✈ INTERNATIONAL NEWS
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1. Russian President Putin will meet PM Narendra Modi on Monday on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in China’s Tianjin.
2. Japan on Friday set a target of 10 trillion yen ($68 billion) in private investments in India over a decade as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his counterpart Shigeru Ishiba finalised a 10-year roadmap to deepen economic cooperation in vital areas such as technology, digitalisation and rare earths against the backdrop of uncertainty created by the trade policies of the US administration.
3. The government has appointed Urjit Patel, the former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), as an Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a period of three years.
4. The Central Government has extended the import duty exemption on cotton (HS 5201) until 31st December 2025, aiming to boost availability for the Indian textile sector and support exporters.
5. India has appointed senior diplomat Dinesh K Patnaik as its new High Commissioner to Canada, while Canada has named Christopher Cooter as its envoy to India — a move that signals a thaw in diplomatic ties strained since the 2023 killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
6. Professor Sachin Kumar Sharma has been appointed as the new Director General of the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), a New Delhi–based policy research institute under the Ministry of External Affairs.
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🌎 WORLD NEWS 🌍
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1. Thailand’s Constitutional Court dismissed Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from office on Friday (August 29, 2025) for an ethics violation after only a year in power, She becomes the fifth PM removed in 17 years.
*Paetongtarn, who was Thailand’s youngest prime minister, becomes the sixth premier from or backed by the billionaire Shinawatra family to be removed by the military or judiciary in a tumultuous two-decade battle for power between the country’s warring elites.
2. Ukrainian Navy’s reconnaissance ship Simferopol, which was reportedly the largest ship commissioned by the country in over a decade, has been hit and sunk in a naval drone strike, the Russian Defence Ministry announced.
3. Afghanistan’s foreign ministry summoned Pakistan’s ambassador in Kabul to lodge a formal protest against what Taliban authorities said were Pakistani military strikes in Nangarhar and Khost provinces. The local media reported that Afghan officials strongly condemned the overnight strikes which claimed the lives of three people and injured seven others.
4. Cholera Outbreak in Nepal: Over 600 Infected, 3 Dead in Madhesh Province.
5. In Bangladesh, the Engineers Rights Movement, a platform of the protesting engineering students, said the ongoing ‘complete shutdown’ at all public and private universities will continue until further announcement.
6. The wife of South Korea’s jailed former president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has been arrested over a raft of charges, including stock manipulation and bribery. Former first lady Kim Keon Hee denied all charges during a court hearing in Seoul, but the court issued a detention warrant, citing the risk that she may destroy evidence.
7. The World Health Organization (WHO) has said in a report that Monkeypox continues to be a global health risk, with 47 countries reporting a total of 3,924 confirmed cases, including 30 deaths in July. The situation report for the multi-country outbreak of Mpox in July showed that all clades of Mthe pox virus continue to circulate in several countries.
8. In Sri Lanka, Former Minister Rajitha Senaratne has been remanded to police custody by the Colombo High Court in connection with a case involving a sand mining project at the Kirinda Fisheries Harbour.
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