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Internet connectivity across large parts of Asia, Europe, and the Middle East has experienced interruptions due to damages to the undersea cables serving these regions.

Two ongoing devastating wars – one in Ukraine and the other in the Gaza strip – have so far killed and injured tens of thousands of civilians since last year. The Ukraine-Russia war started in February 2022. As of February 15, this year, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) verified a total of 30,457 civilian casualties in the course of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Of them, 19,875 were reported to have been injured. Nearly 3.7 million Ukrainians were internally displaced. Around 6.5 million refugees from Ukraine have been recorded globally. Approximately 14.6 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance in 2024. In Gaza, at least 29,782 people have been killed and 70,043 wounded in Israeli attacks since October 7, last year. The revised death toll in Israel stands at 1,139. The war continues. Gaza-based Palestinians, comprising large numbers of children and women, are dying in hordes almost every day. So far, little pressure has been exerted by the friends of Israel and Palestine on the two sides to bring the mindless war to an end.

Brazil, as the president of G-20 has taken the move to place a proposal for the imposition of a global tax on super-rich in order to bring down the level of inequality between the rich and the poor in the current phase of the global economy. Brazil’s finance minister told a G20 meeting in Sao Paulo on Thursday that countries should implement a global tax on the super-rich in an effort to tackle rampant tax evasion.

BJP’s first list of candidates for Lok Sabha election 2024 remarkably exudes higher level of regimentation of the party under Narendra Modi. Strength of any regimentation of a political establishment is measured by control of its high command over the organisation, on the basis of which BJP high command was declared confident and strong, merely because many ministers and sitting MPs were denied party tickets and replaced by new faces.

It was a rally with a difference. More than being an electoral rally where the leaders usually seek votes, the first ever public rally of the INDIA bloc at Patna Gandhi Maidan on Sunday stirred the Dalits and proletariat to assert their rights and sent an indestructible message across the country that the 2024 Lok Sabha election symbolises the battle between the poor and the rich with the poor struggling for equal opportunity and share of power.

Amid a growingly intricate security landscape, nations such as China and India, among others in Asia, are expanding their satellite networks to keep a close watch on military activities within the region.

Top opposition leaders spoke at the INDIA Bloc's 'Jan Vishwas Maharally' at Patna's Gandhi Maidan on Sunday and removing Prime Minister Narendra Modi from power was the clarion call to a 10-lakh strong congregation. The galaxy of speakers included Tejashwi Yadav, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi, D. Raja, Sitaram Yechury and Akhilesh Yadav, all of them diehard Modi-repellants.

BHOPAL: The BJP has launched its election campaigns by announcing candidates for24 Lok Sabha constituencies in Madhya Pradesh. The party has yet to announce candidates for remaining five constituencies. These five seats include Chhindwara which has been the bastion of Congress since 1980. With only one exception. Kamal Nath has been winning this seat for Congress since 1980. It also includes Indore which is regarded as a highly prestigious seat for BJP.

After a pause of nearly a year, the quick-changing politics in the breathtakingly beautiful Himalayan country Nepal is once again at it. As per reports, the coalition government headed by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, more popularly known by his nickname "Prachanda," will see its major coalition partner, Nepali Congress, replaced by CPN (UML).

New Delhi: Former captain and ace midfielder Manpreet Singh on Saturday admitted that he never imagined that he would become a crucial cog in the Indian Hockey Team, let alone achieve 350 appearances for India.