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China has removed the country's sometimes outspoken foreign minister from office and replaced him with his predecessor

A third successive heat wave in Greece pushed temperatures back above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) across parts of the country following more nighttime evacuations from fires that have raged out of control for days

Indonesian police are investigating the illegal trade in human organs involving police and immigration officers who were accused of helping traffickers send 122 Indonesians to a hospital in Cambodia to sell their kidneys

The European Union will look at helping fund the costly transportation of grain out of Ukraine after Russia halted a deal that allowed Black Sea exports vital to global food security

Lawmakers intent on reducing China’s influence on the U.S. economy are seeking to push the Treasury Department to reduce the scale of Beijing’s influence at the Inter-American Development Bank, which supports economic and social development in Latin Am...

The U.N. atomic watchdog says its monitors at Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant report seeing anti-personnel mines around the site

A United Nations report says the Asia-Pacific region needs to drastically increase its investments in disaster warning systems and other tools to counter rising risks from climate change

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Santa Barbara News-Press, one of California’s oldest newspapers, has ceased publishing after its owner declared the 150-year-old publication bankrupt

Poland's state statistical office says that the nation has shrunk again to just under 37.7 million in June despite returning emigrants

Real estate industry stakeholders including developers, financiers and institutional investors continue to be optimistic about the business environment over the next six months backed by the Indian economy's resilience despite a recessionary environment globally, showed Knight Frank-Naredco Real Estate Sentiment Index for April-June 2023. The performance of both office and residential property markets is expected to be robust as underlying demand remains firm, helping the future sentiment score rise to optimistic territory at 64 in the June quarter from 61 in the previous quarter.

espionage and directed ministries to ensure temporary workers do not have access to classified and secret government documents. The government has directed all central ministries and departments to handle classified documents and sensitive files carefully.

NEW DELHI : The India-Australia interim free trade agreement (FTA), in place for six months, has led to a 15% narrowing of India’s trade deficit with Australia on increased exports of drugs, electrical machinery, and iron and steel articles, along with a significant decline in coal imports due to a milder Indian summer. India’s exports to Australia fell by over 32% in the five months to May compared to the year-ago period, while imports shrank by 25%, resulting in a narrowed trade gap of $3.87 billion, representing a 15% decline from the previous year, according to official data.

Regulators of the world’s top stock exchanges gave their backing to the international climate-reporting standards framework Tuesday, adding momentum to efforts to establish the rules as the global baseline. The International Organization of Securities Commissions, known as Iosco, endorsed the International Sustainability Standards Board’s recently published climate reporting standard. Iosco’s board of 35 securities regulators—which includes the U.S.

₹155.65 crore. According to the agreement, the Indian airline has the right to continue using the AirAsia brand name for one year following the transaction.“We expect the branding transition to complete in 1-2 months. The regulator has been informed of the same," a third official said.

RBI. Dollar appreciated after the US Fed hiked rates and India’s balance of payment (BoP) saw lower net capital inflows. This trend reversed with the dollar index peaking last October as expectations of further Fed rate hikes waned.

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social media presence are trying to fight the plague of influencers with fake follower numbers. There's been a steep surge of influencers on platforms such as Instagram as well as those who blog and stream videos in India. Brands need them but with the number of Indian social influencers pegged at 80 million, it's hard to figure out who's genuine.

Vadim Ostanin, an activist associated with Vladimir Putin’s critic Alexei Navalny's organization, has been sentenced to 9 years in prison by Russia for being part of an «extremist community.» He was arrested in December 2021 and faced trial in Barnaul after being transferred from Moscow. Alexei Navalny's team has claimed that Ostanin had been involved in «legal political work» at the Anti-Corruption Foundation's local headquarters in Barnaul.

Bhagwad Gita, in Christopher Nolan's just-released biopic, Oppenheimer. Physicist J Robert Oppenheimer has left his telling mark in the ushering of the nuclear age, and underlined the double-edged sword that science is in the hands of mankind, whether in the form of the A-bomb or AI.

National Rice Research Institute at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) said, allaying fears of any further increase in the food grain's prices that had peaked on account of sluggish sowing and higher exports. There is no cause of worry for the paddy crop either in rainfall-deficient states or even in those states witnessing excessive rainfall and flooding, said AK Nayak, director at the apex rice research institute in the country. Retail prices of non-basmati rice had increased 3% in the past one month and 11.5% in one year, despite the imposition of a 20% export duty in September 2022. This prompted the government to impose a ban on the export of non-basmati white rice. In the eastern parts of the country, rainfall activity has picked up, boosting sowing, said Nayak, adding that the sowing window in these areas is open till August. «This will make up for any lack in the beginning of the season,» he said. Talking about northern states such as Punjab and Haryana which have been impacted by excessive rains and flooding, he said the paddy crop has a high tolerance for standing water and any damage is caused only if there is water above the canopy for 6-7 days or if there is submergence.

Mint has reviewed the data, which is updated daily. PMJAY offers free health cover of up to ₹5 lakh to over 107.4 million poor and vulnerable families (about 500 million beneficiaries), with free and cashless treatment through a network of private (15,000) and government (12,000) empanelled hospitals across the country. National Health Authority (NHA) is implementing and executing the scheme under the Union health ministry.