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June 28, 2024 7:08 PM
The Indian government has announced the appointment of Vikram Misri as the country's new Foreign Secretary. Misri, a 1989-batch officer of the Indian Foreign Service, will succeed Vinay Mohan Kwatra in this crucial diplomatic role. The Appointments ...
June 28, 2024 6:27 PM
146 Indian students have been selected for the esteemed Erasmus Mundus scholarships for the 2024 academic year. 75 women and 71 men will pursue two-year Master's programmes across Europe, making India one of the top recipients of the scholarship. Th...
June 28, 2024 5:32 PM
India has achieved an "outstanding outcome" in the 2023-24 Mutual Evaluation by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). The evaluation by FATF highlights India's effective measures to combat money laundering (ML) and terrorist financing (TF), incl...
June 28, 2024 4:57 PM
The heatwave in Saudi Arabia blamed for the deaths of 1,300 people on the haj pilgrimage this month was made worse by climate change, a team of European scientists said on Friday. Temperatures along the route from June 16 to 18 reached 47 degrees Ce...
June 28, 2024 4:46 PM
German businesses view India as a highly "stable place" to invest, according to Germany's ambassador Philipp Ackermann, who expects increased German investment in India once the India-EU Free Trade Agreement addresses existing tax and tariff "impedim...
June 28, 2024 4:12 PM
In Russia's far northeastern Yakutia region, local scientists are performing an autopsy on a wolf frozen in permafrost for around 44,000 years, a find they said was the first of its kind. Found by chance by locals in Yakutia's Abyyskiy district in 2...
June 28, 2024 5:08 PM
Large areas of federal land in Alaska will be protected from development to conserve fish and wildlife habitats that are important to native communities' way of life, under two measures announced by the Biden administration on Friday. The steps by t...
June 28, 2024 3:01 PM
Chinese President Xi Jinping called on Friday for the building of "bridges" in the global economy, as Beijing grapples with economic, trade and territorial disputes with neighbours and trading partners. The world's second-largest economy will never ...
June 28, 2024 2:54 PM
The 1983 World Cup-winning captain Kapil Dev has praised Team India skipper Rohit Sharma's captaincy, saying that the team has performed "wonderfully well" in the ongoing T20 World Cup under the 37-year-old's leadership. In an interview with ANI, ...
June 28, 2024 3:17 PM
American singer-songwriter, novelist, and satirist Kinky Friedman has passed away at the age of 79. His death was confirmed on his official social media account, as reported by People. "Kinky Friedman stepped on a rainbow at his beloved Echo Hill, s...
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