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Vikram Doraiswami appointed India’s next ambassador to China

New Delhi, Mar 19 (PTI) Seasoned diplomat Vikram Doraiswami was on Thursday appointed as India’s new ambassador to China. Doraiswami, a 1992-batch Indian Foreign Service officer, is currently serving as Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. India’s decision to send the senior diplomat to Beijing comes amid efforts by the two sides to rebuild the bilateral ties that came under severe strain following the more than four-year border standoff in eastern Ladakh. Doraiswami will succeed Pradeep Kumar Rawat. He is expected to take up the assignment shortly, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said announcing Doraiswami’s new appointment.

Men can get out of manosphere. Here’s what former incels say about why they left

Melbourne, Mar 19 (The Conversation) Louis Theroux’s recent documentary Inside the Manosphere, alongside Netflix’s 2025 hit drama Adolescence, has driven a spike in public discussion about the “manosphere”. The term refers to a loose ecosystem of anti-feminist online communities and influencers that promote male dominance and hostility toward women. Much of the public conversation about the manosphere focuses on how boys and young men fall into these spaces. A new study by the Australian Institute of Criminology asks a different question: how do some men manage to leave? Real-world dangers Concern about this online culture has grown in recent years.

Stock markets tumble in early trade on boiling crude oil prices, weak global trends

Mumbai, Mar 19 (PTI) Stock market benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty tumbled in early trade on Thursday after a three-day rally following a sharp jump in crude oil prices and weak global trends. Moreover, unabated foreign fund outflows also dented market sentiments, analysts said. The 30-share BSE Sensex tanked 1,953.21 points, or 2.54 per cent, to 74,750.92 in opening trade. The 50-share NSE Nifty dropped 580.05 points, or 2.43 per cent, to 23,197.75. From the 30-Sensex firms, HDFC Bank declined over 3 per cent as in a sudden move, Atanu Chakraborty resigned as chairman of the country’s second biggest lender,

Trump vows no more attacks by Israel on Iran gas field after it ‘violently lashed out’

DOHA/RIYADH, March 19 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said an angry Israel “violently lashed out” and attacked Iran’s major gas field, a significant escalation ​in the U.S.-Israeli war, but ruled out further such attacks by Israel unless Iran retaliated. Wednesday’s attack on the huge South Pars gas field drove oil prices higher ‌and prompted a threat by Iran to attack oil and gas targets across the Gulf, while it fired missiles at Qatar and Saudi Arabia. The escalation heightens the unprecedented disruption of global energy supplies that has raised the political stakes for Trump, who joined Israel in attacking

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