✈ INTERNATIONAL NEWS
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#External affairs Minister: Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
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1. India’s Ministry of Mines began discussions with several countries like Australia and the United States seeking partnerships for technical help on lithium processing, said four sources familiar with the matter, to bolster its nascent lithium mining and electric vehicle industries and avoid relying on China.
2. National Security Advisor Ajit Doval held a bilateral meeting with Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev and both sides reviewed progress in bilateral cooperation and discussed important issues of mutual interest.
3. India on Thursday firmly rejected the US State Department report on Human Rights in India, which mentioned “significant human rights abuses” during the violence that broke out in Manipur last year and said that the report is “deeply biased” and reflects a poor understanding of India.
4. India has received the invitation to attend the G7 Summit set to be held in Italy and the matter is under consideration, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) official spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said.
5. India has congratulated Maldives for the successful conduct of parliamentary elections and expressed hope that the two nations will continue their exchanges at parliamentary level in the coming days, the Ministry of External Affairs said.
6. IRAN’S ANTI-INDIA STAND: Pakistan and Iran have agreed that the Kashmir issue should be resolved through “peaceful means based on the will of the people” of the region, said a joint statement issued by the two countries after Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s maiden visit.
7. The 10th round of India-Japan consultations on disarmament, non-proliferation and export control was held in Tokyo on April 24, 2024, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) informed in a press release.
The two sides exchanged views on developments in the areas of disarmament and non-proliferation relating to nuclear, chemical and biological domains, outer space-security, non-proliferation issues, conventional weapons and export control.
🌎 WORLD NEWS 🌍
UNO Gen. Secy : António Guterres.
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1. The people affected by the Gilgit-Baltistan’s Diamer Bhasha Dam blocked the Karakoram Highway (KKH) on Wednesday in protest against Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) for failure to pay compensation promised to them for leaving their lands for the dam’s construction.
2. Israeli aircraft struck more than 30 Hamas targets across Gaza in the last day, including terror squads, weapons storage facilities, military structures, and other terror infrastructure, the Israel Defence Forces said.
3. Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, known for his outspoken criticism of the government, has been sentenced to death by an Iranian court on speech-related charges, sparking outrage from human rights organisations.
According to the Human Rights Watch statement released on Wednesday, Salehi’s legal ordeal began when he was violently arrested on October 30, 2022, amidst protests following the death of Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa Jina Amini in morality police custody. He was held in solitary confinement and faced multiple charges, including “corruption on earth.”
4. On the death anniversary of Sindhi nationalist leader GM Syed, massive pro-freedom rallies were held in Sann City of Pakistan’s Sindh province.Organised under the banner of Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM), the rallies saw Chairman Shafi Burfat deliver a virtual speech on pressing issues of global peace and security.
5. Indonesia’s electoral commission has officially declared Prabowo Subianto as the president-elect after the country’s highest court rejected challenges to his landslide victory lodged by two losing presidential candidates. Subianto, currently serving as the defense minister, secured 58.6% of the votes.
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