A firefighter carries a physique of a sufferer from a hearth that broke out at a business complicated in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on March 1, 2024.
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First technical group from India arrives in Maldives
The authorities has confirmed {that a} group of Indian technical personnel have landed in Maldives to exchange army troops which were working plane there. The growth signifies a compromise between the Modi authorities and the lately elected Muizzu authorities on the contentious challenge of Indian troops stationed within the Maldives that had change into the goal of the “India Out” marketing campaign run by the ruling occasion.
End pact with Kuki-Zo teams, Manipur Assembly tells Centre
As the Manipur Assembly has handed a decision to induce the Union Government to abrogate the suspension of operations (SoO) pact with Kuki-Zo rebel teams, in impact since 2008, suspense prevailed over the extension of the settlement. The 10 Kuki-Zo-Hmar legislators within the 60-member Assembly weren’t current within the House when the decision was handed.
‘Abki Baar, 400 Paar’ slogan coined by public, not BJP: PM
The slogan ‘Abki Baar, 400 Paar (This time, above 400)’ was not coined by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) however by the general public itself to deliver again the present authorities, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has stated. “Today, there is only one thing being heard everywhere: ‘Abki Baar, 400 Paar’. This has happened for the first time that the public itself has elevated a slogan like this to bring back its beloved government. It has not been given by the BJP,” he stated, just about addressing the ‘Viksit Bharat, Viksit Madhya Pradesh‘ programme, a part of the Centre’s Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra.
WTO talks prolong as leaders talk about methods to interrupt deadlock over agri, fisheries points
WTO ministerial assembly has been prolonged by a day amid hectic parleys to bridge variations between developed and rising economies on points similar to agriculture, fisheries subsidies, and e-commerce moratorium.
Multiple knowledge rejigs raise GDP progress to 7.6%, with 8.4% spurt in Q3
Making a flurry of revisions within the financial system’s progress estimates, the National Statistical Office (NSO) on Thursday raised India’s actual GDP progress esimate for this 12 months to 7.6% from the 7.3% projected final month. It additionally scaled down its 7.2% progress estimate for 2022-23 to 7%, and raised its 2021-22 estimate from 9.1% to 9.7%. The Gross Value Added (GVA) within the financial system is projected to rise 6.9% this 12 months, with the NSO downgrading final 12 months’s GVA progress to six.7% from 7%. GDP progress for the primary two quarters of this 12 months was raised to eight.2% and eight.1%, additional rising to eight.4% for the the October to December 2023 quarter (Q3).
Dhaka: At least 43 useless, 22 injured in a hearth at a business complicated
A hearth at a six-story business constructing in Dhaka killed no less than 43 folks and injured dozens of others, Bangladesh’s well being minister stated on March 1. The nation’s Health Minister Samanta Lal Sen stated the hearth broke out late on February 29 within the constructing in Dhaka’s Bailey Road space. Firefighters rescued survivors and pulled out useless our bodies, and by early Friday, no less than 43 folks died and no less than 22 others had been being handled, he stated. Firefighters stated the hearth started in a preferred restaurant on the primary ground of the constructing, and that many individuals had been trapped by the hearth.
Biden and Trump tour U.S.-Mexico border highlighting immigration as an election challenge
U.S. President Joe Biden and sure Republican challenger Donald Trump walked the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas on February 29, duelling journeys underscoring how essential immigration has change into for the 2024 election and the way a lot every man desires to make use of it to his benefit. Each selected an optimum location to make his factors, and their schedules had been remarkably comparable. They every received a briefing on operations and points, walked alongside the border and gave remarks that overlapped. But that is the place the comparisons ended.
ZSI names a newly found head-shield sea slug after President Droupadi Murmu
The Zoological Survey of India named a brand new marine species of head-shield sea slug with ruby crimson spot which was found from West Bengal and Odisha coast after President of India Droupadi Murmu. This species belonging to Melanochlamys genus was found from Digha of West Bengal coast and Udaipur of Odisha coast. The new species of head-shield sea slug, which is discovered nowhere on this planet, is called as Melanochlamys droupadi.
F1’s longest season set to kick off after an eventful low season
After essentially the most dramatic offseason in Formula 1 historical past, comes its longest-ever season. All three previous and current champions on the grid — Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen and Fernando Alonso — agree 24 races push the bounds of what F1 drivers and group members can take.
“When I started we had 16 races,” stated two-time champion Alonso, who has a report 377 profession race begins. “Now we are up to 24 and this is not sustainable for the future for anyone.” “I feel already that we are way over the limit of races,” stated Verstappen, who questioned if some drivers would possibly “start shortening their careers” over the workload.
