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9 Indian Army soldiers lost their lives while another one was critically injured after their ALS vehicle skidded off the road and plummeted into a deep gorge in Ladakh's Leh district. The incident took place near Kiari in southern Ladakh's Nyoma. Leh Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) P D Nitya told PTI that the Army vehicle, carrying 10 personnel, was on its way from Leh to Nyoma when the driver lost control and plunged into a gorge at around 4.45 pm.

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India's digital public infrastructure is a model that other countries can emulate as it offers «scalable, secure and inclusive solutions for global challenges,» Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday. «India is ready to share its experiences with the world,» he said in a virtual address to the G20 digital economy ministers' meeting in Bengaluru on Saturday.

On August 17, Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, received notification from payment processor Checkout.com about the termination of their contract due to regulatory concerns. 

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USTR) Katherine Tai will visit India next week for the G20 Trade and Investment Ministers’ Meeting (TIMM), Washington said in a statement. On August 23-25, Tai will be in Jaipur for the TIMM where she would participate in G20 sessions on how enhanced multilateral trade can facilitate inclusive prosperity and increased global resilience. “She will also hold bilateral meetings with her counterparts on the margins of G20 events,” USTR office said in a statement. On August 26, Tai will meet with business leaders and hold bilateral meetings with government officials. India has identified five priority issues—growth and prosperity, resilient global value chains, MSMEs, logistics, and World Trade Organization (WTO) reform—under its G20 presidency from December 1, 2022 to November 30, 2023.

Manipur's ethnic violence and taken refuge in neighbouring Myanmar have returned to the state safely, the government said. All the 212 people, belonging to the Meitei community, are residents of Moreh, which lies along the Myanmar border. Chief minister N Biren Singh thanked the Indian Army for ensuring their safe return.

sacked teacher Karan Sangwan on Saturday alleged that the firm terminated his service under pressure from trollers on social media who misinterpreted his generic remark to vote for educated candidates. In a video on his YouTube channel, Sangwan said he made the generic remark on his YouTube channel and not during his lecture at Unacademy. «Why did termination happen? There is a pressure which gets built and you burst under its load.

Dubbed BA.2.86 and informally referred to as Pirola among variant trackers on social platforms, this emerging variant exhibits over 30 changes in amino acids within its spike protein when contrasted with its closest predecessor, the BA.2 subvariant of Omicron. Dr. Jesse Bloom, a researcher specializing in viral evolution at Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, provided this insight, as per a CNN report.

regarding the video…nobody came from there," Karan Sangwan said. Karan Sangwan also clarified that he did not ask his students to vote for educated candidates. He said the video that went viral was from a session from his YouTube channel.

ONGC Videsh has secured a three-year extension from Vietnam to explore 'Block 128' in the South China Sea, it said in a post on social messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter. Conflicting territorial claims over South China Sea stretch back many decades but have intensified in recent years as China and its rivals have reinforced their positions on the rocks and reefs they hold.

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DonorsChoose has seen a banner year for donations in 2023, setting records by collecting nearly $10 million during Teacher Appreciation Week in May

Prosecutors say Austria’s former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has been charged with making false statements to a parliamentary inquiry into alleged corruption in his first government, which collapsed in a scandal in 2019

Shah Mehmood Qureshi was detained on Saturday, his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party said, just hours after he said it would challenge any delay to the country's election in the courts. Party spokesman Zulfi Bukhari told Reuters the specific reason for the detention of Qureshi, twice Pakistan's foreign minister, was not immediately clear. The caretaker information minister did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Bukhari condemned the arrest on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, saying he was «arrested for doing a press conference and re affirming PTI stance against all tyranny and pre poll rigging that is going on currently in Pakistan». PTI party chairman Imran Khan is currently jailed for three years after being convicted on graft charges and is barred from contesting any election for five years. He denies any wrongdoing. Khan won the last election in 2018 and became prime minister until he was ousted in a no-confidence vote in 2022. The election is meant to be held within 90 days of parliament being dissolved last week, by November, but uncertainty looms over the date as the nation grapples with constitutional, political and economic crises.

Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday chaired a high-level review meeting on the growth of India's first International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) at GIFT City, Gandhinagar. Sitharaman stressed the importance of recognizing and supporting the identified pathways to elevate GIFT City as a premier global financial hub. She echoed the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, stating that GIFT City should not only be an international center but also a global leader in solving complex financial challenges, especially amid current global economic headwinds.

Elon Musk on Friday announced that microblogging site ‘X’, formerly known as Twitter would scrap the ‘block’ feature, saying that it ‘made no sense’. Replying to a tweet by Tesla Owners Silicon Valley, Elon Musk noted that block will be deleted as a feature, except for direct messages. The Block feature is used to restrict interaction with specific accounts on the microblogging platform.

Ashwini Vaishnaw, on Saturday highlighted the three priority areas selected by the Indian presidency for the Digital Economy Working Group Addressing the G20 Digital Economy Ministers' Meeting, here Vaishnaw said that the three priority areas selected by the Indian presidency for the Digital Economy Working Group are — Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), Security in Digital Economy and Digital Scaling. The Union minister said that these three reflect the priorities of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. These priorities align with the broader global agenda of fostering a digital economy that is secure, inclusive, and equitable for all, he said.