✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
After France deal, India in talks to link UPI with Indonesia’s payment system.
India is in talks with Indonesia to link the two countries’ fast payments systems to allow transactions in local currencies, a top Indian official said on Sunday, on the sidelines of the G20 meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG). The development was separately confirmed by Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati.
Once this happens, Indonesia will be the third country whose payment system is connected with India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI), after Singapore and the United Arab Emirates.
1. The Third G20 Sherpas meeting that drafted the Leaders Declaration on key issues of global importance concluded in Hampi, Karnataka.
2. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs, Ali Bagheri on Sunday said that it is on their agenda to use Indian Rupee and Iranian Rial to boost trade and economic exchanges adding that increased investment from India at the Chabahar would advance the completion of the port.
3. Recently India and the UAE has signed three MoUs in banking and education sectors. The MoUs in the banking sector pertain to the use of local currencies for cross-border transactions and cooperation for interlinking their payment and messaging systems.
4. PM Modi thanked Prime Minister of Bhutan Lotay Tshering for his wishes on the successful launch of ISRO’s ambitious Chandrayaan 3 mission.
5. INDIA-FRANCE to Cooperated In Cyber Security, Digital Tech, Super Computing, Quantum Tech & AI.
6. Embassy of India, Kathmandu, today gifted 34 ambulances and 50 school buses to various organizations working in the fields of health and education respectively, spread across various districts of Nepal.
7. External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar co-chaired the 12th Mekong Ganga Cooperation meeting in Bangkok, Thailand along with his Lao PDR counterpart Saleumxay Kommasith. Both the countries decide to establish Mekong Ganga Cooperation Business Council to expand exchanges in agriculture & water resource management.
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. Russia’s defence ministry said its forces had prevented Ukraine from attacking the Black Sea port of Sevastopol on Sunday, destroying seven aerial and two underwater drones.
2. Pakistan, a group of assailants attacked a temple belonging to members of the Hindu community in Sindh’s Kashmore district with rocket launchers.
3. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani held talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus.
4. A blistering and deadly heatwave is sweeping Europe. The European Space Agency says Italy, Spain, France, Germany and Poland may see extreme conditions.
5. South Korea torrential rains: Death toll rises to 33, over 7 thousand evacuated.
6. The United States, South Korea and Japan held a joint naval missile defence exercise to counter North Korea’s evolving nuclear and missile threats.
7. North Korea’s firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) recently violates multiple UN resolutions and threatens peace and stability in the region, said the United States, South Korea, and Japan in a joint statement, condemning the launch.
8. Meta has blocked EU-based users from using Instagram’s newly-launched Threads app via VPN (virtual private network). Threads is not available in the EU due to privacy concerns.
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