✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. PM Modi, Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina have inaugurated the first cross-border energy pipeline between the two nations. PM Modi said the inauguration of the pipeline has started a new chapter in India-Bangladesh relations. The pipeline’s estimated cost is ₹377 crore, with India paying around ₹285 crore as grant assistance for building the Bangladesh portion of the pipeline.
2. India’s Minister of External Affairs, S Jaishankar, asserted that India’s relationship with China can only return to normalcy after resolving all outstanding issues at the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
3. US President Joe Biden plans to host Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a state dinner this summer.
4. Cochin Shipyard Limited has received a prestigious Rs 550 crore order from global giant Samskip Group of Norway for the design and construction of two Zero Emission Feeder Container Vessels with an option for two more vessels.
5. India’s permanent representative to United Nations, Ruchira Kamboj, met UN General Assembly President Csaba Korosi and explored plans for strengthening science’s role in diplomacy.
6. Iranian Ambassador to India, Iraj Elahi on Friday lauded India’s effort in the development of its Chabahar port.
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. Twenty rifles, including Kalashnikov, petrol bomb bottles and other ammunition were seized from ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s residence in Lahore during a raid on Saturday, Inspector General of Police Punjab, Usman Anwar, said. The raid was conducted after Khan left for Islamabad to attend a court hearing on the Toshakhana case. Several Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf workers were arrested during the raid.
2. Ukraine was attacked by multiple Russian drones on Friday night, the Ukrainian Air Force said on Saturday. Among the areas targeted were the capital, Kyiv, and the western Lviv province. The attacks took place despite the arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin, which was issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on March 17.
3. Elon Musk-led SpaceX on Friday launched two orbital missions within a span of about four hours. The company first launched 52 Starlink internet satellites from California and then sent two telecommunications satellites to orbit from Florida.
4. Hitachi Energy on Friday revealed that its employee data in some countries might have leaked as a third-party software provider suffered a cyberattack.
5. INFLATION IN PAKISTAN HITS RECORD 45.64%. Short-term inflation in Pakistan based on the Sensitive Price Index (SPI), saw a record increase to 45.64 per cent for the combined income group on a year-on-year basis for the week ending March 16.
6. Pre-dawn shooting at Ohio nightclub leaves 2 dead, 4 wounded. Officers responded shortly after 5 a.m. Saturday to an after-hours club called Tha Plug on the city’s south side, emergency dispatchers said.
7. An earthquake of 6.7 magnitude shook Southern Ecuador and Northern Peru and has killed t least 12 people and many are feared trapped under collapsed buildings. After Turkey and Syria, this one another case of natural disaster.
8. Google doodle celebrates 80th birthday of Dr. Mario Molina. Google doodle on Sunday celebrated the 80th birth anniversary of Dr. Mario Molina, a Mexican chemist who pioneered the task of convincing governments to come together to save the planet’s ozone layer. “A co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Dr. Molina was one of the researchers who exposed how chemicals deplete Earth’s ozone shield, which is vital to protecting humans, plants, and wildlife from harmful ultraviolet light,”
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