The three-day visit of Chinese leader Xi to Saudi Arabia and his talks with important Gulf Cooperation Council leaders, as well as the signing of dozens of agreements with Riyadh, show that Beijing is trying to increase its influence in the region.
"Argentina's Messi is like my brother. I have liked Argentina games since 1986. I used to play football myself. I also liked Maradona. But Messi is my brother. I have no regrets about this. If India is ever playing the world cup I will be a supporter of India but Messi is like my brother," said Shiba Patra.
"It is in fact the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi through Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan to make India self-reliant in each and every field so that India can play a bigger and more important part in the global economy," said Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan.
British Parliamentarians and experts have called the Indo-Pacific region one of the greatest current and future engines of the global economy at an event titled Indo-Pacific APPG Dialogue at the House of Commons in London on Wednesday.
Overseas Bangladeshis on Wednesday (local time) protested in front of the Pakistan Consulate and at Times Square in New York to mark Intellectual Martyrs Day.
Veteran Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan, on Thursday, inaugurated the 28th Kolkata International Film Festival and had a lengthy speech on British censorship, pre-independence films against oppressors, communalism, and societal harmony.