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Bhaderwah Rajmash and Sulai honey of Doda and Ramban districts of Jammu and Kashmir have been granted Geographical Indication (GI) tags. Officials said the development signifies a great leap in promoting these exceptionally popular items of the region at the international level. Jammu-based organisations had applied for a GI tag for eight different traditional items from various districts of the Jammu region last year. «Doda and Ramban districts have got two GI tags today.

According to FT's report, the surveillance system is installed on subsea cable landing stations, which allows India's security agencies to snoop on the personal data and communications of its 1.4 billion citizens. Israel-based Septier has reportedly sold its lawful interception technology to telecoms groups including Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio, the Vodafone Idea, and Singapore’s Singtel. According to the promotional video of Septier, its technology extracts “voice, messaging services, web surfing and email correspondence" of targets.

alliance have announced their strategy meetings on August 31 and September 1 in Mumbai. In July this year, both political alliances also held their meetings focused on the 2024 general elections on the same day in Bengaluru. 1) During the meeting, the INDIA alliance in Mumbai will unveil its logo.

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INDIA bloc are set to hold hectic parleys during a two-day conclave in Mumbai starting Thursday during which they will announce a coordination committee and a logo for the alliance. The alliance would chalk out a joint campaign strategy to take on the NDA in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and iron out the differences among themselves. The leaders are also likely to announce a few panels to draft a common minimum programme of the alliance, to frame joint plans for holding agitations across the country and for seat sharing. «The Mumbai meeting shall come out with a clear-cut roadmap for providing a progressive alternative to the regressive policies of the current regime,» RJD's Manoj Jha told PTI. The INDIA bloc is also likely to announce a secretariat for smooth coordination between the constituents and it is likely to be set up in the national capital.

India is preparing to start the auction process for some 100 critical mineral blocks in the next four months, as part of plans to secure domestic supplies of the raw materials needed to fuel the green energy transition. The blocks are for minerals including nickel, lithium, cobalt and platinum, along with rare earths, Mines Secretary Vivek Bharadwaj said in an interview in New Delhi. “The legal framework has been laid out and the blocks have been identified,” Bharadwaj said. The tender seeking bids is expected to be out by December and auctions may start three months later, he added. The South Asian nation is racing to ensure critical minerals security to power its ambition to make the country a key battery and electric vehicles manufacturing hub and help attain a net zero goal.

map released on August 28 shows Arunachal Pradesh which China claims as South Tibet and Aksai Chin occupied by it in the 1962 war as part of its territory. AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on 29 August in a tweet on X (Formerly Twitter) said China’s preparations on the border should be sending alarm bells within the Indian government. Further adding, he also said that India’s response cannot be weak and timid and need to stand up to China.

Airport. Upon his arrival in the city, Praggnanandhaa said, “I am very happy to see so many people coming here and it is good for Chess". The Indian Chess prodigy won a silver medal in the Fide World Cup 2023 and qualified for the Candidates 2024 recently.

Also read: Highly mutated COVID variant BA.2.86 detected in 2 more countries, but 'pandemic in a different phase’, says WHO The BA.2.86 lineage, which was initially detected in Denmark last month, boasts over 35 mutations in significant portions of the virus when compared to the XBB.1.5 variant, which had been the predominant strain throughout most of 2023. The United States, Switzerland, and Israel have also reported cases of this new variant.

storm Hilary slammed into it from the south. Unprecedented amounts of rain pelted downtown Los Angeles and flooded the state’s arid valleys. Without missing a beat, forecasts then shifted from drenching to baking, as a heat dome fastened itself over much of the southern United States all the way up to the Great Lakes.

YouTube channel said that India is no more a threat to Pakistan as the country plays effectively only when their star batters Rohit Sharma or Virat Kohli deliver on the field. In the 4.21 minutes conversation, he also spoke about India's weak batting and fitness of the country's fast bowlers. “If we look at India’s fast bowling, fitness is a concern.

Also read: Raksha Bandhan 2023: Gadar 2 makers announce ‘buy 2 get 2 ticket’ offer for Sunnny Deol-starrer film Another devotee mentioned that women from abroad also visit the Mahakaleshwar temple to offer Rakhis to Lord Mahakal. “Women from abroad also visit the Baba Mahakaleshwar temple and offer Rakhis to Baba Mahakal," the devotee stated.

China poses to American hegemony. It's an intriguing thesis, but in China's case it has a glaring flaw: The main challenge we will face from the People's Republic in the coming decade stems not from its rise but from its decline — something that has been obvious for years and has become undeniable in the past year with the country's real estate market crash. Western policymakers need to reorient their thinking around this fact. How? With five don'ts and two dos. First, don't think of China's misfortunes as our good fortune. A China that can buy less from the world — whether in the form of handbags from Italy, copper from Zambia or grain from the United States — will inevitably constrain global growth.

Thailand is likely to ease visa rules for Indian and Chinese travelers and allow longer stays for visitors from all nations. PM Srettha Thavisin discussed options with executives of Thailand Pcl and several other airlines. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), PM Srettha said, “The airport operator agreed to reduce bottlenecks to augment flight capacity by 20% and find ways to speed up immigration clearances." The new government aims to lift revenue from foreign tourists to 3.3 trillion baht next year, with the travel industry offering “the best short-term economic stimulus," Srettha said as quoted by Bloomberg News. According to Bank of Thailand data, tourism accounts for about 12% of gross domestic product and nearly a fifth of jobs in the country.

China for computer chips, solar panels and various consumer imports amid growing concern over Beijing's security threats, human rights record and dominance of critical industries. But even as policymakers and corporate executives look for ways to cut ties with China, a growing body of evidence suggests that the world's largest economies remain deeply intertwined as Chinese products make their way to America through other countries. New and forthcoming economic papers call into question whether the United States has actually lessened its reliance on China — and what a recent reshuffling of trade relationships means for the global economy and American consumers. Changes to global manufacturing and supply chains are still unfolding, as both punishing tariffs imposed by the administration of former President Donald Trump and tougher restrictions on the sale of technology to China imposed by the Biden administration play out. The key architect of the latest restrictions — Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo — is meeting with top Chinese officials in Beijing and Shanghai this week, a visit that underscores the challenge facing the United States as it seeks to reduce how much it depends on China at a moment when the countries' economies share so many ties. These reworked trade rules, along with other economic changes, have caused China's share of imports into the United States to fall as the share of imports into the U.S.

India has allowed traders to ship out their non-basmati white rice cargoes sitting at ports due to a sudden ban on exports of the category, a government order said late on Tuesday. On July 20, India surprised buyers by banning exports of widely consumed non-basmati white rice to control rising domestic prices.

Niranjan Gupta, CEO, Hero MotoCorp, says “the first target is to cross 100 cities by December, which is what we have said and we are well on track on that. Thereafter, we are going to put products in the mid and the affordable segments. That will be the plan for FY25. FY24 is about 100 cities and FY25 is about putting products in the mid and affordable segments because right now our product is at the top end of the EV market.”As part of its plan to rapidly grow the premium two-wheeler segment, Hero Motocorp has reintroduced the two-decade-old brand Karizma and launched Karizma XMR. Will you also be launching and relaunching in other segments?We already have strong products in the entry and deluxe segments. There is HF Deluxe, Splendor Plus, Super Splendor, Glamour, Passion. We brought in, of course, the Glamour and its own classic avatar and Passion again, which we relaunched. So, that part on a portfolio basis is very strong. Our job is to build a portfolio in the premium segment while in the entry and deluxe segments, it will be more about the refreshes which will keep coming.

Indians are much more likely to believe that the country's power is on the rise compared to the world, revelaed a new Pew study. Around 70 percent of the Indians respondents believed that India has become ‘influential’ compared to 28 percent of adults in 19 other countries of the world.

China's claim over Arunachal Pradesh and the Aksai Chin. He agreed with Jaishankar's opinion that it's an ‘old habit’ of theirs (China) to put out a so-called ‘standard map’ in the past claiming territories that do not belong to them. "So we have protested China's latest outrage, the issuance of yet another map claiming Arunachal Pradesh as their territory.

The Ministry of External Affairs rejected territorial claims made by China in its 2023 “standard map", which was released on Monday. The map showed Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin, which India claims as part of its territory, as part of China. China claims the former as “South Tibet" while it gained control over Aksai Chin during the 1962 India-China war.

Reliance Industries in its annual general meeting on Monday. Some brokerage houses critiqued the absence of a roadmap for listing of Reliance Jio and Reliance Retail entities.