🇮🇳 India shows great interest in Russian 🇷🇺 IT-products and services: Russian Deputy PM, Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov

The official is on a two-day visit to India, where he already met with India's EAM S. Jaishankar and NSA Ajit Doval.

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🍏 Apple CEO Tim Cook opens the gates to India's 1st Apple store at Mumbai's Bandra Kurla Complex 🇮🇳

To note: Apple exports from India reportedly crossed $5billion in the financial year 2022-23 — about half of the total exports of "Made in India" phones.

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🍏 Apple fan brings 1984 computer 🖥 to Mumbai store's grand opening

💭 "I brought this just to show Apple's journey. I bought this in 1984, and since then, have been using Apple products. This is a 2 Megabytes, black and white computer but now Apple is making 4K, even 8K, resolution displays, so Apple has come a long way," said the man.

🇮🇳 The doors of the Apple megastore opened at 11 am on Tuesday, but fans had been lining outside the building several hours before the opening.

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⚡️ 3-storey rice mill collapses in Karnal, Haryana 🇮🇳

Around 150 workers were inside the building when the incident took place. At least 20 people were injured and four tragically died.

The owner of the rice mill has been taken into custody for further questioning.

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⚡️ WATCH: India's External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar meets Russian Deputy PM Denis Manturov in Delhi

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⚡️Landslide near Torkham border kills 2, buries over 20 trucks

🇵🇰🇦🇫 Casualties are feared after the torrential rains triggered a landslide near the Pak-Afghan border at Torkham in Pakistan's province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Rescuers are trying to recover people trapped in their vehicles under the debris.

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⛔️ National Commission for Protection of Child Rights warns SC against legalisation of same-sex marriages

👶👧 Children's rights organisation - which opposes same-sex couples adopting - warns that children raised by gay parents may have a limited exposure to the traditional gender role models.

Seeking the SC's intervention in a number of petitions, the commission pointed out that the Hindu Marriage Act and the Juvenile Justice Act do not recognise adoption by gay couples.

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❗️🚀 Russia assisting in Gaganyaan, India's 🇮🇳 first human space mission: Denis Manturov, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation

According to the Russian official, Russian specialists check the aerodynamics and the emergency rescue system; Russia also supplies flight suits and speed sensors to India.

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💪 BRICS nations outshining G7 in terms of overall contribution to global economic growth 🌎 since 2020

📈 The positive trend is likely to continue, since BRICS nations are projected to provide 32.1% of global economic growth this year, and in 2028 their contribution will jump to 33.6%.

To compare: G7 members (UK, Germany, Italy, Canada, France, Japan and the US) will provide 29.9% in 2023, and 27.8% in 2028.

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🇷🇺Russian Deputy PM Manturov travelled to New Delhi 🇮🇳 for two-day working visit, met with EAM Jaishankar and top Indian officials

🤝 The sides discussed Indo-Russian cooperation in trade, space, IT-industry, business (after the withdrawal of western firms from Russia), among other issues.

👉 To note: the sides hinted a Free Trade agreement between India and the EEAU was likely to be inked in near future.

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🇮🇳 Indian photographer captures rare Russian leopard

Renowned wildlife photographer, Thomas Vijayan, working from a hide in Primorye - an area in Russia's 🇷🇺 far East which is also known as the 'Land of the Leopard' 🐆 - has managed to capture the first close-up footage of its kind of the rare Amur leopard.

Vijayan, who has been photographing African 🌍 leopards for a long time, came to Russia after learning of the existence of the critically endangered species of big cat. He has dreamt for ages of capturing, in one frame, a cat with tropical roots and the famous Russian snow "dunes".

Vijayan has won many international photography prizes 🏆 , including the World Nature Photography Award.

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1st Israeli minister 🇮🇱 under Netanyahu gov't visits India 🇮🇳

✈️ Israel's Minister of Economy Nir Barkat has arrived in New Delhi, where he is expected to discuss a Free Trade Agreement between the two nations.

💭 Noting that the Indian economy is on its way to become the third in the world, Barkat said that "free trade brings people together".

🗓 The first round of negotiations and talks on FTA was held in May 2010 but back then, the actual deal was deemed elusive.

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🕌 Historic mosque opens to prayers in Srinagar 🇮🇳

After a gap of three years, authorities in J&K allowed residents to pray at Jamia Masjid on Monday night. Our special correspondent in Kashmir was on the ground to capture the event.

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🇮🇳⚖️ Supreme Court of India commences hearing on legalisation of same-sex marriage

👉 SC on Tuesday said it will not go into personal laws and will only consider petitions under the Special Marriage Act (SMA).

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Balakot Proved Air Power Effective in No-War-No-Peace Scenario: IAF Chief

🚀 "This is very important given the nature of our adversaries. The response options available to the leadership have suddenly increased, and increasingly, air power has become an option of choice due to inherent flexibility and unmatched precision strike capability," Chaudhari said while addressing the Marshal of the Air Force Arjan Singh Memorial seminar in New Delhi.

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India 🇮🇳 officially holds the world’s largest population 👶🏾👧🏾

There are 1.428 billion people living in India as of April 18 compared with 1.425 people in China, World Population Review figures show.

Find out which nations have the biggest populations in our infographic!

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IAF Chief Reveals Mantra For Fighting Future Wars

🪖 "We must acknowledge that the wars of the future will be fought differently. Adversaries will use lethal as well as non-lethal weapons, wars will be fought across multiple domains and will not distinguish between combatants and non-combatants," the IAF chief said at a military function in New Delhi.

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📹 Russian Tu-95MS strategic bombers conduct air patrols during Pacific Fleet check

The crews of two Russian strategic missile carriers Tu-95MS have conducted planned patrol flights over the neutral waters of the Bering and Okhotsk Seas as part of a sudden inspection of the Pacific Fleet's combat readiness, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

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After 77-year absence, 98-year-old Punjabi 🇮🇳 visits ancestral village in Pakistan 🇵🇰

🙏 Baba Puran Singh, a 98-year-old man from Punjab, was not able to visit his native village because of the Indo-Pakistani crisis that divided his native land. Now, 77 years since partition, Puran Singh has finally decided to make the trek. it was an emotional moment both for him and for the villagers on the other side of the border.

This heartwarming moment instantly attracted a host of admirers, which we share with you now.

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❗️EXCLUSIVE: West's 'Unjustified Hatred' for Hindutva is Concerning: French Indologist

🙏 “I respect the commitment to the Hindu civilization exhibited by BJP stalwarts, such as Atal Bihari Vajpayee (former prime minister), Lal Krishna Advani (former BJP president and India’s deputy prime minister) and Murli Manohar Joshi (a BJP ideologue)," Francois Gautier, author, who has written extensively on Hinduism and Indian civilization since he first visited India 30 years ago, told Sputnik.

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