A purported image of a Bengal school’s model question paper, asking students to mark “Azad Kashmir” in a map, has gone viral on social media, with Union minister Subhas Sarkar on Tuesday calling for a state-level inquiry into the matter. He said that the issue should not be taken lightly by the state government. Sarkar, […]
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Premiering in Southeast Asia on January 20th, this new show takes viewers into the revolutionary carbon-absorbing tower and the people behind it The Tao Zhu Yin Yuan building is created to address environmental issues through a first-of-its-kind design and urban vertical forest. Tao Zhu Yin Yuan is a collaboration between Paris-based architect Vincent Callebaut and Core Pacific Group Founder and Chairman, Shen Ching-Jing. SINGAPORE – Media OutReach […]
By K R Sudhaman As is the practice, there is a demand galore before the 2023-24 budget for tax sops, whether justified or not. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has a difficult task cut out for her as she may have to address some of the genuine demands this time as it will be the last […]
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Two-year partnership helps provide 210,000 meals to people experiencing homelessness and empowers them to build their own social capital HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 13 January 2023 – DBS Foundation, committed to championing social entrepreneurship and creating impact in the community, announced a two-year strategic partnership with ImpactHK to support The Kind Kitchen, a community kitchen to serve the underprivileged in need of food support. […]
MACAU – Media OutReach – 12 January 2023 – Melco Style is ringing in the Lunar New Year of the Rabbit with endless entertainment experiences for Macau residents and visiting guests. Melco Style proudly presents “Chinese New Year’s Concert 2023 with Guan Zhe” will be held on January 27 at 7:30pm at Studio City Event Center (SCEC). Chinese pop singer Guan Zhe will be performing his first […]
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav After months of struggling to bring the economy back in shape, Pakistan is finally close to the moment when its forex reserves will be completely drained and it would start defaulting on payments to its creditors. Its forex reserves currently stand at $5.5 billion which is enough for meeting imports barely […]
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MOSCOW, RUSSIA – Media OutReach – 13 January 2023 – Metalloinvest has modernised the direct reduction plant at Lebedinsky GOK’s hot briquetted iron production facility No. 3 (HBI-3). The upgrade increased HBI-3’s production capacity by 3%, to more than 2 million tonnes of briquettes per year. The overhaul made the equipment more reliable; in addition, it will result in less downtime during maintenance and repair of the […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The World Social Report 2023 has called for concrete measures to support the greying population of the world amidst escalating pension and healthcare costs. It is urgent, since the number of people aged 65 and above are projected to more than double by middle of the current century. The study published […]
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi today flagged off MV Ganga Vilas, the world’s longest river cruise, in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi through video conferencing. 32 Swiss tourists will take the maiden journey to reach Dibrugarh in Assam via Bangladesh. The PM inaugurated a ‘Tent City’, developed on the lines of similar setups in Gujarat’s Kutch and Rajasthan, […]
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Scorpio Electric secured US$6.75 million* investment at US$150 million valuation as the brand works towards the production of their first international product The Scorpio Electric X1 will commence production and global deliveries in second half of 2023 SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 13 January 2023 – Scorpio Electric Pte. Ltd. (the “Scorpio Electric“) has successfully raised US$6.75 million to further develop and test its first electric motorcycle, […]
Urban dwellers who are sick and tired of light pollution blocking out their view of the stars will love the Unistellar eQuinox 2. This digital telescope features an optical lens […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Joshimath has been sinking for months, but could grab attention of the governments at the Centre and the State only recently that too after the subsidence started dangerously manifesting itself. Warnings served in 1976, 2001, and 2013 were grossly ignored. Human greed continued to explore the natural resources hastening the sinking […]
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The Congress in Karnataka on Wednesday promised to provide every household in the state with 200 units of free electricity, every month, in the event of the party coming to power. Projecting it as the party’s “first guarantee” to the people, ahead of Assembly polls due by May, the Congress made this commitment as it […]
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Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has been served notice by its own government in Delhi for Rs 163.62 crore spent allegedly on political advertisements passed off as government messages. AAP has to pay up within 10 days, warns the recovery notice issued by the Directorate of Information and Publicity (DIP), or its office will […]
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HONG KONG SAR and BOSTON – Media OutReach – 12 January 2023 – EcoCeres, Inc. (“EcoCeres” or the “Company”), an innovative biorefinery company with leading R&D capabilities, announced that it has received a significant equity investment from the leading global investor Bain Capital Private Equity (“Bain Capital”). The transaction follows Series A investment in EcoCeres from Kerogen Capital in February 2022. EcoCeres is an Asia-based advanced biorefinery […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India would be going downhill for the next two years, if Global Economic Prospect just released by the World Bank is of any indication. GDPs for 2023and 2024 have been revised down to 6.6 per cent and 6.1 per cent respectively, which are below 0.5 and 0.4 per cent compared to […]
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Amid fears in the wake of land subsidence in the Joshimath area in Uttarakhand, sudden cracks in a few houses in the Kanwariganj area of Aligarh have caused panic among locals. “For the last several days, cracks have appeared in some of our houses due to which we are forced to live in panic. We […]
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By Ashis Biswas With most major parties adopting an ethnicity-based approach in their pre-poll campaigning, voting in the coming Assembly elections in Meghalaya could be sharply polarised, according to observers. Intriguingly, such a trend may be less noticeable in Tripura. The involvement of Assam-based political heavyweight leaders with elections in neighbouring Meghalaya, which used to […]
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Unlocking swift and easy access to one-of-a-kind retailtainment experiences HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 10 January 2023 – HKT and New World Development Company Limited (“NWD”; SEHK: 00017) announce a two-year partnership between their respective group companies The Club and K11 starting from today. A selection of K11 special-edition products and privileges, including one-of-a-kind retailtainment experiences at 11 SKIES, Hong Kong’s largest one-stop destination for […]
The buildings that have developed cracks and are badly damaged in Uttarakhand’s Joshimath will be demolished, so they don’t harm the nearby buildings, officials have said. The demolition of the damaged buildings will begin today. Joshimath has been divided into three zones – ‘Danger’, ‘Buffer’, and ‘Completely Safe’ – based on the magnitude of possible […]
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HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 10 January 2023 – Chinese New Year is just around the corner! 7-Eleven wishes everyone a happy, healthy and prosperous Year of the Rabbit and is bringing its customers even more fun and excitement with its latest collectible programme. 7-Eleven has teamed up with eight popular Sanrio characters – Hello Kitty, My Melody, Kuromi, Little Twin Stars, Cinnamoroll, Minna no […]
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Media OutReach – 10 January 2023 – The time has arrived for international broker OctaFX’s annual retrospective of events impacting the world economy—compiled towards the year’s end. The year 2022 has been all-around eventful and fateful. Let’s give due diligence to the 10 most important events that affected the financial markets. The year 2022 has been dominated by two major issues: the extreme […]
By Nantoo Banerjee It is rather depressing to note that the unemployment rate in the country reached 8.30 percent in December, the highest over the last 16 months. In urban areas, the unemployment rate exceeded 10 percent. The number of people looking for jobs last month increased to 40.48 percent, the largest in 2022, reported […]
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By Sankar Ray Pakistan – Islamabad camaraderie, built up after the capture of Afghanistan by the Taliban and formation of a new Emirate in Kabul on 15 August 2021, faces a sanguinary breach. A conflictual discontent was simmering ever since the federal government had struck a ceasefire with the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan during the regime […]
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