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1.India is a global strategic partner of the United States, the Biden administration said on February 27 as Secretary of State Tony Blinken left for New Delhi to attend a host of key conferences including the G-20 Foreign Ministers' meeting.Mr. Blinken will also attend a Quad Ministerial meeting and hold a bilateral talk with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar.-thehindu.com 2.The Canadian government has banned the social media app TikTok from all its devices as of Tuesday.A release issued by the nodal agency, the Treasury Board Secretariat said the decision to “remove and block TikTok from government mobile devices is being taken as a precaution, particularly given concerns about the legal regime that governs the information collected from mobile devices, and is in line with the approach of our international partners. On a mobile device, TikTok’s data collection methods provide considerable access to the contents of the phone.-hindustantimes.com 3.The Indian government made si...

1.Chancellor Olaf Scholz, wrapping up a two-day visit to India, urged the country’s IT specialists and other skilled workers to consider working in Germany.Looking for ways to tackle labor shortages in Europe’s largest economy, Scholz said his coalition government was planning to reduce immigration hurdles and introduce a point-based system that would grant visas even to specialists who don’t yet have a firm job offer in hand.-hindustantimes.com 2.Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will head to Turkey and Syria Monday morning, his office said, for the first such visit in a decade of tense relations with both countries.The trip aims to show "solidarity with the two countries and their brotherly peoples" after the devastating earthquake that hit Syria and Turkey earlier this month, a foreign ministry statement said.-hindustantimes.com 3.India’s role on the global stage continues to grow and the India-U.S. ties are one of the consequential relationships, a senior State D...

 1.India was among 32 countries that abstained as the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on Friday calling for an end to the war in Ukraine, with India’s envoy to the world body saying the move wasn’t enough to achieve the goal of a lasting peace.A total of 141 member states voted in favour of the resolution at an emergency special session hours before the conflict entered its second year, while seven countries, including Russia, Belarus and North Korea, voted against it.-hindustantimes.com 2.The United States (US) President Joe Biden has nominated corporate leader Ajay Banga, vice chairman of General Atlantic and a former president and chief executive of MasterCard, to be the next president of the World Bank. The nomination comes at a time when the Bank is in the middle of an ambitious internal transformation. 3.US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to India next week to attend the meeting of G20 foreign ministers and meet senior Indian officials to reaffirm Ameri...

 1.Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, who also holds the finance portfolio, will travel to India this week to attend the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meetings in Bengaluru. The Department of Finance Canada announced that she will be in India from February 23 to 25. “At these meetings, the Deputy Prime Minister will work with Canada’s international partners to address global challenges, including the economic impacts of Putin’s illegal war, elevated inflation, climate change, international tax fairness, and global sovereign debt challenges,” a release said.-hindustantimes.com 2.Six people were killed in an earthquake which struck the border region of Turkey and Syria, CNN Turk reported on Tuesday, two weeks after a larger quake killed more than 47,000 people and damaged or destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes. Monday's quake, this time with a magnitude of 6.4, was centred near the southern Turkish city of Antakya and was felt in Syria, Egypt an...

  1.Another earthquake struck the border region of Turkey and Syria on Monday, just two weeks after the area was devastated by a larger quake that killed more than 47,000 people and damaged or destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes.Monday’s quake, this time with a magnitude of 6.4, was centred near the southern Turkish city of Antakya and was felt in Syria, Egypt and Lebanon.It struck at a depth of 10 km, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.-theindianexpress.com 2.President Joe Biden's surprise visit Monday morning to wartime Kyiv began in the dead of night at a military airport hangar outside Washington.At 4:00 am (0900 GMT) Sunday -- unbeknown to the world's media, the Washington political establishment or American voters -- the 80-year-old Democrat boarded an Air Force Boeing 757, known as a C-32.The plane, a smaller version of the one US presidents normally use on international trips, was parked well away from where Biden would usually board. And a...

1.US Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday accused Russia of committing "crimes against humanity" in Ukraine and Russian forces of conducting "widespread and systemic" attacks on the country's civilian population.She made the comments at the Munich Security Conference, days ahead of the one-year anniversary of Moscow sending its forces into Ukraine, unleashing war in Europe for the first time in decades.-livemint.com 2.A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck Japan's Hokkaido island, Reuters reported.A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck Japan's Hokkaido, Reuters reported Monday citing EMSC. The report earlier stated the magnitude of the quake to be 5.5, however it said Paris-based EMSC revised its readings later.-hindustantimes.com 3.The UAE Federal Authority for Identity, Customs and Ports Security announced fifteen new updates in the smart services system, according to a report by Emirates News Agency (WAM). The updates come as part of a plan to develop the s...

  1.A massive earthquake of magnitude 6.1 hit the north west of Wellington, New Zealand on Wednesday. According to preliminary data, the quake was located at a moderately shallow depth of 57.4 km. The earthquake struck at 7.38pm at a depth of 76km. It was centred 50km north-west of Paraparaumu. Within 15 minutes, over 31000 people reported on GeoNet that they had felt the earthquake.-hindustantimes.com 2.Marking one year since Russia invaded Ukraine, the UN General Assembly will vote next week on a draft resolution stressing "the need to reach, as soon as possible, a comprehensive, just and lasting peace" in line with the founding United Nations Charter. It again demands Moscow withdraw its troops and calls for a halt to hostilities. The 193-member General Assembly is likely to vote next Thursday after two days of speeches by dozens of states to mark the Feb. 24 anniversary of the start of the war.-hindustantimes.com 3.Ahead of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit to India l...

1.Authorities on Wednesday confirmed three deaths after Cyclone Gabrielle cut a trail of destruction across northern New Zealand, with helicopters plucking hundreds from their roofs as floods surged overnight.One body was found near where a volunteer firefighter went missing during the storm, while another woman was killed when her house was crushed by a landslip in the Hawke's Bay region on the east coast.A third body was also found in Hawke's Bay, but authorities said the circumstances of that death remained unclear.- https://www.ndtv.com/ 2.At least five survivors were rescued on Tuesday from the rubble of earthquake-hit areas of Turkey, local media reported, eight days after worst quake in the country's modern history.A woman and a man were pulled out from the ruins in the southern city of Hatay some 204 hours after the quake hit the region and parts of northwest Syria, Turkish media said.-ndtv.com 3.Mega cities like Mumbai and New York will face serious impacts from ri...

1.New Zealand has declared a national state of emergency as Cyclone Gabrielle sweeps across the nation’s North Island, causing floods, landslips and power outages. Tens of thousands of homes are without electricity, people are being evacuated and roads are closed in northern regions Tuesday as the cyclone leaves a trail of destruction. Auckland Airport said 45,000 travelers have been disrupted due to hundreds of flight cancelations.-hindustantimes.com 2.Mohammad Shahabuddin Chuppu, a former judge and freedom fighter, is set to become Bangladesh's next president as his party Awami League, which holds an absolute majority in Parliament, has nominated him for the upcoming Presidential election. The announcement was made by party’s general secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday.-hindustantimes.com 3.Death toll rises above 35,000 in Turkey, Syria earthquake-The toll from last week’s earthquake in Turkey and Syria rose above 35,000 on Monday, as rescue teams started to wind down the search f...

1.On Sunday, President Droupadi Murmu accepted the resignation of Maharashtra governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari who had last month expressed his desire to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to resign from his post. Koshyari (80), who served the state for over three years, has been replaced by Ramesh Bais (75) as the new governor of Maharashtra. Bias is the incumbent governor of Jharkhand, in whose place C P Radhakrishnan has been appointed.-hindustantimes.com 2.The death toll from a massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria will "double or more" from its current level of 28,000, UN relief chief Martin Griffiths has said.Griffiths arrived on Saturday in Turkey's southern city of Kahramanmaras, the epicentre of the first 7.8-magnitude tremor that upturned millions of lives in the pre-dawn hours of Monday.-ndtv.com 3.Russia supplied India with around $13 billion of arms during the past five years, and New Delhi has orders placed with Moscow for weapons and military equipment exceeding $...

1.Germany ex-chancellor Merkel receives UNESCO peace prize for welcoming refugees.-Germany's former chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday received a prestigious UN award for opening her country to refugees during her time in office. Merkel was hailed for welcoming more than 1.2 million refugees and asylum seekers to Germany in 2015 and 2016 as she was awarded the Felix Houphouet-Boigny UNESCO Peace Prize in Ivory Coast's capital Yamoussoukro.-hindustantimes.com 2.More than 21,000 people have died in Syria and Turkey and thousands are injured after a massive quake on Monday. Round-the-clock rescue operations are on but snow and rain are adding to the difficulties of the survivors. Rescue efforts, on the fourth day, are being conducted round-the-clock to save those still trapped under the rubble.-ndtv.com 3.South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday declared a national "state of disaster" over his country's crippling power shortages, saying they posed an ex...

1.Turkey-Syria earthquake death toll tops 12,000.-Thinly stretched rescue teams on Wednesday continued searching for survivors buried in the rubble of thousands of buildings destroyed in Turkey and Syria by catastrophic earthquakes and aftershocks that killed more than 12,000.Amid calls for the Turkish government to send more help to the disaster zone, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited a "tent city" in Kahramanmaras, where people forced from their homes are living.-cbsnews.com 2.Twitter on Wednesday began placing limits on the frequency of tweets an account can send, with users operating both individual and business accounts receiving error messages about exceeding the “daily limit for sending Tweets.The company, under Elon Musk, is now placing limits to the number of direct messages and tweets that a user can send per day, according to a page on Twitter’s Help Center site.-hollywoodreporter.com 3.President Biden on Wednesday said that Russian President Vladimir ...

1.Indian-American schoolgirl Natasha Perianayagam was named in the "world's brightest” students list for the second consecutive year by the US-based Johns Hopkins Center For Talented Youth, based on the results of above-grade-level tests of over 15,000 students across 76 countries. Perianayagam, 13, is a student at Florence M Gaudineer Middle School, in New Jersey.She also took the Johns Hopkins Center For Talented Youth (CTY) test in Spring 2021, when she was a Grade 5 student.-ndtv.com 2.A 5.6 magnitude earthquake struck the central Turkey region on Tuesday, hours after three devastating earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria on Monday, killing more than 4,000 people. Thousands more are injured and the search for survivors is on. Many countries, including India, are sending in supplies and relief teams.The death toll is feared to go up as rescue teams search through the rubble..- https://indianexpress.com/ 3.Indo-Pacific cooperation and trade were at the top of the agenda as Canad...

1.Pakistan’s former president Pervez Musharraf passed away in Dubai on Sunday at the age of 79 due to a prolonged illness. Musharraf, who was admitted to a hospital in Dubai, was shifted to the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology (AFIC) in Rawalpindi earlier.Musharraf, who was in Dubai since March 2016, was undergoing treatment for amyloidosis. It is a rare disease that occurs when an abnormal protein, called amyloid, builds up in your organs and interferes with their normal function.-news18.com 2.At least 53 people were killed in Turkey and 42 people died in neighbouring Syria after a major 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit southeastern Turkey on Monday, the US Geological Survey said, levelling buildings across several cities.Officials said 23 people died in the province of Malatya, 17 in Urfa, seven in Osmaniye, and six in Diyarbakir, although the toll threatened to climb much higher because of the heavy damage.-ndtv.com 3.Grammy Awards 2023: Grammy Awards 2023: The 65th Annual Grammy Aw...

1.Australia will replace the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II from its A$5 currency note with a new design to reflect and honour the history of its Indigenous culture, the country's central bank said on Thursday. The decision follows consultation with the federal government, which supports the change, the Reserve Bank of Australia said in a statement. The other side of the note will continue to feature the Australian Parliament, it said.-ndtv.com 2.China said on Friday that cross border travel between the mainland, Hong Kong and Macau would fully resume from Feb. 6, dropping existing quotas and scrapping a mandatory COVID-19 test that was required before travelling. Group tours between China and its two special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau would resume, while the number of customs checkpoints open will return to pre-pandemic levels, China's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office said in a statement on its website.-hindustantimes.com 3.India on Wednesday (February 1, ...

1.Budget-2023-Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her fifth straight budget today. This was also the last the full budget of Modi 2.0 govt before the next parliamentary elections in 2024.India will lose Rs. 35,000 crore of net tax revenue after the Union Budget tweaked direct and indirect taxes to provide relief to the middle-income group, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said today.-The Economic Times 2.US law enforcement began a search Wednesday of President Joe Biden's beach house in Delaware, his lawyer said, in the latest stage of an operation to track down improperly stored classified documents.The search in Rehoboth, which attorney Bob Bauer said was done "with the president's full support and cooperation," followed similar searches that turned up small numbers of documents in Biden's home in Wilmington and a former office space in Washington, DC.-ndtv.com 3.US President Joe Biden believes that the India-US initiative on Critical and Emerging T...