World and International News – 19 July 2022

Varanasi will become the Cultural and Tourism Capital of the SCO 2022

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

1. Bangladesh keen to import high quality train coaches from India Bangladesh.

2. MONKEY POX: Health Ministry reviews functioning of health screening of international travellers arriving in India at airports and ports.

3. The holy city of Varanasi showcasing India’s culture and traditions over the ages will be declared the first “Cultural and Tourism Capital” of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.

Varanasi will become the “Cultural and Tourism Capital” of the SCO for 2022-23 under a new rotating initiative by the eight-member organisation to promote people-to-people contacts and tourism among the member states.

4. Delegations from India and Fiji held the fifth Foreign Office Consultations on Monday in Suva during which the entire gamut of bilateral relations between the countries was reviewed.

🌎WORLD NEWS🌍

1. At least 7 killed following flash flood triggered by seasonal torrential rain in Sudan’s Darfur.

2. France evacuates more than 14,000 people threatened by wildfires in south-west.

3. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that it’s impossible for the West to isolate Russia from the rest of the world and reverse the country’s development back by “decades”. Putin added that Russia will have to develop its own domestic technology. Western countries, including the US and UK, imposed several financial sanctions on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine.

4. Italian PM Mario Draghi reached Algiers on Monday to finalise agreements with Algeria that will allow the country to replace Russia as Italy’s main gas supplier.

5. Sri Lankan acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Monday that negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to secure a bailout package amid the country’s ongoing economic crisis is nearing conclusion. He added that discussions for assistance with foreign countries were also progressing.

6. A passenger plane carrying over 30 people crash-landed at an airport in Somalia’s Mogadishu on Monday. No fatalities were reported and all those on board were rescued.

7. Ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan has sought fresh general elections in Pakistan after his party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) won 16 out of 20 seats in Punjab assembly bypolls. The results come as a setback for PM Shehbaz Sharif’s son Hamza Shahbaz, who will now lose his designation as Punjab CM. Imran Khan was ousted as PM in April via no-trust vote.

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