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1.Indian under 19 women’s Cricket Team Created History -A bunch of 16 teenage girls led by talented Shafali Verma on Sunday created history as the Indian women’s team laid their hands on an ICC trophy for the first time ever. With a dominant seven-wicket win over England, the Indian Women's U19 team in Potchefstroom clinched the inaugural ICC Women's U19 T20 World Cup.- https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ 2.Flood-ravaged Auckland is forecast to receive further heavy rain in the coming days, authorities in New Zealand's largest city said on Monday, as insurers counted the costs of what looks likely to be the country's most expensive weather event ever Four people lost their lives in flash floods and landslides that hit Auckland over the last three days amid record downpours. A state of emergency remains in place in Auckland and further south in regional Waitomo..-hindustantimes.com 3.With the United States having decided to supply tanks to Ukraine, it makes no sense for...

 1.Chris Hipkins was sworn in Wednesday as New Zealand's 41st prime minister, following the unexpected resignation last week of Jacinda Ardern.Mr. Hipkins, 44, has promised a back-to-basics approach focusing on the economy and what he described as the “pandemic of inflation.-thehindu.com 2.Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El –Sisi has arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday to attend India's 74th Republic Day celebration as the chief guest. During his visit, Sisi will meet his Indian counterpart Draupadi Murmu, PM Modi and External affairs minister S Jaishankar. This is the first time that any Egyptian president has been invited as a chief guest for the Republic Day.-hindustantimes.com 3.The US and Germany are poised to announce they’ll provide their main battle tanks to Ukraine, offering Kyiv a powerful new weapon to counter Russia and overcoming a disagreement that threatened to fracture allied unity. The Biden administration is expected to announce as soon as Wednesday it will offer ...

 News Headlines-24/01/2023 1.The White House on Tuesday nominated a special envoy for human rights in North Korea, moving to fill a post that has been empty since 2017 amid debate over how rights issues fit with efforts to counter Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme. President Joe Biden nominated Julie Turner, a long-time diplomat and current director of the Office of East Asia and the Pacific in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor at the Department of State, the White House said in a statement.-hindustantimes.com 2.Washington: Thousands of Indian IT professionals in the US, who have lost their jobs due to the series of recent layoffs at companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon, are now struggling to find new employment within the stipulated period under their work visas following the termination of their employment to stay in the country.-hotelierindia.com 3.The World Health Organization (WHO) is investigating whether there is any connection between manufacturers ...

1.In a recent case of mass shooting in the United States, a gunman killed 10 people and injured 10 more at a California dance venue during the Lunar New Year celebration on Sunday. Witnesses said Huu Can Tran, 72, shot indiscriminately at people with a semiautomatic weapon, and later died from suicide after his vehicle was surrounded by cops.-ndtv.com 2.China has given debt-ridden Sri Lanka the financing assurances required by the IMF to unlock a $2.9 billion bailout package for the country, days after India strongly backed the island nation's efforts to secure the loan from the global lender to recover from its worst-ever economic crisis.The Sunday Times newspaper reported that China’s Exim Bank delivered a letter on Saturday granting Sri Lanka a two-year moratorium on repayment and agreeing with the International Monetary Fund's extended fund facility (EFF).-  3.With an aim to cut delays in visa processing in India, the US has launched new initiatives, including scheduling sp...

 1.An ally of President Vladimir Putin warned Nato on Thursday that a defeat of Russia in Ukraine could trigger a nuclear war. “The defeat of a nuclear power in a conventional war may trigger a nuclear war,” former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, who serves as deputy chairman of Putin’s powerful security council, said in a post on Telegram. “Nuclear powers have never lost major conflicts on which their fate depends,” said Medvedev, who served as president from 2008 to 2012.-hindustantimes.com 2.China reported a large jump in COVID-19 hospitalisations in the week through to January 15 to the highest since the pandemic began, according to a weekly report published by the World Health Organization on Thursday.However, the WHO said it awaited "detailed provincial data disaggregated by week of reporting" on nearly 60,000 additional COVID-related hospital deaths reported by China last week and did not include them in the tally.-ndtv.com 3.Canada summoned Russia's ambassador ...

 1.New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Thursday she will resign next month."For me it's time," she said at a meeting of members of her Labour Party. "I just don't have enough in the tank for another four years."Ardern, who became prime minister in a coalition government in 2017, then led her centre-left Labour Party to a comprehensive victory in an election three years later, has seen her party and personal popularity drop in recent polls. 2.Hong Kong will stop requiring people infected with Covid to isolate as the government seeks to revive the economy. hat leaves just the mask mandate as the only major curb left from the city’s Covid Zero days. Hong Kong gave up other restrictions in December after China abandoned its strict approach to controlling the virus. The city’s government is planning to end mandatory mask wearing in March or April, Ming Pao reported, citing unidentified people.-hindustantimes.com 3.On January 19, the Abu Dhabi Fund...

 1.Pakistan Economic Crisis: The report said that Pakistan’s economic output was not only declining itself but also bringing down the regional growth rate as well.The World Bank forecast Pakistan’s economic growth to slow further to two percent during the current year. This will mark a drop of two percentage points from its June 2022 estimates, according to the World Bank’s Global Economic Prospects report.-hindustantimes.com 2.Most trains will be cancelled in France on Thursday, with flights also affected and Paris' subway heavily disrupted, as part of a nationwide strike against the government's plan to make people work longer before they can retire. Opinion polls show a vast majority of French oppose the planned reform, which would see the retirement age pushed from 62 to 64, and Thursday will be a test of whether this can transform into a major headache for the government.-livemint.com 3.IN REMARKS that are being seen in Delhi as conciliatory, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehba...

 News Headlines-17/01/2023 1.Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has called for "serious and sincere talks" with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on "burning points like Kashmir." In an interview with Dubai-based Al Arabiya TV, Sharif said that Pakistan has learned its lesson after three wars with India and stressed that now it wants peace with its neighbour. "My message to the Indian leadership and Prime Minister Modi is that let's sit down on the table and have serious and sincere talks to resolve our burning points like Kashmir.-ndtv.com 2.In December, several G20 delegates joined local traditional dancers at Girgaon Chowpatty when they were on their way to Colaba, Mumbai. They too were given the same welcome with the sound of drums and Koli and Lavani songs. The envoys were seen enjoying and grooving to the music.India assumed the G20 presidency from Indonesia on December 1, 2022. As part of the summit, the country will host more than 200 meetings across...

News Headline-16/01/2023 1.four of 5 Indians killed in Nepal plane crash-At least 68 people were killed when a Yeti Airlines passenger plane with 72 people onboard, including five Indians, crashed into a river gorge while landing at the newly-opened airport in central Nepal's resort city of Pokhara on Sunday.-The Times of India   2.Beijing says 59,938 citizens have died in the latest Covid wave. China and Bhutan host boundary talks in Kunming. India’s trade with China rises to $135.98 billion, marking over a 21 percent year-on-year increase. ‘Wolf warrior’ diplomat Zhao Lijian was removed as the foreign ministry spokesperson and moved to the Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs. Beijing sends a new envoy to Kathmandu. Chinascope tries to separate fact from fiction on China’s current affairs and international politics.-theprint.in 3.US President Joe Biden has declared a major disaster in California, as the latest in a succession of storm systems blew into the state, bringing hea...

 News Headlines- 1.Beijing: The peak of China's COVID-19 wave is expected to last two to three months, and will soon swell over the vast countryside where medical resources are relatively scarce, a top Chinese epidemiologist has said.Infections are expected to surge in rural areas as hundreds of millions travel to their home towns for the Lunar New Year holidays, which officially start from Jan. 21, known before the pandemic as the world's largest annual migration of people.-ndtv.com 2.World's most powerful passports: Japan tops list. Find out India's rank-.For the fifth straight year, the Japanese passport is the most powerful among all passports in the world, as it allows visa-free access to as many as 193 countries, according to Henley Passport Index 2023. India, on the other hand, improved its position by 2 spots from last year, and is currently ranked 85th on the index.-ndtv.com 3. India, US agree to focus on trade, resolving WTO issues.-Committing themselves to ex...

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