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Chinese are on march to prove their importance, are taking up vacuum that US created: Albright

`China will overtake US economy, but its hegemony may look different’

11:57 pm September 16, 2020

Pune: China will take over the US to become the world’s largest economy within a decade, but its dominance may not resemble the current US hegemony, former foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale said on Wednesday. Unlike the US, the Chinese are not interested in policing the world or being culturally dominant but are keen on securing the flow […]

5 Chinese nationals charged in mega hacking scheme, Indian govt networks hit: US

11:55 pm September 16, 2020

Washington: The US Justice Department has charged five Chinese citizens with hacking over a 100 companies and institutions across the world, including Government of India networks, stealing valuable software data and business intelligence. Deputy US Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen on Wednesday announced three indictments have been unsealed in the matter that collectively charge five Chinese nationals with computer hacking and charge two Malaysian nationals for helping some […]

Pakistan ‘epicenter of terrorism’; persecutes Hindus, Sikhs, Christians: India at Geneva

6:33 pm September 16, 2020

Geneva: Describing Pakistan as an “epicenter of terrorism”, India has said that no one deserves an unsolicited lecture on human rights from Islamabad that has consistently persecuted its ethnic and religious minorities including Hindus, Sikhs and Christians Exercising the Right of Reply to the statements made by Pakistan at the 45th session of the Human […]

Yoshihide Suga named Japan’s prime minister, succeeding Abe

11:30 am September 16, 2020

Tokyo: Yoshihide Suga was formally elected Wednesday as Japan’s new prime minister in a parliamentary vote. Suga is replacing Shinzo Abe, who resigned earlier in the day because of ill health. Suga had been chosen as leader of the ruling party on Monday, virtually assuring his succession. Suga, who was chief Cabinet secretary and long seen […]

Vishnu Saravanan becomes 2nd Indian sailor to qualify for Tokyo Olympics

Tokyo, IOC dismiss study showing Olympic costs rising

11:35 pm September 15, 2020

Tokyo: The CEO of the Tokyo Olympics and the IOC member in charge of Japan’s games have dismissed a new study from the University of Oxford that finds Tokyo is the most expensive Summer Games since 1960. Tokyo, postponed to 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic, is only a small part of economist Bent Flyvbjerg’s study which was published on Tuesday and titled, […]