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| Taking a sudden U-turn, the US has decided to participate in the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative. The event is being organized by China with much fanfare in Beijing this Sunday and Monday. The US move puts tremendous pressure on India, which remains undecided on whether to send representatives to the event. India maintains that China has not created an environment of trust to carry out the belt and road projects. |
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| Almost 100 countries were yesterday hit by a massive cyber-attack using stolen US government tools. Cyber extortionists tricked victims into opening malicious malware attachments to spam emails that appeared to contain invoices, job offers, security warnings and other legitimate files. The most disruptive attacks were reported in Britain, where hospitals and clinics were forced to turn away patients after losing access to computers. |
| Industrial output growth in 2016-17 jumped to 5% from 0.7% after a shift to a new base year. The base year was revised to 2011-12 from 2004-05. The Central Statistics Office revamped the index of industrial production on Friday by also deleting ‘irrelevant’ items such as calculators, gutka and colour picture tubes, and introducing new items to better reflect changes in the industrial sector over the years. |
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| The US blamed Pakistan for deteriorating India-Pakistan relations. The Trump administration on Thursday issued a severe indictment of Pakistan in its first public assessment of the region. The US warned that Pakistan’s “pursuit of tactical nuclear weapons potentially lowers the threshold for their use.” |
| The sex ratio in Haryana has dramatically improved, says a new audit. Last year, Haryana’s sex ratio (the number of girls per 1,000 boys) touched 900. In the first quarter of this year, it galloped to 935. In fact, the number for March 2017 was even higher at 950. In the 2011 Census, the number for Haryana was as low as 834. The state is notorious for its skewed sex ratio. |
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