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10Aug

By komalNo Comments

World

Australia flags democracies’ trade swing from China to India

CANBERRA: Australian special envoy and former Prime Minister Tony Abbott said a trade agreement between his nation and India would signal the "democratic world's tilt faraway from ChinaAbbott visited New Delhi last week as Australia's special trade envoy for India because the Australian government gives priority to sealing a bilateral trade deal. In an opinion piece likely to anger Beijing that was published within the Australian newspaper on Monday, Abbott said the "answer to almost every question about China is India With the world's other emerging superpower becoming more belligerent almost by the day, it's in everyone's interests that India take its rightful place among the nations as quickly as possible," Abbott wrote. "Because trade deals are about politics the maximum amount as econ...

12Jul

By komalNo Comments

Science, World

Third-wave already set in, says Hyderabad physicist

DR .Vipin Srivastava, a leading physicist, and former pro-vice-chancellor, Hyderabad University (UOH), told toi that the pattern of new Covid-19 infection and death in the country since July 4 appeared similar to the first week of February 2021, when the wave The two Covid-19 hit the country with the end of April. He warned that the third wave could take momentum if people failed to follow the Covid-19 protocol such as social Distance, sanitation, wore masks, and vaccination. According to the report by Times India, physicists have developed three metrics about the development of pandemic After analyzing Covid-19 data in death for 461 days now. One of the metrics or actions analyzed showed signs of the Emergence of new (third) covid-19 waves since July 4. He has named the metric "Dail...

12Jun

By bidenNo Comments

World

Thousands march in support of Muslim family killed in truck attack in Canada

Thousands of people marched on Friday in support of a Canadian Muslim family run over and killed by a man driving a pick-up truck last Sunday in an attack the police described as a hate crime. The four victims, spanning three generations, were killed when Nathaniel Veltman, 20, ran into them while they were out for an evening walk near their home. A fifth family member, a 9-year-old boy, survived. People in London, Ontario marched about 7 kilometers (4.4 miles) from the spot where the family was struck down to a nearby mosque, the site close to where Veltman was arrested by police. Some carried placards with messages reading ‘Hate has no home here’, ‘Love over hate.’ Similar events were held in other cities in Ontario, Canada’s most populous province. “The best part was not just the number...

25Mar

By ElizabethNo Comments

World

Biden calls for ban on assault weapons

U.S. saw mass shootings within a week, wherein 18 U.S. citizen were killed After a gunman opened fire in a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, U.S. President Joe Biden requested Congress to prohibit weapons and mandate stricter background checks to purchase arms. The House of Representatives had exceeded laws earlier this month that might require extra background checks for gun buyers — the Bills are yet to be passed through the lightly split Senate, in which it'd require a majority of 60. "I don't want to wait every other minute — let alone an hour — to take common-sense steps with a purpose to save the lives withinside the future, and I urge my colleagues withinside the House and Senate to act," Mr. Biden stated in comments delivered on the White House on Tuesday. "We can ban weapons an...

20Feb

By ElizabethNo Comments

World

Explained: In Australia vs Facebook, issues affecting media everywhere

Australian PM Morrison has called Narendra Modi, widening efforts to drum up support for his media code that seeks to make Big Tech pay for content. What's at stake; what lies ahead? Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison said in a tweet on Friday that he had spoken to Prime Minister Narendra Modi the previous day on a range of issues, and also “discussed progress of our media platform bill”. Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison said in a tweet on Friday that he had addressed Prime Minister Narendra Modi the earlier day on a scope of issues, and furthermore "talked about advancement of our media stage bill". Morrison has dispatched a worldwide discretionary hostile to find uphold for Australia's proposed law to drive Internet goliaths Facebook and Google to pay media organizations...

2Dec

By adminNo Comments

World

UK To Vaccinate People Against Covid From Next Week, Clears Pfizer Shot

London: England on Wednesday turned into the principal nation on the planet to support the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 antibody for use and said that it will be turned out from right on time one week from now. An immunization is viewed as the most obvious opportunity for the world to return to some similarity to ordinariness in the midst of a worldwide pandemic which has executed almost 1.5 million individuals and overturned the worldwide economy. "The public authority has today acknowledged the proposal from the autonomous Medicines and Healthcare items Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to support Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 antibody for use," the public authority said. "The immunization will be made accessible over the UK from one week from now." England's immunization board of trustees w...

1Dec

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India, Politics, World

“Ill-Informed”: India Reacts Sharply To Trudeau’s Farmer Protest Remarks

New Delhi: Remarks by Canadian leaders identifying with kisans in India are "badly educated" and "unjustifiable", India said today after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said something regarding the kisans' dissent, saying the "circumstance is unsettling". "We have seen some badly educated remarks by Canadian leaders identifying with kisans in India. Such remarks are outlandish, particularly when relating to the inside undertakings of a majority rule nation," Foreign Ministry representative Anurag Srivastava said in the public authority's answer to Mr Trudeau's assertions. "It is additionally best that strategic discussions are not distorted for political purposes," India said in the short message. Sponsorship kisans who have strengthened their disturbance against the new ho...

17Nov

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Business, India, World

Slaying the dragon: 71% Indians boycotted Chinese goods this Diwali

Heeding the call to boycott China from various quarters, Indian consumers have mostly stayed away from purchasing China-made products this festive season. According to a LocalCircles survey, 71 per cent of local consumers did not purchase goods that carried a ‘Made in China’ tag. The survey — conducted by the community social media platform among 14,000 Indian consumers spread over 204 districts — shows only 29 per cent of consumers purchased one or more China-made products. Of these, 11 per cent were unaware while purchasing them, while 16 per cent were informed buyers. China-made products — from smartphones and electrical components to home décor items — gained traction here since the mid-2000s, when they flooded the markets with their cheaper alternatives. Among consumers who p...

17Nov

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Business, India, World

PM Modi to attend virtual summit of BRICS today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend a virtual summit of the influential grouping BRICS on Tuesday which will focus on cooperation in counter-terrorism, trade, health, energy and ways to offset impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Chinese President Xi Jinping, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and Russian President Vladimir Putin are scheduled to attend the 12th summit of the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) grouping. The BRICS summit is taking place at a time two of the bloc''s members, India and China, are locked in a bitter border standoff in eastern Ladakh for over six months. Both Modi and Xi had come face-to-face virtually at the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on November 10. "At the invitation of President Putin, Prime Ministe...

17Nov

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India, World

Malabar Exercise 2020: Second phase begins on November 17, INS Vikramaditya, USS Nimitz to participate

The second phase of Malabar Exercise 2020 is scheduled to start on Tuesday (November 17) in the Northern Arabian Sea. According to an official press release, the exercise will conclude on November 20. The exercise will involve coordinated operations between the navies of India, the US, Australia and Japan. Experts maintain that the second phase of Malabar Exercise 2020 will take forward the synergy achieved between the navies of the four countries in the recently concluded Phase 1 of Malabar Exercise. It may be recalled that first phase of the crucial execise was conducted in the Bay of Bengal from November 3-6. Phase 2 of Malabar Exercise 2020 will witness joint operations, centred around the Vikramaditya Carrier Battle Group of the Indian Navy and Nimitz Carrier Strike Group of the...