The Catch Up: 8 August

The headlines of the week by The Indian Express

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
This is the catch upon three Things by the Indian
Express and I'm i Shasharma. Today is the eighth of
August and here are this week's headlines. Starting with major
news this week making global headlines. President Donald trump sweeping
tariffs against over ninety countries came into effect just after

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midnight Thursday, declaring billions of dollars now flowing in. Trump
confirmed that the tariffs mark a tough new phase of
his trade policy. India, facing a twenty five percent height
due to its Russian oil imports, will now be subject
to fifty percent tariffs after Trump doubled the penalty on Wednesday.
The new duties are part of a broader reciprocal tariff

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campaign aimed at correcting what Trump called years of unfair
trade against the US and now shifting our focus to
the north. The Rali village in Utarkashi Utra Khunt, which
is the ground zero of Tuesday's flash flood, is in
the fragile buggat at the eco sensitive zone. Experts say

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unchecked construction on river floodplains likely worsened the disaster. As
rescue operations continued, sixty people were reported missing the floods
and avalanche of debris caught many of god with visuals
showing submerged homes and broken roads. Environmentalists have long warned
about reckless development in the Himalian region, which is prone

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to extreme weather and geological instability. The full toll of
the disaster is still unfolding, and now we turn to
global partnerships, where India and the Philippines have agreed to
upgrade their relationship to a striategic partnership following talks between
pm RI Intrimodi and visiting Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Junior.

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PMO the announced a comprehensive action plan to drive this
new partnership, emphasizing growing bilateral trade, now exceeding three billion dollars.
He also called for quick completion of the India Asian
Free Trade Review. External Affairs Minister L. J. Shunker earlier
said that the talks would deepen tides. Marcos Junior's five
day state visit coincides with the seventy fifth anniversary of

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India Philippines's diplomatic relations. Meanwhile, India's National Security Advisor Ajed
Dowal is in Moscow this week for high level meetings,
even as US President Donald Trump threatens tariffs over India's
Russian oil imports. Russian agency TAS said that Dowal met

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senior Russian officials on Thursday. Indian media reports say that
he explained India's oil strategy and possibly negotiated better energy
deals amid talks of deeper discounts from Moscow. External Affairs
Minister H. J. Shunker is also expected to visit Russia
later this month. The visits highlight India's diplomatic balancing act

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as global powers clash over Ukraine and energy security. And
in the end, we moved to jamu And Kashmir, where
three CRPF personnel died and several others were injured after
their vehicle skid off the road and fell into a
gorge in Jamuen, Kashmir's Udhampur district on Thursday. The accident

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occurred along the Kandawa Basanka Road. Emergency teams, including pilas
and locals, launched an immediate rescue operation. The injured Javans
were rushed to a nearby hospital for urgent treatment. Authorities
have yet to confirm the cause of the accident. Meanwhile,
the incident has sent shockwaves across the security forces, highlighting
the dangers of commuting in hilly terrain, and with that

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that was all for this week. This was the catch
upon three Things by the Indian Express.