Mongolia and India to Leverage the Strategic Partnership to Expand Relations in All Sectors

Prime Minister of Mongolia Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai met Minister of External Affairs of the Republic of India Subrahmanyam Jaishankar during his visit to Pakistan and exchanged views on cooperation. At the beginning of the meeting, Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene once again thanked India for having donated the first packages of vaccines to Mongolia during the difficult time of the […]

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Bangladesh government’s new turn in global trade policy

Dhaka has formally offered to join the world’s largest trade alliance China-led Regional Comprehensive Partnership Agreement (RCEP). Recently, the application form has been sent to the headquarters of the organization through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh. Being a member of RCEP will not require free trade agreements (FTAs) with its member countries in […]

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China’s Q3 GDP hits weakest pace since early 2023

Officials express confidence the economy can achieve the government’s full-year growth target of around 5%. China’s economy grew at the slowest pace since early 2023 in the third quarter, and though consumption and factory output figures beat forecasts last month a tumbling property sector remains a major challenge for Beijing as it races to revitalise […]

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In Modi’s Delhi, Indian Muslims segregate to seek security

Reuters interviewed about two dozen people, who described how Muslims in the Indian capital have been congregating in enclaves away from the nation’s Hindu majority, seeking safety in numbers following the deadly 2020 riot and an increase in anti-Muslim hate speech. In February 2020, Nasreen and her husband Tofik were living in Shiv Vihar, an […]

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Iran killed 260 Afghan migrants on the border

More than 260 Afghan migrants have allegedly been killed in a spate of gunfire along the Iranian border. According to media reports on Thursday, the country’s border guards fired indiscriminately and killed the migrants. A group of around 300 migrants were trying to cross the Kalgan-Saravan border between Afghanistan and Iran on Sunday evening, The […]

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How Indonesia’s outgoing Jokowi steered son Gibran to vice presidency

Gibran Rakabuming Raka, then 27, had spent much of his life outside the limelight and “didn’t agree with his father’s decision to enter politics,” said Andi Widjajanto, a former top adviser to Widodo. Gibran only showed up after his paternal grandmother twisted his arm. When Indonesian President Joko Widodo was first inaugurated in 2014, his […]

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Taiwan details record surge in planes in China’s war games, flags risk to region

China said the one-day drill, designated “Joint Sword-2024B”, was a warning against “separatist acts” after a national day speech last week by Taiwan President Lai Ching-te that Beijing had denounced. Taiwan’s defence ministry said on Tuesday it had detected a record number of 153 Chinese military aircraft participating in China’s war games around the island […]

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Mahathir Mohamad is back in the hospital

Former Prime Minister of Malaysia. Mahathir bin Mohamad has been admitted to hospital with a respiratory infection. His assistant informed this information on Wednesday. Sufi Yusuf, Mahathir’s assistant, said he was admitted to the National Heart Institute on Tuesday morning local time. He said, “According to the information provided by the hospital, his problem is […]

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Sheikh Hasina is in India, will remain: India’s Ministry of External Affairs

Former Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina is in India. India’s Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said this in response to a question from reporters at the ministry’s weekly briefing on Thursday. He said that Sheikh Hasina came to India at a very short notice due to security reasons. still there There has […]

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