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China reiterated a call for "reunification" with Taiwan, but added emphasis that it wants to "be firm" in doing so and dropped the descriptor "peaceful", which had been used in previous reports. Although it is not the first time that China had omitted the word "peaceful", the change in language is closely watched as a possible sign of a more assertive stance towards Taiwan. China has been increasing its military budget, and it has been more than doubled under President Xi Jinping's 11 years in office, Reuters reported.

National Conference (NC) Tuesday said while the party will be contesting all the three Lok Sabha seats in the Kashmir valley, it is in talks with the Congress to decide on three seats of Jammu and Ladakh regions. Both the parties are members of the opposition INDIA bloc. The NC's announcement came after a marathon meeting of its parliamentary board at the party headquarters here. «The National Conference will contest these three seats from the valley on its own,» NC provincial president, Kashmir, Nasir Aslam Wani, told reporters after the meeting.

Russia and China are considering putting a nuclear power plant on the moon from 2033-35, Yuri Borisov, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday, something he said could one day allow lunar settlements to be built. Borisov, a former deputy defence minister, said that Russia and China had been jointly working on a lunar programme and that Moscow was able to contribute with its expertise on "nuclear space energy".

Assam government has requested to hold Lok Sabha polls in the state before Bohag Bihu festival. The agrarian festival is celebrated in the second week of April. An Election Commission of India (ECI) delegation is on a two-day visit to Assam. Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said, “We have requested the Election Commission to hold an election before Bohag Bihu.” Assam has 14 Lok Sabha seats. This is the first election in Assam after the delimitation exercise was carried out last year. The first electoral roll after delimitation of assemblies and parliamentary constituencies was carried out was published in December last. It has found around 2,43,02,460 electors in the state.

DK Shivakumar on Tuesday hailed the Supreme Court verdict quashing the money laundering case registered against him by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) I 2018. «Today is a happy day for me in my difficult life,» Shivakumar, who is also the president of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) said, after hearing the news. «I have received a big relief from the Supreme Court,» he told the media, while offering his pranams to the court. The investigating agencies have been proved wrong, Shivakumar said. The Dy CM added that he heard the probe agency was preparing to appeal the verdict, and he was also prepared for a long battle.

Jaishankar on Tuesday said strong alliances do not enhance a country's global standing while, on the contrary, India had a favourable result from loose or issue-based alliances. «Today, we see India in many ways as playing a useful role as a kind of bridging country which can contribute and address problems. And I think unfortunately the state of the world requires such services,» the minister said in response to a question following his address to the Korea National Diplomatic Academy here. Jaishankar's address was a part of the first leg of his four-day visit to South Korea and Japan. «I don't agree that strong alliances enhance global standing and lose alliances detract. At the beginning of our presidency of the G20, people were worried whether we would be able to get an agreement at the end of it and we had two problems — the Ukraine conflict and the issue of development. A lot of Global South had concerns. We have different ties to one group, I think it would have been difficult to get the G20 to come around had it not been such a case,» the minister said.

Kyiv, Mar 05, 2024 -Ukraine said on Tuesday its forces destroyed a Russian military patrol ship in the Black Sea near annexed Crimea, the latest naval attack on Moscow's fleet in the key waterway. Kyiv also said it was behind a drone hit on an oil depot in a Russian border region, as Ukraine flexes its ability to strike Russia from the air and at sea with its troops struggling on the front lines. The Black Sea has been a vital battleground in the two-year war.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unveiled a new rule on Tuesday that it said would cap the typical late fee that banks charge customers at $8 per incident.

MOSCOW (Reuters) — Decisions on 60% of corporate loans issued by Russia's top lender Sberbank will be made using artificial intelligence (AI) by the end of this year, CEO German Gref said on Tuesday.

Now that the comment period over the IRS’ proposed regulations for donor-advised funds has ended, the waiting game has begun – along with a whole lot of simmering criticism.

Integrated Partners has added a registered investment advisor firm in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to its growing network of advisors.

Often we hear the news of the income tax officials raiding the premises of someone for keeping unauthorised cash and other valuables at home or in office. In some cases, such cash and valuables get seized and in some other cases, the concerned persons also get arrested. Keeping this in view, the question that comes to our minds is: Is keeping a substantial amount of cash a crime in India? Or, how much cash one is allowed to keep at home?

Super Tuesday emerges as a pivotal moment, with 15 states and one U.S. territory casting their votes today. This electoral extravaganza is set to shape the trajectory of both Democratic and Republican races, providing a clearer glimpse into the potential nominees for the highest office in the land.

Lonski Group founder and president John Lonski joins 'Maria Bartirom's Wall Street' to discuss BlackRock's chief investment strategist warning of inflation rebound.

ALSO READ: Bill Gates' Wit During Rapid Fire At IIT Delhi Leaves Students In Splits | His Favourite Indian Food He also shared a few pictures from the mega pre-wedding celebrations. In the pictures, Gates was seen donning a shimmery waist-coat, paired with beige-coloured pants.A post shared by Bill Gates (@thisisbillgates) Bill Gates arrived in Jamnagar, Gujarat, on March 1.

Ravi Shankar Prasad and Anil Baluni. On Saturday BJP declared Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the saffron party candidate from Varanasi for the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha Elections. Notably, even before PM Modi, Varanasi had been a BJP stronghold, with the party retaining it consistently since 1991 except in 2004, when the Congress's Rajesh Kumar Mishra had won.

America’s two most powerful political parties will move closer to selecting their Presidential nominees for the upcoming 2024 election on Tuesday. In an event known as ‘Super Tuesday’, more than a dozen American states will vote in the primary elections for both the Democratic and Republican parties. Incumbent President Joe Biden is expected to comfortably march to the Democratic nomination, while former president Donald Trump is expected to defeat Nikki Haley for the Republican nomination.

SBI sought time until June 30 to disclose details of each electoral bond encashed by political parties. In its verdict last month, the Supreme Court had directed the SBI to furnish the details to the poll panel by March 6.

The Biden administration is moving to cap credit card late fees at $8

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