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UN, partners seek USD 934.5m for life-saving aid to 1.5 million Rohingyas, host communities

Dhaka, March 24 -- The 2025 Joint Response Plan (JRP) has requested $934.5 million to reach 1.48 million people, including Rohingya refugees sheltered in Cox's Bazar and Bashan Char and Bangladeshi ho... Read More


World TB Day: WHO says funding cuts threaten global TB progress

Nigeria, March 24 -- The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that abrupt cuts in global health funding are threatening progress in the fight against Tuberculosis (TB), the world's deadliest inf... Read More


US's strategic asset seizure and rising economic conflict with China

India, March 24 -- The recent sale of Panama Canal port assets by Hong Kong's CK Hutchison Holdings to a US-led consortium has significantly heightened US-China trade tensions. This transaction, coupl... Read More


Netanyahu Meets with new Armoured Corps inductees

Tel Aviv, March 24 -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited on Sunday, together with Defence Minister Israel Katz, the IDF's (Israel Defence Forces) absorption and selection base for new inductees... Read More


Japanese stocks end slightly lower

Mumbai, March 24 -- Japanese stocks ended slightly lower to extend losses for a third straight session as a survey showed Japanese business activity shrank for the first time in five months in March. ... Read More


Nifty, Sensex continue to gain for 2nd week amid Trump designated April 2nd as "Reciprocal Tariffs Day"

Mumbai, March 24 -- The Indian stock markets extended their strong rally into the second consecutive week, buoyed by strong foreign inflows and a recovery in domestic economic indicators. The benchma... Read More


Transactional dimension will define India-US ties

India, March 24 -- Lutnick and Navarro are not India people; they see trade and business through the prism of a broad-based economic value proposition to Make America Great Again (MAGA). This is the s... Read More


India's first homegrown sake brews in Bengaluru

New Delhi, March 24 -- On the outskirts of Bengaluru, in Yelahanka, a makeshift laboratory was the nucleus of chef Maia Laifungbam's brand new experiment to recreate sake, or Japanese rice wine, in In... Read More


India's first sake brews in Bengaluru

New Delhi, March 24 -- On the outskirts of Bengaluru, in Yelahanka, a makeshift laboratory was the nucleus of chef Maia Laifungbam's brand new experiment to recreate sake, or Japanese rice wine, in In... Read More


Ex-CJ Jayantha Jayasuriya to be appointed Sri Lanka's envoy to UN

Sri Lanka, March 24 -- The Committee on High Posts has recommended the appointment of former Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya, PC, as Sri Lanka's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New... Read More