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Arabian Post Staff UAE’s Bukhatir group has announced the launch of $5 billion Tunis Sports City on the northern shores of the Lac de Tunis. The project will offer a new modern face to the Tunisian capital. In addition to the sports component, which will include the creation of a stadium and four sports academies, which are already targeted by major European clubs, Tunis Sports City will […]

By Sushil Kutty My roadshow versus your roadshow. The last time AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal took on Narendra Modi the ‘azaan’ sounded and Kejriwal paused. Then, Varanasi voted Modi to make him Prime Minister. Kejriwal didn’t have a prayer to stop him. In 2019, nobody had a prayer. Today, another nearly five years later, AAP […]

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Orders on hand at around €680 million, more than double the figure as at the end of 2020 Significant improvement in operating profit and free cash flow Proposed dividend of €0.15 per share Guidance for 2022 under review COLOGNE, GERMANY – EQS Newswire – 14 March 2022 – DEUTZ, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of innovative drive systems for off-highway applications, can look back on a […]

By K Raveendran The ‘Z’ marking seen on Russian battle tanks and other military equipment as a coding for the Ukraine invasion is fast acquiring an evil meaning, similar to the evil that the Nazi symbol of Swastika denotes. In India, Swastika connotes exactly the opposite, as the Hindu symbol of auspiciousness. But for most […]

The post How ‘Z’ Has Come To Acquire An Evil Meaning Similar To Nazi Swastika first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Prakash Karat The US-led NATO’s attempts to seek the high moral ground against aggression by the “brutal dictator Putin” reeks of hypocrisy and double-standards. Going by the shrill pronouncements of President Biden and Prime Minister Johnson, this is the first time peace has been shattered in Europe after the Second World War and the […]

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HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 11 March 2022 – Babel Finance Asset Management’s research specialists are optimistic about the long-term value of crypto assets. Since the currency’s birth, long-term Bitcoin(BTC) investors have profited handsomely, and more and more traditional financial institutions are realizing it. Financial institutions increasingly adopt crypto-asset markets, as seen by the high trade volumes recorded by Babel Finance’s crypto trading division. The […]

Employees lend professional skills and expertise to help combat social issues and affect positive change DENVER, US – News Direct – 11 March 2022 – CSG®‘s (NASDAQ: CSGS) purpose is to envision, invent and shape a better, more future-ready world. Through community partnerships, the company is giving back and channeling the power of all to make a difference in the communities CSG serve around the world. Today, […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The results of the assembly elections to the five states – Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur – have shown that the Grand Old Party the Congress is on the decline. The Party has not only lost its ruling state Punjab miserably to the Aam Admi Party (AAP) but also done […]

The post Five Assembly Poll Results Jolt For Congress, Boost To BJP And Narendra Modi first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Even two years after the pandemic and support in its response to enable people survive, millions of families across the world still “cannot afford food or essential healthcare services” since they have been pushed deeper into poverty, says a new joint report by UNICEF and the World Bank while urging the […]

The post Rapid Expansion Of Social Protection Systems Required first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Matein Khalid Unlike Hitler’s Panzer blitzkrieg against France/Benelux in May 1940, Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has not been a pushover. Putin’s battle tanks have not taken Kiev or decapitated the Zelenskyy’s government. NATO is a far greater threat to Russia now that Germany has decided to rearm and send anti-tank/stinger missiles to the Ukrainian […]

The post Post-Ukraine NATO Threat To Russia Is Far Greater Than Before first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Plight of Anganwadi workers continues across the country due to a range of issues including the very low amount of honourariums they are getting and the ever rising workload, especially after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic after March 2020. It is therefore the agitation of Anganwadi workers and helpers in […]

The post Anganwadi Workers Must Get Reasonable Honourarium first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Prudential Delivers Continued Operational Progress and Completes Strategic Re-Positioning HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 9 March 2022 – Performance highlights for the continuing business1 on a constant (and actual) exchange rate basis2 APE sales3 up 8 per cent (10 per cent) to $4,194 million New business profit4 up by 13 per cent (15 per cent) to $2,526 million Strategic re-positioning to Asia and Africa completed […]

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 7 March 2022 – The research experts at Babel Finance’s Hong Kong and Singapore offices are confident in the long-term worth of crypto assets. Crypto-asset markets are evolving fast, long-term Bitcoin(BTC) investors have reaped substantial gains since the currency’s inception, and more and more conventional financial institutions are recognizing it. 2021 wreaked devastation worldwide due to the COVID-19 outbreak, posing a threat […]

Technology for Change Week Asia: Applying technology for the social good takes place this week online and in-person, March 8th – 11th 2022. HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 7 March 2022 – More than 2,000 attendees have already registered for Economist Impact’s Technology for Change Week Asia, a dynamic virtual week exploring how technology-based and data-driven solutions can be applied to long-standing social challenges, and […]

By Matein Khalid If Checkpoint Charlie in West Berlin was the epicentre of the Cold War between NATO and the Soviet Union’s Warsaw Pact satellite states, Ukraine is the crucible of the geopolitical confrontation between the West and Putin’s Russia. Putin weaponized Gazprom’s gas exports to Ukraine as far back as 2006, fomented secessionist militias […]

The post A New Global Energy Order Emerging With US Supplies As Pivot first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Kumar Shrivastav As the Russian invasion of Ukraine rages on and a catastrophe looks near than ever, Twitter is where the latest news, analysis, and perspectives can be found. These are coming from the powerful and the most cerebral people of our time. It’s fascinating and engrossing to read the tweets, for example, […]

The post Financial Sanctions: Bitcoin Is A Big Gainer In The Russia-Ukraine War first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Prabhat Patnaik The security concerns of Russia arising from Ukraine’s intentions of joining NATO have been widely discussed in the media. But the IMF’s link with Ukraine which is a parallel issue has scarcely received much attention. The IMF, as is well-known, “opens up” economies around the world for the penetration of metropolitan capital […]

The post International Monetary Fund Played A Crucial Role In Precipitating Ukraine War first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Arabian Post Staff The direct impact of Russian war against Ukraine on the UAE banks is likely to be limited given their limited exposures to Russian and Ukrainian counterparties, S&P said in a special report on the conflict. But it said there could be an Indirect impact, which could materialize through several channels. S&P said the higher oil price is likely to further boost confidence and sentiment […]

Matein Khalid A paranoid autocrat is never a rational decision maker and has historically sent untold millions of humans to their deaths for nothing. So Adolf Hitler ranted and raved in his Berlin Führerbunker even though it was obvious that Nazi Germany had lost the war by late 1944. Stalin cynically starved millions of people in Ukraine and Mao’s Great Leap Forward cost 50 million lives in […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi “emphasised the need to return to a path of dialogue and diplomacy” for a way forward in the Ukraine crisis at a virtual meeting of the Quad leaders today, a statement from his office said. In his remarks, PM Modi also reiterated the importance of adhering to the UN Charter, international […]

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By Anjan Roy I never tire of recalling what Joseph Schumpeter, one of the greatest economists and scholars, wrote in his monumental tome: The nearer we are to an epoch the less we understand. Our own we understand the least. It is too early to make an assessment of Russia’s Ukraine war and its implications […]

The post Russia’s Financial System Takes Big Hits On Eighth Day Of Ukraine War first appeared on IPA Newspack.

James M Dorsey Emiratis celebrated their decision not to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the United Nations Security Council as the end of an era in which the Gulf state took its foreign policy cues from the United States. However, the Emiratis may be celebrating prematurely. As the UAE took over from Russia this month as chairman of the Council, Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, a political scientist […]

KEY POINTS Chemical pollution of the ocean is a profound and growing global problem that requires urgent and coordinated action Marine chemical pollution is predominantly due to human actions. As we are producing far more chemicals in ever-greater volumes, so the impact on the marine environment will get more severe Climate change and marine chemical pollution are deeply connected; tackling each with this in mind will help […]

By Matein Khalid Recurrent lesson in Russian history is that the top guy in the Kremlin is toast if he loses a war or a high stakes geopolitical gamble. In 1962, Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban missile crisis gamble against JFK backfired and he was booted out from the Politburo by his fellow oligarchs two years later. […]

The post Parallels Seen With Stagnation After Invasion Of Czechoslovakia first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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