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Suspense on deputy CM, other ministers in Bihar

Govt will do whatever it takes to make India engine of global growth: PM to investors

10:47 pm November 5, 2020

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday wooed global investors by showcasing the recent agriculture and labor reforms and faster-than-anticipated reflating of the economy and asserted that the government will do whatever it takes to make India the engine of global growth resurgence. Speaking to 20 top global investors, the Prime Minister said the ‘Self-Reliant India’ […]

India, US, Japan and Australia kick-start Malabar naval exercise in Bay of Bengal

8:03 pm November 3, 2020

New Delhi: The navies of India, the US, Japan and Australia on Tuesday held a series of complex manoeuvres in the Bay of Bengal, kick-starting the four-day-long first phase of the Malabar naval exercise, seen as a prelude to future military cooperation among the member nations of the Quad or Quadrilateral Coalition. The mega exercise is taking […]

Pope again updates Vatican legal code amid scrutiny, probes

Media report pope met COVID-19 infected bishop at Vatican

7:27 pm October 23, 2020

Canberra: Pope Francis has been warned of potential exposure to COVID-19 after a Vatican diplomat was infected, Australian media reported on Friday. Archbishop Adolfo Tito Yllana, the Holy See’s ambassador to Australia, had a face-to-face meeting with Francis at the Vatican on Oct. 6, less than two weeks before testing positive to COVID-19 in Australia, Nine News reported. Australian authorities say a diplomat who […]

Gmail, other Google services face outage

Australian watchdog considers its own Google antitrust case

12:52 pm October 21, 2020

Canberra: Australia’s competition watchdog will consider its own antitrust case against Google, the commission chairman said Wednesday after the U.S. Justice Department sued the company for abusing its dominance in online search and advertising. Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Rod Sims described the U.S. case filed Tuesday as one of the world’s biggest antitrust cases […]

Australia to be part of Malabar exercise

8:21 pm October 19, 2020

New Delhi: India on Monday announced that Australia will join the upcoming Malabar exercise which effectively means that all the four member countries of the ‘Quad’ or Quadrilateral coalition will be participating in the mega drill. The US and Japan are the other countries that participate in the annual exercise, which is likely to take […]