NEW DELHI -- Urjit Patel, governor of India's central bank - Reserve Bank of India (RBI), resigned on Monday, citing "personal reasons," a year before his term ends, media reports said.

"On account of personal reasons I have decided to step down from my current position effective immediately," he said in a statement released to the media on Monday evening. (India-Central Bank-Resignation)

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HONG KONG -- Four people were killed and 11 injured on Monday after a minibus mowed down pedestrians in China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), said Information Services Department of the HKSAR government.

The department said that according to latest information from hospitals, among the 11 injured, four were in critical condition, two in serious condition and five stable. (Hong Kong-Bus accident)

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TOKYO -- Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn was served with a fresh arrest warrant on Monday for allegedly concealing a further 4.2 billion yen (37.3 million U.S. dollars) from the company's securities reports for the three business years through March 2017.

Tokyo prosecutors also indicted Ghosn, Greg Kelly, a former representative director of Nissan, and Nissan as a company, on charges of violating Japan's financial instruments law when misstatements were made in the company's releases to the market during the five years through March 2015. (Japan-Nissan-Ghosn)

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SHIBERGHAN, Afghanistan -- Two police had been confirmed dead after a group of Taliban militants attacked a security checkpoint in Afghanistan's Jawzjan province on Sunday, deputy to provincial police chief Kamaludin Yawar said Monday.

The Taliban insurgents, according to the official, stormed a police checkpoint in Bazgak village of Faizabad district late Sunday night, killing two local police and injuring another. (Afghanistan-Taliban)

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NEW DELHI -- India on Monday successfully test fired its surface-to-surface nuclear capable intercontinental ballistic missile Agni-V off Abdul Kalam Island in its eastern sate of Odisha, local media reports said.

The home-grown ballistic missile was test fired at 1:30 p.m. (local time). (India-Missile-Test) Enditem

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