Wed 08 February 2023: TotalEnergies of France has put a planned investment in Adani Group’s USD 50 billion hydrogen project on hold pending the results of an audit launched in response to allegations made by a US short-seller, said CEO Patrick Pouyanné on Wednesday. The hydrogen partnership announced by the two groups last year “hasn’t […]
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Wed 08 February 2023: The White House on Wednesday said that China has operated a global fleet of espionage balloons similar to the one shot down last week after crossing the United States. “These balloons are all part of a (Chinese)… fleet of balloons developed to conduct surveillance operations,” Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters aboard Air Force One. “Over the […]
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Vijay Parsana, 44, pictured kissing Poonam, his cow, at his ashram in Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India Wed 08 February 2023: The Animal Welfare Board of India has appealed to observe ‘Cow Hug Day’ on February 14, which is notably celebrated as ‘Valentine’s day’ throughout the nation. The secretary of the department, under the directions of […]
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Wed 08 February 2023: The official opening of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Indonesia is to take place before the start of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, which is expected to commence this year on 22 March. The mosque which shares the same name and similar design to the iconic landmark in Abu Dhabi was […]
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Tue 07 February 2023: Allegations of stock market manipulation and fraud have halved the net worth of Indian tycoon Gautam Adani, one of the wealthiest people in the world, in less than two weeks and wiped more than $110bn from his listed firms in India. With investor confidence shaken, legislators have demanded an investigation into […]
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Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi, the acting Afghan Minister of Foreign Affairs, met today with Dr. Mutlaq bin Majid Al-Qahtani, Special Representative of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Qatar Sun 05 February 2023: An envoy for Qatar’s foreign affairs minister visited the Afghan capital on Sunday and met with the Taliban administration’s acting foreign minister, […]
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Sun 05 February 2023: Pervez Musharraf, a former president and retired general, died on Sunday after a protracted struggle with the rare disease amyloidosis. He was 79. In a statement issued immediately after his demise, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee and all the services chiefs have […]
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Sat 04 February 2023: Beijing played down news about US Secretary of State Antony Blinken cancelling his planned trip to China amid the row over a wayward Chinese balloon spotted in United States airspace. In a statement issued on Saturday morning, Chinese Foreign Ministry said they respect the decision made by the US, RIA Novosti […]
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Sat 04 February 2023: Financial contagion fears spread in India on Friday as Adani Group’s crisis worsened, with ratings agency Moody’s warning the conglomerate may struggle to raise capital and S&P cutting the outlook on two of its businesses. Chaotic scenes in both houses of India’s parliament led to their adjournment on Friday as some […]
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Sat 04 February 2023: Pakistan‘s telecommunications regulatory authority has blocked the online international encyclopaedia service for publishing and failing to remove blasphemous content, an official said on Saturday. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has blocked Wikipedia after it failed to meet a 48-hour deadline set on Wednesday to remove the sacrilegious content. “Yes, we blocked the service […]
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