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India News | Delhi: 7-year-old Boy Drowns in Alipur Water Park, Case Registered
Latestly
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June 15, 2025
New Delhi [India] June 15 (ANI): A 7-year-old boy drowned to death at the Just Chill Water Park in Delhi's Alipur area on Thursday, according to an official. The child, who had visited the park with family, was later declared brought dead at a...
India orders inspection of all Boeing 787s after fatal crash
Gulf Daily News Online
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India’s aviation regulator has ordered all Boeing 787s being operated by local carriers to be inspected after an Air India crash killed more than 240 people this week, the aviation minister said yesterday, adding the authorities were investigating...
Israel’s strike on Iran sparks LNG supply concerns in Asia: report
Daily Star
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June 15, 2025
The Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities has intensified concerns in Asia's LNG market, with trading companies, importers, and governments reviewing supply risks amid rising regional tensions, sources told Platts, part of S&P Global...
Air India crash puts spotlight back on poor infrastructure at airports
The Federal
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June 15, 2025
As investigators piece together the circumstances leading to the Ahmedabad air crash, it has brought back focus on a key area of aviation – the condition of Indian airports. What happened at Ahmedabad is a pointer to the grim situation that...
Taiwan adds China's Huawei, SMIC to export control list
Channel News Asia
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June 15, 2025
Taiwan is home to TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker and a major supplier of chips to AI darling Nvidia. Both Huawei and SMIC have been working hard to catch up in the chip technology race. Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory...
Exclusive-US-China trade truce leaves military-use rare earth issue unresolved, sources say
The Gazette - Colorado
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By Laurie Chen and Fanny Potkin BEIJING/SINGAPORE (Reuters) -The renewed U.S.-China trade truce struck in London left a key area of export restrictions tied to national security untouched, an unresolved conflict that threatens a more comprehensive...
The new city of the Dragon King and India’s bid to support it
Sunday Guardian Live
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June 14, 2025
Bhutan’s bold Gelephu project offers India a strategic opportunity—economic partnership, regional stability, and soft power near the sensitive China border. Most of the northeastern borders of India have been in focus due to the conflicts in...
Magnet mayhem! Number of Indian companies awaiting licences from China for rare earths doubles; industry supplies hit hard
The Times of India
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52 India-based companies depend on Chinese magnets for supplying to automobile manufacturers across the country. (AI image) China’s hold on rare magnets sends Indian industry supply in tailspin! The count of Indian firms seeking permits from...
Taiwan adds China’s Huawei, SMIC to export control list
KFGO - North Dakota
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June 15, 2025
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s government has added China’s Huawei Technologies and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) to its export control list, which includes other proscribed organisations like the Taliban and al Qaeda....
Post Air India crash, Vadodara coffin maker races to deliver 100. Last bulk order was after Bhuj earthquake
The Print
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June 15, 2025
Vadodara: Around 8 pm Friday—a day after the Air India 171 crash—Nelvin Bhai Rajwadi got a call from an Air India official in Ahmedabad. The official placed an urgent order for 100 coffins. Nelvin wasn’t prepared for such a large request. “But I...
GLOBALink | Artistic Swimming World Cup participants explore Chinese culture in Xi'an
Xinhua News Agency
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At the ongoing 2025 World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup Super Final, organizers set up a Chinese culture street in the hotel of the participants, attracting many elite athletes to experience traditional Chinese Hanfu clothing and painting....
Death toll from plane crash in India climbs to 270 as search teams find more bodies
KNKX - Washington State
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June 15, 2025
AHMEDABAD, India — Search and recovery teams continued scouring the site of one of India's worst aviation disasters for a third day after the Air India flight fell from the sky and killed at least 270 people in Gujarat state, officials said...
BRI story in Central Asia: My day as a deliveryman in Astana
People's Daily Online
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By Su Yingxiang, Peng Yukai, Zhang Wenjie, Cui Yige, Chang Sha (People's Daily Online) 09:16, June 15, 2025 As Belt and Road cooperation continues to deepen and deliver more tangible results, cross-border e-commerce between China and Central Asian...
'Stowaway': Hidden kitten survives 3-week journey from China to Minnesota
Local12 - Ohio
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - A kitten, now affectionately called "Stowaway," survived an arduous three-week journey from China to the United States inside a shipping container. Discovered in Oakdale, Minnesota, the malnourished feline...
As tariff differential with China narrows, policymakers recalibrate India’s market access dynamics into US
The Indian Express
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June 15, 2025
A fresh tweak in America’s tariffs on China has policymakers in New Delhi reaching for their calculators again for a keenly tracked metric here — the effective duty on Chinese products on a landed basis across US ports in commodity categories...
Pakistan’s claim on 3 Rafales shot down ‘inaccurate’, better than F-35 & Chinese fighters—Dassault CEO
The Print
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June 15, 2025
New Delhi: French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation’s chief executive officer Eric Trappier rejected as “inaccurate” Pakistan’s claims of having shot down three Indian Rafale fighter jets during Operation Sindoor last month. Asserting that...
Turkey rejects Baba Ramdev’s claim, denies maintenance link to crashed Air India Boeing 787-8, says ‘disinformation aimed at …’
Financial Express
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Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad: Amid speculation of poor maintenance of the Boeing 787-8 aircraft following the tragic Air India plane crash near Ahmedabad, the Turkish government has issued a strong denial of claims linking its aviation...
Qatar’s aviation stats show MoM gains across key metrics
The Peninsula
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June 15, 2025
Doha, Qatar: Qatar’s aviation sector maintained a positive growth trend in May 2025, registering increases across aircraft movements, passenger traffic, and cargo volumes, as indicated by preliminary figures from the Civil Aviation Authority. The...
19 victims of Air India plane crash identified through DNA matching
Madhyamam
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June 15, 2025
Ahmedabad: The identification of victims from the terrible Air India Flight AI-171 tragedy is still in progress. As of Saturday night, Gujarat Minister of State for Home Harsh Sanghavi revealed that 19 victims had been identified using DNA...
Air India crash: CCTV footage, black box; what we know about the investigation
Khaleej Times
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[Editor's Note: Follow KT's live blog for all the latest updates on the Ahmedabad plane crash.] Air India's deadly plane crash that killed at least 270 people has triggered a wave of speculation about what led to the world's worst aviation...