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June 11, 2025 8:02 PM June 11, 2025 8:02 PM

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South Korea Halts Loudspeaker Broadcasts to Ease Tensions with North Korea

​South Korean President Lee Jae-myung ​has ordered the suspension of loudspeaker broadcasts toward North​ Korea along the border areas.​ The ​Presidential office​ said the move ​is aimed at easing tensions and rebuilding trust. Earlier, the military said it ​had halted the ​anti-Pyongyang loudspeake...

June 11, 2025 5:07 PM June 11, 2025 5:07 PM

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Five Indians Killed in Kenya Bus Accident; Embassy Assisting with Repatriation

The Embassy of India in Doha today said it is following up on the bus accident in Kenya in which five Indians were killed. In a social media post, the Embassy said the postmortem of the five Indians who passed away was completed last night. Formalities for the transportation of mortal remains are be...

June 11, 2025 5:03 PM June 11, 2025 5:03 PM

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Russia Calls for Peace, Accuses Ukraine of Acting as Western Proxy

Russian President's aide Vladimir Medinsky has said that Moscow wants peace, but Ukraine must stop playing the role of what he called a Western proxy. Medinsky had previously underscored that a mutually acceptable agreement between Russia and Ukraine could be reached quickly if the Ukrainian side we...

June 11, 2025 3:11 PM June 11, 2025 3:11 PM

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World Bank Projects India’s FY26 Growth at 6.3%

The World Bank has pegged India's economic growth projection at 6.3 per cent for the Financial Year 2025-26, stating that the country is projected to maintain the fastest growth rate among the world’s largest economies. According to the World Bank’s latest Global Economic Prospects report, India’s g...

June 11, 2025 3:05 PM June 11, 2025 3:05 PM

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Indian National Detained at Newark Airport for Unruly Behaviour; Deportation Ordered

The Indian Consulate in New York has ascertained that the individual who belongs to Haryana had entered the United States illegally without a valid visa and was being deported back to India as per a court order.   About a social media post about an Indian national detained at Newark Airport in ...

June 11, 2025 2:02 PM June 11, 2025 2:02 PM

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Sri Lanka to hike power tariffs by 15% from June 12 to meet IMF goals

Sri Lanka will raise electricity tariffs by 15 per cent starting on the 12th of June, the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) announced on Tuesday. The decision comes six months after a major tariff cut in December 2024, which reduced electricity bills by approximately 20 per cent amid ...

June 11, 2025 1:59 PM June 11, 2025 1:59 PM

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Austria: 11 killed in school shooting, three-day national mourning announced

A three-day national mourning was announced by Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen today. At least 11 people were killed, including the shooter, in the school shooting that happened in Austria's second-largest city of Graz on Tuesday morning.   Police confirmed the suspected perpetrator...

June 11, 2025 1:25 PM June 11, 2025 1:25 PM

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Taiwan thanks India for rescuing 18 crew members of Singapore-flagged cargo vessel

Taiwan on Wednesday thanked India for rescuing 18 crew members of the Singapore-flagged cargo vessel, WAN HAI 503, which recently caught fire about 70 nautical miles off the Kerala coast. According to the spokesperson of the Indian Navy, the vessel had reported an internal container explosion and a ...

June 11, 2025 12:50 PM June 11, 2025 12:50 PM

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Covid-19 virus protein triggers immune attack on healthy cells: Study

  Israeli researchers have discovered that a protein from the SARS-CoV-2 virus can cause the immune system to attack healthy cells mistakenly.     Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem found that the virus's nucleocapsid protein (NP), which normally helps package the virus's genetic ma...

June 11, 2025 12:04 PM June 11, 2025 12:04 PM

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Nepal’s HOR is scheduled to meet today amid the heat of the Visit Visa scam

The meeting of the House of Representatives of Nepal, under the Federal Parliament, is scheduled for 1:00 pm today. The Opposition parties have been regularly obstructing the House, raising issues related to the visit visa scam, making Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak answerable.   The scheduled mee...