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The MeitY on Sunday initiated the process to ban and block 138 betting apps and 94 loan lending apps with Chinese links on an 'urgent' and 'emergency' basis after communication from the MHA.

After the US downed a China-made balloon off the Carolina coast, China said Washington was clearly overreacting and violating international practice. It was shot down with a missile from an F-22 plane and fell into relatively shallow water just 47 feet (14 meters) deep.

Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder confirmed that a second Chinese surveillance balloon has been "assessed" as transiting Latin America.

United State officials said that a Chinese spy balloon had been flying over the US for a few days, a brazen act just days before US Secretary of State Antony Blicken's planned trip to Beijing.

The official would not specify the size of the balloon, but said it was large enough that, despite its high altitude, commercial pilots could see it.

All major airbases in the eastern command will be kept active. All major IAF platforms, including fighter jets, transport aircraft, helicopters, and unmanned aerial vehicles, will be deployed during the exercise.

Sonnet Frisbie and Scott Moskowitz, who oversaw the survey released on Tuesday, said: "While the world's two largest democracies would seem to make for natural partners, especially given their mutual mistrust of China, Indians have strategic reasons to be wary of the world's Western superpower."

The government statistics reveal that 10.41 million people died in the country in 2022 while only 9.56 million people were born in the year.

In a rare expression of praise, noted Pakistani analystShahzad Chaudhry noted that Narendra Modi had brought India to the point where the country had started to cast a wider net of influence and impact.

On induction of women into Indian Army's artillery wing, Gen Pande said that a proposal for induction of women personnel into artillery units has been sent to the government for approval and "we hope that it will be accepted."