Category: World News

India successfully organises the First Meeting of G20 Digital Economy Working Group in Lucknow

Extensive discussions held on priority areas regarding Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), Cyber Security in Digital Economy and Digital Skilling Global economy could lose up to $11.5 trillion by 2028 due to the Digital Skills gap: shared by NASSCOM and UNESCO G20 Member nations and 8 Guest countries participated […]

Defence Secretary meets UK Delegation

FEB 14, 2023 Defence Secretary Shri Giridhar Aramane had a bilateral meeting with UK Minister of State for Defence Procurement Mr Alex Chalk. The meeting was conducted on the side-lines of the Aero India 2023 which was inaugurated by Hon’ble Prime Minister on 13 February 2023.  A number […]

74 new cases recorded in the last 24 hours

FEB 14, 2023 220.63 cr Total Vaccine doses (95.19 cr Second Dose and 22.85 cr Precaution Dose) have been administered so far under Nationwide Vaccination Drive 6,394 doses administered in last 24 hours India’s Active caseload currently stands at 1,818 Active cases stand at 0.01% Recovery Rate currently at […]

International Solar Alliance and West African Power Pool hosts 13 African countries in New Delhi to share best practices in solar deployment

India’s experience in energy would be very useful for the growth of energy ecosystems in the world, Shri R. K. Singh, Union Minister for Power, New & Renewable Energy FEB 14, 2023 Shri R K Singh, Union Minister for Power and New & Renewable Energy & President of […]

Turkey detains building contractors as quake deaths pass 33K

ANTAKYA, Turkey — Turkish justice officials targeted more than 130 people allegedly involved in shoddy and illegal construction methods as rescuers extricated more survivors, including a pregnant woman and two small children, six days after a pair of earthquakes collapsed thousands of buildings. The death toll from the 7.8 magnitude […]

Earthquake death toll tops 33,000, Turkey starts legal action

ANTAKYA, Turkey, Feb 12 – Rescuers pulled more survivors from the rubble on Sunday six days after one of the worst earthquakes to hit Turkey and Syria, as Turkish authorities sought to maintain order across the disaster zone and began legal action over some building collapses. With chances […]

Rescuers toil on in rubble of Turkey and Syria, survivors ever harder to find

ANTAKYA, Turkey/JANDARIS, Syria, Feb 11 – Rescuers in Turkey pulled more people from the rubble early on Saturday, five days after the country’s most devastating earthquake since 1939, but hopes were fading in Turkey and Syria that many more survivors would be found. In Kahramanmaras, close to the […]

Children plucked from ruins days after earthquake, but death tolls tops 22,000

ANTAKYA, Turkey/JANDARIS, Syria, Feb 10 – Rescue crews saved a 10-day-old baby and his mother trapped in ruins of a building in Turkey on Friday and dug several people from other sites as President Tayyip Erdogan said authorities should have reacted faster to this week’s huge earthquake. The confirmed death […]

Cold, hunger, despair grip homeless as Turkey-Syria earthquake toll passes 19,000

ANTAKYA, Turkey/JANDARIS, Syria, Feb 9 – Cold, hunger and despair gripped hundreds of thousands of people left homeless after the earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria three days ago as the death toll passed 19,000 on Thursday. The rescue of a two-year-old boy after 79 hours trapped in […]

Survivors struggle to stay warm, fed in earthquake aftermath

ANTAKYA, Turkey — Tens of thousands of people who lost their homes in a catastrophic earthquake huddled around campfires in the bitter cold and clamored for food and water Thursday, three days after the temblor hit Turkey and Syria and killed more than 19,300. Emergency crews used pick axes, shovels […]

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