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Hong Kong’s leader has said the territory will tighten regulation of digital assets after police arrested six people following allegations of fraud at an unlicensed cryptocurrency exchange in the city

Railroad unions are calling for a review following the death of a worker who died over the weekend after he was struck by a remote-controlled train in a CSX railyard in Ohio

Poland has begun enforcing an entry ban on all Russian-registered passenger cars seeking to enter the country

Two cargo ships have arrived in one of Ukraine’s ports this weekend, using a temporary Black Sea corridor established by the government

Farmers across Bulgaria protested Monday after the government lifted a ban on food products from Ukraine, complaining that the move will cause an influx that drives down prices for local growers

It’s Day 1 of the U.N. General Assembly high-level meeting that brings world leaders together at U.N. headquarters in New York

Pope Francis urged all people to do their part to address the world’s problems, especially climate change and the care of children, to open The Clinton Global Initiative Monday in New York in a talk with former President Bill Clinton

Germany racked up one economic success after another for most of this century

Parliament building reflects the aspirations of 140 crore Indians and it is time to accomplish the resolves and begin the new journey with renewed enthusiasm and energy, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday. In his first speech in the Lok Sabha in the new Parliament building, PM Modi said the grandeur of the new Parliament building glorifies modern India and the sweat of engineers and workers is invested in it. The Prime Minister said it is the dawn of the Amrit Kaal as India is moving forward with a resolve for the future by heading into the new Parliament edifice. He touched upon India's recent achievements and mentioned the successes of Chandrayaan-3 in the science sector, and the G20 summit and its impact on the global level. He said that a unique opportunity presents itself to India and new Parliament building of the nation is becoming functional today. Referring to the auspicious occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi, the Prime Minister said that Lord Ganesh is the God of prosperity, auspiciousness, reason and knowledge.ALSO READ: PM Modi lists feats of 'Bharat' in science to economy; calls for the need to work on 'larger canvas' «It is time to accomplish the resolutions and begin the new journey with renewed enthusiasm and energy», the Prime Minister said. He said that during the freedom struggle, Lokmanya Tilak converted Ganesh Chaturthi into a medium of igniting the flame of Swaraj in the entire country. «Today we are moving with the same inspiration,» he said. PM Modi also mentioned that today is also Samvatsari Parva, a festival of forgiveness.

Canada has triggered new diplomatic tensions between Ottawa and New Delhi, withCanada saying it suspects India's involvement in the killing and India calling the allegations «absurd». Here is what is known about Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the man at the centre of the row. — Nijjar was born in 1977 in Jalandhar district in India's northern state of Punjab and moved to Canada in 1997, where he worked as a plumber, according to the Khalistan Extremism Monitor of the New Delhi-based independent Institute for Conflict Management. — He was initially associated with the Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) Sikh separatist group, according to India's counter-terrorist, National Investigation Agency.

Nirmala Sitharaman responded to the remarks by Mallikarjun Kharge and said that they have been empowered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. She mentioned President Droupadi Murmu as an empowered woman. "We respect the leader of the opposition but to make a sweeping statement that all parties choose women who are not effective is absolutely unacceptable.

Congress on Tuesday termed as «election jumla» and «huge betrayal of hopes of women» the women's reservation bill brought by the government, noting the Centre has stated that the reservation will be effective only after a Census and delimitation exercise is conducted post-enactment of the bill. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh wondered whether the Census and delimitation will be done before the 2024 elections, pointing out that the Narendra Modi government has not yet conducted the 2021 decadal Census. In a post on X, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said, «In a season of election jumlas, this one is the biggest of them all! A huge betrayal of the hopes of crores of Indian women and girls.» «As we had pointed out earlier, Modi government has not yet conducted the 2021 Decadal Census making India the only country in G20 that has failed to carry out the Census.

Modi on Tuesday said his government is committed to ensuring that the 'Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam' aimed at expanding women's participation in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies becomes a law, as he urged MPs of both Houses of Parliament to pass the bill unanimously. In the first speech in the first session in the new Parliament building, Modi said that the Women's Reservation Bill was given approval in the Cabinet meeting on Monday, and asserted that this will strengthen democracy. «For many years, there have been several debates and controversies around women's reservation. On women's reservation, there have been many efforts earlier also in Parliament.

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The long-pending bill to reserve seats for women in India’s national and state legislatures could give a much-needed boost to women’s role in the country’s electoral politics. Women’s representation in the Lok Sabha has increased gradually over the years, but India hasn’t quite kept pace with the progress in the rest of the world, a Mint analysis of data from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) showed. A total of 82 members of the lower house, or 15.2%, are women at present.

Recent data in Europe, such as the purchasing managers’ index (PMI) data, shows that the European economy is weakening. In fact, the Eurozone Composite PMI in August reflected the deepest contraction in nearly three years, while nearly every economy in the region reported weaker readings, led by Germany.

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Hindustan TImes. Canada is home to an influential Sikh community and Indian leaders say there are some fringe groups there that are still sympathetic to the cause of an independent Sikh state, carved out of India. The Sikh insurgency of the 1980s and 1990s killed some 30,000 people. Sikh militants were blamed for the 1985 bombing of an Air India Boeing 747 flying from Canada to India in which all 329 people on board were killed.

In his first speech at the new Parliament building on Tuesday, Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury read out the Preamble of the Indian Constitution. The Congress leader said that this Constitution is no less than Gita, Quran and Bible for us and there is no difference between India or Bharat.

Reliance Jio, on Tuesday, launched its Jio AirFiber services. In its initial stage, the service will be live in eight cities including Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune. "With JioAirFiber, we are expanding our addressable market to rapidly cover every home in our country with similar quality of service.