International & World News – 26 August 2024

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✈ INTERNATIONAL NEWS
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1. Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh has chaired a bilateral meeting on US-India Civil Nuclear Commerce in New Delhi. The Ministry of Science and Technology said that the meeting highlighted the deepening cooperation between the two nations in critical areas including science, technology and clean energy.

2. Pakistan has extended an invitation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with other leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), for the upcoming Council of Heads of Government (CHG) meeting in October this year.

3. India and the United States have signed an agreement to ensure the mutual supply of defence goods and services to enable the acquisition of the industrial resources they need from one another to resolve unanticipated supply chain disruptions and meet national security needs.

Security of Supply Arrangement (SOSA) comes four years after India and the US signed the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA), the last of four so-called foundational agreements to boost defence cooperation.

4. The United Kashmir People’s National Party (UKPNP) held its two-day-long annual central convention in Kotli, highlighting several issues, including human rights violations, development challenges in the region, and the misuse of the territory for breeding terrorists. terrorists.The event saw participation from a large number of people from different districts of Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoK).

5. A leader of the students’ wing of Bangladesh’s deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League party Ishak Ali Khan Panna, the former general secretary of the Chhatra League, died of a heart attack while attempting to flee to India.

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🌎 WORLD NEWS 🌍
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1. Two NASA astronauts, Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore, will return to Earth in February 2025 with SpaceX. They were originally on an eight-day mission but will now spend around eight months in orbit due to issues with their Boeing Starliner spacecraft. NASA announced that the Starliner will return to Earth without crew.

The spacecraft faced problems, including helium leaks and malfunctioning thrusters, during its journey to the International Space Station.

2. Lebanon based militant group Hezbollah has launched a retaliatory attack against Israel, marking the first phase of its response to the assassination of Fouad Shukur, a high-ranking Hezbollah military leader. Israeli also declared a 48-hour nationwide state of emergency.

3. Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has sought a clear roadmap from the interim government for conducting national elections as soon as possible.

4. In Pakistan, at least 37 people, including 11 pilgrims, were killed and several others injured in two separate bus accidents.

(a) The first accident occurred when a bus crashed off the Makran Coastal Highway in Balochistan, killing 11 and injuring 35.

(b) another accident, 26 people were killed and three others injured when a bus carrying 35 people fell into a ditch in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

5. Five people were killed, while twelve others got injured in an attack by Ukrainian armed forces on Rakitnoye village of Belgorod Oblast region in Russia.

Pooja
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