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At the Quad Summit, Australia’s Prime Minister pledges to cut carbon emissions by 43% by 2030

Anthony Albanese, Australia’s newly elected Prime Minister, pledged to reduce carbon emissions by 43% by 2030 and to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. Albanese remarked during the Quadrilateral summit, “We will act in awareness of the fact that climate change…

Administrator_India
May 24, 2022

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At the Quad Summit, Australia’s Prime Minister pledges to cut carbon emissions by 43% by 2030

Administrator_India
May 24, 2022

International

Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sri Lanka’s new Prime Minister, has expressed interest in strengthening ties with India

Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sri Lanka’s new Prime Minister, has expressed his desire for better connections with India during his term and praised India for its economic help as the country grapples with its worst economic crisis since independence. On Thursday, Wickremesinghe,…

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May 13, 2022

International

World Bank lowers Pakistan’s economic growth forecast to 4.3%

Citing the additional burden on the budget put by the last-ditch energy subsidies by the outgoing Imran Khan government, the World Bank on Wednesday reduced Pakistan’s economic growth rate forecast for the current fiscal year by almost one percent, reported local…

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Apr 14, 2022

International

Sri Lankan economic crisis: President Rajapaksa’s grip on power weakens

The parliamentary majority of Sri Lanka’s ruling coalition headed by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has come under threat with dissident lawmakers, led by former president Maithripala Sirisena, planning to break away from the government against the backdrop of nationwide protests over the country’s…

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Apr 5, 2022

International

Sri Lanka crisis: State of emergency still in place as curfew lifted

The 36-hour long curfew that was imposed on Sri Lanka on Saturday evening has been lifted on Monday at 6 am but the country is still under the effect of a state of emergency. The curfew was imposed on Saturday from…

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Apr 4, 2022

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China reports 1,219 new local cases of coronavirus in last 24 hours

The Chinese mainland reported 1,219 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the National Health Commission said on Monday. Of the new local infections, 1,086 were reported in Jilin, 50 in Shanghai, 12 in Liaoning, and 10 in Heilongjiang. A…

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Mar 28, 2022

Google to send air raid alerts to Android users

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Google to send air raid alerts to Android users in Ukraine before attacks

Google has initiated air raid alerts for Android users in Ukraine directly on their phones before expected attacks happen near them. At the request, and with the help, of the government of Ukraine, Google has started rolling out a rapid Air Raid Alerts system for…

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Mar 11, 2022

International

Indian students stranded in Ukraine’s Sumy see ‘no ray of hope’

“It has been 10 days (since) we have been waiting here but there is no ray of hope (as to) when we will be evacuated,” says a distraught Indian medical student stranded in the embattled northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy…

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Mar 8, 2022

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Russia- Ukraine crisis: Rescue plans & a look at past evacuations

India sounded airlines on Monday to plan flights to evacuate Indians stuck in Ukraine. Under the Aircraft Act, the government can ask airlines to make their aircraft available during an emergency. While sources said Air India and SpiceJet had planned to operate four flights, all plans had to…

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Feb 25, 2022