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New Delhi: India’s foreign exchange reserves (Forex) rose by USD 1.48 billion in the week that ended August 15 to USD 695.10 billion, driven by gains in foreign currency assets, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said in its latest ‘Weekly Statistical Supplement’. For the reported week, India’s foreign currency assets (FCA), the largest component of foreign exchange reserves, stood at USD 585.90 billion, up by USD 1.92 billion.   The RBI data shows that the gold reserves currently amount to USD 86.16 billion, witnessing a decline of USD 2.16 billion. India’s Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) with the global financial…

Members of a far-right nationalist party are helping to organise protests outside hotels used to house asylum seekers across the UK, according to a series of Facebook posts and groups created in recent weeks.Activists for the Homeland party, which was formed as a splinter organisation from Patriotic Alternative, Britain’s biggest far-right group, have set up a number of online groups in an attempt to spread the protests that recently engulfed a hotel in Epping.Their involvement adds to concerns raised by some campaigners that the protests are being infiltrated and bolstered by people with far-right connections. Protests are expected to take…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! As the 11th member of former President Joe Biden’s administration appeared before the House Oversight Committee this week, Fox News Digital asked senators on Capitol Hill if former Vice President Kamala Harris should testify next. “I think they should take her behind closed doors and figure out what she knows and what she’s willing to talk about,” Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., said. House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., is leading the investigation into the alleged cover-up of Biden’s cognitive decline and use of the autopen during his tenure as president. Comer said on Fox…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hailed his country’s fallen soldiers in Russia’s war against Ukraine as “heroes” at an emotional award ceremony, state media said Friday, in a rare public admission of the losses Pyongyang has suffered in the conflict.The North Korean leader “extended deep gratitude and warmest militant respect” to those who had returned home “despite the hail of bullets and bombs of the life-and-death war in the foreign country,” state news agency KCNA reported.“The victory won by the brave soldiers who participated in the war is a great feat that firmly defended the great honor of the…

Guwahati/Aizawl: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to inaugurate the 51.38 km Bairabi–Sairang new railway project on September 13, making Aizawl the fourth capital city in the Northeast to be connected by rail, a CMO official said on Saturday. The official in the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO), Mizoram, said that though the final confirmation of the Prime Minister’s schedule is yet to come from the PMO, it is most likely that he would inaugurate the railway project on September 13. The CMO official said that Mizoram Chief Minister Lalduhoma, while addressing the 15th Conference of the Mizoram Police Service Association…

A row between Wes Streeting and pharmaceutical companies has intensified after drugmakers rejected the health secretary’s latest offer on NHS drug pricing.The two sides failed to reach agreement by a midday deadline on Friday, meaning the mechanism under which the health service claws back some of the money it pays for medicines will continue at a rate the industry said was “unsustainable” and could ultimately disadvantage patients.At the heart of the dispute is the voluntary scheme for branded medicines pricing, access and growth (VPAG), under which pharma companies agree the amount of revenues from drug sales to the NHS they…

A video circulating online shows two brothers who were protesting the war in Gaza being forcibly pulled inside the Permanent Mission of Egypt to the U.N. in New York City before being led away in handcuffs by police earlier this week.The siblings were identified by their parents as Yasin ElSammak, 22, and Ali Elsamak, 15, who they said are both U.S. citizensProtester Husam Khaled, who recorded the incident Wednesday, said he ran from the area after attempting to chain lock the doors to the Egyptian Mission, but returned when he noticed the brothers did not. Khaled said that he had…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Virginia leaders from both parties have condemned a racist sign aimed at Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, which was raised during a protest outside a school board meeting where she was speaking.Earle-Sears — the Republican nominee in the state’s gubernatorial race — spoke at the Arlington County school board meeting on Thursday, which was reviewing its transgender bathroom policy. Outside the meeting, where a transgender rights rally was being held, a person displayed a racist sign directed at Earle-Sears. The protester’s poster, which has gone viral on social media and sparked outrage from across…

New Delhi: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has released the calendar for Premature Redemption of Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme during October 2025 – March 2026 period. For Sovereign Gold Bond (SGB) Scheme issued by the RBI, premature redemption of the gold bonds is permitted after five years from the date of issue of such bonds. (Also read–8th CPC: Proposal To Calculate Minimum Wage Based On Family Model Including Ageing Parents) Add Zee News as a Preferred Source RBI has given the details of tranches falling due for premature redemption during the period October 01, 2025 – March 31, 2026, along…

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