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SINGAPORE: China is continuing to harden its position along the borders with India, US Defence Secretary Lloyd James Austin said on Saturday, stressing that America stands by its friends as they uphold their rights as Beijing adopts…
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STAVANGER: Former world champion Viswanathan Anand scored a win over Aryan Tari in the ninth and final round to finish third in the Norway Chess tournament which was won by world number one Magnus Carlsen.The 52-year-old Indian chess…
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BEIJING: China on Friday attacked the theory that the coronavirus pandemic may have originated as a leak from a Chinese laboratory as a politically motivated lie, after the World Health Organization recommended in its strongest terms…
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Hanoi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday held an excellent meeting with his Vietnamese counterpart General Phan Van Giang as the two countries signed the Joint Vision Statement on India-Vietnam Defence Partnership towards 2030'…
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WASHINGTON: The World Bank on Tuesday cut India's economic growth forecast for the current fiscal to 7.5 per cent as rising inflation, supply chain disruptions and geopolitical tensions taper recovery.This is the second time that the…
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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has sought a USD 55 million loan from India for the procurement of urea amidst its worst economic crisis threatening a severe food shortage, an official said on Tuesday.Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had…
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Agency Dhaka: A massive fire and a series of explosions at a private chemical container depot in southeastern Bangladesh killed at least 49 people, including nine firefighters, and injured more than 450 others, officials said on Sunday,…
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Dhaka: At least 40 people were killed and over 450 injured in a massive fire caused by an explosion that swept through a private chemical container depot in southeastern Bangladesh, officials said on Sunday. On Saturday night, the fire…
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KATHMANDU: The last rites of the four members of an Indian family, who were killed along with 18 others in the Tara Air plane crash in Nepal's mountainous Mustang district, were performed on Thursday on the banks of Bagmati river near…
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STATE TIMES NEWS LEH: Ladakh Territorial Congress Committee headed by its president Nawang Rigzin Jora paid tributes to former Union Minister P. Namgyal on his 2nd death anniversary in Leh on Wednesday.Recounting P. Namgyal's tremendous…
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