While huge swathe of India is grappling with the unprecedented heat, the northeast region is being devastated by floods and the southern region by heavy rainfall. An Indian court on Thursday convicted a top Kashmiri separatist leader in a 2017 terror funding case that carries a maximum sentence of the death penalty or life imprisonment. Defending its decision to ban wheat exports on the global stage, India on Wednesday voiced its concern over global food insecurity amid an "unjustified increase" in food prices and cautioned the West that the issue should not go the way of Covid-19 vaccines at the high-level Ministerial meeting on 'Global Food Security-Call to Action' in New York. Pakistan's new foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Wednesday told U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken that his country prefers trade over aid as the two leaders met in New York on the sidelines of a UN summit. The Taliban in Afghanistan have mediated a temporary ceasefire until May 30 between Pakistan and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan militant group, an official has confirmed. Sri Lanka's central bank has secured foreign exchange to pay for fuel and cooking gas shipments that will ease crippling shortages, its governor P. Nandalal Weerasinghe said on Thursday, as Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said supplies had been locked in for at least a month. Tea producers and exporters in India have said that the ongoing economic crisis in Sri Lanka has come as an opportunity for the Indian tea industry to increase exports and grow business.
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