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Jakarta, Sep 7 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday attended the 20th ASEAN-India Summit here and unveiled the 12-point plan for strengthening cooperation between New Delhi and the regional bloc.In a statement, the Ministry of External Affairs said he Prime Minister attended the 20th ASEAN-India Summit and the 18th East Asia Summit (EAS) on Thursday morning on his day-long visit to the Indonesian capital. At the ASEAN-India Summit, Modi held extensive discussions with partners of the regional bloc on further strengthening of ASEAN-India Comprehensive Strategic Partnership and charting its future course, the Ministry. “The Prime Minister reaffirmed ASEAN centrality…

Jakarta, Sep 7 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was a day-long visit to Indonesia, on Thursday announced the establishment of an Embassy in Dili, Timor-Leste, saying that it was a reflection of the importance India attaches to the ASEAN and its relations with the Southeast Asian nation.In a statement, the Ministry of External Affairs said: “At the ASEAN-India Summit in Jakarta on 7 September 2023, the Prime Minister announced a decision to establish an Indian Embassy in Dili, Timor-Leste.” “The decision is a reflection of the importance India attaches to ASEAN, and its relations with Timor-Leste,” it said. The…

Washington, Sep 7 (IANS) A city in the US state of Kentucky has officially declared September 3 as ‘Sanatana Dharma Day’ even as a row has erupted in India with a minister from Tamil Nadu calling for its eradication. Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg recently attended a re-consecration ceremony at the Hindu Temple of Kentucky, where the official proclamation on September 3 was read by his deputy, Barbara Sexton Smith. “I was honored to attend the Mahakumbhabhishekam ceremony at the Hindu Temple. The rituals performed to renew and restore the temple hold great cultural importance. Our office has officially declared September…

Mexico City, Sep 7 (IANS) The Supreme Court of Mexico has decriminalised abortion across the country, two years after it ruled in favour of a challenge to an existing law in Coahuila state saying that criminal penalties for terminating pregnancies were unconstitutional, the media reported on Thursday. The new ruling which came on Wednesday, will legalise abortion across all 32 states, reports the BBC.In its verdict, the court said that the denial of the possibility of a termination violated the human rights of women.”In cases of rape, no girl can be forced to become a mother – neither by the…

New Delhi, September 7 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is the centre point of India’s Act East Policy.He made the remarks while addressing the ASEAN-India summit in Jakarta, Indonesia.Saying that the ASEAN region will also play a key role in India’s Indo-Pacific initiative, he noted: “Even in an environment of global uncertainties, our mutual cooperation is making steady progress. This is a testimony to the strength and resilience of our ties.”‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ – One Earth, One Family, One Future – is the theme of India’s G20 presidency.” The Prime…

Singapore, Sep 7 (IANS) Singapore’s Indian-origin ministers K. Shanmugam and Vivian Balakrishnan have applied to serve defamation papers on Lee Hsien Yang, the brother of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, via Facebook Messenger. The cabinet ministers are suing Yang for defamation, following his comments relating to the rental of two colonial-era bungalows in the city-state. Their lawyers from Davinder Singh Chambers made the application on the grounds that it was impractical to serve the court papers on Yang personally in Britain, The Straits Times reported. Yang and his wife left the country after refusing to attend a police interview in…

Colombo, Sep 6 (IANS) Following the shocking revelations of UK’s Channel 4 TV that the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings by an ISIS affiliated local extremist group were done to create a ground to bring former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to power in Sri Lanka, the Archbishop of Colombo, Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, demanded an international investigation into the multiple bomb attacks on three churches and three star hotels that killed 269 people and injured over 500, including a number of foreigners. The head of the Catholic Church has refused to accept the ongoing investigations and court cases, claiming that they are biased, claiming…

Hong Kong, Sep 6 (IANS) Amid the escalating rivalry between the US and China, the Xi Jinping government has reportedly barred officials from using Apple iPhones at work, the media reported on Wednesday.Beijing has instructed some government staff to stop using iPhones through chat groups or meetings, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.Apple relies heavily on Greater China region for both manufacturing and sales of its iPhones and has a major chunk of its product manufacturing in the country amid its future plans to make India the next big manufacturing hub.“Restrictions on foreign devices are the latest…

New York, Sep 6 (IANS) Amid fresh concerns of Covid-19 due to the new highly mutant Omicron sub variant BA.2.86, two new studies from the US have confirmed that it is less contagious as well as immune evasive. This comes after two studies last week from China’s Peking University and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden showed that the variant is less transmissible than XBB and EG variants. The new study, led by researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in the US, reported on X, formerly Twitter, that their first data from their antibody neutralisation experiments suggest responses to BA.2.86 were…

London, Sep 6 (IANS) Daily exercise can help school children cope better with stress, making them more resilient, finds a study.In the study, published in Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, it was found out that the participants who exercise more than an hour per day, as per the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendation, produced less cortisol in the stress task than the children who were less active.”Regularly active children seem to have a reduced physiological stress reaction in general,” said lead author Manuel Hanke, from the University of Basel in Switzerland.”When children regularly run, swim, climb, etc., the…