✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Afghanistan earthquake: Casualties over 4,000, nearly 2,000 houses destroyed.
The earthquakes that hit western Afghanistan on Saturday have killed or injured more than 4,000 people, officials said on Monday. About 2,000 houses have been completely destroyed in the two 6.2-magnitude earthquakes, said the Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA).
1. External Affairs Minister, Dr. S. Jaishankar arrived in Colombo on Tuesday evening on a 3-day visit to Sri Lanka.
2. PM Modi spoke with his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday and reiterated that India strongly and unequivocally condemns terrorism.
3. The 8th BRICS International Competition Conference will be held in New Delhi from Wednesday.
4. Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh held talks with his Italian counterpart Guido Crosetto in Rome on the first day of his official visit to Italy.
5. India and Saudi Arabia agree to promote investments in new and renewable energy sector
India.
6. Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India Ajay Kumar Sood today inaugurated the ‘Bharat NCX 2023. Addressing the event, Mr. Sood laid out the importance of Digital Public Infrastructure protection, hardware security needs and Post Quantum Cryptography.
7. An eight-foot-tall statue of Mahatma Gandhi has been unveiled at Tolstoy Farm, the commune that he had started during his tenure as a lawyer here in South Africa in the early 20th century.
8. The seventh India-Spain Foreign Office Consultations (FOC) were held in Madrid on Monday, during which the two sides undertook a comprehensive review of their bilateral relations and agreed to intensify engagement through Joint Working Groups.
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. An earthquake in Herat province, Afghanistan, has resulted in over 4,000 deaths and the destruction of thousands of homes.
2. US President Joe Biden has been interviewed by a Special Counsel as part of its investigation into his handling of classified documents.
3. Zaman Mehdi, the deputy permanent representative of Pakistan to the UN, slammed Israel and said the “so-called declaration of war” on the civilian population is “deeply distressing”.
4. Israel imposed a total siege on the Gaza Strip and cut off water supply following a surprise offensive by Hamas. The conflict has escalated, causing civilian casualties and displacement.
5. Two senior Hamas members, Jawad Abu Shamala and Zakariya Abu Moammar, have been killed in Israeli airstrikes.
6. Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, stated that weapons NATO supplied to Ukraine, have found their way into the hands of Hamas militants, who are actively using them against Israel, NATO’s biggest ally in the Middle East.
7. 29 people, including children, have been killed in a military raid on a camp for internally displaced people in northern Myanmar near the border with China.
8. SOLAR ECLIPSE IN OCTOBER 2023 OVERVIEW: Surya Grahan 2023
Date: 14th October 2023
Start Time (New Delhi): 11:29 PM
End Time (New Delhi): 11:34 PM
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