came to light after the American embassy in Islamabad tweeted pictures of Blome visiting a historical site near Muzaffarabad, the biggest city in the region.
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2022-10-07 11:50:36+00:00
📉 World food commodity prices have dropped for the sixth month in a row thanks to 6% drop in vegetable oil prices, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) Food Price Index (FFPI), published on Friday, shows.
📍In September, the FFPI was down 1.1% from August. This was due to the significant drop in its component Vegetable Oil Price Index which decreased by 6.6 percent, reaching its lowest level since February 2021.
Contributing factors to this downward trend include heavy inventories of palm oil and stagnant demand for sunflower oil coupled with extra availability as a result of the Black Sea deal to export food commodities from 🇺🇦Ukraine and 🇷🇺Russia.
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2022-10-07 11:13:53+00:00
⚡️ Erdogan expects to meet with Putin in upcoming 3 or 4 days
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2022-10-07 11:13:09+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇳 Russia and India are discussing an increase in supplies of Russian fertilizers to the country, Russia’s Ministry of Industry and Trade said in a statement following a meeting between the Russian-Indian Committee for Bilateral Negotiations on Trade in Fertilizers.
📍The meeting was held between Russia’s Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Mikhail Ivanov and India’s Secretary of the Department of Fertilizers at the Ministry of Chemical Industry and Fertilizers Arun Singhal. Representatives of specialized Russian and Indian companies were also present.
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2022-10-07 10:35:18+00:00
🚫 A fresh row has broken out between the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the BJP after the AAP MLA and Delhi’s Social Welfare minister Rajendra Pal Gautam Wednesday attended a gathering where 10,000 Hindus were reportedly converted to Buddhism.
📍At the event, people were allegedly asked to take an oath denouncing Hindu gods. The BJP has condemned the participation of the AAP minister, calling it an insult to Hinduism and Buddhism.
💬 "AAP ministers are attempting to incite riots. The minister should immediately be removed from the party. We're submitting a complaint against him," BJP parliamentarian Manoj Tiwari tweeted.
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2022-10-07 09:58:01+00:00
🇮🇳✊🏼 India has the potential to lead the fourth industrial revolution, PM Modi says
💬 "Due to various factors, India may have missed being a part of earlier industrial revolutions. But India has the potential to lead Industry 4.0, because, for the first time in recent history, we have many different factors like demography, demand and decisive governance coming together," he said in his message to the conference on Industry 4.0.
The prime minister also added that the government has worked out the reforms and incentives to make India a tech-powered manufacturing hub of the world.
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2022-10-07 09:31:22+00:00
🥃 The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is searching premises linked to liquor companies, distributors and supply chain networks in several locations of these states.
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2022-10-07 09:22:46+00:00
🇵🇰 WATCH: Sputnik obtained exclusive videos from Shahzaman K Niazi in Mianwali, showing preparations in full swing for Imran Khan's rally today.
📍PTI Chairman Tehreek-e-Insaf and former Pakistani PM Imran Khan is traveling to his native Mianwali for a one-day visit on Friday, where he will be addressing a grand 'Jalsai' (rally).
According to PTI supporters, Khan is expected to give guidelines to the youth to prepare and participate in the Long March, the exact date of which is still secret.
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2022-10-07 08:57:30+00:00
⚡️ 🇷🇺 🇹🇷 President Putin and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had a telephone conversation where they discussed Ukraine and bilateral relations,according to the statement made by the office of the Turkish President.
▪️ Erdogan also reiterated Ankara's readiness "to do their part for the peaceful resolution of the Ukraine issue in a way that would benefit everyone," the statement adds.
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2022-10-07 08:09:01+00:00
#Sputnik_reminder
☁️ The world celebrates Cotton Day
🌐 The initiative of World Cotton Day was born in 2019, when four cotton producers in sub-Saharan Africa– Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali, known as the Cotton Four -proposed to the World Trade Organization that a World Cotton Day be celebrated on October 7.
🧶 This versatile plant is mainly used in the textile industry, but it's also used in the medical sector, edible oils, animal feed and bookbinding. It is also considered to be the main source of "poverty alleviation" for the least developed countries.
📈 India is the second-largest cotton producer in the world, producing around 6 million metric tons per year. Moreover, cotton has its place in Indian history.
🇮🇳🇬🇧 Indian cotton was the gasoline for the Industrial Revolution in Britain as well as an accelerator of railway projects in India. The country has been exporting cotton and textiles to Europe since the 16th century, which made it a desirable target for British colonizers.
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2022-10-07 07:50:38+00:00
🇷🇺 Check out key statements from Russia's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov today:
🔹 Russia warns 🇺🇸 the US against recklessly supporting Ukraine & involvement in the conflict; Washington & the EU continue to 'pump up' Kiev with weapons;
🔹 Russia is against imposing restrictions on the use of 🛢 fossil fuels, there should be a balance between efforts to combat climate change and the aims of social & economic developments;
🔹 Moscow is interested in building up cooperation with 🇨🇳 China in the energy sector, including nuclear power.
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2022-10-07 07:23:01+00:00
🇵🇰 The Sharif gov’t has a plan ready, under which the police have been given a green light to put former PM Imran Khan under house arrest at his Banigala residence following the announcement of the ‘Real Freedom March', Pakistan's Dawn newspaper reports, citing police sources.
According to the sources, the government has also a “Plan B” to arrest the PTI chairman before he enters Islamabad in case he launches his march from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa or Punjab.
The officials also reportedly claimed that the police team in charge of Khan’s security would play a crucial role in the arrest of the former premier.
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2022-10-07 07:17:26+00:00
⚡️⚡️ Ukraine creates risks associated with the use of weapons of mass destruction, this is evidenced by Zelensky's statement on a "preventive strike" on Russia — Russian FM Lavrov
👉 Speaking at Australia's Lowy Institute via a video link, Zelensky said that NATO should launch "preemptive" strikes on Russia rather than "waiting" for Russia to attack. Commenting on the remark, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Sputnik that this is nothing but a call to start a world war.
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2022-10-07 06:57:58+00:00
🇱🇰⚖️ Sri Lanka’s top court has permitted proceedings against the country’s former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Transparency International Sri Lanka said on Friday.
❗️Furthermore, proceedings have been allowed against Sri Lanka’s former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, its former finance minister, and two of its former central bank governors.
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2022-10-07 06:22:03+00:00
🙏🏼🇮🇳 Veteran Indian actor Arun Bali passed away on Friday morning at the age of 79 due to a prolonged illness.
The actor was reportedly suffering from a rare neurological disease, Myasthenia Gravis, that causes weakness in the skeletal muscles. He stared in numerous films such as 3 Idiots (2009), PK (2014), Airlift (2016), Kedarnath (2018), and Panipat (2019) and many others. The funeral is set to take place on Saturday.
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2022-10-07 06:05:39+00:00
🏠🐆 'Hey, can I live in your house?'
A family from Satara, Maharashtra left their house to take part in a Durga idol immersion, and were probably praying for a new friend, as the family found a cheetah cub in one of their rooms when they returned.
But the leopard was probably not the friend the family had asked for, so they called a forest department team, who captured the animal.
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2022-10-07 05:36:36+00:00
🔸The death toll in the Uttarkashi avalanche tragedy has risen to 19. Search and rescue operations to find the missing people are underway.
🔸India has abstained from voting on a draft resolution in the UN Human Rights Council to hold a debate on the plight of the Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang region.
🔸India’s Minister of State for External Affairs & Parliamentary Affairs V. Muraleedharan met with UN General Assembly President Csaba Kőrösi in New York, stressing the need to move forward the Inter-Governmental Negotiation process to ensure a Security Council that reflects 21st-century realities.
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2022-10-07 05:01:10+00:00
🇮🇳🦠 India reports 1,997 new Covid-19 cases.
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2022-10-06 16:03:02+00:00
📹 Russia's MoD has published a video depicting how Russian reconnaissance units practice operating behind a mock enemy line as part of the Search 2022 special exercise in Kazakhstan.
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2022-10-06 15:33:01+00:00
📹 Russia’s MoD published footage showing the Western Military District’s air defence units.
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2022-10-06 14:44:14+00:00
❗️💰📈The World Bank slashed India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast to 6.5 percent on Thursday against its June estimate of 7.5 percent for the current financial year ending March 2023.
This is the third revision by the World Bank since April, when it downgraded the growth projection from 8.7 percent to 8 percent for the current financial year.
However, the multilateral institution expressed satisfaction over a recovery in exports and the services sector, which is stronger than the global average. The bank said that India's ample foreign reserves served as a buffer to external shocks.
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2022-10-06 14:38:32+00:00
⚡️ US President Biden says it "remains to be seen" whether he will meet President Putin at the upcoming G20
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2022-10-06 14:26:01+00:00
🇱🇰The Paris Club, an informal group comprising officials from 23 advanced economies or creditor nations, took to #NewDelhi and #Beijing to help Sri Lanka restructure its debt. The request was made in August, with a response still awaited, according to the report.
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2022-10-06 14:13:01+00:00
🇮🇳🚀🛰 NewSpace India Ltd (NSIL) will launch UK-based satellite broadband provider OneWeb’s satellite constellations into space later this month, the Indian Space Research Organisation (SIRO) said on Thursday.
The newly established public sector firm will use its Launch Vehicle Mark 3 (LVM3), the domestically designed and developed three-stage medium-lift vehicle, to launch 36 OneWeb satellites into low-Earth orbit from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh's Sriharikota.
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2022-10-06 14:03:47+00:00
🇮🇳❌Three people are dead and eight more sick after consuming food in a private orphanage.
An investigation is underway with the exact cause still to be identified.
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has taken cognizance of the incident. A case was registered against the orphanage administration, local authorities said.
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2022-10-06 13:53:41+00:00
🇮🇳🗳A Sputnik correspondent spoke to Shantanu Gupta - a political analyst with a special focus on India's federally ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He told Sputnik about the principal challenges Indian's ruling party is to face at the 2024 elections.
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2022-10-06 13:18:07+00:00
🇮🇳🏆📖Amid the upcoming Nobel Prize for literature announcement, India commemorates Tagore family as its the most prominent member, Rabindranath Tagore, was the first non-European to win the award.
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2022-10-06 13:05:06+00:00
📹 🇦🇲 🇹🇷 WATCH footage showing the first-ever meeting between the leaders of Turkey and Armenia.
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2022-10-06 12:47:01+00:00
🇮🇳🐯An IFS officer has shared a video of a tiger approaching people to cross the road in Panna Tiger Reserve.
He gave a warning that these big cats never approach humans and avoid being chased. Tigers are highly unpredictable and hence very dangerous. They can appear very aggressive if you follow them to take a photo or video as they consider your actions as a threat.
Notwithstanding this fact, many Indians risk their lives trying to take a photo of a tiger of even a selfie with it.
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2022-10-06 12:38:57+00:00
🌐🇮🇩Indonesia is willing to join BRICS, Russia's Federation Council Chairman Valentina Matvienko said on Thursday.
The statement comes after Matvienko held a meeting with Indonesian President Joko Widodo on the sidelines of the G20 summit.
She confirmed that Indonesia plans to enhance cooperation with Russia and to implement the agreements that were reached during the talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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2022-10-06 12:17:01+00:00
🛢 Russia to sell oil to countries that honor free market principles
The Russian foreign ministry on Thursday slammed the EU's decision to cap prices of Russian oil exports to third countries and vowed to respond by reorienting oil exports to countries that are ready to cooperate with Russia under normal terms.
"The Group of 7’s plan to set a voluntary price ceiling on oil again proves that the principles of a market economy are alien to Brussels and Washington," the ministry noted.
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2022-10-06 11:59:14+00:00
🇱🇰Sri Lanka has announced its restructured welfare program that will benefit about 3.1mln families, the President's Media Division (PMD) announced.
The program will provide help to the most vulnerable families. The applications have to be registered before October 15.
The PMD also said that the economic situation in the country will improve next year.
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2022-10-06 11:49:01+00:00
🗯"I will fully cooperate in all stages of investigation and will fight legal battle to prove my innocence. Let the justice prevail," Nepal Cricket Team’s former skipper Sandeep Lamichhane wrote on his Twitter after being accused of raping an underage girl.
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2022-10-06 11:19:55+00:00
🎥 WATCH footage of moments before the avalanche struck a team of at least 41 mountaineers in Uttarakhand at a height of 17,000 feet on October 4.
9 bodies have been retrieved so far, while 27 mountaineers are still missing.
The video was reportedly recovered from the phone of one of the survivors.
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2022-10-06 11:12:44+00:00
🇮🇳⚠️Indian man from Bihar's Darbhanga was arrested for making death calls to the Ambani family.
According to the local police, the accused was identified as Rakesh Kumar Mishra who is unemployed.
The man also threatened to blow up Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital.
Rakesh Kumar Mishra has already been booked under sections 506(2) and 507 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). He has not revealed his motive.
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2022-10-06 11:04:01+00:00
🇮🇳🚁🛩 As India's Air Force approaching 90 years, preparations are in full swing for the aerial symphony over Sukhna Lake, Chandigarh, on Saturday.
On its 90th anniversary, the IAF is expected to unveil new "combat uniform" and 80 aircrafts will fly past on the foundation day, according to media reports.
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2022-10-06 10:35:17+00:00
🇮🇳WATCH: Farmers stage a protest against the acquisition of of 1,810 acres of land in three villages in Manesar, Haryana at a price which is several times lower that the market price. They have been protesting since last month, demanding that they wanted fair compensation.
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2022-10-06 10:16:56+00:00
🇵🇰Pakistan's former PM Imran Khan has made the final call for the “jihad against the oppression”, as he calls his rally to target the current government.
The former prime minister expects at least 6,000 party members from each district of Punjab to join the march. He has not revealed the exact date and place of the event so far.
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2022-10-06 10:15:12+00:00
🇮🇳🚄The Vande Bharat Express train, running between Mumbai Central railway station and Gandhinagar, Gurajat, suffered an accident when a herd of buffaloes crossed the railroad in front of it.
The front part of the engine was damaged, a Western Railway official said.
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2022-10-06 10:04:01+00:00
🇮🇳After the "Rashtrapatni" remark here comes another controversial comment regarding the recently elected Indian president.
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2022-10-06 09:55:42+00:00
⚡️⚡️A Pakistani court approves the interim bail plea of former PM Imran Khan in the case regarding his controversial remarks about a female judge
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2022-10-06 09:50:05+00:00
⚡️At least 16 dead, 24 injured in a road accident in Bara District of the Madhesh Province in Nepal, the police said.
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2022-10-06 09:38:09+00:00
🇮🇳🇳🇿India's EAM S. Jaishankar said that expanding “regional collaboration” between New Zealand and India was one of the “priorities” for New Delhi as far as bilateral ties were concerned. The statement comes amid the increasing tensions between the US and China in the Pacific region.
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2022-10-06 09:30:31+00:00
❗️ Kiev decided on the "impossibility of negotiations" with President Putin at the behest of the West - Russian Foreign Ministry
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2022-10-06 09:20:44+00:00
🔻The new sanctions expand the ban on import and export of goods including steel products, appliances, chemicals, plastic and cigarettes.
🛢The sanctions put prohibition of transportation of the Russian oil at a price above the set ceiling by sea from December, as well as petroleum products from February, the statement says.
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2022-10-06 09:16:01+00:00
🇺🇸💨White House spokeswoman Karin Jean-Pierre said on Wednesday that “it’s clear that OPEC+ is aligning with Russia with today’s announcement.” The statement comes after OPEC+ made a decision to cut output by 2mln barrels per day.
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2022-10-06 09:08:24+00:00
⚡️⚡️ EU adopts 8th package of sanctions against Russia
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2022-10-06 08:58:04+00:00
🇮🇳✈️🐶Following Air India, Akasa Air said that it will allow pets on board form November 1.
This is the second commercial airline to permit pets on board. The booking for animals travelling together with their masters will start from October 15. Only pets weighing up to 7 kg will be allowed on board.
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2022-10-06 08:45:11+00:00
🇱🇰🇨🇳💰Crisis-hit Sri Lanka has started debt restructuring talks with China, the country’s president said.
The discussion is an important step towards an International Monetary Fund rescue for the island amid its worst post-independence economic crisis. President Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament that the initial talks will continue after China's Communist Party congress meeting, which begins on October 16.
Additionally, Wickremesinghe said after returning from his visit to that the Japanese authorities had agreed to mediate talks.
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2022-10-06 08:17:26+00:00
🇮🇳🇳🇿India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar at a meeting with his New Zealand counterpart Nanaia Mahuta has asked her to make the process of providing student visas for those Indians who want to receive their degree in New Zealand more convenient.
The officials also discussed a range of global issues including the Asia-Pacific and the Ukraine crisis.
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2022-10-06 08:02:04+00:00
❗️Ex-cop shoots dead at least 32 at children's center in Thailand, reports say
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2022-10-06 07:59:01+00:00
🗣 “Most of Ukraine unequivocally wants to be part of Ukraine, but in some eastern areas there is a Russian majority that prefers Russia.”
▪️ Elon Musk continues to argue on Twitter about the right of the people of Ukraine to determine for themselves which country they want to be a part of.
🗺 In response to Republican Senator Lindsey Graham's suggestion to "get the facts" about Russia's "invasion," the businessman released a 2012 Ukrainian voting map showing pro-Russian views in the country's east.
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2022-10-06 07:49:13+00:00
🇮🇳✈️The Indian Air Force (IAF) is planning to increase the number of SU-30 fighter jets equipped with BrahMos supersonic missiles, which now have a range of over 500 km, The Print reports.
Now the IAF has 40 SU-30 planes equipped with BrahMos supersonic missiles. As for BrahMos, the land-launched version has a range of 400 km, and there are plans to increase this up to 800 km or 1,500 km.
The missile, with its exceptional accuracy, “is a true wonder for the IAF”.
🗯“In every single trial, the missile has hit the designated target on the ground with a difference of maximum 10 meters. When the IAF fired at a ship, the missile hit the ship right in the center,” a source said.
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2022-10-06 07:43:01+00:00
🇵🇰🇺🇸 Pakistan's finance minister Ishaq Dar will travel to the US next week for talks with the IMF
The minister is expected to request the IMF for making the conditions for providing a relief lenient, especially freezing fuel price adjustment of electricity and petroleum development levy on POL products for the next few months.
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2022-10-06 07:28:01+00:00
🚫An Indian family of four was kidnapped and then mercilessly killed in the US state of California
Eight-month-old Aroohi Dheri, her 27-year-old mother Jasleen Kaur, her father Jasdeep Singh, 36, and her uncle Amandeep Singh, 39, were found by a farmer at an orchard on Wednesday.
The family was captured at gunpoint and led to a truck in Merced County two days earlier, CCTV footage revealed.
The police revealed the kidnapping after it was alerted to the burning car, that belonged to Amandeep Singh. Then they contacted a relative, who could not reach the family for several days.
The suspect, Jesus Manuel Salgado, was reported by his family and arrested on Tuesday. He currently remains hospitalized after an attempt to kill himself.
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2022-10-06 07:08:32+00:00
🌐The BRICS will strengthen amid new political conditions, remaining one of the principal instruments of the global economy, Russian Ambassador to Brazil Aleksei Labetskiy said.
👉The Ambassador added that BRICS is a settled format of international cooperation. The organization is admired by both separate countries and other international bodies and has a constantly expanding agenda.
🤝The BRICS unites Russia, Brazil, India, China and South Africa. Argentina and Iran, among many other countries, are willing to join the organization.
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2022-10-06 06:40:12+00:00
🚫At least eight people died and some other are missing after drowning in the Mal River in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal during idol immersion on Dussehra. Among those who died in the incident there are four women.
🗯"All of a sudden, a flash flood struck and people were swept away. So far, eight bodies have been recovered and we have rescued around 50 people. Search and rescue operations are being carried out by teams of the NDRF, SDRF, police and the local administration. Search operations have started downstream," the District Magistrate said.
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2022-10-06 06:23:09+00:00
🇮🇳🗿🎉When people celebrating Dussehra set a Ravana effigy on fire, it decided to fire back
In Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh a crowd gathered around a huge effigy of Ravana to watch it burning, but after a few minutes the statue started to shoot firecrackers at the public.
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2022-10-06 05:56:11+00:00
🇮🇳🚌Nine killed, 38 injured after tourist bus hits state transport bus in Kerala's Palakkad area
The tourist bus carrying students and teachers from Baselios Vidyanikethan in Ernakulam district of Kerala was en route to Ooty, a popular tourist place.
The bus carrying students sped up in order to overtake the car in front of it and bumped into the rear part of the state transport bus, the state’s Minister of Transport said. The state transport bus fell on one side and cranes had to be deployed to tip it back and allow rescue personnel to enter the vehicle.
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2022-10-06 05:27:11+00:00
🔸Bengaluru civic body authorities are set to restart the anti-encroachment demolition drive in the city on October 6 after Dussehra celebrations are over, officials at Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) said. The demolitions were delayed due to the the shortage of staff and festival holidays.
🔸A major accident occurred during Ravan Dahan in Yamunanagar, Haryana where an effigy of Ravan ominously fell on the people who had gathered to celebrate Dussehra. Some were injured.
🔸The thirteen Indians who were illegally deported to Myanmar from the Myawadi area of Kayin state in southeast Myanmar, bordering Thailand, have reached Tamil Nadu after being rescued.
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2022-10-06 05:14:48+00:00
🇮🇳🦠India reports 2,529 new Covid-19 cases.
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2022-10-05 15:09:01+00:00
🇵🇰 "Whatever Allah has destined for them, they are just putting up with," a villager from Pakistan says as his countrymen and women are struggling to survive amid the destruction and losses brought by the devastating floods.
Sputnik spoke with Sher Ali, a residential cook in Lahore, who moved from his village in search of earnings, and sends his monthly salary to support his family back in the village.
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2022-10-05 14:56:31+00:00
🎥🎉 WATCH: PTI shared a video of their chairman & former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan enjoying a birthday cake as he turns 70 on Wednesday.
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2022-10-05 14:56:02+00:00
🇷🇺🖊 On October 5, President Vladimir Putin signed a constitutional law making the Donetsk People's Republic, the Lugansk People's Republic, Kherson region and Zaporozhye region parts of the Russian Federation, after both chambers of parliament ratified the treaties.
Check out their location and population in Sputnik's infographic.
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2022-10-05 14:47:11+00:00
🛢OPEC+ agreed to cut oil production by 2mln barrels per day from November, will take the levels agreed for August as the basis - communique
The OPEC+ deal has also been extended until December 31, 2023.
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2022-10-05 14:42:07+00:00
⚡️Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the transfer of the Zaporozhye NPP to Russian control - decree
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2022-10-05 14:40:48+00:00
🛰 India's Reliance Jio kicks off beta trials of its 5G services in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata & Varanasi on Dussehra
Modi launched the 5G telephony companies that promise to offer extremely high-speed web on cellphones by saying that the moment marks the start of a brand new period.
It is estimated that 5G technology will bring India $450 billion by 2035.
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2022-10-05 14:22:57+00:00
🗯 "They have not formally agreed yet, but have already voted," the source said, commenting on whether the alliance has agreed on a decision to reduce oil production by 2 mln barrels per day.
The sources clarified that all members voted in favor of the reduction after discussing oil market reports.
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2022-10-05 14:18:12+00:00
⚡️ OPEC+ agrees to cut oil production by 2 million barrels per day, a source told Sputnik
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2022-10-05 14:14:01+00:00
🇵🇰🔍 Pakistani gov't forms high-powered committee to oversee PMO audio leak probe
According to media reports, the committee, comprising federal ministers and heads of intelligence, will review and investigate the cyber security breach at the PM's office after audio recordings of conversations between key government figures inside the building were leaked online.
Pakistan's General Bureau of Intelligence is not ruling out a hacker attack, as well as the possible placement of "bugs" at the office, despite daily thorough checks at Sharif's office and at his personal residence, where security has been beefed up of late.
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2022-10-05 13:56:01+00:00
🇮🇳📱 Apple is asking suppliers to shift AirPods & Beats headphone production to India, Nikkei reports
In particular, Taiwanese Foxconn Technology Group and Luxshare Precision Industry are already weighing making Beats headphones in the Indian market.
Apple is trying to diversify its operations away from China in order to reduce the risks of supply chain disruptions in the wake of China's strict zero-COVID policies and political tensions between Washington and Beijing.
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2022-10-05 13:34:01+00:00
🍪 Indian cookies are taking over Africa - report
Britannia Industries Ltd., India's biggest cookie manufacturer, has struck a deal with Kenya to acquire Catalyst Capital-backed Britania Foods Ltd. in the African country in partnership with Nairobi-based Kenafric Industries, Bloomberg reported.
Britannia recently set up contract-packing facilities in Egypt and Uganda, while it is also eyeing ventures in Kenya and Nigeria, according to the report.
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2022-10-05 13:22:01+00:00
🇵🇰 Political tensions mount in Pakistan as PTI leader says Sharif gov’t “won’t find room to escape”
Fawad Chaudhry told reporters outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday that the only solution to the country’s woes is the march, adding that “2-2.5 million people” would “target Islamabad.”
Preparations are in full swing for the ’Haqiqi Azadi’ march, as former PM Imran Khan has been actively calling on his supporters to join the march, details of which have been so far kept in secrecy by the PTI chairman.
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2022-10-05 13:02:01+00:00
🇮🇳🎉As people celebrate Dussehra, politicians extend their greetings on the occasion of the holiday, reviewing various virtues of the Indian epic heroes, who these holidays are dedicated to.
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2022-10-05 12:48:16+00:00
🎥 WATCH: Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak arrives in Vienna for OPEC+ talks on the possibility of a new oil production cut
The 33rd ministerial meeting of the OPEC+ alliance marks the first in-person ministerial meeting of the group since March 2020.
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2022-10-05 12:34:01+00:00
🦠🧪Dr. #S_Chtterjee listed the measures to prevent dengue. He said that “individuals themselves and government agencies should act in tandem”. Avoiding mosquitoes is the principal way to prevent dengue infection.
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2022-10-05 12:13:01+00:00
🇮🇳💸 RBI plans to use AI & machine learning to analyze data, and improve the supervision of banks
Though India's central bank is already applying AI and ML in supervisory processes, it now plans to upscale it. For this purpose, The Reserve Bank is also planning to hire foreign experts.
The objective is to enhance the data-driven surveillance capabilities of the RBI, an expression of interest floated by the bank said.
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2022-10-05 11:56:01+00:00
🦠🧪Dr. #S_Chatterjee spoke on the process of treatment of dengue disease. He said, that most of the patients are not at risk while they are ill and after recovery. Dengue can affect human liver but mostly the influence is reversible and not critical for a patient’s health.
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2022-10-05 11:35:01+00:00
🇮🇳🇵🇰 Shah's comment were made during a public rally in Kashmir's Srinagar, where tightened security measures were put in place ahead of the minister's 3-day visit to the region.
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2022-10-05 11:26:01+00:00
🦠🧪Dr. #S_Chatterjee told Sputnik how to identify dengue infection and what tests are used to diagnose the virus at different stages. He also noted that it’s very important to control blood pressure as if it falls, this might be a sign of serious infection.
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2022-10-05 11:03:01+00:00
🇮🇳🇺🇸♻️A ministerial dialogue of the US-India Strategic Clean Energy Partnership (USISCEP) is going to be held on Friday in the US, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas said.
The meeting is part of the six-day visit of the Indian delegation to the US on October 6-11, led by the country’s Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Housing and Urban Affairs.
The cooperation is aimed at enhancing clean energy technology and innovation, as well as advancing energy security.
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2022-10-05 10:46:01+00:00
🦠🧪Amid dengue outbreak in South Asia, following monsoon season, Dr. #S_Chatterjee, Internal Medicine Specialist at Delhi's Apollo Hospitals spoke on rising dengue epidemic in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh and why it is going to get worse in the coming weeks.
He also described the most typical symptoms of dengue infection.
Check out an exclusive interview in four parts!
(part 1)
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2022-10-05 10:24:01+00:00
🇮🇳The RSS chief has called for a “comprehensive policy on population” applicable to all
This year, the organization invited a famous mountaineer, Santosh Yadav – the first woman to climb Mount Everest twice, to be the chief guest at the party’s Vijayadashmi festival.
🗯“It is true that the higher the population, the greater the burden. If the population is used properly, it becomes a resource. We also have to consider how many people our country can feed and support after 50 years. Population imbalances lead to changes in geographical boundaries… So a comprehensive population policy should be implemented and should be equally applicable to all. Only then will rules pertaining to population control yield results,” RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said.
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2022-10-05 10:08:01+00:00
🇮🇳✈️🥫An Indian passenger was stopped at customs at a Thailand airport with gulab jamun – a traditional Indian dessert.
But instead of throwing it away, the man shared the snack with the airport employees.
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2022-10-05 10:01:37+00:00
⚡️⚡️ Moscow on the Pentagon remarks about possible missile strikes on the Crimea: this is a confirmation of the US involvement in the conflict
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2022-10-05 09:53:23+00:00
⚡️An explosion occurred at a mosque in Kabul on Wednesday
The mosque belongs to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the now-ruling Taliban* and is located in the 15th security district.
There may be casualties, sources told Sputnik.
*The Taliban is under UN sanctions for terrorism
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2022-10-05 09:53:01+00:00
📉 👧🏾 India registers decline in female infant mortality rate (IMR)
🔹In rural India, the female IMR decreased but remains higher than the male IMR. In urban areas, the female IMR fell below that of males by 2020.
🔹“This is a great sign, reflective of the collective commitment of 130 crore Indians to strengthen our Nari Shakti,“ PM Modi tweeted on hearing the news.
🔹The UN data for 2020 showed India as the only country where a larger proportion of girls below the age of one died than boys of the same age. In this regard, the Indian gov't has been promoting ’Nari Shakti’ — a concept encompassing efforts to improve women’s lives and foster their empowerment in the country.
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2022-10-05 09:22:01+00:00
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📚✏️ World Teachers' Day is celebrated on October 5 to honor teachers who make a vital contribution to the education and development of our future generations.
🔹 UNESCO proclaimed the day in 1994 to mark an important step made in 1966, when the UNESCO/ILO recommendation on the status of teachers was adopted at a special intergovernmental conference in Paris. The recommendation sets out guidelines for teachers' rights and standards for teacher training and employment.
🔹Since 1989, Russia has held a professional All-Russian 'Teacher of the Year' competition, which determines the best and most talented Russian teachers.
🔹Interestingly, India is one of the few countries where Teachers' Day is celebrated differently — on September 5, but has the same purpose and agenda.
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2022-10-05 09:03:01+00:00
📹 WATCH: A station master was captured on video batting an employee who turned up half an hour late for work.
The man got serious injures and had to be taken to hospital, according to reports.
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2022-10-05 08:49:02+00:00
🇮🇳🎉Amid the upcoming major Hindu celebrations of Diwali and Dussehra Delhi has imposed a ban on firecrackers until January 1.
Check out Sputnik Explainer to find out what is wrong with crackers!
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2022-10-05 08:21:01+00:00
🇮🇳🎉WATCH: A Sputnik correspondent provided footage of the Indian folk drama being performed during Dussehra, which widely celebrated across the country following two years of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns.
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2022-10-05 08:04:56+00:00
🎉🎈 India has emerged from two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the nation is getting back on track with its beloved festivities.
Sputnik spoke with local businessmen and artists about how they survived through the lockdown and about their expectations of this year's festival season.
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2022-10-05 07:43:18+00:00
⚡️The Indian Army Cheetah helicopter crashed near the Tawang area in Arunachal Pradesh while on a routine duty on Wednesday.
A pilot was killed in the accident, Army officials said, his co-pilot was injured.
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2022-10-05 07:36:02+00:00
⛔️ ’War of Words’ broke out between ex-state chief Mehbooba Mufti & J&K police on Twitter
Tensions erupted after Mehbooba claimed she was put under house arrest and not allowed to attend the wedding of her party worker in Srinagar, sharing a picture of the gate of her residence locked.
However, Srinagar police refuted the claims and said Mehbooba's residence was locked from inside and that there were no travel restriction placed on her.
The wedding Mehbooba was planning to attend is taking place in Baramulla district, where Home Minister Amit Shah is expected to address a rally.
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2022-10-05 06:43:06+00:00
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🇮🇳🎉 India celebrates major Hindu festival Dussehra — also known as Vijayadashami
🔸 The Dussehra festival has its roots in the classic Hindu epic Ramayana, which claims that Lord Rama, the eighth manifestation of Lord Vishnu, slew the ten-headed demon Ravana in the Sat-yuga because Ravana had kidnapped Sita, wife of Lord Rama.
🔸 Dussehra is celebrated with great fervor and pomp. In North India, this includes a gala theatrical performance of Rama's life story- Ramila, and effigies of Ravana are stuffed with firecrackers and set on fire at night in an open field.
🔸When burning effigies, people are asked to burn the evil within them and thus follow the path of truth and goodness, remembering the example of Ravana, who, despite all his power and greatness, was destroyed for his evil ways.
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2022-10-05 06:34:00+00:00
⚡️Vladimir Putin approved the ratification of the agreements on the admission of the Donetsk People' s Republic and Lugansk People's Republic, as well as Zaporozhye and Kherson regions into Russia.
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2022-10-05 06:21:11+00:00
⚡️Four militants, a civilian killed in Kashmir in the past 12 hours
🔺The four militants were killed in two separate gun battles in southern Kashmir's Shopian region, three of them were allegedly from Jaish-e-Mohammad, one was reportedly affiliated with Lashkar-e-Taiba.
🔺Meanwhile, the civilian was shot dead in Pulwama district after the rifle of a security personnel went off accidentally in a separate incident.
The news comes as Home Minister Amit Shah is on a 3-day visit to the region.
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2022-10-05 06:12:28+00:00
📹🇮🇳25 people dead as bus falls into a chasm in Uttarakhand
25 people died after a wedding bus fell into a gorge in the Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand. A rescue team was working all night at the crash site near Simdi village and managed to save 21 passengers.
🗯"25 people were found dead in the Pauri Garhwal bus accident that took place last night in the Birokhal area of Dhumakot. Police and SDRF (State Disaster Response Force) rescued 21 people overnight; the injured have been admitted to nearby hospitals," the state police chief Ashok Kumar said.
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2022-10-05 05:47:38+00:00
🔸India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar’s seven-day visit to New Zealand and Australia is set to begin today. During his visit, Jaishankar will review bilateral ties between the two countries. On Thursday, S. Jaishankar and his New Zealand and Australian counterparts will praise the members of the Indian community for their achievements and contributions.
🔸The highest-ever Durga puja pandal, which is going to be recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records, has been constructed in Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow. The construction is 136 feet (over 41 meters) high and is a replica of the under-construction Chandrodaya temple of Vrindavan, which is going to be one of the tallest religious buildings in the world.
🔸In the Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir, four militants were killed by the security forces of Jammu and Kashmir in two separate encounters.
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2022-10-05 05:17:47+00:00
🇮🇳🦠India reports 2,468 new Covid-19 cases.
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2022-10-04 15:37:01+00:00
🇮🇳♻️After the Indian government banned single-use plastic, a Goa-based startup, LaFabrica Craft, founded by architect-turned-entrepreneur Sachin Gangadharan, has come up with eco-friendly packages that are spill-proof and durable for liquids for up to 48 hours and can hold up to 25 kg in weight.
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2022-10-04 15:15:18+00:00
🇦🇪 Dubai is getting a new Hindu temple ahead of Dussehra
▫️The newly-constructed Santani Hindu temple is located in Dubai’s Jebel Ali neighborhood, nearby several churches and a Sikh gurdwara. It is blending Indian & Arabic architecture, with marble hand carvings, metal latticework on the facade and tall brass spires.
▫️According to media reports, the temple has as many as 16 Hindu deities and the Guru Granth Sahib, the Holy Book of the Sikhs.
▫️The main prayer hall, where most of the deities are placed, has a large 3D-printed pink lotus that unfurls across the central dome.
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2022-10-04 15:01:43+00:00
❗️🇮🇳☎️ PM Modi on Tuesday held a phone conversation with Ukraine's Zelensky, urging him to pursue "diplomacy" & stressing the need to secure nuclear installations
Earlier on Tuesday, Zelensky approved the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine on the impossibility of holding talks with President Putin.
Moscow previously underlined that Kiev had publicly rejected peace talks on Donbass.
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2022-10-04 14:41:48+00:00
🇧🇩Bangladesh's capital and other major cities with total population of about 40mln people were left without electricity as a transmission line tripped somewhere in the eastern part of the country.
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2022-10-04 14:06:01+00:00
🛢 Indian refiners concerned that tighter western sanctions on Russia could curb future crude supplies — report
India's spot-buying strategy has allowed local refiners to buy Russian oil at a discounted price and become Moscow's second-largest oil buyer after China. However, an EU ban on Russian crude imports would drive European refiners to buy more Middle Eastern oil, placing them in competition with Asian buyers.
In particular, Indian Oil Corp, the country’s top refiner, and Bharat Petroleum Corp are reportedly seeking term deals with other states due to the "possibility of tight oil markets and a change in flows with most Middle Eastern crude going to meet the need of European markets", industry sources told the newspaper.
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2022-10-04 13:45:15+00:00
🇮🇳The BJP is eyeing its chances of leading a government in centrally administered Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh. In the past, several party politicians have remarked that the BJP would give the union territory its first-ever Hindu state chief.
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2022-10-04 13:21:30+00:00
🇮🇳🚦🛤Indian government constituted a Network Planning Group (NPG) amid economic slowdown to ensure better coordination among various government ministries and private stakeholders in facilitating infrastructure projects valued at over $61 million.
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2022-10-04 12:51:02+00:00
🇮🇳At least 11 people died and four were injured after a lorry collided with an auto-rickshaw in the Indian state of Gujarat.
According to the police, the four survivors were hospitalized and are now in critical condition. The rickshaw was completely smashed by the lorry, so that rescuer needed to saw it open to reach the dead and injured.
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2022-10-04 12:32:01+00:00
🇷🇺 🌗 Russia will be ready to land cosmonauts on the Moon by 2030, Roscosmos head Yuri Borisov said on Tuesday.
🗣 "As part of the lunar program, we are preparing to send the Luna-25 automatic landing vehicle to the Moon. It will be followed by Luna-26, 27, and 28, and by 2030 we will be technologically ready to land Russian cosmonauts on the Moon," Borisov said.
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2022-10-04 12:10:18+00:00
🇵🇰Crisis-hit Pakistan is struggling to find a supplier of bidder of natural gas amid power shortages owing to a shortfall in energy supplies spurred by high prices and a surge in demand in the European countries.
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2022-10-04 11:50:12+00:00
🇮🇳📖 India and Russia are going to cooperate to make Hindi an official language at the UN, the president of Indian Council for Cultural Relations Vinay Sahasrabuddhe said.
According to Sahasrabuddhe, this move would boost publishing of Hindi literature and allow for the translation of the important UN meetings into Hindi.
Currently, there are six languages holding official status at the UN – English, Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, Russian and French.
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2022-10-04 11:43:01+00:00
🇮🇳🤝🇷🇺 Indo-Russian cultural ties have come a long way, but a lot lies ahead, chairman of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) Vinay Sahasrabuddhe said on Tuesday.
🗯 "I come from Maharashtra, where they speak the Marathi language. And there is one special word that sounds the same both in Russian and in Marathi and has the same meaning — 'sugar'. Similarly, the 'sweetness' of our relationship now is unlimited," the ICCR head stressed.
Sahasrabuddhe also recalled that immediately after India gained independence, Indian-Russian cultural ties acquired several dimensions. "The [books] by Leo Tolstoy influenced Mahatma Gandhi. We grew up with an understanding of the literature of Maxim Gorky," noted Sahasrabuddhe.
"I believe that India and Russia are friends not only because of diplomatic relations or any strategic achievements. My understanding of Indian-Russian relations is that they are a bridge we have built, and will continue to [develop] it on the basis of our cultures," he concluded.
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2022-10-04 11:24:01+00:00
🇵🇰💡 The latest development comes against the backdrop of an ongoing energy and economic crisis in Pakistan, which is grappling with power shortages owing to a shortfall in energy supplies spurred by high prices and a surge in demand in the European countries.
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2022-10-04 11:11:17+00:00
❗️UPDATE: 10 mountaineers have been killed in the avalanche, Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM) confirmed.
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2022-10-04 11:06:01+00:00
🇮🇳🗻Rescue teams have reached 8 of the 28 trainees captured in an avalanche in Uttarakhand; a rescue operation is underway. However, there's no clarity on the number of deaths, according to the Indo-Tibetan Border Police.
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2022-10-04 10:43:01+00:00
🦁🐒 In an exclusive interview with Sputnik, Delhi Zoo's director Dharamdeo Rai shared that the main purpose behind the initiative is to engage people in wildlife conservation.
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2022-10-04 10:16:49+00:00
🇮🇳Union Home Minister Amit Shah today declared that the Pahari community in Jammu and Kashmir, besides the Gujjars and Bakarwals, will get reservation as a scheduled tribe.
It will be the first occasion when reservation is given to a linguistic group.
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2022-10-04 10:06:03+00:00
🇮🇳🍷🚫Delhi to go 'dry' during upcoming Dussehra & Diwali religious festivals
Delhi's government has announced that during the religious celebrations of Dussehra and Diwali, alcohol won’t be available for sales in restaurants, bars and liquor shops.
The decision comes after public outrages following all the liquor contracts being given to private sellers. According to the new list issued by the Delhi government, in the remaining three months, six days will be "dry".
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2022-10-04 09:44:29+00:00
🇮🇳The Jammu and Kashmir police has identified the alleged murderer of the Jammu and Kashmir's Director General (Prisons) Hemant K. Lohia.
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2022-10-04 09:12:02+00:00
🇮🇳🗻Rescue teams have been sent to Droupadi's Danda-2 mountain peak in Uttarakhand where about 28 trainees of Nehru Mountaineering Institute were trapped in an avalanche. Now rapid relief and rescue operations are underway, Uttarakhand CM said.
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2022-10-04 08:52:01+00:00
🇮🇳❌Mobile Internet Services were suspended in Rajouri district of Jammu ahead Home Minister Amit Shah’s visit to the state.
The visit comes a day after the state’s top cop who was in charge of prisons was killed. Police have not found any terror link to the murder so far.
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2022-10-04 08:40:10+00:00
🇦🇫A blast took place in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Tuesday, allegedly due to explosives place on the roadside.
No casualties or injures have been reported yet.
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2022-10-04 08:36:04+00:00
❗️Ukraine's Zelensky on Tuesday approved the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine on the impossibility of holding talks with President Putin.
👉 President Putin previously warned the Kiev had publicly rejected a conflict resolution plans on Donbass and instead laid claims to obtaining nuclear weapons.
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2022-10-04 08:33:01+00:00
🇮🇳India needs to deploy a strong army, equipped with modern armament, the IAF Chief said
🗯“[We are] expediting the operationalization of recently-inducted systems like Rafale, LCA and S-400, among others,” IAF Chief Marshal V. R. Chaudhari said.
He also added that amid the current global geopolitical situation, the presence of a strong military is important to ward off threats.
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2022-10-04 08:20:44+00:00
⚡️ The overwhelming majority of countries realize Russia's righteousness, the escalation of confrontation against Moscow and the non-recognition of the results of referendums in the DPR, the LPR, the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions is ahistorical, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday.
🗯 "Any other approaches, artificial escalation of confrontation, artificial mobilization of anti-Russian forces, threats and blackmail — all this is ahistorical," the top diplomat concluded.
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2022-10-04 08:03:01+00:00
🇮🇳📿The Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, has begun his three-day teachings for about 400 Taiwanese Buddhists in McLeod Ganj, Dharamshala in India’s Himachal Pradesh.
Not only the Taiwanese, but followers from all over the world came to listen to the Dalai Lama.
🗯“I am so honored to be here because I am so inspired by the Dalai Lama and his teachings. A huge amount of people came here to receive his teachings. People from around the world, including the United States and Canada are present here. However, it (this event) is special for Taiwanese,” a devotee form Mexico said.
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2022-10-04 07:52:24+00:00
❗️US Treasury announces preparation of sanctions to cap price of Russian oil, but decision not made yet - reports
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2022-10-04 07:41:01+00:00
🇮🇳💰Slowdown in the economic growth of rich countries affects inflation-hit India, making the RBI to increase the repo rate by 50 basic points.
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2022-10-04 07:35:32+00:00
⚡️The Russian Federation Council ratifies agreements on the accession of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions to Russia
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2022-10-04 07:32:09+00:00
⚡️The Russian Federation Council ratifies agreements on the accession of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics to Russia
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2022-10-04 07:22:02+00:00
🇷🇺🛢 India’s September imports of Russian oil surged 18.5% from August, according to the energy cargo tracker Vortexa.
📈 Vortexa analysts also told The Economic Times newspaper that India may mull importing more Russia crude this quarter due to the seasonal rise in domestic demand, while India is becoming an increasingly important trade partner for Russia given “a slowing appetite for Russian oil in Europe.”
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2022-10-04 06:56:01+00:00
🇵🇰Pakistan has over 50% chance of a currency crisis as floods wipe out economic progress - report
🗯“Crop damage and a host of other problems stemming from the disaster all but erase any progress toward stability that came with the IMF’s aid…Much of the progress toward stabilizing external balances has been undone by the floods,” economists suggested, using a Bloomberg Economics risk model.
Pakistan received a $1.1 billion loan from the IMF in late August to stave off an imminent default, but deadly flooding caused about $30 billion in damage. Islamabad has urged richer countries to provide debt relief.
Heavy monsoon rains caused the worst flooding in Pakistan's recent history, washing away villages and leaving millions of people in need of help and at increased risk of waterborne disease, drowning and malnutrition.
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2022-10-04 06:26:13+00:00
#Sputnik_reminder
🐘🐆🦒World Animal Day is celebrated on October 4
▪️World Animal Day was launched to spread awareness about animal rights and to educate people about animals' well-being, as well as about efforts to protect them.
▪️Almost all human activities have a profound effect on animals and their natural habitat, so it is necessary that we protect them and live in harmony with them.
▪️On March 24, 1925, sinologist Heinrich Zimmermann celebrated World Animal Day for the first time. The event was organized at the sport palace in Berlin, Germany and was attended by about 5,000 people who supported the idea.
▪️October 4 is also the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals.
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2022-10-04 05:34:55+00:00
🔸Director General of Jammu and Kashmir Prisons Hemant Lohia was murdered at his residence in Jammu, local police said.
🔸The opposition Aam Aadmi Party plans to burn effigies of Ravan made of garbage at about 3,500 locations in Delhi on Tuesday to express protest against the BJP’s “failure” to maintain cleanliness.
🔸Rupee rises 31 paise to reach 81.51 against the US dollar in early trading.
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2022-10-04 05:13:11+00:00
🇮🇳🦠India reports 1,968 new Covid-19 cases.
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2022-10-03 16:31:01+00:00
❔The tribals fear Shah might make an official announcement during his visit to give preferential treatment to Paharis ahead of the state elections in 2023.
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2022-10-03 15:59:02+00:00
🐘🍀 Even animals have joined efforts to curb waste pollution
🧹Watch this neat and tidy elephant from a viral video provide a good example to people in their fight for a clean environment.
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2022-10-03 15:19:02+00:00
Watch: Russia’s 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled 152mm howitzers performing strikes during the special operation
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2022-10-03 14:38:01+00:00
📍Meanwhile, BJP's West Bengal unit spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya told reporters, “We do not support such things. Such things are absolutely unacceptable and the administration should take immediate steps against the organizers.”
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2022-10-03 14:22:01+00:00
🇮🇳✈️ Watch the glimpses from the preparations for Air Force Day which are currently underway at Sukhna Lake Chandigarh.
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2022-10-03 14:14:56+00:00
Check out who were India's top crude suppliers in September and the exact numbers in Sputnik's infographic!
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2022-10-03 13:58:40+00:00
🌐🍎 The World Food Program warns the food crisis is being compounded by a fertilizer crisis
👉 "If we don’t get fertilizers moving, you're not going have just a food pricing problem, like we're facing right now. You will have a food availability problem in 2023," World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley said at an IMF conference hosted by Saudi Arabia on tackling food insecurity. "And when that happens, it will be hell on earth. It will be tragedy upon tragedy."
Beasley added that long-term answer to the food crisis lies not in throwing money at the problem, but in creating strategic financing and programs that develop sustainability and resilience.
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2022-10-03 13:52:02+00:00
❗️The criticism of American envoy comes against the backdrop of growing concerns in India about rising defense and political ties between US and Pakistan.
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2022-10-03 13:45:05+00:00
🇮🇳🚁 Defense Minister Rajnath Singh takes a sortie in the newly inducted ‘Prachand’ helicopter
🗯 "Capable of operating from high altitude terrain and carrying out precision strike at high altitude targets, Helicopter ‘Prachand’ is a formidable addition to IAF’s arsenal. I congratulate the IAF, HAL & all other stoke holders on the induction of these powerful machines," the minister shared on his Twitter.
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2022-10-03 13:27:01+00:00
🇮🇩💰Indonesia has urged its financial services businesses to identify scenarios in which dependence on the US dollar could affect their work.
❗️"We also asked the firms to be mindful of loan risks in sectors that consume high energy... and those firms whose performance is closely linked to the cycle of commodity prices," Mirza Adityaswara, the deputy chairman of Indonesia's Financial Services Authority, said adding that "debtors who don't have revenues in dollars should be careful".
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2022-10-03 13:01:20+00:00
#Sputnik_reminder
🇷🇺🇮🇳 On this day in 2000, India and Russia signed the Declaration on the India-Russia Strategic Partnership.
🤝 The Declaration marked the rise of bilateral relations to a new level, which implies the coordination of approaches to ensuring international peace and security and intensive interaction in the economic, cultural, educational and other spheres.
🔸Since then, the cooperation between the two countries has become even more intense. As result, the Strategic Partnership was elevated to the level of “Special and Privileged Strategic Partnership” in December 2010.
🌐 The two countries have been longstanding and time-tested partners. Today, relations between Russia and India as major powers continue to be a pillar of global peace and stability.
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2022-10-03 12:25:23+00:00
🇵🇰 In its observation, a five-member bench, headed by IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah, said they're satisfied with the apology made by Khan last week.
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2022-10-03 12:02:18+00:00
⚡️🇦🇫 An explosion occurred near the Pul-e-Sukhta area on Shahid Mazari Road in the west of Kabul, reports
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2022-10-03 11:36:30+00:00
⚡️State Duma ratifies agreement on Zaporozhye and Kherson regions joining Russia
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2022-10-03 11:33:20+00:00
⚡️Agreement on LPR's accession to Russia has been ratified by State Duma
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2022-10-03 11:32:33+00:00
⚡️Russia's State Duma ratifies agreement on DPR's accession to Russian Federation
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2022-10-03 11:31:37+00:00
⚡️🇮🇷 The recent riots over the death of Mahsa Amini, following her arrest by the morality police, were planned by the US & Israel - Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
👉 "I declare that these protests and instability were planned by the United States and the Israeli regime, their cohorts and some treacherous Iranians abroad helped them in this matter," Khamenei was quoted as saying by Iranian news agency Tasnim.
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2022-10-03 11:23:32+00:00
❗️Russia, unlike the United States, does not react to fictitious threats in remote countries, but to real threats on its borders - Russian FM Lavrov
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2022-10-03 10:58:02+00:00
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🌐 Today the world celebrates World Habitat Day
🔹The day is observed annually on the first Monday of October to attract attention to the state of the area we live in and increase awareness about the right of all people to live in good conditions.
🔹World Habitat Day was first celebrated in 1986 in Nairobi, Kenya, with the theme ‘Shelter is my right’. This year the day is observed under the moto ‘Mind the Gap. Leave No One and No Place Behind’. On this day, a number of panel discussions will take place under the guidance of the UN, where growing inequality in cities and human settlements is set to be discussed.
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2022-10-03 10:40:20+00:00
⚡️🇵🇰 At least 1,666 people, including 615 children and 333 women, have been killed in Pakistan due to floods, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Monday.
Around 13,000 people have been injured, of which 4,000 are children.
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2022-10-03 10:32:18+00:00
🚙🚕 Tourism and other businesses in Kargil district of Ladakh region have come to a standstill owing to a five day strike called by local transport workers and supported by student bodies, socio-religious organizations and the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC), a Sputnik correspondent on the ground reports.
👉 The local transport worers say that since August 2019, taxi owners and drivers operating in the region have faced issues with travel permits, since those who would use permits issued by the Jammu and Kashmir administration require Ladakh administration permits to operate.
💬 A prominent social activist in the region, Sajad Kargili, complained to Sputnik that the authorities are allegedly not issuing the required permits to locals, while non-local taxi owners and transport professionals are operating freely.
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2022-10-03 10:12:01+00:00
🎉 2022 Nobel prize in medicine awarded to Swedish scientist Svante Paabo for studying genetic basis of human evolution - Committee
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2022-10-03 10:03:03+00:00
⚡️ The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday discharged a contempt case against former Prime Minister Imran Khan that was filed against him for his remarks against Additional District and Sessions Judge Zeba Chaudhry.
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2022-10-03 10:02:00+00:00
🇷🇺🇳🇵The authorities of the Russian republic of Buryatia have proposed to open direct air communication with Nepal along the route Ulan-Ude - Kathmandu, the republic's government has said.
🤝 The proposal came during a meeting between Head of Buryatia Alexey Tsydenov and the Nepali ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Russia. During the meeting, Buryatia's authorities have also presented the options to supply helicopters from the Ulan-Ude aircraft plant and spare parts for helicopters already in operation in Nepal.
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2022-10-03 09:52:33+00:00
❗️UPDATE: Iran’s Mahan Air’s flight W581 has finally landed in China's Guangzhou, according to the Chinese flight data services company VariFlight.
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2022-10-03 09:30:37+00:00
🎥 Security measures have been stepped up in Jammu and Kashmir, with additional troops being deployed on highways and vital road links ahead of Home Minister Amit Shah's visit to the region, a Sputnik correspondent reported on Monday.
❗️Police and paramilitary forces have set up multiple check points in Srinagar, Baramulla, Rajouri and other areas where the Minister is supposed to address rallies and public meetings.
📍Shah is scheduled to deliver an address in the Baramulla district of north Kashmir, where a major gun battle was witnessed last week. According to local authorities, two militants killed in the shootout were planning to attack an army recruitment rally.
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2022-10-03 09:10:34+00:00
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2022-10-03 08:50:21+00:00
🇵🇰 Ahead of PTI’s long march in Islamabad, former prime minister Imran Khan will give the federal government a “surprise” that the government is “clueless” about.
🚫 In addition, referring to the no-confidence motion against him, he said “[The] entire economy and political system of Pakistan was derailed through a US-backed regime change conspiracy, simply to give this cabal of crooks another NRO.”
📍Meanwhile, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) is set to resume proceedings today in the contempt case against Khan over his controversial remarks against Judge Zeba Chaudhry at an August 20 public rally.
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2022-10-03 08:22:40+00:00
WATCH: Videos showing India’s Defense Minister Rajnath Singh taking off in a new Prachanda Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) at Jodhpur airbase are circulating on social media.
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2022-10-03 07:53:01+00:00
🌠🇷🇺🇮🇳 Russia’s Zvezda Research & Development Production Enterprise will supply spacesuits and equipment to India's manned space mission Gaganyaan.
🚀 The spacesuits, equipment for them as well as depreciation seats ordered under an agreement with Isro company have been produced at the enterprise and are ready to be supplied to India for the Gaganyaan mission, Sergey Pozdnyakov, general director of the Zvezda Research & Development Production Enterprise, said.
👨🚀 In addition, according to Russian media, a group of Indian astronauts have already been trained in Russia’s Star City.
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2022-10-03 07:23:44+00:00
✈️ UPDATE: Indian Air Force confirmed to Indian news agencies that the Iranian plane heading towards China has left Indian airspace.
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2022-10-03 07:11:42+00:00
🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳 The first domestically developed Light Combat Helicopters (LCH) has been introduces into the Indian Air Force at Jodhpur in the presence of India's Defense Minister Rajnath Singh and IAF Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari.
🚁 The Light Combat Helicopter, which was originally developed for deployment in high-altitude areas, would be effective in hitting enemy infantry, tanks, bunkers, drones and other assets, military officials said.
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2022-10-03 06:43:27+00:00
🇮🇳🇷🇺🛢Russia again became the second-largest supplier of oil to India in September, analysts at Kpler said.
📈According to the Business Standard, in September India imported 842,000 barrels per day of Russian oil, compared to 732,000 in August and 888,000 in July. Saudi Arabia was the largest supplier at 869,000 barrels per day, while Iraq came in third place with 814,000 barrels per day.
📍Additionally, Indian refiners have reportedly expanded their Russian oil basket by placing orders for previously rarely-ordered ESPO, Arco and Novy Port Light grades.
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2022-10-03 06:12:46+00:00
🚫🇮🇳🇮🇷 Indian air forces were put on high alert as security agencies in Delhi reported about possible bomb threat aboard an ✈️ Iranian plane heading towards China through Indian airspace.
❗️India’s Su-30MKI fighter jets were scrambled to intercept the plane. The situation is now being closely monitored by security forces, Indian media said.
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2022-10-03 06:11:41+00:00
🚫 At least five people died and 64 were injured in a fire which broke out in Bhadohi Durga Puja Pandal in Uttar Pradesh on late Sunday evening.
🔻A Special Investigation Team (SIT) has been set up to investigate the incident. According to media reports, around 300 people were inside the Pandal when the incident happened.
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2022-10-03 05:44:21+00:00
🔸India’s Defense Minister Rajnath Singh will inaugurate the Induction ceremony of first domestically developed Light Combat Helicopters in Jodhpur today.
🔸The High Commission of India in Ottawa, Canada has condemned the ‘hate crime’ which took place at the Shri Bhagvad Gita park in Brampton, where a group of malcontents allegedly vandalized a sign at the entrance days after the park was renamed after the Hindu religious scripture Bhagvad Gita.
🔸India's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) spacecraft is likely to have completed work eight years after entering the orbit of the red planet. The spacecraft, designed to last for eight months when it was launched in 2013 has lost communication with Earth. Isro is investigating the reasons behind the shutdown.
🔸Union Minister of State External Affairs & Parliamentary Affairs V. Muraleedharan begins his 2-day official visit to Oman. During the visit, he will meet Oman's Foreign Minister and discuss a number of issues of mutual interest.
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2022-10-03 05:01:28+00:00
🇮🇳🦠 India reports 3,011 new Covid-19 cases.
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2022-10-02 15:10:39+00:00
Watch: Russia's Su-25 destroys Ukrainian disguised fortified field positions and armored vehicles during special operation
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2022-10-02 14:20:41+00:00
📈🇮🇳🇨🇳 The 33-point outperformance of the Indian index over the Chinese MSCI index is the biggest margin since March 2000, according to Bloomberg.
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2022-10-02 13:40:11+00:00
🇮🇳🇲🇻 India's foreign secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra met Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih in Male earlier today as part of his official visit to the country.
🤝 India confirmed that it intends to further develop numerous projects in the country. President Solih highlighted that India has constantly proved to be the closest friend of his country and expressed his gratitude for India's support and assistance.
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2022-10-02 12:05:40+00:00
🇮🇳🚁 India's Air Force has shared a video showing domestically made light combat helicopters, which will be officially introduced on 2 October.
📍The helicopter has been produced by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd as part of the ‘Make in India’ program.
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2022-10-02 11:30:36+00:00
🇵🇰 The warrant was issued a day after Khan made an personal appearance at the Islamabad sessions’ court to tender an apology to the female judge he had criticized in his public speech on 20 August.
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2022-10-02 10:48:09+00:00
❗️Russia's Constitutional Court ruled that the documents admitting the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions to the Russian Federation comply with the constitution.
🇷🇺 The Constitutional Court rulings read that the DPR and the LPR have become part of Russia with the status of republics and with Russian as the official language.
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2022-10-02 10:27:54+00:00
⚡️ At least one policeman was killed and another injured in a terrorist attack which took place in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama on Sunday. A counter-terrorism operation is underway, Indian media reported.
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2022-10-02 09:45:11+00:00
📍 Gandhi was of the firm view that non-violent means of organization would serve as a more effective mean of political mobilization of masses against the colonial authorities, who had better trained armies with modern sophisticated equipment.
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2022-10-02 08:38:45+00:00
🏔🇳🇵The Manaslu Base Camp in Nepal has been hit by a fresh avalanche today.
🔻A video of the incident, which comes a week after the previous avalanche killed two persons in the base camp, went viral immediately on social media. No injuries have been reported.
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2022-10-02 08:00:48+00:00
🇮🇳🇷🇺 A Moscow-based Indian Twitter user shared a photo of Mahatma Gandhi’s monument in the Russian capital.
🌺 Flowers can be seen near the statue as people start paying tribute to Gandhi on the occasion of his birthday.
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2022-10-02 07:36:58+00:00
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🌐 Today, all the nations on earth are celebrating the International Day of Non-Violence, which marks the birthday of the Father of the Indian Nation, Mahatma Gandhi.
🇮🇳 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi who was born on 2 October 1869, was a prominent political and spiritual leader in the Indian independence movement. He applied non-violent resistance to fight for India’s independence from British rule.
🙏🏼 His ideology of non-violence have inspired many from all over the world. On 15 June 2007, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring 2 October International Day of Non-Violence to “reaffirm the desire for a culture of peace, tolerance and understanding”.
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2022-10-02 06:50:31+00:00
🇮🇳🎉 During yesterday’s Navratri celebrations attended by more than 50 diplomats, 🇷🇺Russia’s Ambassador Denis Alipov addressed the Indian media in Hindi causing amusement among some of India's netizens.
Check out some of their comments!
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2022-10-02 06:22:42+00:00
🔸Diplomats from more than 50 countries took part in celebrations for Navratri at the invitation of India’s foreign minister S. Jaishankar and were delighted to witness the event. They extended their good wishes to all Indian nationals.
🔸India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi who was born on this day 153 years ago. He urged Indians to live up to his ideals and buy locally produced products.
🔸Narendra Modi has also paid tribute to India's second prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri who was born on this day in 1904, saying that his tough leadership will always be remembered.
🔸At least 26 people were killed and more than 20 were injured when a tractor-trolley carrying about 50 pilgrims overturned and fell into a pond near a village in the Kanpur district of Uttar Pradesh. India’s prime minister Narendra Modi and India’s president Droupadi Murmu have expressed their condolences.
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2022-10-02 06:09:15+00:00
⚽️ At Least 127 Fans Killed After Mass Riot Breaks Out During Football Match in Indonesia
Video of the aftermath shows dozens of individuals climbing over a barricade on the field as tear gas fills the air. At least 127 football fans were killed after a massive riot broke out in Indonesia late Saturday during a football match, local law enforcement officials have confirmed. Another 180 individuals sustained injuries. Among the dead are said to be two police officers who had attempted to quell the crowd.
In response to the riot, league officials have suspended matches for at least one week, as well as blocking Arema FC fans from attending the team's matches for the remainder of the season as they were seen as the instigators of the riot.
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2022-10-02 05:00:50+00:00
🇮🇳🦠 India reports 3,375 new Covid-19 cases.
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2022-10-01 15:05:51+00:00
WATCH: Footage of combat actions carried out by the Russian Uragan MLRS during the special operation in Ukraine
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2022-10-01 14:39:40+00:00
📍Talking to the media, Sushil Kumar Modi said: “Whether it is Mallikarjun Kharge or somebody else, whoever becomes the chief will only be a face to show and would be a puppet of the Gandhi family as the actual decisions will be taken by them only.”
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2022-10-01 14:11:07+00:00
Perhaps in the dim and distant future some American official will reveal in his autobiography what really happened in the Nord Stream pipe explosions. For now, the US denies its involvement - but why don't we have a look to see what history can teach us?
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2022-10-01 13:14:01+00:00
🌀 An office in Maharashtra’s Pune was hit by heavy winds which blew away a great number of documents and files. A video showing the incident immediately went viral on social media.
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2022-10-01 12:37:32+00:00
🇮🇳🚫🇵🇰 Media reports say that the Indian government took the step because of security reasons. This is not the first time the Pakistani government's Twitter account has been withheld. Similar action was taken in July this year although the account was reactivated later.
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2022-10-01 11:15:56+00:00
🚫🇵🇰 Heavy floods in Pakistan have caused another 15 fatalities in the past 24 hours. The overall death toll is now 1,693 the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) reported.
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2022-10-01 10:22:04+00:00
🇮🇳🤝🇷🇺 This is not the first time India has abstained from voting in UNSC. It has twice abstained from voting in UNSC and once in the General Assembly on resolutions concerning Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine.
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2022-10-01 09:50:54+00:00
🐻 Have you ever wanted to meet a bear in a forest? Then welcome to 🇷🇺 Moscow!
🌲 Specialists from Russia have warned the city’s residents about the possibility of encountering a bear while walking or picking mushrooms in Moscow’s forests, Russian media said.
📍Previously, brown bears were considered an endangered species, but now their population has increased and bears have started to migrate to Moscow from neighboring areas with their cubs.
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2022-10-01 09:08:37+00:00
📍The decision was taken after the law and order situation in both the states had been reviewed.
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2022-10-01 08:31:02+00:00
The Russian consulate on the Upper East Side, NYC has been vandalized with red spray paint, police said.
The consulate staff said that two people took part in the action: while one was spraying the building with paint, the other was filming it. There have been no arrests as yet and the investigation is continuing
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2022-10-01 07:21:01+00:00
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🌱🥑 Today the world's nations observe World Vegetarian Day
🤝 The day was established by the International Vegetarian Union in 1987 to increase awareness about the various benefits of a vegetarian lifestyle.
🔸 The event has spawned a number of offshoots: the whole month of October has come to be considered Vegetarian Awareness Month, 4 October, for instance, is now known as Hug a Non-Meat Eater Day when vegetarians are enjoined to embrace fellow abstainers.
🇮🇳 Vegetarianism is especially important in India, as the county’s top religions - namely Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism - encourage its devotees to keep to a vegetarian diet.
📊 According to various estimates, India has the lowest rate of meat consumption in the world, with between 20 percent and 39 percent of Indians being vegetarian.
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2022-10-01 06:53:36+00:00
🇮🇳✈️ The Indian Air Force has shared a video showing a fly-past which reportedly took place over Chandigarh in the run-up to Air Force Day which will be celebrated in India on 8 October.
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2022-10-01 05:35:44+00:00
🔸India has joined China, Brazil and Gabon in abstaining from voting on the UNSC draft resolution condemning the recent referendums in DPR, LPR, the Zaporozhye & Kherson regions.
🔸India has condemned the terrorist attack that killed several female students yesterday at the Kaaj Educational Center in Dasht-e-Barchi - a settlement in West Kabul in Afghanistan. India denounced the fact that innocent students in the country were continually being targeted.
🔸Prime Minister Narendra Modi has visited the Sixth India Mobile Congress at Pragati Maidan in Delhi, and launched 5G services which are expected to provide Indian citizens with more reliable communications.
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2022-10-01 05:01:52+00:00
🇮🇳🦠 India reports 3,805 new Covid-19 cases.