✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on 05 Apr spoke with External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar to review regional and global priorities, including the situation in Ukraine.
India and United States are scheduled to hold a 2+2 dialogue in Washington on April 11.
2. India is unlikely to follow the American advice on pursuing an alternative option to defence and energy procurement from Russia, a leading American global strategy and commercial diplomacy firm said.
3. India has supplied over 270,000 MT fuel to Sri Lanka so far to help ease the power crisis in the island country which is witnessing acute power cuts.Moreover, one consignment each of 36,000 MT petrol and 40,000 MT diesel was delivered to the island nation in the last 24 hours.
4. International Monetary Fund (IMF) has lauded India’s food subsidy program which prevented the increased prevalence of extreme poverty in the country during Covid-19.
5. External affairs minister S Jaishankar today said that the country is in touch with a few countries for the completion of the medical courses of the students who were studying in Ukraine before the crisis began.
6. President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday visited the Dutch Parliament and held meetings with the Prime Minister of Netherlands Mark Rutte.
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. Czech Republic sends tanks to Ukraine in latest military aid. Several NATO countries have responded to Ukraine’s request for military aid to fight Russian forces invading the country.
2. The US on Tuesday said that it’s deeply concerned over Sri Lanka’s economic crisis and urged authorities to exercise constraint.
3. Finland and Sweden would be welcomed in NATO by member countries if the two Nordic nations decided to join the alliance, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.
4. The Kuwaiti government on Tuesday resigned ahead of a no-confidence vote in the Parliament against the Prime Minister. Notably, this is the country’s third collective government resignation in the past year and a half.
5. China harvesting organs from living prisoners for transplants, Research by Australian National University’s Mathew Robertson. He found it’s likely some prisoners, often from marginalised political groups, are likely to have been operated on while still alive. After analysing data from transplant publications, he found in 71 reports that ‘brain death couldn’t have properly been declared.
6. The US dollar on Tuesday reached an all-time high against the Pakistani rupee, soaring to PKR 185.40 in the interbank market.
7. Amid the ongoing economic crisis in the country, Sri Lanka witnessed massive protests outside its Parliament on Tuesday, with people demanding the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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