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Norway will invest half of $100 billion under EFTA: Norwegian envoy May-Elin Stener

March 20, 2024 admin

Norwegian Ambassador to India May-Elin Stener. Photo: Special Arrangement Switzerland being the largest player is likely to contribute more than half of the $100 billion free trade pact India recently signed with the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), while Norway will bring in the rest, with Iceland and Liechtenstein contributing as well, Norwegian Ambassador to…

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Donald Trump Says Any Jews Who Vote For Democrats “Hate Their Religion, Israel”

March 20, 2024 admin

Trump said that the “Democrat Party hates Israel.” Washington: Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump drew outrage from the White House, Democrats and leaders of Jewish groups for saying Jewish Americans who vote for Democrats hate their religion and Israel. “Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion, they hate everything about Israel…

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The way we name cancers could affect access to treatment, researchers say

March 20, 2024 admin

The way we classify metastatic cancers may need to be revamped, scientists have said, proposing in its place a classification system that places the molecular characteristics of the cancer over the tissue of origin. Traditional approaches to treating cancer – including surgery and radiation – target the organs in which the tumour is present. This…

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Delhi Court Allows Ukrainian Woman To Travel Back With Her 5-Year-Old Son

March 19, 2024 admin

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday allowed a Ukranian woman to travel back to her native country Ukraine. New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday allowed a Ukranian woman to travel back to her native country with her five-year-old son, who was brought to India by her Ex-husband after the Russia-Ukraine war broke out…

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Gaza Hunger Warnings Grow Amid Ceasefire Talks

March 19, 2024 admin

A UN-backed assessment meanwhile said 300,000 people in the territory’s north would face famine. Palestinian Territories: Tensions surged as Hamas’s chief accused Israel on Tuesday of sabotaging talks for a Gaza truce after it raided the devastated Palestinian territory’s largest hospital for a second time. Months of war have pushed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians…

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Guaranteed MSP is an ethical imperative

March 19, 2024 admin

The perennial issue of fair pricing of farm produce reigns supreme, now coupled with calls for legal assurances of Minimum Support Price. File | Photo Credit: PTI As the general elections draw closer, agrarian concerns have once again taken centre stage. Farmers from the heartland of the Green Revolution have travelled to the border of…

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Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal Faces Backlash Over ‘Pure Veg Mode’ Service

March 19, 2024 admin

Mr Goyal elaborated upon the reason behind introduction of the company’s “Pure Veg Mode” service. New Delhi: After facing a backlash online from a section of people over the launch of the “Pure Veg Mode” service, Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal on Tuesday said the food delivery platform will “roll it back in a heartbeat” in…

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UN chief ‘alarmed’ by reports civilians killed in Myanmar air strikes

March 19, 2024 admin

People flee from a village after renewed fighting between Myanmar’s military and the Arakan Army (AA), an ethnic minority armed group, in Pauktaw Township in western Rakhine State in November 2023. File. | Photo Credit: AFP United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has said he is “alarmed” by reports of ongoing Myanmar military air strikes on…

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Russia says it will evacuate 9,000 children from a border region targeted from the Ukrainian side

March 19, 2024 admin

Local residents inspect a damaged car hit by shelling, what local authorities called a Ukrainian military strike, in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in the settlement of Razumnoe in the Belgorod Region, Russia March 19, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters A Russian border region plans to evacuate about 9,000 children from the area because…

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Ex Supreme Court Judge Indira Banerjee Underlines Gender Imbalance In Higher Judiciary

March 19, 2024 admin

Indira Banerjee became a judge of the top court on August 7, 2018 and retired in September 2022. New Delhi: Former Supreme Court judge Indira Banerjee on Tuesday underlined the “gender imbalance in the higher judiciary” and said her appointment to the top court in 2018 made her only the eighth woman there in 68…

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