Author: Vinayak Lalitha

The process of accepting documents from applicants for admission to universities in the 2023-2024 academic year has ended in Uzbekistan. 1,018,007 people submitted their applications to various higher educational institutions of the country, Podrobno.uz reports. 890,304 people were admitted to universities with Uzbek as language of instructions, 95,456 to universities with Russian as language of instructions, 29,917 to universities with Karakalpak as language of instructions, and 2,330 to other languages. 577,096 people will study full time, 24,802 in the evening, and 414 109 will be on distance learning. The National University of Uzbekistan received 36,782 applications, the Tashkent State Transport University 30,421, the Fergana…

The Sahar police have registered an offence and are trying to trace him. A Domician Republic national, who was caught at the Mumbai international airport by immigration officers recently after arriving from Dubai, managed to give the slip to security officers and escaped from the airport premises. The foreigner was caught at the airport as a ‘lookout circular’ (LoC) had been issued against him by the DRI Mumbai office. The Sahar police have registered an offence and are trying to trace him. The accused has been identified as Nur Mohammad Aden, 36. Aden, along with two passengers, Santosh Sawant and…

India’s manufacturing sector has failed to capitalize on multinational companies’ efforts to diversify supply chains away from China, foreign direct investment (FDI) data shows, even as manufacturing continues to shrink at the northern neighbour. Expectations of higher inflows into Indian manufacturing had taken root as China’s purchasing managers’ index (PMI) for manufacturing contracted in seven of the last 12 months, as Beijing struggles to reopen its economy after exiting its controversial zero-covid policy early this year. India’s PMI for manufacturing did not contract in the past year, but against expectations, FDI inflows fell 22% to $46.03 billion in FY23 amid high inflation…

Even before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it was clear that the Central Asian states were beginning to distance themselves from Russia’s proprietorial attitude toward the region. And the war against Ukraine, which does not enjoy much sympathy in these countries, has accelerated and intensified that process (see EDM, November 9, 2022). And based on regional reactions to Yevgeny Prigozhin’s aborted mutiny on June 23 and 24, it seems safe to say that this event has given this distancing from Moscow an even stronger impetus. In Kazakhstan, for example, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, during a phone call with President Vladimir Putin on…

A film crew and their star actor have visited the Norfolk “hometown” of an Indian princess who inspired their landmark movie. A joint UK-India production team are making Lioness, a film documenting the life of suffragette Princess Sophia Duleep Singh. The crew and former Emmerdale actress Paige Sandhu, who will play Sophia, were welcomed at Thetford on Wednesday. “It was very overwhelming,” said director Kajri Babbar. “It’s a big legacy that we are taking forward and that we are talking about – it was emotional.” Born in 1876, Sophia was the daughter of the exiled Maharaja Sir Duleep Singh -…

An Air India plane has taken off with stranded passengers from a US-bound flight after its plane made an emergency landing in Russia. The Delhi-San Francisco flight had 216 passengers and 16 crew members on board when one of its engines developed a snag on Tuesday. The plane was forced to land at Magadan in the Far East region of Russia. On Thursday, the airline tweeted that the replacement flight had taken off and was headed to San Francisco. On Wednesday, Air India said it had sent a ferry flight to Russia with food and other essentials for the passengers. The airline…

MUMBAI: The area being developed in and around Vidhan Bhavan or Mantralaya station of the upcoming underground Metro Rail Line 3 (Cuffe Parade to Seepz Andheri via Bandra and airport) will house the offices of political parties and government offices, besides several commercial and corporate facilities.The state government on Friday put up a revised GR asking the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (MMRCL), which is building the 34km underground mass transit corridor connecting the island city with suburbs, to compensate parties and offices with over 1.14 lakh square feet of area at the same location against their land and properties which existed…

The visit of the Iraqi NSA is the first Cabinet Minister-level visit from Iraq to India in the last seven years. The Iraqi NSA was earlier the Minister of Interior in 2016-18. He has been the NSA from July 2020 since the previous government. India and its traditional Arab world partner Iraq have decided to beef up their defence, counter-terror and security related cooperation as Qasem AI-Araji, National Security Adviser of Iraq met NSA Ajit Doval here on Friday. The visit of the Iraqi NSA is the first Cabinet Minister-level visit from Iraq to India in the last seven years. The Iraqi NSA…