✈ INTERNATIONAL NEWS
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#External affairs Minister: Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
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1. Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal yesterday left for Iran. Sources said, he is expected to witness signing of the crucial Chabahar port agreement between India and Iran.
2. India is soon expected to sign a 10-year management agreement for Chabahar Port in Iran. This development is part of India’s strategic effort to enhance connectivity with Afghanistan, Central Asia, and the broader Eurasian region.
3. The Indian government on Monday provided a budget support to Maldives in the form of a rollover of USD 50 million Treasury Bill, for an additional year at the request of Maldivian Foreign Minister Moosa Zameer.
4. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has once again denied receiving any evidence implicating Indian nationals’ involvement in the killing in Canada of India-designated terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
🌎 WORLD NEWS 🌍
UNO Gen. Secy : António Guterres.
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1. Russian President Vladimir Putin has nominated Andrei Removich Belousov as the new defence minister.
2. US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka on Tuesday. Lu will conclude his tri-nation tour of the South Asian region (May 10-15) in Bangladesh. Earlier, he visited India and on Monday he was in Sri lanka.
3. The European Union has passed its first-ever legislation aimed at combating violence against women. The law mandates all EU member states to criminalize practices such as female genital mutilation, forced marriage, and online harassment.
4. Earthquake Of Magnitude 6.4 Strikes Mexico-Guatemala Border. The tremor occurred shortly before 6 a.m. local time close to the Mexican border town of Suchiate, where a river by the same name divides the two countries.
5. Melinda French Gates, former wife of Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, on Monday announced that she would resign as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
6. Amid a wheel-jam strike continuing for the fourth consecutive day in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK), a long march led by the Awami Action Committee (AAC) set off for the PoJK capital, Muzaffarabad.
7. Several members of the Baloch Republican Party on Sunday organized a protest at Trafalgar Square in London to condemn the Pakistan army’s atrocities in Balochistan including enforced disappearances and fake encounters.
8. A day after Russia claimed to have captured five villages after launching a fresh ground assault in north-eastern Ukraine, Moscow has now gained hold of four more villages in the northern Kharkiv region.
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