✈ INTERNATIONAL NEWS
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#External affairs Minister: Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
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1. Canada ignored India’s request for sharing information about any concerns they may have, and instead made allegations in public against India over the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in June 2023, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said.
2. Iran’s Ambassador to India Iraj Elahi, Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal on Wednesday discussed the development of cooperation between India, Iran.
3. India and Portugal held fourth Foreign Office Consultations in Delhi on Wednesday and reviewed entire spectrum of bilateral ties. The two sides also discussed global issues of mutual interest.
4. Minister of State for External Affairs Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh attended the Indonesia-India Business Forum in New Delhi.
5. Defence Secretary Giridhar Aramane co-chaired the 12th Joint Military Cooperation Committee meeting with the Secretary General, Ministry of Defence, Oman Dr. Mohammed Bin Naseer Bin Ali Al Zaabi in Muscat. Both sides discussed effective and practical initiatives to further boost bilateral defence engagements with a focus on defence industry collaboration.
6. Amid the ongoing diplomatic row with India, a leader from the Opposition ranks in Maldives requested President Mohamed Muizzu to apologise to India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The demand was raised by Gasuim Ibrahim, leader of the Jumhoori Party, who demanded the Muizzu-led government to seek “diplomatic reconciliation” with India in a bid to mend bilateral ties.
7. . The Indian representative engaged in a meeting with Afghanistan’s Taliban-appointed Foreign Minister, Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi, and expressed India’s active participation in both international and regional initiatives concerning Afghanistan. The representative also emphasised India’s unwavering support for all efforts aimed at fostering stability and development in the war-torn nation.
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🌎 WORLD NEWS 🌍
UNO Gen. Secy : António Guterres.
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1. A Pakistani anti-graft court jailed former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Khan for 14 years each on charges of illegally selling state gifts, This is the third conviction for the embattled former prime minister in the last few months.
The verdict also includes a 10-year disqualification from holding public office, said his party. Khan and his wife are charged with illegally selling gifts worth more than 140 million rupees ($501,000) in state possession and received during his 2018-2022 premiership.
2. The Israeli Air Force ‘Shoval’ type UAV reportedly crashed to a technical malfunction on its way back from a mission in Gaza.
3. Three people have been killed, five injured in an explosion in Baluchistan’s Sibi.
4. Sultan Ibrahim of Johor state has been installed as Malaysia’s 17th king. This event marks a significant moment in the nation’s constitutional monarchy system.
5. US brings new bill to tackle deepfakes post Taylor Swift AI nudes scandal. The new bill allows victims of deepfake to seek a civil penalty against those who have harmed them.
After Taylor Swift became a victim of deepfake pornography and her search results on X were polluted with explicit nude deepfake images of the singer, a bipartisan group of US senators introduced a bill that would criminalise the spread of nonconsensual, sexualised images generated by artificial intelligence.
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