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Coast Guard rescues Sri Lankan with critical heart condition
Chennai: The Indian Coast Guard on Friday said it has rescued a Sri Lankan national with a critical heart condition onboard a drifting vessel, about 100 nautical miles from here and airlifted…
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Pak PM orders fool-proof security arrangements for Chinese nationals
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday directed all the security agencies to ensure fool-proof security arrangements for the Chinese nationals working on various projects in the country. He chaired a…
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UN Security Council meeting briefly interrupted due to rare earthquake in NY
New York: A meeting of the UN Security Council was briefly interrupted as a rare 4.8 magnitude earthquake hit the New York area Friday morning. The UN diplomats were in the Security…
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India removes export curbs on food items for Maldives
New Delhi: India on Friday removed export curbs on specified quantities of certain commodities such as eggs, potatoes, onions, rice, wheat flour, sugar, and dal for the Maldives during the current fiscal…
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Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif to visit Saudi Arabia visit from Saturday
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will embark on his maiden three-day visit to Saudi Arabia from Saturday to meet the Saudi leadership and discuss issues of mutual interest, it was announced…
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X users begin to lose followers as Musk cracks down on bots, trolls
New Delhi: X users on Friday started losing followers as Elon Musk-run social media platform kicked off the exercise to remove bots. The action came as spam and porn bots swarmed the…
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US support of Gaza war hinges on Israel’s steps to protect civilians: Biden to Netanyahu
Washington: US President Joe Biden on Thursday told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that America’s support of Israel’s war in Gaza would be determined by the latter announcing and implementing a “series…
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Have not asked India to reduce its imports of Russian crude oil: US
New Delhi: The US on Thursday said it has not asked India to reduce its imports of Russian crude oil and that the G7 price cap was designed to force Moscow to…
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Amid decline in Indian tourists, Maldives min calls India ‘friend’
Male: The Maldives still considers India a friend, the tourism-dependent country’s economic minister has said while defending President Mohamed Muizzu’s stand against the presence of “foreign soldiers” in the archipelago nation in…
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Nearly 1 million Bangladeshis may slip into poverty: World Bank
Dhaka: Nearly 1 million Bangladeshi people are projected to join the ranks of the moderately poor, who earn less than $3.65 a day in purchasing power parity (PPP), said the World Bank…