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New Delhi: India – one of the world’s biggest consumers of crude oil – does not have a “political strategy” that informs its purchases, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said Friday at a press conference in Kyiv, shortly after Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelensky. Responding to a question about India overtaking…
Kamala Harris has used her presidential acceptance speech to present herself as a leader who could unite all Americans to chart a “new way forward” and warned them of “extremely serious” consequences of putting her Republican rival Donald Trump back in the White House. Vice President Harris, who is of Indian and African heritage, on…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during presentation of BHISHM cube to Ukraine, in Kyiv, on August 23, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar on Friday (August 23, 2024) said that India has handed over 10 BHISHM cubes, which contain medical support equipment of 22 tonnes along…
Vaccines by Denmark’s Bavarian Nordic and Japan’s KM Biologics, are already approved. (Representational) London: The World Health Organization said on Friday its partners like Gavi and Unicef can start buying mpox vaccines before they are approved in a bid to get inoculations to Africa faster as the continent battles an escalating outbreak of the virus….
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Mike Lynch had invited friends and family onto the sailing boat (File) Porticello, Italy: Divers searching for the last person missing after a superyacht sank off Sicily found a body Friday, presumed to be the teenage daughter of UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch, who also perished. The discovery, confirmed to AFP by the Italian coastguard,…
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Daily Quiz | On U.S. vice presidential candidates John Adams, the first Vice President of the United States START THE QUIZ 1 / 5 | Only two other politicians (since World War II) were elected as Vice Presidents of the U.S. and were from the state of Minnesota before Tim Walz was added to the…
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External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said it has taken up with Qatar reports of seizure of copies of the Guru Granth Sahib. | Photo Credit: Special arrangements. India on Friday (August 23, 2024) said it has taken up with Qatar reports of seizure of copies of the Guru Granth Sahib, and is according high priority…
George Bush was not at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago Heading into the glitzy final night of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, speculation was rife online about who would be the much vaunted special guest, with figures from ex Republican President George W Bush to superstar musician Beyonce and Taylor Swift in…
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Kamala Harris accepted her party’s presidential nomination on a glitzy final night in Chicago. (File) Chicago: Kamala Harris and Donald Trump set out Friday on the final 10-week sprint to election day, with the Democrat surging after an electrifying speech accepting the Democratic Party nomination. Less than three weeks before the presidential debate between the…
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Thailand’s new Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra. | Photo Credit: AFP Thailand has postponed its hosting of next month’s BIMSTEC summit of the leaders of seven mostly South Asian countries until after a new administration is formed, its foreign ministry said on Friday (August 23, 2024). Thailand currently has a caretaker government following a court’s dismissal…
