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A view of the Asian Development Bank. | Photo Credit: Reuters Sri Lanka’s cabinet approved a $200 million loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Media Ministry said in a statement on September 26, as the country focusses on rebuilding its crisis-hit economy. The funds will be obtained in a five-year loan to help…
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Moscow has said Armenia only had itself to blame for Azerbaijan’s victory over Karabakh. Moscow and Washington have accused each other of destabilising the South Caucuses region, as thousands of ethnic Armenians fled their homes in Nagorno-Karabakh over ethnic cleansing fears. “We urge Washington to refrain from extremely dangerous words and actions that lead to…
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From the jump, the AIADMK-BJP alliance in Tamil Nadu was a consequence of the support needed by factions of the Dravidian party to take control of the government and the party after the death of former Chief Minister and AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa, in 2016. The backing of the BJP and the Central government was,…
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The rupee continued its downward movement for the second straight day and fell by 8 paise to 83.21 against the US dollar in early trade on Tuesday, September 26, 2023 amid massive selling by foreign equity investors and a firm American currency. Subdued equity market sentiment and elevated level of crude oil prices ¬ hovering…
With the aim of crossing the 100-medal mark in the 2023 Asian Games, the Indian contingent fired on all cylinders, right from day 1. Shooters and rowers helped the nation open its medal account in the Hangzhou Games while the Indian women’s cricket team delivered a historic gold medal by defeating Sri Lanka in the…
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BJP Madhya Pradesh List: So far, PM Modi is at the centre of the BJP’s campaign. (file) Bhopal: The BJP might be looking to tighten the screws on Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the party’s longest-serving chief minister, by not announcing his constituency in even the second list of candidates for the upcoming Madhya Pradesh assembly elections…
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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan founded the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan recently announced their plans to help eradicate human diseases by 2100. In a statement, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) – Zuckerberg and Chan’s foundation – announced that they aim to develop a computing system that…
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Small chunks of ice float on the water near Fournier Bay, Antarctica, February 3, 2020. | Photo Credit: Reuters Sea ice that packs the ocean around Antarctica hit record low levels this winter, the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) said on September 25, adding to scientists’ fears that the impact of climate…
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Smriti Mandhana has her fair share of fans but Indian women’s team’s vice-captain must have felt chuffed when she saw a poster captioned ‘Mandhana The Goddess” and being proudly held aloft by a Chinese young man. But then Jun Yu is possibly a rare species in the Mandarin land, who loves the thwack of the…
Google has subpoenaed service-recommendation site Yelp and the alliance. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Yelp and a coalition of news organizations have asked a US judge to disqualify a prominent US law firm from defending Google in the Justice Department’s ad tech lawsuit, saying the firm has a conflict of interest because it previously was their…
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