It could not be immediately ascertained if securing the semiconductor supply chain would be the main announcement following the summit or if it will be one of several. By Yashwant Raj, Washington PUBLISHED ON SEP 19, 2021 11:43 PM IST Leaders from India, Japan, Australia and the US are likely to announce ways to work together to secure the semiconductor supply chain at the first in-person summit of the Quad grouping on September 24, Nikkei, a Japanese news publication, has reported citing a draft of a joint document that the four countries will issue.It could not be immediately ascertained if…
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Leaders from India, Japan Australia and the US are likely to announce ways to work together to secure the semiconductor supply chain at the first in-person summit of the Quad on September 24, Nikkei, a Japanese news publication, has reported citing a draft of a joint document that the four countries will issue.It could not be immediately ascertained if securing the semiconductor supply chain would be the key announcement of the summit or one of several.US President Joe Biden is hosting the summit at the White House on September 24, with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Japan’s Yoshihide Suga and…
The Cumbre Vieja volcano erupted on Spain’s Canary Islands on Sunday spewing out lava, ash and a huge column of smoke after days of increased seismic activity, sparking evacuations of people living nearby, authorities said.Cumbre Vieja, which last erupted 50 years ago, straddles a ridge in the south of La Palma island, home to around 80,000 people.”The eruption started in the Cabeza de Vaca zone, in El Paso,” the local government said on its Twitter account, adding that evacuations have started in the areas closest to the volcano.”People are asked to be extremely careful and to stay away from the…
The German ambassador to Pakistan, Bernhard Schlagheck, said on Saturday that he was confident about the constructive role the South Asian nation would play in supporting the peace and prosperity of its neighbour Afghanistan.Schlagheck said Germany appreciated Pakistan’s involvement in the “Doha Process,” which saw peace talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government.He also said the Pakistani government was very helpful in Germany’s efforts to evacuate Afghans through its land border. Several DW correspondents and their families were able to leave Afghanistan via Pakistan earlier this month.In an interview for Radio Pakistan, according to Pakistani media outlet Urdupoint, the…
Around 45 miles from Bamiyan, the park contains a series of six deep blue lakes situated in the Hindu Kush mountains. Some photos of Taliban riders pedalling boats in the idyllic background of a Hindu Kush mountains lake has gone viral on social media after journalist Jake Hanrahan shared the photos on Twitter. “There photos are real,” he posted as Taliban fighters can be seen enjoying some serene moments in the lake with RPGs and assault rifles slinging from their shoulders.A Daily Mail report said the photos have been taken at Band-e Amir National Park, which used to be a…
Written by Shankhyaneel Sarkar | Edited by Poulomi Ghosh, Hindustan Times, New Delhi Maulana Abdul Aziz, an infamous radical cleric, on Sunday hoisted Afghan Taliban flags at a seminary in Islamabad on Sunday, news agency PTI reported citing Pakistan news outlet Dawn. Pakistan police registered a case against Aziz, who also runs the women’s seminary known as Jamia Hafsa, and cordoned off the area with an anti-riot unit.The Islamabad police spotted Afghan Taliban flags on Jamia Hafsa’s rooftops and received open threats from Aziz himself. Aziz, his students and fellow collaborators were booked under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) and different…
Following India’s decision in July to ban Mastercard from acquiring new customers, a senior US trade official had called the decision “draconian” and said it caused “panic” news agency Reuters reported based on US government emails.The ban had reportedly triggered a series of emails between US officials in Washington and in India in which they had discussed the next steps with Mastercard, including approaching the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Reuters reported citing the emails.“We’ve started hearing from stakeholders about some pretty draconian measures that the RBI has taken over the past couple days,” Reuters cited from an email by…
A day after at least two Taliban officials were killed and 19 were left injured at a series of explosions in Afghanistan’s Jalalabad, another explosion took place on Sunday, in the same city, which is the provincial capital of Nangarhar and is 80 miles from Kabul.Witnesses told news agency AP that Sunday’s blast targeted a vehicle of the border police, which is now run by the Taliban. Initial reports said five people were killed, including two civilians, among them a child. The Taliban were not immediately available for comment about possible casualties among their ranks, the report said.Who are attacking…
As tensions simmer between France and the United States over a “secret” deal, which led to Australia scrapping a contract for submarines with a French company in favour of nuclear-powered submarines from the US, a French government spokesperson said on Sunday that president Emmanuel Macron will hold talks with his American counterpart Joe Biden “in the next few days,” news agency Reuters reported.Also Read | Australia to get nuclear-powered submarines as first initiative of AUKUS“We will seek clarification over the cancellation of a submarine order by Australia in favour of a trilateral security deal with the United States and Britain,”…
Finland has reported the very first case of the ‘Mu’ variant of the coronavirus, which was classified as a “variant of interest” by the World Health Organization (WHO) last month. According to a report citing Finnish researchers, although the ‘Mu’ variant of the coronavirus has now been detected in as many as 39 other countries apart from Finland, the variant does not pose any additional threats compared to the other variants of the virus causing the infectious disease.Also Read | Is Mu variant of coronavirus vaccine resistant? WHO says it could be possible“All variants that can evade protection conferred by…