Month: April 2024

Major Donald Trump Fundraiser Latest In Big Bucks Battle Against Joe Biden

April 6, 2024 admin

He has been working to outraise each other for months, boasting about each new significant cash infusion. Washington: Major political donors will gather Saturday in Donald Trump’s fiefdom of Palm Beach for a fundraising event that his campaign hopes will mark a new phase in a swaggering, high-stakes race for big money with Joe Biden….

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Bassirou Diomaye Faye | From prison to presidency

April 6, 2024 admin

Democracy is not really one of the ethos of West Africa’s troubled Sahel region, but Senegal’s 2024 presidential election offers a glimmer of hope in a land marred by conflict and unrest. At 44, Bassirou Diomaye Faye was elected Senegal’s new President — the youngest ever to hold the post — on March 25, barely…

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What is the outlook on women’s employment? | Explained

April 6, 2024 admin

The female Labour Force Participation Rate had been steadily declining since 2000 and touched 24.5 in 2019, before inching up, particularly in rural areas. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The story so far: The authors of the India Employment Report, 2024, released recently by the Institute for Human Development and the International Labour Organization, point…

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Gunfight at south Florida bar leaves 2 dead and 7 injured

April 6, 2024 admin

A gunfight at a suburban Miami bar left two people dead and seven injured early Saturday. Investigators said a fight between customers broke out around 3.30 a.m. at the Martini Bar in the CityPlace Doral development in Doral, Florida. When a security guard intervened, an unnamed man took out a gun and shot and killed…

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World Central Kitchen | The charity that Israel bombed in Gaza

April 6, 2024 admin

“I don’t open restaurants, I tell stories,” two-star Michelin chef Jose Andres said in an interview in January. Little could he have imagined back then of the sad chapter that would bookend the story three months later. On the night of April 2, seven workers of his non-profit aid group, World Central Kitchen, operating in…

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Will new solar power rules boost production? | Explained

April 6, 2024 admin

Solar panels and solar fans are displayed among other electronics for sale at a shop inside a wholesale electronics market in Kolkata on March 19, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters The story so far: To incentivise India’s solar module manufacturing industry, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has brought into effect from April…

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Why are Katchatheevu pacts being questioned? | Explained

April 6, 2024 admin

Indian and Sri Lankan pilgrims leave Katchatheevu in March 2023 after attending the St. Anthony’s Church festival. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The story so far: On March 31, Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted on social media platform ‘X’ that he blamed the Congress for “callously” giving away Katchatheevu island to Sri Lanka. He cited…

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Kerala researchers batting for better understanding of the flying mammal

April 6, 2024 admin

Participants at the training programme on bat research held recently at KFRI, Thrissur. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Myth, superstition, and zoonotic diseases such COVID-19 and the Nipah virus infection, have created a negative impression of bats. The fallout is that these nocturnal, flying mammals are losing their habitat and their numbers are falling. On…

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Israeli troops recover slain Gaza hostage; Egypt to host new truce talks

April 6, 2024 admin

Israeli police members stand guard as people protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and to call for the release of hostages kidnapped in the deadly October 7 attack on Israel by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas from Gaza, in Tel Aviv, Israel, April 6, 2024. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Israel said on Saturday…

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Pakistan Punjab CM Maryam Nawaz says Chinese nationals get ‘resentful’ when asked to follow security protocols

April 6, 2024 admin

Maryam Nawaz. | Photo Credit: AP Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz on Friday said that Chinese nationals living in Pakistan get “resentful” when they are asked to follow security protocols, a week after five Chinese engineers were among six killed in a suicide bombing in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Ms. Maryam, the daughter of…

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