Protests erupt in Abkhazia over pro-Moscow property measure Demonstrators in Abkhazia stormed government buildings to oppose a proposal allowing Russians to buy property, fearing it would inflate prices and increase Moscow's influence. Korean Drones To Hit Ukraine? North Korea Boosts Drone Output After Troops For Russia| Watch Video North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered mass production of suicide drones after supervising successful tests. This development, occurring amid strengthening m...Read More
Still, the ongoing U.N. climate talks have thrown a spotlight on their efforts to tackle global warming. While the COP29 summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, is tasked with agreeing a goal to mobilize hundreds of billions of dollars for climate, leaders of the Group of 20 major economies half a world away in Rio are holding the purse strings. G20 countries account for 85% of the world's economy and are the largest contributors to multilateral development banks helping to steer climate finance. "The sp...Read More
"The West has decided on such a level of escalation that it could end with the Ukrainian statehood in complete ruins by morning," Andrei Klishas, a senior member of the Federation Council, Russia's upper chamber of parliament, said on the Telegram messaging app. Vladimir Dzhabarov, first deputy head of the Russian upper house's international affairs committee, said that Moscow's response will be immediate. "This is a very big step towards the start of World War Three," the TASS state news agen...Read More
Part of the deal involves assistance to boost mining supply chains. Peru is one of the world's top copper producers, while Japan is a major consumer of the key industrial metal. In the aftermath of the APEC summit, Peru also inked a defense cooperation deal with South Korea, including a submarine agreement with Hyundai Heavy Industries and another deal with Korea Aerospace Industries to manufacture parts for fighter aircraft, according to Boluarte's foreign minister. Last week, Peru formally i...Read More
The escalating conflict could upset a hard-fought consensus that G20 negotiators reached around 5 a.m. on Sunday, after an overnight push to ready the joint statement for final review by leaders arriving in Rio. That preliminary consensus after six days of negotiations included streamlined language about global conflicts including the war in Ukraine, focusing on the need to negotiate peace rather than criticism of any participants. However, sources said even that "simpler" consensus may now be...Read More
General Brice Oligui Nguema, who is interim president, has touted Saturday's vote as a sign of the government's commitment to a democratic transition, tentatively scheduled for summer 2025. Military officers seized power in a coup in August last year. The Gabonese largely welcomed the ouster of President Ali Bongo. His family's poor management of the central African country's oil wealth had led to a stagnant economy and a third of the population living in poverty. The proposed new constitution...Read More
November is halfway through, and you, just like me, might also be wondering: When will winter start in Delhi? The national capital is already grappling with severe fog. Its air quality is regularly dipping to dangerous levels; the city was declared the most polluted capital city in the world on Wednesday. But where did this mess begin? We need to go back in history, to 2 October 1974, to track the origin. The meteorological department recorded a maximum temperature of 34°C and a minimum of 22...Read More
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday claimed that there were differences between the Centre and the Yogi Adityanath-led government in Uttar Pradesh on various issues and that the BJP was trying to disturb social atmosphere fearing its loss in the by-elections in the state. Campaigning for his party candidates in the Katehari and Majhawan Assembly constituencies, the SP chief said...Read More
A Russian strike on a nine-story building in the city of Sumy in northern Ukraine killed eight people and wounded dozens, an official said Sunday (November 17, 2024), as Russia launched a massive drone and missile attack described by officials as the largest in recent months. "Among the eight killed in Sumy, 40 kilometers (24 miles) from the border with Russia, were two children," said Ukraine's Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko. More than 400 people were evacuated from the building. ...Read More
Kabul [Afghanistan], November 18 (ANI): An earthquake of magnitude 4.5 on the Richter scale jolted Afghanistan on Monday, according to the National Centre of Seismology (NCS). The NCS said that the earthquake hit at 2:15 am (IST), at a depth of 15 kilometres. The epicentre of the earthquake was recorded at Latitude 33.13 N and Longitude 68.84 E. NCS_Earthquake/status/1858252724233740559" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://x.com/NCS_Earthquake/status/1858252724233740559 "EQ of M: 4.5, On: ...Read More
Bathinda: Leader of opposition in Punjab assembly Partap Singh Bajwa has said that two top leaders of AAP are patronising separate candidates in Barnala assembly constituency for the Nov 20 bypoll. If one top leader is patronising the official party candidate, the other one is patronising a rebel candidate, he said. Bajwa, speaking to media in Barnala on Sunday afternoon, said it was for the people to decide which candidate to vote for, AAP or its rebel. "But we want that both should be rejec...Read More
Chandigarh: After the central govt led by BJP faced backlash over the proposed land allocation to Haryana for a new assembly building in Chandigarh, Punjab governor and UT administrator Gulab Chand Kataria on Sunday clarified that no land has been allocated for the purpose. Responding to a question during an event at Panjab University, Kataria stated, "No land has been allocated yet. Haryana's proposal has been pending for a long time, but nothing can be said until a decision is made on this ...Read More
Jalandhar: Sohan Singh Thandal, a former Shiromani Akali Dal minister who is now a BJP candidate for Chabbewal assembly seat, faces backlash from the SAD after posting videos on social media featuring its local politicians and claiming their support, a claim that his former party has condemned as misleading and false. Thandal on Saturday shared a video of SAD general council member Jarnail Singh Baddon, who opposed some Akali politicians' rationale behind boycotting Thandal without official d...Read More
Chandigarh: Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is busy carrying out scams, one after the other, and alleged it is involved in "huge scams in the health services". Hooda, while reacting to the latest report of Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), said the govt has not only looted crores of public money, but has also played with the lives of people. Hooda said the CAG report has completely exposed the scams of the BJP and mad...Read More
Chandigarh: Once voting concludes for the four assembly bypolls in Punjab on Nov 20, incumbent Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) govt will brace for another high-stakes battle -- civic body elections in five key cities of the state. The party will be banking on its narrative of development works being carried out during its 2.5 years in power. Even though the Supreme Court had on Nov 11 asked state govt to complete the entire election process of the five corporations and 43 municipal councils in eight...Read More