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Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa has paid a visit to Poland in an attempt to strengthen ties with the NATO nation which borders Ukraine

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will inaugurate 47th International Kolkata Book Fair on January 18 in the presence of Alex Ellis CMG, British High Commissioner to India, Director of British Council-India Alison Barrett and eminent author Bani Basu along with other authors, dignitaries and various ministers of state. «There will be around 1000 stalls and Little Magazines. This year we have allotted stalls to many more small publishers at the Book Fair,» Sudhangshu Sekhar Dey, Honorary General Secretary of the Book Fair Guild said. Around 20 Countries across the globe will participate at the International Kolkata Book Fair 2024.

Trade Promotion Council of India (TPCI) with the support of the Department of Commerce. Goyal said that the food exports from India holds an immense potential and this this fiscal, the country's agri exports will be more than last year's level of USD 53 billion despite restrictions imposed on shipments of certain key commodities.

lunar lander in more than 50 years rocketed to space on Monday, launching a race for private companies to deliver experiments and other items to the moon. But about seven hours after liftoff, Astrobotic Technology reported the solar panel on the lander wasn't properly pointed toward the sun to generate and store power and it was investigating the issue. The Pittsburgh company's lander caught a ride on a brand new rocket, United Launch Alliance's Vulcan.

In his upcoming book, Bisaria, who was serving as Indian High Commissioner to Islamabad in that period, also writes that India was willing to send an aircraft of the Indian Air Force to Pakistan to bring back Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, but the Pakistani government refused permission. Varthaman (now Group Captain) downed a Pakistani jet on February 27, 2019, before his MiG 21 Bison jet was hit in a dogfight. Pakistan had launched the retaliation for the Balakot airstrikes a day before.

ALSO READ: Ayodhya Ram Temple consecration ceremony: Cops discuss alternative routes, security arrangements Rai launched a scathing attack on the RJD Minister Chandra Shekhar and the Opposition, saying, "The intentions and policy that they are showing, it looks like they will hang pictures of Babar and Afzal Guru and worship them." He said the country needs Ashfaqulla Khan and Captain Hamid, not Babur, Afzal Guru or Jinnah's 'jinn'. "Here, Lord Ram's integrity is needed," Rai added. ALSO READ: Ayodhya Ram Temple consecration ceremony: Assam declares dry day on January 22 RJD Minister Chandra Shekhar sparked off a controversy with his statements on the Ram Temple and said that if the people fall sick or get injured they will seek medical attention rather than visiting a temple.

topped the Google trends in India for two days. This sparked speculations that Indians might be looking at the country's smallest Union Territory as their next tourist destination. But, in an unexpected fallout, PM Modi promoting Lakshadweep as a beach destination seems to have triggered the people of Maldives — which is already a popular holiday hotspot for many Indians.

Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra. The Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will be launched from Imphal on 14 January, and culminate on 20 March in Mumbai. However, Congress has on Monday informed that they are yet to receive “ground permission" from the Manipur government for launching the rally in Imphal.

opposition alliance INDIA bloc cannot garner a single vote outside their state and were struggling for their survival, Union Commerce and Industry, and Textiles Minister Piyush Goyal said here on Monday. On the political scenario ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in Tamil Nadu, he said «the air is pregnant with the possibility of an alliance.» «The INDIA bloc is only a new avatar of the UPA.

Tamil Nadu have been promised by various companies during the Global Investors' Meet 2024 organised by the DMK government in the state, Chief Minister M K Stalin said on Monday. Delivering his valedictory address at the GIM 2024 organised by the Industries department, Guidance Tamil Nadu and Confederation of Indian Industry, the chief minister said companies have committed to investing a total of Rs 6,64,180 crore in Tamil Nadu and added that it would create as many as 26,90,657 lakh direct and indirect jobs in the state. In his address in the presence of party cabinet colleagues and business leaders, including the chairman of diversified conglomerate Mahindra Group, Anand Mahindra and TAFE Ltd Chief Mallika Srinivasan, Stalin assured the industrialists that all the necessary clearances for the new investments would be issued through single window clearance. «I am happy and proud to inform this august gathering that due to our tireless efforts and your participation during this Global Investors' Meet we have attracted an unprecedented Rs 6,64,180 crore of investments, » Stalin said. «A total of 26,90,657 jobs is expected to be generated from these investments that includes direct employment for 14,54,712 persons and indirect employment for 12,35,945 persons,» he said. «We have set ourselves an ambitious target to make Tamil Nadu a USD 1 trillion economy by 2030 and to play a key role in India's economic growth.

Taliban-appointed prime minister met on Monday with one of Pakistan's most senior politicians in an attempt to reduce lingering tensions between the two countries, a spokesman for the Taliban government said. Fazlur Rehman, whose Jamiat Ulema Islam party is known for backing the Afghan Taliban, is the first senior Pakistani politician to visit Kabul since the Taliban seized power in neighbouring Afghanistan in August 2021 as US and NATO troops withdrew from the country after 20 years of war. The Pakistani delegation met with Prime Minister Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund in Kabul, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement.

cruise vessels and another Rs 10,000 crores for development of cruise terminal infrastructure by 2047. These measures are expected to result in a four times growth the cargo volume to 500 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) by 2047. IWDC is the apex advisory body for the development of the inland waterway sector in the country.

Bloomberg Index Services has proposed to include Indian bonds under the fully accessible route (FAR) in its emerging market local currency index. This comes four months after JPMorgan said it would include India bonds in its Global Bond Index — Emerging Markets, starting June this year.

Generative AI, Tamil Nadu's minister for IT and digital services Palanivel Thiaga Rajan (PTR) said during the Global Investors Meet (GIM) in Chennai. «As much as Generative AI can replace human beings, you can also do a lot of deep fakes. So, authentication of content and origination of source are going to be very important,» he said. «We have seen election manipulation in many countries through AI, deep fakes and content manipulation.»

Awami League, Sheikh Hasina cinching victory and her fifth term in office. A general election that would join the list of Bangladesh's tumultuous poll history, saw opposition parties boycott the voting citing non-guarantee of ‘fair and free’ polls. Sheikh Hasina's Awami League party won 223 of 299 seats for a simple parliament majority, according to unofficial results from the offices of the Election Commission.

₹1.15 lakh per year. In real terms (adjusted for higher prices of goods and services), that is 6.7% higher than in 2019-20, the last pre-covid year. After the steep decline in incomes in absolute terms in the covid years of 2020-21 and 2021-22, all states staged a recovery in 2022-23, as areas emerged from lockdown, and consumers opened their wallets.

asylum in Germany last year rose to 3,51,915, an increase of 51.1 per cent compared with the year before. The largest number of asylum-seekers came from Syria, with 1,04,561 applications, followed by Turkish citizens with 62,624 asylum pleas and 53,582 Afghans, Germany's Federal Office for Migration and Refugees said Monday. Migration has become a huge political problem for the government and a hot-button topic in Germany as local communities are struggling to house the many newcomers.

D K Shivakumar, who is visiting Kerala, on Monday defended his government's decision to celebrate the consecration ceremony of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya on January 22, saying «ultimately we all are Hindus». He was talking to reporters after arriving in the state capital of Kerala to attend the Ramachandran Foundation award ceremony. «See, ultimately we all are Hindus,» Shivakumar said in response to reporters' query on the Congress-ruled Karnataka government celebrating the consecration ceremony in temples across the state.

Can Indian inflation fall below 4% and economic growth remain strong in 2024? Here's what experts say "Some base effects should also help pull down inflation in the clothing and footwear, and miscellaneous categories. Households' near-term (three months ahead) inflation expectations also have declined, though one-year ahead expectations have risen. Input and output price PMIs for the manufacturing sector for December also remain contained," Barclays said.

Bilkis Bano case: The Supreme Court of India on Monday quashed the Gujarat government's decision to grant remission and early release to 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano rape case. The decision was hailed by many political leaders including Rahul Gandhi who called it a “victory of justice". Rahul Gandhi took to microblogging site X to hail Supreme Court's decision on Bilkis Bano rape case and said, “The tendency to 'kill justice' for electoral gains is dangerous for the democratic system.

₹50 lakh crore assets under management (AUM) in the month of December 2023, the AMFI data released on Monday showed. What is awe-inspiring is that it took barely 13 months to take the overall AUM from ₹40 lakh crore to ₹50 lakh crore.