✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Five Americans freed in prisoner swap with Iran.
Five US citizens have been flown out of Iran as part of a widely anticipated prisoner swap deal between Washington and Tehran, a United States official confirmed.
1. TURKEY PROPOSES ALTERNATIVE TO INDIA-MIDDLE EAST TRADE CORRIDOR: Turkey has been engaged in “intensive negotiations” to find a substitute for the India-Middle East trade corridor proposal, which was adopted at the G20 meeting this month.
2. The 10th meeting of the India-Malaysia Joint Sub-Committee on Defence Science, Technology and Industry Cooperation was held in New Delhi yesterday.
3. External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar has said that the resistance of the United Nations to reform its structure, will eventually lead to the body being ‘anachronistic’ and people will start finding solutions outside.
4. United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay have signed a Memorandum of Understanding(MoU) for contributing towards improving food security, nutrition, climate resilience and livelihoods.
5. The International Committee of the Red Cross said today that it had sent humanitarian convoys to the breakaway Karabakh region from Armenia and Azerbaijan simultaneously, reopening the road link to Armenia blockaded since December.
6. The 35th edition of the annual Gandhi Walk in Johannesburg, South Africa took place 17 Sep. The event was organised after three years of delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 2,000 people joined the new format of a fun six-kilometre walk that ended with a wide range of entertainment.
7. Canadian🇨🇦 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday said ‘foreign powers’ were behind the killing of pro-Khalistan leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the chief of the Khalistan Tiger Force terrorist group. He claimed the Indian government played a role in his fatal shooting, news agencies.
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. The UKRAINIAN 🇺🇦 government dismissed six deputy Defence Ministers following the appointment of a new Defence Minister earlier this month. The government gave no reason for the dismissals. The new defence minister Rustem Umerov held the post less than two weeks ago, replacing Oleksii Reznikov.
2. 🇺🇸US and Iran🇮🇷 swap prisoners in a Qatar-mediated deal; US also unfreezes 6 billion Dollars of Irans funds.
3. At least 22 people killed after head-on collision between bus and truck in South Africa’s Limpopo.
4. Director-General of the World Health Organisation Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has called on China to offer greater transparency regarding the origins of COVID-19 and expressed readiness to dispatch a second investigative team to examine the matter.
5. Taiwan’s defence ministry said that it has detected 103 Chinese warplanes around the island in past 24-hours.
6. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has amended the death toll from Libya floods to 3,958 citing World Health Organization (WHO).
7. The President of European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, visited Italian island of Lampedusa after Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni asked for EU help on migrants crisis.
8. Recently the British government announced an increase in visa fees, effective from the 4th of October. The cost of a visit visa for under six months will rise by GBP 15, and student visas will be GBP 127 more expensive for travelers from around the world including those from India.
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