Name: WION Gravitas: Irans rial hits a record low; should India worry
Uploaded: 2018-07-30T23:05:51+05:30
Duration: PTMS
Description: Iran is facing economic crisis and US sanctions on it has worsened it further. This is important for India because annually Iran is its third-largest supplier of crude oil.

 Some 47 people are on trial for flouting Hong Kong's controversial national security law, in the largest case of its kind. They include some of the city's most prominent pro-democracy figures, such as activists Joshua Wong and Benny Tai. 

Hong Kong national security trial begins

 At least 53 people were killed in Turkey when a strong 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit the country’s south, toppling buildings and sending residents running into the streets as aftershocks were felt across the region. 

Professor Muzaffer Senel talks more on the deadly Turkiye earthquake

 Thousands of people gathered in the capital Copenhagen to protest against the planned abolition of great prayer day, which is a Christian holiday. Initially introduced as a day of prayer, fasting, and penitence, it falls on the fourth Friday after easter. The government wants to make people work and use the funds to help raise tax revenues for higher defence spending in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine war. The government has proposed moving forward to 2030, a goal set by NATO of raising defence spending to 2% of GDP, instead of 2033 as planned earlier. The move is expected to provide an extra 440 million dollars to state coffers. The cancelled holiday would entail that people would have to work a day extra, for which they will be paid. 

Protests in Denmark against plan to cancel holiday | Latest News | WION |

 At least 17 people were killed in Turkey when a strong 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit the country’s south, toppling buildings and sending residents running into the streets as aftershocks were felt across the region. 

News Alert: Powerful earthquake hits Turkiye, tremors felt in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Iraq

 The Adani Group's market rout continued last week with losses now topping a hundred billion dollars since the scathing report by US research firm Hindenburg on January 24. 

World Business Watch: Adani faces a stern test as firms set to report earnings

Iran is facing economic crisis and US sanctions on it has worsened it further. This is important for India because annually Iran is its third-largest supplier of crude oil.

WION Gravitas: Iran's rial hits a record low; should India worry

WION

Home

World

Sports

Entertainment

Videos

Photos

Science

India

Gravitas

Wion Community

T20 World Cup

http://vodakm.zeenews.com/vod/3007WION_GRAVITAS_SEG3_VJ.mp4/index.m3u8?em=XYy1tXBGiru3yj29QvwrgQ&ex=1532982828

WION Gravitas: Irans rial hits a record low; should India worry

Iran is facing economic crisis and US sanctions on it has worsened it further. This is important for India because annually Iran is its third-largest supplier of crude oil. 


World

South Asia

India

Sports

FOLLOW US ON:

World

South Asia

India

Sports

WION Gravitas: Iran's rial hits a record low; should India worry