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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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Agency Islamabad: Officials from India and Pakistan have discussed a wide range of water-related issues during a meeting as part of the Permanent Commission on Indus Waters (PCIW), the Foreign Office said on Tuesday.A six-member…
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Agency United Nations: Pakistan-based terror groups such as Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba, led by 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed, maintain their training camps in some provinces of Afghanistan and some of them…
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Los Angeles/Mumbai: Canadian rapper-singer Drake has paid a tribute to popular Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala, who was shot dead on Sunday by unidentified assailants in Punjab's Mansa district. The 27-year-old singer, also a Congress…
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United Nations: Pakistan-based terror groups such as Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba, led by 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed, maintain their training camps in some provinces of Afghanistan and some of them are…
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