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G20 members agree to minimise impacts of Fed’s raising interest rates

G20 members agree to minimise impacts of Fed’s raising interest rates

G20 finance leaders have agreed on realising a well-calibrated, well-planned, well-communicated normalisation in the monetary policy to minimize the impacts of the US Federal Reserve’s raising interest rates. Bank Indonesia’s Governor Perry Warjiyo told a press conference that developed countries should ensure that the normalisation policy only posed minimum impacts to the global financial market and that it did not pose any spillover effect to developing countries. The Federal Reserve has recently said that the central bank would have to raise interest rates up “more aggressively”, expecting “four, maybe five hikes” this year, which was expected to impact the debt…
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Pakistan refuses airspace for Srinagar-Sharjah flights

Pakistan refuses airspace for Srinagar-Sharjah flights

The Pakistan government on Wednesday said that the airspace will not be allowed for flights from Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar to Sharjah. Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah tweeted, "Pakistan did the same thing with the Air India Express flight from Srinagar to Dubai in 2009-2010. I had hoped that Go First being permitted to overfly Pak airspace was indicative of a thaw in relations, but alas, that wasn't to be." On Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's special VVIP flight, en route to Italy for the G20 Summit, flew over the Pakistani airspace and the aircraft will use…
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