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The Prime Minister of Vietnam chairs the IV Regional Summit of Comprehensive Economic Partnership Hanoi: Fifteen countries signed an extensive Asian trade deal on Sunday seen as a major blow to China in expanding its influence. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Association (RCEP), which includes 10 Southeast Asian economies along with …

Actors Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh celebrated their wedding anniversary and Diwali on Saturday with twin celebrations. The actors, who tied the knot in 2018, were celebrating their second wedding anniversary. The couple had a low-key celebration with only their family and friends present. Both Ranveer and Deepika shared the …

BEIJING: The city of Jinan, in eastern China, said it found the new coronavirus in beef and tripe, and in the packaging of these products, from Brazil, New Zealand and Bolivia, as China intensifies tests on food frozen. The importers were a unit of Guotai International Group and Shanghai Zhongli …

LONGEWALA / RAJASTHAN: Deliver an unequivocal message to India neighbors, PM Narendra modi on Saturday he claimed that the country would give a “prachand jawab” (fierce response) if provoked. Criticizing China without naming it, Modi said the world is concerned about “expansionist forces” and “expansionism shows a distorted mentality that …

Backed by China, the expanding Regional Comprehensive Economic Association (RCEP) is seen as a coup for Beijing to extend its influence in the region and mark its dominance in Asian trade. After eight years of discussing the details, the trade pact, the world’s largest in terms of GDP, analysts say, …

The success of Pfizer Inc.’s Covid-19 vaccine trial may help persuade more people to get vaccinated amid a surge in new coronavirus cases, according to Anthony Fauci, America’s leading infectious disease physician. The Pfizer vaccine, developed in collaboration with BioNTech SE of Germany, has “an extraordinarily high degree of efficacy: …

What did the RBI warn about falling GDP amid the pandemic and what awaits us? The story so far: The latest monthly newsletter of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) features an article by an official in its Monetary Policy Department titled ‘An Index of Economic Activity for India’, where …

Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev on Saturday to take care of Christian shrines in parts of Nagorno-Karabakh that Azerbaijan has under this week’s ceasefire agreement, the Kremlin said. Russia negotiated a ceasefire on Tuesday that secured territorial advances for Azerbaijan in the ethnic Armenian region, …

Fear of the coronavirus and chronic pollution ruined Saturday’s holiday when hundreds of millions of Indians celebrated the biggest Hindu holiday of the year. Diwali is destined to be the festival of light, but the pandemic has clouded the future for many in the country of 1.3 billion. Some defiantly …

Joe Biden extended his wishes on the occasion of Diwali. Washington: US President-elect Joe Biden tweeted Diwali greetings last night as millions of people celebrated the festival of lights around the world. Its publication comes a week after Donald Trump lost the bid for a second consecutive term in the …