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With effect from August 1, the Chinese capital has imposed restrictions on the export of gallium, a component that has long been an integral part of the U.S. military's advanced defense systems and supply chain.

With the end of central bank tightening cycle in sight, gold prices are edging higher and the mid-year outlook for the yellow metal has turned more. Domestic prices in India have already been showing an upward trend. The latest gains are attributed to dollar weakness, making purchase of gold cheaper for holders of other currencies.

India is among the low Women’s Empowerment and Gender Gap group of countries with their respective values 0.520 and 0.560 respectively in 2022. It is also in the medium value group countries in Human Development in 2021.

Major General Usman Mohammad Mustafa is the Director General of Media and Awareness in the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs effectively serving as the official spokesperson of Peshmerga forces. The Peshmerga are the military forces of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and one of the most capable forces in the region which pushed back ISIS from its strongholds. In an exclusive interview Maj Gen Mustafa speaks about planned reforms of Peshmerga, the threat of ISIS, and military relations with Baghdad.

Australian business and government have joined the global chorus warning about the risks artificial intelligence (AI) poses to humanity. But despite their fretful tone, the introduction of algorithms into Australian political life has been less apocalyptic and more business-as-usual. Changes to the Australian welfare system are a prime example. Punitive and difficult-to-access by design, the system is now best known for a disastrous algorithmic innovation nicknamed robodebt.

In South Asia, the recent agreement between India and Bangladesh, to use their respective national currencies (rupee and taka) for bilateral trade will help boost Bangladeshi forex savings by at least $2 billion US annually.

Amitav Ghosh became the first writer in English to win Jnanpith IS A CRUSADER Award, one of India’s most prestigious literary prizes. It’s a sign of just how effectively he has decolonized the language.

The ruling establishment in India led by PM Narendra Modi has been sabotaging workers’ unions ever since the BJP came to power in 2014 is a well-known fact and is well documented and censured by even Credentials Committee reports submitted in the International Labour Conferences of the ILO, the latest being held during June 5-16, 2023, but the government remains unperturbed and does the same shamelessly, year after year.

New Delhi: Playing fast and attacking game, hosts Germany outplayed India 4-1 in the first of the two Women's hockey matches at Wiesbaden on Tuesday. Nike Lorenz (6', 59') and Jette Fleschütz (14', 43') scored a brace each for the winners, Vaishnavi Vittal Phalke (29) was 'the lone goal-scorer for the visitors.

New Delhi: World no 3 pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty recorded an easy win over their rivals to move into the second round of doubles at the Korea Open 2023 badminton tournament on Tuesday.