China’s Swap Connect further enhanced to promote financial opening up

BEIJING, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Swap Connect, which is about to celebrate its first anniversary, is ready to further promote the opening up of China’s financial market as regulators made new arrangements under the scheme. ...

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Wednesday, 15 May 2024
MoS Rajkumar Singh receives SAARC Secy-General on his inaugural visit to India

New Delhi [India], May 14 (ANI): Minister of State for External Affairs, Rajkumar Ranjan Singh, on Tuesday, received SAARC Secretary-General Golam Sarwar on his inaugural visit to India. The Union Minister wished him the best for ...

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Tuesday, 14 May 2024
India to host South Africa women’s team for all-format tour, three-match ODI series begins June 16

New Delhi [India], May 14 (ANI): The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Tuesday announced the schedule for the upcoming South Africa’s all-format women’s tour of India. A BCCI release said that as part of South Afric ...

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Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Dow Jones closes up 127 points despite Fed inflation warning

NEW YORK, New York — U.S. stocks made modest gains on Tuesday, particularly in the tech sector, despite the Federal Reserve chair admitting inflation is staying higher than the Fed anticipated and that interest rates will likely hav ...

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Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Ukraine can use British weapons to strike Crimea defense secretary

Russia has threatened retaliation for any attacks with UK-supplied arms against its territory Ukraine can use any weapons supplied by the UK to launch strikes on Russia’s Crimean Peninsula, Defense Secretary Grant Shapps confirme ...

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Tuesday, 14 May 2024
India seals deal to operate Iran’s Chabahar port

New Delhi — India and Iran have signed a 10-year contract to develop and operate the Iranian port of Chabahar, which New Delhi envisages as a strategic trade route to landlocked Central Asian republics, allowing it to bypass rival P ...

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Tuesday, 14 May 2024
UK: Kashmiris protest outside Pakistani consulate in solidarity with ongoing PoJK unrest

Bradford [UK], May 14 (ANI): As dissent grew in the Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK), the members of the United Kashmir People’s National Party (UKPNP) staged a protest outside the Pakistani consulate in Bradford City of t ...

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Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Asia to contribute 60 pc of global growth in 2024: IMF official

Tokyo [Japan], May 14 (ANI): Asia remains the engine of economic growth and it is on track to deliver 60 per cent of global growth this year, said IMF Deputy Managing Director Okamura. The global economy has shown surprising resilie ...

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Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Total victory for Israel unlikely US State Department

Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell has expressed doubt that the IDF is capable of completely eradicating Hamas The US does not believe Israel can decisively triumph over Hamas in Gaza, Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell ...

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Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Asia Album: Strawberry harvest in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan

Farmers harvest strawberries in Khogyani District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, May 12, 2024. (Photo by Aimal Zahir/Xinhua) JALALABAD, Afghanistan, May 14 (Xinhua) -- Farmers were busy harvesting strawberries in Nangarh ...

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Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Pakistan: Islamabad Court approves Imran Khan, Bushra Bibi’s plea seeking medical examination

Islamabad [Pakistan], May 13 (ANI): An accountability court in Islamabad, on Monday, approved Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi’s plea seeking medical examination, reported ARY News. The A ...

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Monday, 13 May 2024
Canada whitewashing Nazi crimes Russian prosecutor-general

Igor Krasnov blasted Ottawa’s refusal to prosecute SS veteran Yaroslav Hunka, honored last year by Parliament Ottawa’s failure to prosecute a former Nazi soldier amounts to its government "whitewashing" the crimes of Adolf Hitler ...

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Monday, 13 May 2024
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