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China reports 1,251 new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases in 24 hrs

China on Monday reported fresh1,251 locally transmitted confirmed Covid-19 cases, the National Health Commission said on Tuesday.

Pak, Sri Lanka crises lessons for nations to not fall for China's debt trap

Pakistan owes most of its debt to China

World's stockpile of usable nuclear weapons is increasing, warns watchdog

The Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor has found no evidence, however, that any of the nuclear-armed states currently have the will to purposefully pursue nuclear disarmament

Top headlines: TCS Q4 net profit rises 7%; Shehbaz Sharif new Pak PM

Shehbaz Sharif, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president, was elected unopposed as the new Prime Minister of Pakistan by Parliament on Monday

Oil drops below $100 on reserves release and China lockdowns

IEA members to release 60 mn barrels over 6 months; US producers added 13 oil rigs in week to April 8

Shanghai eases lockdown in some areas despite record Covid infections

Move to categorise residential areas promises some relief as complaints continue about tough curbs, enforced quarantine; Sunday's asymptomatic infections at record daily high of 25,173

Oil slides on worries about lockdowns in China, release of reserves

Brent crude was down $2.32, or 2.3%, at $100.46 a barrel by 0427 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude lost $2.37, or 2.4%, to $95.89.

India needs the US in order to realise its tech ambitions

India has every chance of becoming a successful and prosperous player in the global technology industry

Turkey-China ties become one-way street amid increasing economic crisis

The ties between Turkey and China have almost become a one-way street as the financial situation of Ankara and Beijing is weakening

Geopolitics could shape FY23 asset quality

Sectors that witnessed relatively high upgrades in the just-concluded fiscal include real estate, power, ferrous metals, textiles and pharmaceuticals

Shanghai hospital bears the brunt of China's Covid-19 response

Multiple patients have died at the Shanghai Donghai Elderly Care hospital, relatives of patients told The Associated Press

Shanghai to start easing lockdown after another mass testing

The fresh round of testing comes as the city reported about 23,000 cases on Saturday, most of them asymptomatic

Chinese mainland reports 1,334 new locally-transmitted Covid-19 cases

The Chinese mainland reported 1,334 new locally-transmitted COVID-19 infections on Friday, low compared to Thursday's 1,540 cases, the National Health Commission said on Saturday.Of the local confirmed cases reported on Friday, 1,015 were in Shanghai, 248 in Jilin, 13 in Zhejiang, and six in Beijing, according to Xinhua News Agency.The rest of the cases were reported in other 12 provincial-level regions.A total of 16 new imported COVID-19 cases were reported across the mainland. On Friday, 23,815 new asymptomatic carriers were reported in the China mainland, including the 23,737 cases from the local ones and 78 were the imported ones, according to the commission.Among the asymptomatic carriers, 22,609 were reported in Shanghai and 706 in Jilin.A total of 1,996 COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospitals and 23,342 close contacts were discharged from medical observation on the Chinese mainland on Friday, the National Health Commission said Saturday, according to Xinhua.Altogether .

Covid-19 pandemic: Shanghai's locked down elite join grocery hunt

The circulation of Xu's post reflects that food shortages are hitting the city's high-earners after middle-class residents have been struggling for weeks

Seven questions after Ukraine

Here is a quick summary of some of the questions this crisis has posed that remain unanswered

Clash within civilisations

The world has changed in a manner nobody had imagined. Definitely not those who imagined that people need to be divided by religion, culture, civilisational differences to go to war with each other

Shanghai widens COVID testing as other Chinese cities impose curbs

Beijing intervened in Shanghai after the failure of its effort to isolate Covid by locking the city down in stages

Taiwan's spy catchers hunt Chinese poachers of chip, tech talent

Home to industry giant TSMC and accounting for 92% of the world's most advanced semiconductor manufacturing capacity, Taiwan possesses what China needs - chip expertise in spades

EXPLAINER: Can war massacres in Ukraine sway China's support of Russia?

China has described reports and images of civilian killings in Ukraine as disturbing, and urged that they be further investigated, even while declining to blame Russia.

China urges US to cancel House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip to Taiwan

The Chinese embassy in the United States on Thursday reiterated Beijing's opposition to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's planned visit to Taiwan