03-02-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India plans to cut personal income tax rates to boost middle-class spending power, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Saturday, as she announced an annual budget that also sought to increase private investment to strengthen growth. The world’s fifth-largest economy is expected to post its …
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03-02-2025 TOKYO: Japan is considering offering support for a $44 billion gas pipeline in Alaska as it seeks to court US President Donald Trump and forestall potential trade friction, according to three officials familiar with the matter. Officials in Tokyo expect Trump may raise the project, which he has said …
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03-02-2025 Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: At least 18 paramilitary soldiers and 24 armed attackers have been killed in two related incidents in southwestern Pakistan, according to officials and local media reports, as sectarian, ethnic and separatist violence escalates in the region. Pakistan’s military on Saturday said fighters tried to set up …
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03-02-2025 WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Saturday ordered 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports and 10% on goods from China starting on Tuesday, risking a new trade war that economists say could slow global growth and reignite inflation. Trump signed three separate executive orders on the tariffs after …
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03-02-2025 NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar’s 2024 census was almost certainly the most contentious and deadly ever conducted. Enumerators and their heavily armed guards from Myanmar’s military were subject to repeated attacks from opposition groups, as they stumbled through a failed attempt to document the country’s population between October and December last year. …
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02-02-2025 GAZA/ CAIRO: Palestinian militant group Hamas handed over three Israeli hostages on Saturday, and dozens of Palestinian prisoners and detainees were released in exchange, in the latest stage of a truce aimed at ending the 15-month war in Gaza. Ofer Kalderon, a French-Israeli dual national, and Yarden Bibas were …
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02-02-2025 OSLO/ TURKU: A Norwegian cargo ship with an all-Russian crew suspected of damaging a Baltic Sea telecoms cable has been released by authorities in Norway after no link to the incident was found, the police said late on Friday. The Silver Dania was seized at the request of Latvian …
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02-02-2025 GAZA CITY/ LONDON: A surge in the flow of aid into the Gaza Strip since the truce between Israel and Hamas took effect on Jan. 19 is likely to ease the acute food emergency afflicting people in the war-ravaged territory, especially its children but even after relief reaches them, …
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02-02-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ PRAYAGRAJ: Families of people who were killed in a crush at a major religious festival in northern India this week are grieving their loss and waiting to take bodies of their relatives back home. At least 30 people died in the crush at the Kumbh …
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02-02-2025 UNITED NATIONS/ KINSHASA: The UN says over 700 people have been killed in intense fighting in Goma, the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, since Sunday. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said 2,800 people have been injured, as M23 rebels backed by Rwanda captured the capital of North …
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