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🇮🇳 🇷🇺 Russia’s VTB Bank to Launch Cross-Border Money Transfer in INR

💳 It noted that retail customers would be able to send money to both individual and legal entities in India.

VTB Bank advised in the statement that that transaction limit for the cross-border transfer would be 20 million Roubles (nearly $213,100). There would be one percent commission on every transaction.

👀 Today’s mainstream media headlines confirm that the whole world is watching the meeting between the leaders of Russia and North Korea

🇷🇺🇧🇩 Moscow and Dhaka are discussing practical aspects of establishing regular large-scale supplies of liquefied natural gas and oil to Bangladesh, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday.

"There are good prospects for traditionally good relations in the gas sector. Gazprom International has participated in drilling more than 20 wells and is ready to continue this work. The relevant agencies are discussing practical aspects of establishing regular large-scale supplies of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and oil to Bangladesh," Lavrov stated at a joint press conference with Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Abdul Momen.

🇫🇷 On Tuesday, an association for the protection of Muslim rights, Action Droits des Musulmans, asked the Council of State, which is France's highest administrative court, to repeal the ban on the all-covering Muslim robe abaya in schools, which had been announced last weekend by the country's newly-appointed Education Minister Gabriel Attal.

"After reviewing the appeal filed by the association as a matter of urgency, the judge of the Council of State dismissed the appeal against the ban on wearing the abaya or kameez in public schools, colleges and lyceums. The judge ruled that the ban on such clothes is not a serious or unlawful infringement of fundamental freedoms," the court said in a press release.