✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his counterparts from Israel, the US and the UAE have agreed to establish a forum for economic cooperation at a quadrilateral meeting during which they discussed possibilities for joint infrastructure projects in the fields of transportation, technology, maritime security, and economics and trade.
2. The Sri Lankan Navy has begun a search operation to find an Indian fisherman who went missing after the boat he was in along with two others was hit by a naval vessel of the island nation.
3. Taliban ‘interior minister’ Sirajuddin Haqqani lauds suicide bombers, hands out aid to kin: The Haqqani Network was blamed by Indian and US officials for the July 2008 suicide attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul that killed 58 people and injured nearly 150. Among the dead were the Indian defence attaché, Brig Ravi Datt Mehta, diplomat V Venkateswara Rao and two Indo-Tibetan Border Police personnel.
4. Former Indo-Canadian cabinet minister Amarjeet Sohi has been elected mayor of the city of Edmonton in Canada’s Alberta. The 57-year-old had opted out of contesting in recently held general elections to focus on winning the mayoral polls.
5. Big blow for Nirav Modi , US court junks plea seeking dismissal of fraud charges. US court rejects plea filed by Nirav Modi, associates seeking dismissal of fraud allegations against them. Nirav Modi, who is currently lodged in a jail in the UK, is challenging India’s attempts to extradite him to face charges of fraud and money laundering in the Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam case.
6. Bangladesh: Delhi metro starts training the first batch of operations and maintenance staff of Dhaka metro at its prestigious Training Academy (known as ‘Delhi Metro Rail Academy’ i.e, DMRA) located at Shastri Park Depot.
7. The training of the first batch of Dhaka Metro core staff and officers, comprising of 19 Operations and 17 Rolling Stock officials, by DMRC officials, commenced at the Delhi Metro Rail Academy from 14th Oct, 2021. The training is a part of an agreement signed between DMRC and NKDM Association, a consortium of foreign and Bangladeshi companies looking after implementation of Dhaka MRTS project in Bangladesh, under which 163 officials of Dhaka Metro will be undergoing training at DMRA. The training duration of the courses will vary from 24 days to 156 days as per the job profile of the participants.
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. Bangladesh: At least 71 cases have been filed in different parts of the country in connection with the attacks on Hindus and around 450 were arrested for spreading rumours on social media.
2. North Korea on Tuesday fired at least one ballistic missile into the sea in what South Korea’s military described as a weapon likely designed for submarine-based launches, marking possibly the most significant demonstration of the North’s military might since President Joe Biden took office.
3. Tensions flare over missile test, navy drills near Japan : The Chinese-Russian sail-through was the first time Japan confirmed the passage of naval vessels from these two countries passing down the Tsugaru Strait, which separates the Sea of Japan from the Pacific.
4. Queen Elizabeth II rejects ‘Oldie of the Year’ award : The 95-year-old queen has politely declined the honor of being named “Oldie of the Year” by a British magazine, saying she does not meet “the relevant criteria.” Queen Elizabeth II is Britain’s longest-lived and longest-reigning monarch. But don’t call her an oldie.
5. Zalmay Khalilzad, the US special envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation who negotiated the February 2020 accord that led to the withdrawal of US-led international forces, has resigned. He will be succeeded by his deputy Thomas West, who was part of the national security team of US President Joe Biden when he was vice-president.
6. A top Taliban minister, Sirajuddin Haqqani, has praised the sacrifices of suicide bombers as” heroes of Islam and the country” as he met their relatives in an upscale hotel in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul.
Sirajuddin, who is listed as a terrorist by the United States with a $10 million bounty on his head, “stressed that must refrain from any betrayal of the aspirations of the martyrs” and promised $125 and a plot of land for each family.
6. The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon), which has led protests in India against the attacks on the minority Hindu community in Bangladesh, said on Tuesday that it was planning to hold a day-long global protest on October 23 to further raise its voice against the violence targeting Hindus in the neighbouring country. “Protests are going on in many parts of the world.
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