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Jaishankar on Wednesday embarked on a two-day visit to Kyrgystan to attend the 22nd meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Heads of Government (CHG), to be held under the chairmanship of Kyrgyzstan, the Ministry of External Affairs said. The October 25-October 26 meeting in the Kyrgyz capital city of Bishkek will be attended by the heads of governments of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the Vice-President of Iran, and the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan. «In Bishkek, the external affairs minister will also meet with his counterparts from other SCO member states and call on the country's top leadership,» the MEA statement read. SCO observer States including Belarus and Mongolia as well as guest state Turkmenistan will also attend the meeting. The CHG is the second-highest forum in SCO.

The former CEO of Systematic Alpha Management LLC (SAM) pleaded guilty to a conspiracy to commit commodities fraud involving crypto futures contracts, and he is potentially facing up to a five-year prison sentence.

The former CEO of a Miami-based investment firm has pled guilty to a conspiracy to commit commodities fraud involving crypto futures contracts and now faces up to five years in prison. 

Mint is now on WhatsApp Channels Subscribe today by clicking the link and stay updated with the latest financial insights! Click here! This exiled Belarusian opposition figure has challenged Alexander Lukashenko's regime. Advocating democracy and fighting against vote tampering, her story is one of resilience. The ICJ, known for its role in resolving state disputes, might receive recognition for its contributions to global peace.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered one of the top commanders of the Wagner military contractor to take charge of “volunteer units” fighting in Ukraine

GENEVA (Reuters) -Global health aid agency Unitaid has written to Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ)'s (J&J) CEO Joaquin Duato, urging «immediate action» to expand access to the company's tuberculosis drug bedaquiline, which is protected by patents hindering generic alternatives.

Here’s some of the charts looking at what’s at stake: Indians make up nearly a fifth of immigrants to Canada, the highest share from a single place of birth since 1971, according to government data. However, remittances from Canada were less than 1% of the total flowing into India and this is in part due to immigrants permanently settling down in Canada and bringing over their families. Immigration accounts for 90% of Canada’s labor force growth as there is fast-aging working population.

Antim Panghal, India's next big star, has earned India's first wrestling quota for the Paris Olympics by virtue of winning a bronze at the world championship Belgrade. She defeated two-time European Champion Emma Malmgren of Sweden by technical superiority with a 16-6 score Friday in the women's 53kg women's freestyle wrestling . The world championship offered five quota places in each weight category for men and women. With this, India has so far grabbed 16 quota including eight direct qualification in athletics and seven quota places in shooting sports. In shooting and wrestling, the quota is earned for the country which the sportsperson represents. In Belgrade, Indian wrestlers however participated as neutral athletes as United World Wrestling suspended Wrestling Federation of India due to a delay in conducting elections. However, it is expected that an election will be held well before the Paris Olympics, which will begin on July 26, 2024.

As Washington seeks to exploit cracks in Russia’s traditional sphere of influence, U.S. forces began joint military exercises with troops from Armenia, the small South Caucasus country that has been a close Russian ally for nearly 200 years. In a possible sign of the geopolitical realignment driven by Russia’s invasion in Ukraine, U.S.

Coco Gauff meets Aryna Sabalenka, the No. 2 seed from Belarus in the U.S. Open Women’s Singles final on Saturday. Both will reach the final at Flushing Meadows for the first time, it will be the second Grand Slam final for both of them. Besides, Gauff will be the first teenage American girl to reach the final of the U.S. Open since 2001, when Serena Williams created ripples.

NATO member plans to spend more than four percent of its gross domestic product on defence next year amid security concerns over the war in neighbouring Ukraine. He announced the sum of 137 billion zloty ($33 billion) at the opening of this year's edition of the region's biggest trade fair for military equipment, the MSPO in Kielce, Poland. «When we see the emerging danger beyond our eastern border… we know perfectly well — history and experience has taught us this — that any price is worth paying to ensure that Poland is free, sovereign, independent and that Poles can live in safety,» Duda said. «Next year, we plan to spend 137 billion zloty on defence. That is more than four percent of our GDP,» he added, quoted by the Polish news agency PAP. That is an increase on the four percent of GDP Poland had pledged to spend on defence this year and much more than the 2 percent agreed by NATO allies. Poland has shown itself to be a staunch ally of Ukraine ever since Russia's invasion last year. More recently, Warsaw has also been sounding the alarm on threats that it says its other neighbour to the east — Belarus — poses, warning against «provocations» especially involving the Wagner mercenary group currently based there. Warsaw has signed multiple arm deals, including with the United States and South Korea, from whom it ordered K2 «Black Panther» tanks and K9 howitzers. Last month, the US approved a $12 billion sale of Apache attack helicopters to Poland, in another example of Warsaw's bid to boost its military capabilities in light of Russia's war in Ukraine. In June, Poland received a first shipment of US-made advanced Abrams tanks.

Russia, Belarus and Iran not to attend this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies as the Nobel Foundation has withdrawn its invitation following “strong reactions" from the Swedish lawmakers. Earlier today, several Swedish lawmakers said they would boycott this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies in Stockholm, after the private foundation that administers the prestigious awards changed its position from a year earlier and invited representatives of the three countries to attend, saying it “promotes opportunities to convey the important messages of the Nobel Prize to everyone." Some of the lawmakers cited Russia's war on Ukraine and the crackdown on human rights in Iran as reasons for their boycott.

Nobel Foundation that administers the prestigious awards, has reversed its invitation policy and invited Russia, Belarus and Iran, as well as the leader of a far-right Swedish party, who had previously been banned. Vidar Helgesen, the executive director of the private foundation said in a statement that there was a global trend in which «dialogue between those with differing views is being reduced.» To counter that, he said, «We are now broadening our invitations to celebrate and understand the Nobel Prize and the importance of free science, free culture and free, peaceful societies.» The foundation said that invitation for the 2023 events was extended to all countries with diplomatic missions in Sweden and Norway and parties «that have parliamentary representation via democratic elections,» adding that «this common approach promotes opportunities to convey the important messages of the Nobel Prize to everyone, and in future this practice will be common to the entire organisation.» Last year, the diplomatic envoys of Russia and Belarus were barred from attending the glittery prize ceremonies and banquets, which always take place on December 10, because of the war in Ukraine, and the ambassador of Iran was also excluded because of «the serious and escalating situation» in the country. All the Nobel Prizes are handed out in Stockholm other than the Nobel Peace Prize, which is awarded in Oslo. The foundation also extended the invitation to the Sweden Democrats party leader Jimmie Akesson who declined it, saying on Facebook that «unfortunately I'm busy that day.» Swedish political party leaders are traditionally invited to the banquet but Akesson, who heads a nationalist party with far-right roots, has been snubbed in the

Poland’s working-age population will decline by nearly a third by 2060 unless the country opens its borders to more migrants from beyond eastern Europe, according to a study by the state statistics office. The projection reflects a dwindling birth rate and highlights political battles over opening the European Union’s sixth-largest economy to more migration. Such a drop would pile more pressure on Poland’s labor-hungry $688 billion economy and strain public finances as the number of retirees surges. In a little less than four decades, Poland’s working-age residents could shrink by 7.1 million from 22.2 million now, according to the study. At the same time, aging populations in neighboring Ukraine and Belarus will reduce the number of workers potentially coming into Poland. “In order to achieve higher levels of immigration, which would make it possible to at least partially compensate for the losses in the labor market, greater diversification of the countries of origin of immigrants will be necessary,” the report said. “This would mean the appearance of more people from culturally different Asian or African countries.”

HYBE, the makers of the current most popular boy band BTS, is looking for a new girl band. The company held worldwide auditions in association with the USA's Geffen Records to create a new global girl group. This is being done on a big scale for Netflix as a docuseries and also on YouTube. The two record companies recently announced the 2024 series and also a companion-piece online show that will begin on Thursday, August 30, as part of their The Debut: Dream Academy. The selection process for the girl group started in November 2021, when 120,000 applications of girl group potentials were screened. The worldwide hunt resulted in 20 candidates being selected. The females come from countries as diverse as Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Thailand, Sweden, Japan, Belarus, Switzerland, Slovakia, the Philippines, South Korea, and the USA. Now, in the docuseries, fans will be able to follow the selected contestants through the final stages of the auditions.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was confirmed dead on Sunday by Russia's Investigatice Committee after a plane crash near Moscow, was a Kremlin confident catapulted to infamy by the offensive in Ukraine before he turned his troops on Russia's capital. Prigozhin's order in June that his private fighting group march on Moscow to unseat Russia's top brass presented the most serious challenge to President Vladimir Putin's hold on power over more than two-decades. His forces captured a key military headquarters in the city of Rostov-on-Don in southern Russian before setting their course for Moscow, where authorities beefed up security in anticipation of a showdown. «The evil that the military leadership of the country brings must be stopped,» Prigozhin announced after claiming the defence ministry had launched strikes on Wagner bases. But the failed bid ended with Putin ultimately offering exile in neighbouring Belarus to the mutineers and Prigozhin, who then appeared in footage vowing to make Africa «freer» and suggested he was on the continent. Before Putin, who accused Prigozhin of treason, ordered troops to Ukraine in February last year, the 62-year-old mercenary head dispatched fighters from his private force to conflicts in the Middle East and Africa but always denied involvement. That changed last year when he announced himself as the founder of the Wagner group and began a mass recruitment drive at Russia's prisons for foot soldiers to fight in exchange for an amnesty. — Bitter top brass rivalry — He gained public acclaim as Wagner spearheaded the capture of several key Ukrainian towns including Bakhmut.

Reuters. Putin is famously known as the leader who does not, would not forgive. In a report AFP recollected that when in 2018 Putin was asked if he was able to forgive people's mistakes, Vladimir Putin thought for a split second.

leadership of the country brings forward must be stopped. They have forgotten the word justice, and we will return it," Prigozhin said in an audio recording posted on Wagner’s social media on June 23. “Anyone attempting resistance will be considered a threat and immediately destroyed." The Wagner leader’s public appearances had been scant since he abandoned his insurrection on June 24 and was filmed leaving the southern Russian city of Rostov.

BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa: 6 more countries become members. The new members include Argentina, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Egypt. South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered an address on August 24 and declared the names of the new members while announcing the summit's outcomes.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Russian mercenary Wagner Group who led an aborted revolt against President Vladimir Putin earlier this summer, was listed as a passenger on a private jet that crashed north of Moscow on Wednesday, Reuters, BBC and The Associated Press reported.