✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. Sri Lanka may run out of diesel by the end of this month with the USD 500 million line of credit extended by India for fuel to purchase exhausting fast amidst the unprecedented shortage of foreign reserves.
2. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held talks with the French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian where they discussed the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, international energy demands and food security.
3. High Commissioner of India in Sri Lanka, Gopal Baglay, hosted an Iftar dinner in Colombo on Friday which was attended by the Finance Minister of Sri Lanka, Ali Sabry, members of the clergy and religious scholars
4. Tibetan exile leader Penpa Tsering from Dharmashala will visit Washington D.C. from April 25 to 29 at the invitation of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
5. A 21-year-old student, Kartik Vasudev, from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh was shot dead in Canada’s Toronto while he was on his way to his part-time job on Thursday.
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. Germany, leaders have agreed on a package to support and integrate refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine. This includes access to job centers and language courses.
2. At least 39 people have died and dozens wounded after rockets hit a railway station in the city of Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine on 08 Apr (Friday).
3. UN General Assembly votes to suspend Russia from its Human Rights Council.
4. An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Friday (08 Apr) sentenced Mumbai terror attack mastermind and banned Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed to 32 years in jail in two more terror financing cases. The 70-year-old radical cleric had already been sentenced to 36 years’ imprisonment in five such cases earlier.
5. Yemen President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi transfers powers to new council, and dismissed his deputy.
6. The defence ministers of Turkey, Britain and Italy meet in Istanbul on 08 Apr to discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and security ties between the three NATO allies.
7. China is moving to enter Bangladeshi infrastructure development through its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
8. Nepal’s Council of Ministers has decided to revoke the license issued to Chinese state-owned China Gezhouba Group Corporation (CGGC) for the development of the Budhi Gandaki 1200 MW Hydropower Project.
9. SpaceX on Friday launched four civilian astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), marking the first time a completely private crew has visited the ISS. The crew, led by former NASA astronaut Michael López-Alegría, includes Canadian investor Mark Pathy, American investor Larry Connor, and former Israeli Air Force pilot Eytan Stibbe. The crew will spend eight days on the ISS.
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