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Morning Digest | CWC resolves to make INDIA bloc an electoral success; V-P Dhankar to hoist national flag at new Parliament building today, and more

September 17, 2023 admin

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, former president Sonia Gandhi, and party senior leaders being welcomed on their arrival for the newly constituted Congress Working Committee (CWC) in Hyderabad on Saturday, September 16, 2023. | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL Congress Working Committee resolves to make INDIA bloc an ideological and electoral success The newly constituted Congress Working…

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Slack CEO Lidiane Jones On Riding AI Wave

September 17, 2023 admin

Slack is a widely used workplace messaging platform San Francisco: Artificial Intelligence is transforming Slack, the widely used workplace messaging platform, its CEO told AFP just nine months after taking on one of the most high profile jobs in Silicon Valley. Lidiane Jones was handed the reins to Slack after the departure of its co-founder…

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Top China Minister Li Shangfu’s Disappearance Puts Question Mark On Xi Jinping’s Rule

September 17, 2023 admin

China’s Defence Minister Li Shangfu was last seen in August Beijing: The disappearance of China’s defence minister, the latest in a string of upheavals in the country’s top ranks, is stoking uncertainty about President Xi Jinping’s rule as an internal security clampdown trumps international engagement. The growing unpredictability could affect the confidence other countries place…

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Prepare For Long War In Ukraine, Warns NATO Chief

September 17, 2023 admin

Frankfurt, Germany: NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has warned there will be no swift end to the Ukraine war, in an interview published Sunday, as Kyiv pushes on with its counteroffensive against Russia. “Most wars last longer than expected when they first begin,” Stoltenberg said in an interview with Germany’s Funke media group. “Therefore we must prepare…

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12 Passengers, 2 Crew Killed After Plane Crashes In Brazil

September 16, 2023 admin

Brazilian media reports said there were no survivors of the crash. (Representational) Rio De Janeiro: Fourteen people were killed Saturday when a plane crashed in the Brazilian Amazon in the northern town of Barcelos, a popular tourist stop, the governor of Amazonas state said. Twelve passengers and two crew were killed in the accident, Governor…

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Special U.N. summit, protests, week of talk turn up heat on fossil fuels and global warming

September 16, 2023 admin

The heat is about to be turned up on fossil fuels, the United States and President Joe Biden. As a record-smashing and deadly hot summer draws to a close, the United Nations and the city that hosts it are focusing on climate change and the burning of coal, oil and natural gas that causes it….

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Sudan’s Burhan holds talks in Uganda as battles rage in Khartoum

September 16, 2023 admin

Clashes around Khartoum’s military headquarters where Abdel Fattah al-Burhan had been holed up until last month. | Photo Credit: Reuters Sudan’s de facto leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan held talks on September 16 with Uganda’s veteran President Yoweri Museveni on his latest diplomatic foray abroad. The Sudanese general was pictured meeting with Museveni at State House…

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Pakistan court objects to reopen case of Bhagat Singh’s sentencing

September 16, 2023 admin

A Pakistani court on September 16 raised an objection on a plea to reopen the case of Independence war hero Bhagat Singh’s sentencing in 1931 and to set it aside by exercising the principles of review and honour him with posthumous state awards. Singh was hanged by the British rulers on March 23, 1931, along…

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British actor-comedian Russell Brand denies media allegations of sex assaults

September 16, 2023 admin

File picture of Russell Brand | Photo Credit: Reuters British comedian and actor Russell Brand has denied any criminal wrongdoing as the Sunday Times newspaper reported four women had accused him of sexual assaults, including rape, during a seven-year period when he was at the height of his fame. Brand, 48, the former husband of…

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The frontrunner | Mohamed Muizzu

September 16, 2023 admin

It was no secret that Mohamed Muizzu entered the Maldives’s presidential race only because former President Abdulla Yameen could not. In fact, local media often called him the opposition People’s National Congress- Progressive Party of Maldives combine’s ‘plan C’, after the Supreme Court barred Mr. Yameen from contesting, and party members ruled out Dr. Mohamed…

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