As of April 9, 2025, the Chinese Embassy and Consulates in India have issued more than 85,000 visas to Indian citizens traveling to China this year. Welcome more Indian friends to visit China, experience an open, safe, vibrant, sincere and friendly China. 🇨🇳🤝🇮🇳

- Chinese Ambassador to India #ForeignAffairs

🚨 President of India comes under JUDICIAL SCRUTINY.

▪️SC sets timeline for President on Bills reserved by Governors.
▪️No more ‘absolute veto’ or ‘pocket veto’.
▪️President must decide within 3 months.
▪️State Govt can file writ if President defaults.
▪️If no reasons are given, it’ll be presumed mala fide.
▪️BIG: Article 201 had no time limit — now 3 months set! #Policy

The Imperial College London will set-up an international hub for #research ‘Imperial Global India’ in Bengaluru this year. #Education

Airbus SE plans to bolster its sourcing from India to $2 billion a year by 2030 — a jump of almost 43% from the current levels — as it eyes growing sales in the nation’s booming #aviation market.

#MakeInIndia
https://t.co/0AAeiXR11z

Gujarat, Punjab, Haryana, UP, Bihar

Australia has banned students from these Indian states due to forgery of documents & visa fraud. #ForeignAffairs

Subedar Kuldeep Chand attained veergati while leading a Counter Infiltration team along the Line of Control on the night of 11th April 2025.

#NationalSecurity

Trump has exempted phones, laptops, chips, and other key electronics from his sweeping 145% China tariffs.

The decision protects major U.S. tech players—especially Apple, which manufactures over 80% of its products in China and had lost $640 billion in value since the tariff news broke.

The new guidance from Customs and Border Protection spares smartphones, semiconductors, memory cards, SSDs, solar cells, and more from immediate duty hikes.

These items may still face tariffs down the line—but nowhere near the crushing 145% rate originally imposed. #InternationalNews #Economy

Due to a conveniently timed "technical glitch", no tariffs have been collected at US ports yet. #InternationalNews

https://newrepublic.com/post/193930/ports-not-collecting-trump-tariffs-glitch

Calcutta High Court orders immediate deployment of Central Forces in violence hit Murshidabad District of West Bengal.

#NationalSecurity

Centre is sending IIT Delhi team to survey 77000 acres of waqf land in Telangana. #Policy

In a first of event Tamil Nadu Government had notified 10 bills as Law without the Assent of the Governor, but rather a Court Ruling from the Apex Court

#Policy

Few Bills were passed to replace the power of the Governor to the State Government

India is developing 25 chipsets with indigenous intellectual property (IP), particularly in high-risk areas like surveillance and Wi-Fi access, under the Design-Linked Incentive (DLI) scheme, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw stated.

The government has supported 240 educational institutions with world-class chip design tools to foster talent.Twenty chips developed by students will soon be taped out at the SCL in Mohali, boosting confidence and paving the way for 85,000 skilled engineers over the next decade

#semiconductor #aatmanirbharbharat
https://t.co/ubRBs8dqhL

India has sent back four cargo trucks from the gate of its Petrapole port following the cancellation of the transshipment facility for Bangladesh.

अब पता चलेगा landlocked होने का क्या मतलब होता हैं।

#Policy #Trade #IndianSubcontinent
https://t.co/dYkINTo0Og

For the first time, India has showcased its capability to shoot down fixed-wing aircraft, missiles and swarm drones using a 30-kilowatt laser-based weapon system. India has joined list of selected countries, including the US, China, and Russia, that have shown such a capability #Defence #aatmanirbharbharat

IISc researchers develop bacteria to repair bricks in space. A sample of the bacteria may now be sent to space as part of the Gaganyaan mission to study its behaviour in microgravity. #Research #Space

A Chinese-origin drone, reportedly operated by the Pakistan Army, was brought down near the Line of Control in Jammu by the Indian Army using an indigenous anti-drone system. #NationalSecurity #Defence #aatmanirbharbharat

https://t.co/hstEqUYMWU

Around 80% farmers in Maharashtra will get free electricity by December 2026: Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis. #Policy

🇨🇳🛫Unprecedented: China begins phasing out Western aircrafts.

China Southern Airlines is selling its entire fleet of Boeing 787-8s—10 jets and 2 engines—for $550 million via a Shanghai auction.

All aircraft were built between 2014–2015.
They’ll be replaced with domestically-made Chinese jets. #Aviation #Geopolitics #NWO

All immigrants in the United States including legal workers, students, and green card holders-must carry their ID documents at all times, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced

Source

#InternationalNews #ForeignAffairs