Chinese Ambassador to India, Xu Feihong tweeted these pictures of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s meet with India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, in Beijing on Monday.
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India, China to resume direct flights, issue visas
Three months after negotiating an end to the military stand-off at the Line of Actual Control (LAC), India and China agreed to concrete measures to resume direct flights, visas, a number of exchanges, and the Mansarovar Yatra for pilgrims this summer. They also agreed to resume the dialogue on trans-border rivers and sharing of hydrological data, that China has withheld for years.
Amid spurt in Guillain Barre Syndrome, central team deployed to Pune
A man suspected to have contracted Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) has died in Maharashtra’s Solapur district, while the number of cases of the immunological nerve disorder in Pune has crossed 100, health officials said on Monday (January 27, 2025). The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Monday (January 27, 2025) deployed a high-level multi-disciplinary team to Pune in Maharashtra to support the State health authorities.
PM Modi speaks to President Trump on phone, says committed to a trusted partnership
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday (January 27, 2025) spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump and said, both sides will work for “global peace” and “security”. The conversation came a week after Mr Trump was sworn to office for his second term in a glittering ceremony in Washington DC where External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar participated as the representative of the Government of India.
Supreme Court relief to Udhayanidhi Stalin in Sanatana Dharma row
The Supreme Court on Monday (January 27, 2025) declined to entertain three writ petitions to initiate criminal proceedings against Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin over his September 2023 speech on Sanatana Dharma.
Expert panel clears plan to rebuild washed away Teesta dam in Sikkim
Fourteen months after a devastating glacier lake outburst flood in Sikkim washed away the Teesta-3 dam — the State’s biggest hydropower project — and killing at least 100, an expert committee of the Environment Ministry has recommended that the dam be reconstructed.
Nasdaq, S&P 500 fall; China’s DeepSeek AI model hits tech shares
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq ended sharply lower on Monday as Nvidia and other chipmakers sold off after surging popularity of a low-cost Chinese artificial intelligence model raised investor worries about the outlooks for current AI leaders in the United States. Nvidia’s shares sank, while an index of semiconductor stocks had its biggest single-day percentage fall since March 2020.
BJP, AAP, Cong. dominate richest candidates list; top two have assets over ₹200 crore: ADR report
Karnail Singh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) nominee from north Delhi’s Shakur Basti seat with ₹259 crore assets, is the richest of the 699 candidates fighting the February 5 Assembly election, according to a report released on Monday by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).
China signals willingness to repatriate confirmed Chinese nationals from U.S.
China said on Monday (January 27, 2025) that it is willing to repatriate confirmed Chinese nationals from the United States, as U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened tariffs and sanctions on some countries if they do not cooperate on accepting deportees.
Published – January 28, 2025 06:47 am IST