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A hazardous hydrogen leak halted NASA’s latest effort to ignite its massive moon rocket for a countdown test on April 14, the latest in a series of perplexing mechanical problems. When the leak occurred, the … Read more
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar met with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on April 15 for a “wide-ranging talk” in which they discussed the global implications of the Ukraine war, as well as the situations … Read more
An explosion has “seriously damaged” Russia’s Black Sea flagship involved in the naval assault on Ukraine, state television claimed on Thursday, as Moscow vowed to hit Kyiv’s command headquarters. With the crisis in Ukraine now … Read more
COVID in China: On Thursday, China’s financial hub Shanghai recorded a new high of over 27,000 coronavirus cases, a day after President Xi Jinping stated the government must maintain its tight “dynamic COVID clearance” strategy … Read more
Nepal’s forex reserves: Nepal’s economy appears to be following in the footsteps of Sri Lanka. The country is in the midst of an economic crisis that has pushed prices skyrocketing and foreign exchange reserves plummeting. … Read more
Tencent Holdings Ltd has said that it will shut down a service that allowed Chinese gamers to access international platforms to play banned foreign games, signaling a tightening of compliance as Chinese regulators investigate the … Read more
Sri Lanka is seeking India’s help in obtaining at least $3 billion in “bridging finance” from the international community ahead of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings in Washington next week. Sri … Read more
Rupee-Rouble mechanism: Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the European Union has banned global transactions with Russian firms using euro-denominated banknotes, while the United States has restricted Russia’s access to the dollar. As a result, India, … Read more
The Union government has named Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar as a terrorist after he was involved in a series of terror activities in Jammu and Kashmir and was one of the released terrorists in the hijacking … Read more
The World Bank said in its twice-yearly South Asia Economic Focus Reshaping Norms: A New Way Forward, released on Wednesday in the run-up to the World Bank IMF Spring Meetings, that India’s growth will be … Read more