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SHAH ALAM, MALAYSIA – Media OutReach Newswire – 29 December 2023 – Supply chain and logistics services provider BEST Inc said that its largest sorting center in Southeast Asia, which is located in Selangor, the most developed state in Malaysia is slated to open in 2024. In addition to build a 220,000-square-meter facility in Malaysia, the company aims to connect Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia in its […]

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday claimed that women in Uttar Pradesh were facing “maximum” injustice and to protect their honour, the BJP must be removed from power in the state. Addressing a Samajwadi Mahila Sabha at the party headquarters here, Yadav alleged that women are unsafe in Uttar Pradesh and the law and […]

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By P. Sudhir The year 2023 ends with the dark shadow of the genocidal massacre of Palestinians in Gaza by the Israeli war-machine. Nearly three months of Israel’s brutal aggression has led to (till December 26) 20,915 people killed in Gaza, of which more than 8,000 are children; another 53,918 have been wounded and an […]

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By Girish Linganna In 2016, India suddenly stopped using two types of banknotes, which made up 86% of all the money in use. This was done to fight corruption and hidden wealth. Known as Demonetisation, this action led to chaos at banks and ATMs. Critics argued it harmed those with low incomes and disrupted India’s […]

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By Debabrata Biswas Two and a half months have passed since Oct 7 and I have written before that the Hamas attack was to bring the Palestinian issue back to the attention of the world. That objective has been achieved, at the cost of a heavy toll of Palestinian deaths. The breach of international laws […]

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MUMBAI: All six members of the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) monetary policy committee (MPC) expressed caution over food inflation during the December review, while two external members warned about high real interest rates as headline inflation approaches its target of 4 per cent. The central bank continued to maintain the status quo on both […]

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is leading the charge for a third consecutive win for the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, set a target for a bigger victory than 2019. He said the saffron party needs to secure 50 percent of the vote next year. “This time, the BJP needs to secure at […]

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Energy storage is becoming the next disruptor in the renewable energy sector and the ESS (energy storage system) market will attract the highest investment among emerging sectors, according to a joint report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) and JMK Research & Analytics. ESS, which is the missing link in India’s […]

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By Arun Srivastava Passing legislation by resorting to suspensions is a kind of authoritarianism’. Knocking down the March 2 directive of the Supreme Court that said that the panel which picks election commissioners and their chief “shall” include the Chief Justice of India was clear manifestation of the autocratic mindset of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, […]

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The central government has extended the reduced import duty regime for some of the key edible oils by a year as it makes interventions to keep food inflation in check. The reduced duty, which was set to end in March 2024, will continue till March 2025, an official notification from the government showed. The basic […]

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By Krishna Jha Our democracy has lost each of its basics. From the recent crisis that proved to be an assault on not only federalism, but also its most relevant constitutional principles. The Supreme Court judgment on the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution and the dismantling of the state of Jammu and Kashmir […]

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The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav and his father and RJD chief Lalu Prasad for questioning in the railways land-for-jobs money laundering case probe, official sources said on Wednesday. While Tejashwi (34), has been asked to depose before the federal probe agency at its office in Delhi on December 22, […]

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With the suspension of 78 MPs from Parliament for “unruly behaviour”, the INDIA bloc has lost almost half its strength in the Rajya Sabha and one-third in the Lok Sabha. And while the mass suspensions have offered a common ground for the bloc’s constituents, the level of such solidarity may not be enough to tide […]

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In a crucial judgment in the Gyanvapi case, the Allahabad High Court today rejected all petitions by the mosque committee challenging civil suits that seek restoration of a temple at the mosque site. The high court asked the Varanasi court to complete hearing in one of these civil suits, filed in 1991, within six months. […]

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‘Jo ucchit samjho woh karo’ (Do whatever you deem appropriate), this is what Defence Minister Rajnath Singh told the then Army Chief Gen MM Naravane on the night of August 31, 2020 following a tense situation arising out of Chinese PLA moving tanks and troops in Rechin La mountain pass on the Line of Actual […]

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MUMBAI: After every blow up in the financial markets, credit rating agencies (CRAs), often the whipping boys in a fiasco, complain how they have been kept in the dark by lenders and financial institutions holding back sensitive facts. Will this ever change? Hints are that it finally may. For the first time, leading banks have […]

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MUMBAI: A large number of employees believe that short nap breaks during office hours help battle fatigue and also increase efficiency and well-being of workers, according to a survey. The practice of ‘inemuri’, which involves taking short nap breaks during office hours while remaining present in the workplace, has been a long-standing tradition in Japan. […]

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By James M Dorsey Israel wasn’t slamming the door on renewed indirect prisoner swap negotiations with Hamas when it this week barred David Barnea, the head of Mossad, the country’s foreign intelligence agency, from travelling to Qatar to explore possibilities for renewed exchanges. Instead, it was manoeuvring for greater leverage in potential talks and expressing […]

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By Girish Linganna Speaking at a conference held at the Maldives President’s Office after a Cabinet meeting on Thursday (December 14, 2023), Maldives’ Under Secretary for Public Policy, Mohamed Firuzul, said that the archipelagic nation would not renew the earlier government’s agreement on the Third Joint Hydrographic Survey of Maldives’ waters signed with India on […]

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HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach Newswire – 14 December 2023 – Epicor, a global leader of industry-specific enterprise software designed to promote business growth, today shared findings from “The Evolving Role of the CFO in 2023,” an IDC InfoBrief sponsored by Epicor. The study revealed more than 80 percent of manufacturing and distribution organizations surveyed agreed that today’s economic uncertainty has “significantly” elevated the importance of […]

NEW DELHI: The Defence Ministry on Friday inked a contract with Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), Pune, for procurement of Electronic Fuzes for the Indian Army for a period of 10 years, at a total cost of Rs 5,336.25 crore. As part of the ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ vision, this contract has been signed for ammunition procurement under […]

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KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Media OutReach Newswire – 15 December 2023 – The World War Children Care Foundation (WCCF) officially commenced its international humanitarian mission aimed at assisting children affected by war with a swearing-in ceremony of the foundation’s committee today at Shang Ri La Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. WCCF chapter representative from each countries The foundation, which was a registered non-profit organization in Malaysia, stated that its […]

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi on Friday said a high-level probe is on in the Parliament security breach incident, as opposition MPs continued with their protest, demanding a statement on the issue from Home Minister Amit Shah and a discussion in both Houses. Asked about the opposition’s allegation that the Centre is trying to suppress […]

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NEW DELHI: As the world moves towards clean energy technologies, the demand for critical minerals is surging. So is their import dependence. Most of these minerals – which help power electric vehicles, wind turbines and solar panels – are imported from China, which is a leader in global production and supplier of these resources. During […]

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