New Delhi: – India supported the proposal to consider expansion in the number of members, in the New Development Bank (NDB) established by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, the BRICS countries. Currently, only five countries are members of the bank. The bank was established in 2014, as an alternative to the World Bank […]
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Kolkata: 13 Bangladesh citizens, trying to infiltrate through the international border in the 24 Pargana district of West Bengal, were arrested by soldiers from the Border Security Force (BSF). These Bangladeshis were illegally living in India since the last few years. A few days ago, they had visited Bangladesh to meet some relatives, and they […]
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New Delhi: Jag Anand, a ship of the Indian merchant navy, has been detained by China at the Jingtang port for the last five months. There are 23 Indian sailors on the ship, and as per reports, most of these people are developing health problems. The ship, carrying 170,000 tonnes of coal, reached the Chinese […]
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Kabul: On Sunday, eight people were killed, when the Taliban targeted the civilian settlements at Nav Abad, in the city of Ghazni, in Afghanistan with mortars. Within a few hours of the attack, there was a blast in Kandahar, injuring more than 30 people. The number of Taliban attacks have increased by 50%, in the […]
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New Delhi: Model of the ‘Mission Shakti’ missile, which demonstrated the Indian defence might, by striking a satellite in the space, was inaugurated on Monday. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the model at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Bhavan, in New Delhi. This system is being looked at as the symbol of Indian […]
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New Delhi: The Indian Coast Guard chased and arrested a suspicious boat, near the Andaman-Nicobar Islands. There were 12 fishermen from Myanmar on the boat. All these were illegally fishing in the Indian marine limits. They have been handed over to the Pot Blaire police and they are being thoroughly interrogated. A Coast Guard helicopter […]
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Geneva: The organisation monitoring the functioning of the United Nations made vitriolic criticism that because of the history of human rights in Pakistan, the Pakistani presence in the Human Rights Commission is unbearable. At the same time, this organisation has presented a list of reasons to refuse the candidature of Pakistan in the Human Rights […]
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New Delhi: The weather bureau, which releases the weather forecasts, will also be predicting about Malaria epidemics, from the next rainy season. M. Rajeevan, the Secretary of the Earth Science Ministry, gave this information. Rajeevan clarified that the research done at Nagpur would be used for this purpose. M. Rajeevan was speaking at a function […]
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New Delhi: Nitin Gadkari, the Union Minister for Road Transport and Micro, Small and Medium industry, said that goal has been set to make India the global hub for vehicle manufacturing, in the next five years and the government is working in that direction. Gadkari said that the policy to encourage the vehicle manufacturing industry […]
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New Delhi: ISRO launched the Earth Observation Satellite (EOS-01) which will augment the surveillance capabilities of the Armed Forces. Ten satellites were launched by ISRO on Saturday using the PSLV C-49 launch rocket. These include nine foreign satellites. Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the scientists at ISRO for the achievement. On Saturday, the satellites were […]
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