Subject: Commonwealth Union - Today's Edition

With the compliments of the Publisher NIRJ DEVA.

PM Modi in Dhaka for 50th independence celebrations

PM Modi will arrive in Dhaka at 10.00am local time, and will attend an event at the National Martyr’s Memorial, which was set up in the memory of those who died in the Bangladesh War of Independence of 1971. He will also...Read More

Commonwealth ministers discuss pandemic, human rights, gender discrimination at Ministerial Action Group meeting

The meeting was chaired by Ambassador Raychelle Omamo, Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Kenya, while ministers and representatives from the United Kingdom, Australia, Malaysia, Barbados, Belize, Ghana, Namibia and Samoa also participated in the video conference.

During the meeting...Read More

Environment campaigners urge British government to ‘lock polluters out’ from COP26

Environment campaigners are calling on the British government to deny access to polluters for this year’s pivotal UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), and also have them “locked out” of all future UN climate talks. 

In a letter addressed to...Read More

Despite de-escalation along Pangong Lake, China threat remains, Indian Army chief says

Despite the de-escalation of tensions along the Pangong Lake in Ladakh, the threat from China has not yet dissipated, India’s Army chief said on Thursday (25 March). Participating in the Times Now International Economic Conclave, General MM Naravane said: “Unless a substantial amount of de-escalation takes place and the troops...Read More

Trudeau’s carbon tax is constitutional, Canada’s top court rules

Canada’s top court ruled in favour of a central pillar of the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plan to fight climate change, the carbon pricing policy, which had been challenged by the provinces of Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan. Infuriating these provinces on Thursday (25 March), the Supreme Court upheld the legality of the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, saying that...Read More

Pakistan welcomes resurgence of Afghan peace process

Pakistan has appreciated the recent attempts to revive the peace process in Afghanistan, but has cautioned against attempts by ravagers to derail the talks and avoid a political settlement in the war-torn region. Ambassador...Read More

Social infrastucture development key to Covid-19 recovery- , Mohan Vivekanandan

Japan has a suspicion that North Korea has launched at the very minimum two projectile missiles earlier this week, which is the first of its kind to be... Read More

China sanctions UK individuals, entities over Xinjiang ‘lies and disinformation’

China on Friday (26 March) imposed sanctions on several individuals and organisations in the United Kingdom over what it described as...Read More

Georgia passes new state elections law backed by GOP

Brian Kemp governor for Georgia attracted protests as he went ahead and signed into a law sweeping Republican-sponsored overhaul of state elections. This law also includes new restrictions on...Read More

Actor Aamir Khan tests positive for COVID-19, in self quarantine

The statement also requested others, who have recently been in contact with the actor, to get tested: It noted, “All those who came in contact with...Read More

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