✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday said that India can mediate between Moscow and Kyiv as the peace talks between the two counties failed to come up with solutions yet to end the war.
2. Sergey Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister on Friday categorically stated that US pressure will not affect the partnership between India and Russia.
3. Russia is offering India steep discounts on the direct sale of oil as mounting international pressure lowers the appetite for its barrels elsewhere following the invasion of Ukraine, Discounts of as much as $35 a barrel on prices before. Russia wants India to take 15 million barrels contracted for this year.
4. Russia has also offered rupee-rouble-denominated payments using Russia’s messaging system SPFS, that could make trading more attractive for India.
5. India is also seeking to push for greater exports of medicines, engineering goods and chemicals to Russia to narrow its trade gap created by oil and arms purchases.
6. Australia and India will sign an interim free trade deal on Saturday which will eliminate 85 per cent tariffs on Australian goods exports to India.
7. Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba accompanied by a high-level delegation and his spouse Dr Arzu Deuba arrived in New Delhi here on Friday for his three-day visit to the country.
8. As part of his two-nation tour to Turkmenistan and the Netherland, President Ram Nath Kovind has visited Turkmenistan’s capital city Ashgabat. President Kovind was received at the airport by the Turkmenistan President Serdar Berdimuhamedow.
Ram Nath Kovind on Friday became the first Indian President to visit Turkmenistan,
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. Amid the continuing tension along the Durand Line between the Pakistani troops and the Talibani forces, the Foreign Ministries of both sides have exchanged protest notes accusing each other of displaying aggressive attitudes on the border.
2. Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry on 31 Mar lodged a formal protest with the US over the alleged ‘threat letter’ that called for the resignation of Prime Minister Imran Khan.
3. Russian and Ukrainian negotiators resumed online talks on Friday after meeting in Istanbul, Turkey.
4. An overnight curfew imposed in several parts of Colombo has been lifted. Curfew imposed after protests outside Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s residence over worsening economic crisis in the country turned violent.
5. Two South Korean air force planes collided in mid-air on Friday during a training exercise, killing four pilots.
6. Islamabad: A defiant Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Thursday that he will not resign despite losing the majority and insisted that he will “fight till the last ball” and face the vote of no-confidence in the National Assembly on Sunday which will decide where the country will go.
7. Eight people were killed and 20 injured after a mine shaft collapsed in Serbia.
8. The Governor of Pakistan’s Punjab province, Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar, has summoned a session of the Assembly on Saturday for the election of a new CM. Usman Buzdar had resigned as CM on Monday after a no-confidence motion was presented against him.
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