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Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed the border crisis during their brief meeting at the Bali Summit of the G20 in 2022. This came after the Chinese foreign ministry stated that the two leaders had reached a “consensus" to improve bilateral ties during their meeting on the sidelines of the Bali Summit in November. It made this claim in a press release detailing the particulars of the conversation between Indian NSA Ajit Doval and China’s top diplomat Wang Yi on Tuesday.

Auto component maker Sona BLW Precision Forgings on Thursday said its consolidated net profit increased by 47 per cent to Rs 112 crore in the June quarter. The company had posted a net profit of Rs 76 crore in the April-June period of the last fiscal.

US commerce secretary Gina Raimondo said on Wednesday that the Joe Biden administration is seeking to carefully target US controls on exports to China, but rules will cost firms some revenue. Restrictions should not be so broad «that you deny American companies revenue and China can get the product elsewhere, or China can get the product from other countries,» Raimondo said at a forum.

A Santhi Kumari on Thursday said the administration has been put on alert as heavy rains continued to lash the state. The downpour led to inundation of low-lying areas and damage to roads at several places in the state with rivulets and other water bodies overflowing. In the temple town of Bhadrachalam, water level in Godavari river stood at 49.80 ft at 1 PM and the second flood warning was in force (third and final flood warning level is 53 ft), official sources said.

New Delhi: The Commission for Air Quality Management in NCR and adjoining areas (CAQM) on Thursday met power distribution companies (discoms) of Delhi and NCR districts in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, and Rajasthan to enhance preparedness for the upcoming winter season when air pollution levels generally spike. The meeting focused on curbing dependence on diesel generator sets (DG sets) for power generation during the period between October and February, when air pollution levels soar due to various meteorological factors, the ministry of environment, forest and climate change said.

New Delhi: Japan’s foreign minister Yoshimasa Hayashi is scheduled to visit India for two days, starting Thursday. Hayashi is expected to meet his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar during this visit, which is a part of his six-nation tour across Asia and Africa.

New Delhi: The Commission for Air Quality Management in NCR and adjoining areas (CAQM) on Thursday met power distribution companies (discoms) of Delhi and NCR districts in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, and Rajasthan on Thursday to enhance preparedness for the upcoming winter season when air pollution levels generally spike. The meeting focused on curbing dependence on diesel generator sets (DG sets) for power generation during the period between October and February, when air pollution levels soar due to various meteorological factors, the ministry of environment, forest and climate change said.

New Delhi: US’s special presidential envoy for climate John Kerry met with Indian officials here during his visit to India to discuss climate cooperation. The talks focus on advancing shared climate and clean energy objectives, such as fostering investment in renewable energy, supporting the rollout of zero-emission buses, and diversifying clean energy supply chains.

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Actress-turned politician and a member of National Commission for Women (NCW), Khushbu Sundar reached Udupi on Wednesday to begin investigation into the alleged voyeurism case. The case was reported in a paramedical college in Karnataka's coastal town. After collecting details of the case, she will meet the victims and the college management representatives on Thursday.

Dozens of people have protested in front of the Central Bank of Iraq in Baghdad and bank owners called for official action to stem a sharp increase in the dollar exchange rate

Russia's defence minister was photographed this week viewing banned North Korean ballistic missiles with leader Kim Jong Un at a military expo in Pyongyang, signalling deeper ties between the two countries as they face off with the United States. As Russia's isolation over its war in Ukraine has grown, it has seen increasing value in North Korea. For North Korea's part, relations with Russia haven't always been as warm as they were during the heady days of the Soviet Union, but now the country is reaping clear benefits from Moscow's need for friends.

Kim Jong Un met with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to discuss military issues and the regional security environment, state media said Thursday as the country celebrated the 70th anniversary of an armistice that halted fighting in the 1950-53 Korean War. The North's official Korean Central News Agency said Kim and Shoigu talked Wednesday in the capital, Pyongyang, and reached a consensus on unspecified «matters of mutual concern in the field of national defense and security and on the regional and international security environment.» The report did not specify what was discussed.

Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII)'s CEO Brand Cheng and other company representatives met last week with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin and other government officials to discuss the investment in the southern state. FII has shared a plan with state officials to initially invest $180 million to $200 million in the facility, Reuters said citing sources. The Taiwan-based company aims to complete the plant by 2024, with further investments expected afterward.

GreenH Electrolysis on Wednesday announced its plans to set up an electrolyser manufacturing plant with a capacity of 1 gigawatt (GW) in India. GreenH Electrolysis is a joint venture company between Spain-based H2B2 Electrolysis Technologies and GR Group of India. «GreenH Electrolysis announces its first, 1 GW, state-of-the-art, PEM electrolyser manufacturing plant in India,» the company said in a statement.

Union Earth Sciences Minister Kiren Rijiju on Wednesday sought to collaborate with the European Union in using innovative and non-invasive approaches for inventorisation and documentation of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction. Rijiju mentioned this during his meeting with Virginijus Sinkevičius, the European Commissioner for Environment, Ocean and Fisheries.

HONG KONG—China’s former foreign minister, who was replaced on Tuesday after he went missing from public view for more than a month, is now disappearing from parts of the Foreign Ministry’s website—an erasure that is intensifying intrigue around what happened to him. Authorities didn’t provide a reason for their decision to removeQin Gang from his post, which has now been filled—at least temporarily—by his predecessor Wang Yi. The Foreign Ministry previously cited unspecified health reasons for Qin’s absence.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday hailed the Rajasthan government for getting a bill on the welfare of gig workers passed in the Assembly, saying «we always stand with the poor and hardworking people» of the country and fulfil promises to them. Gandhi's remarks came two days after the Rajasthan Assembly on Monday passed a bill for the formation of a welfare board as well as a fund for platform-based gig workers in the state and to facilitate social security for them. The Platform-Based Gig Workers (Registration and Welfare) Bill, 2023, was passed in the Assembly without a debate amid uproar by the opposition members in the House. In a tweet in Hindi, Gandhi said the Congress government in Rajasthan has brought in a new law, the first in India, to give more than three lakh gig workers of the state their rights and self-respect. «This law will provide financial security to the workers of the gig economy and will become the basis of reliable employment for crores of youth,» he said. «During the Bharat Jodo Yatra, I met many gig workers, some taxi drivers, and some delivery persons — uncertain future in work, and also risky due to always being on the streets. All of them said one thing, they work hard day and night but they do not have any financial security, neither the government listens to them, nor brings any concrete plan for them,» the Congress leader said.

BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest asset manager, is looking to join forces with India’s largest company Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) in what could be a return to the country after exiting in 2018. The US-based investment giant is in active discussions with Jio Financial Services (JFS) to create an asset management business, said three people aware of the matter. JFS is the recently spun-off fintech arm of Mukesh Ambani’s flagship.

cardiac arrest. IIM Bangalore in a tweet said that Ayush Gupta was a second-year PGP or Post Graduate Programme in Management student and also was a senior coordinator of the Student Alumni Committee of PGP. «We are deeply saddened by the demise of Ayush Gupta, our second-year PGP student, who suffered a cardiac arrest, this afternoon.