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Vaccine help from India Reaches Taiwan
22Apr By Yusara AskariNo Comments

Vaccine help from India Reaches Taiwan

Paraguay is one of the 90 countries who are to get COVID-19 shorts from India. Paraguay has received 1 lakh covaxin shots last month.That might seem par for the course of New Delhi’s vaccine diplomacy, which has seen the country use inoculations and other medical equipment to cement its status except for the fact that the supply to Paraguay apparently came after a request from Taiwan.This was reflected in an April statement by Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu that the Chinese government had tried to convince Paraguay to drop Taiwan as a diplomatic ally in exchange for vaccine doses. “In the last few weeks, we have been speaking to like-minded countries, including Japan, the United States, India etc., and India fortunately has been able to provide some Covaxin vaccines to Paraguay,” Wu
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5 arrested when a boat was seized in high seas with 340 kg heroin.
21Apr By Nectar GanNo Comments

5 arrested when a boat was seized in high seas with 340 kg heroin.

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Monday arrested five people for trafficking 340 kg of heroin from Sri Lankan shipping boat in kochin.Initial interrogation of the five men has led the NCB to believe that the Sri Lankan boat had picked up the drug consignment from a red-coloured Iranian boat. The NCB hasn’t clarified the intended destination of the drug consignment.Officials said the Indian naval ship Suvarna intercepted the Lankan boat “DU Shashila” in the high seas of the Indian Ocean on suspicion of drug trafficking and brought the boat to Kochi's Mattancherry Wharf for an extensive search by the NCB. Each of the 340 packets had been stamped with a crown symbol with the words “KING 2021”, a practice followed by drug trafficking syndicates to brand their merchandise, NCB said.(So
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China-backed Port City in Colombo belongs to govt: Sri Lankan Minister
20Apr By Yusara AskariNo Comments

China-backed Port City in Colombo belongs to govt: Sri Lankan Minister

Colombo, Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka Minister of Justice Ali Sabry has said the government owns 100 per cent of the land and the project has been initiated to bring investment in the special financial zone. Amid the controversy of China backed post City of Colombo.Addressing a media briefing on Sunday, Minister Sabry said the total area of the investment zone is 269 hectares and 91 hectares for public facilities and cannot be given to the project company, The Colombo Page reported. Out of the remaining land of the financial zone, 116 hectares or 43 per cent will be given to the project company which initiated the project in 2013 and spent USD 1.4 billion to develop the Port City."But all 100 per cent of the land is owned by the government. It is completely false to say that land was given to som...
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China brought enormous force to border without provocation: Jaishankar
20Apr By Yusara AskariNo Comments

China brought enormous force to border without provocation: Jaishankar

New Delhi, India: Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar on Monday said the China is enforcing a lot of forces to the borders [Line of actual control(LAC)], without provocation. Speaking at the All India Management Association National Leadership Conclave, the external affairs minister pointed that for the last 40 years, India and China have had peace and tranquillity on the border though not “suggesting that we solved the boundary dispute”.“For last 40 years, we have had peace and tranquillity on the border. I’m not suggesting that we solved the boundary dispute… But the rest of our relationship got built on an assumption that neither would use force or threaten another. We had different agreements that translated those good intentions into commitments,” he said at the conclave.“La
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France and Pakistan’s relation are at lowest whereas Delhi and Paris reaching new hights.
20Apr By Nectar GanNo Comments

France and Pakistan’s relation are at lowest whereas Delhi and Paris reaching new hights.

Paris, France: French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian accepted our invitation with open arms where as in Pakistan he asked French nationals to leave the country.Olivier Guillard, in an Asialyst article asks - "Why is the Franco-Indian strategic partnership in full swing, while relations between Paris and Islamabad are at their lowest?Obviously, the contrast could not be more striking, the difference more spectacular.This Thursday, April 15, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian completed a three-day trip to India at the invitation of his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar.While, at the same time, the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs - Quai d'Orsay and the French Embassy in Pakistan urgently sent a message of a completely different nature to the French nationals and to the eco...
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US and Japan vow to push back on China’s ‘intimidation’, tech dominance
19Apr By Stuart WhiteNo Comments

US and Japan vow to push back on China’s ‘intimidation’, tech dominance

Washington: Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga have vowed to work together to push back against China’s “intimidation” of its neighbours during the US President’s first White House meeting with a foreign leader since his inauguration. The US and Japanese leaders announced a $6 billion commitment to develop next generation mobile networks, an effort designed to ensure Chinese firms such as Huawei do not dominate the playing field on 5G and other emerging technologies. “We committed to working together to take on the challenges from China and on issues like the East China Sea, the South China Sea, as well as North Korea, to ensure a future of a free and open Indo-Pacific,” Biden said in a ceremony at the White House. “Japan and the United States are two stron
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Chinese embassy in US said they absolutely oppose to US- Japan joint statement
19Apr By Yusara AskariNo Comments

Chinese embassy in US said they absolutely oppose to US- Japan joint statement

BEIJING - China is objecting on the statement  issued by the US and Japan The remarks have “completely gone beyond the scope of the normal development of bilateral relations”, harming the interests of third parties as well as peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific, the embassy said. The move was an attempt to split the region that “will inevitably proceed with the purpose of harming others and end in harming themselves”, it added. The summit – Biden’s first in-person meeting with a foreign leader as president – came just days after China sent 25 aircraft, including fighters and nuclear-capable bombers, near Taiwan, which Beijing considers a wayward province. “I refrain from mentioning details, since it pertains to diplomatic exchanges, but there is already an agreed reco
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to strengthen the regional ties Japan’s PM to Visit India, Philippines to Strengthen Regional Ties
19Apr By Yusara AskariNo Comments

to strengthen the regional ties Japan’s PM to Visit India, Philippines to Strengthen Regional Ties

Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga in a move to strengthen regional ties after meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to visit India and the Philippines in late April, in a move to strengthen regional ties after meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden. Suga’s travels will include meeting India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, according to Kyodo News, citing Japanese government sources. According to analysts, Japan wants to strengthen ties in Asia to counter Beijing's growing clout in the region. That echoes the agenda for his White House meeting, which was seen as emphasizing the strength of the U.S.-Japan alliance before their shared rival, China. Analysts told VOA Mandarin that Suga’s expected visit is aimed at boosting c
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Billionaire diamond tycoon Nirav Modi forced to come back in India to face trial over £1.3bn fraud : extradition approved by Priti Patel
19Apr By Grace TsoiNo Comments

Billionaire diamond tycoon Nirav Modi forced to come back in India to face trial over £1.3bn fraud : extradition approved by Priti Patel

Nirav Modi whom New Delhi is trying to extradite back to our country since 2016 to face charges against his bank fraud of $2.2million. Modi, whose wealth was once calculated by Forbes magazine as £1.5billion, was arrested in the UK in March 2019, and detained in Wandsworth prison, south-west London.  He now has 14 days to appeal to a higher court in Britain against the decisions of the district court and Home Office.  Zulfiquar Memon of Indian law firm MZM Legal, which is representing Modi in his case said the team is in the process of challenging the order.  He added that this 'may happen anytime soon.'  A spokesperson for the Home Office confirmed in a statement on Friday that the extradition order was signed on April 15.  India's Min
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China tried to attack India through Cyber routes: Military Chief Bipin Rawat
17Apr By Stuart WhiteNo Comments

China tried to attack India through Cyber routes: Military Chief Bipin Rawat

General Bipin Rawat, the Chief of Defence Staff of the Indian Army, said in a virtualdiscussion at the annual Raisina Dialogue that China’s creation of “disruptive technologieswhich can paralyze systems of the adversary” had emboldened Beijing and made it assertive.In June last year, amid the stand-off, at least 20 Indian soldiers and an unspecified number ofChinese troops were left dead following the first fatal clash between the two countries indecades. Rawat’s comments came in a discussion with Australian military chief GeneralAngus Campbell, his Japanese counterpart Koji Yamazaki, as well as Tim Cahill, senior vice president of arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin, at the dialogue organised jointly by India’sMinistry of External Affairs and the Observer Research Foundation, a New Delhi-b
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