By Sushil Kutty The Congress without the Gandhi family would not net a single MP seat in Kerala. A few MLA seats, perhaps, but not one of the 20 Lok Sabha seats. That is for sure. The Congress party’s Malayali vote-bank does not recognize Ghulam Nabi Azad or Kapil Sibal, forget Anand Sharma and Manish […]
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Revenue Up 26.1% to RMB3,380 Million Net Profit at RMB468 Million Total Dividend for the Year at HK34 Cents Per Share HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 18 March 2022 – China Lilang Limited (“China Lilang” or the “Company”, together with its subsidiaries the “Group”; stock code: 1234) has today announced its 2021 annual results. Results Highlights Revenue increased by 26.1% to RMB3,380 million Net profit was RMB468 […]
HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 17 March 2022 – Razer™ (“Razer” or the “Company”, together with its subsidiaries, the “Group”, Hong Kong Stock Code: 1337), the leading global lifestyle brand for gamers, announces its full year results for the financial year ended 31 December 2021 (“FY2021”). “As we navigate the uncertainties and challenges attributable to geopolitical tensions, macro environment as well as the ongoing COVID-19 […]
By K Raveendran The impact of Russia’s Ukraine war on the energy sector, particularly oil and gas, as well as commodities, has been too dramatic to be missed by anyone, including consumers in the remotest part of the world. But what is causing new concern is how the war is pushing coal prices to unprecedented […]
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By Nitya Chakraborty Karl Marx died in London on March 14, 1883. Three days later on March 17, Friedrich Engels in his speech at the grave of his best friend and partner in their bid to change the world, said: ‘On March 14, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the greatest living thinker […]
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Medtronic hosted its first APAC Innovation Conference to discuss with key stakeholders about opportunities and challenges faced by healthcare technology start-ups and SMEs in Asia Pacific SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 16 March 2022 – Medtronic plc (NYSE:MDT), a global leader in healthcare technology, today held its first hybrid conference, Medtronic Open Innovation Conference (MAIC 2022), in Singapore, themed ‘Accelerating Healthcare Technology Innovation’. Dedicated to the medical […]
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 […]
Sonia Gandhi will remain the party president, sources said after a mammoth four-and-half-hour meeting this evening amid demands of a change in leadership in view of the party’s crushing defeat in the recently held state polls. The party will hold a “Chintan Shivir” (brainstorming session) soon, sources said after the evening’s meeting of the Working […]
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In her first public address after almost getting wiped out in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati today blamed the media and Samajwadi Party (SP) for the party’s loss. While trying to lift the spirit of party workers, she blamed the media and political rival SP for misleading those […]
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By Sushil Kutty There is “gehri manthan” going on as to what led to the Samajwadi Party loss even after all the signs on the ground pointed to a Bharatiya Janata Party debacle? More important, why did an entire tribe of political analysts fail in their “reading” of the situation unfolding? There is genuine consternation. […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Independent journalism – the kind that favours public interest over political, commercial, or factional agenda – is in peril, due to erosion of business models, increasing crackdowns on press freedom, and ongoing threats against the safety of journalists. The coming decade, therefore, will be decisive for the survival of a democratic […]
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“The struggle in public interest would continue,” Akhilesh Yadav tweeted. A day after the BJP’s record victory in Uttar Pradesh, prime challenger Samajwadi Party’s chief Akhilesh Yadav thanked voters for their support and said they had shown that the BJP’s seat count can be decreased. Taking to Twitter this morning, Mr Yadav said he was […]
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Contextualizes the Russia-Ukraine conflict for the medium term Discusses carbon reduction through the lens of net-zero banking commitments and agricultural infrastructure Identifies how to approach a fixed-income portfolio with rising inflation and tightening accommodation and quantifies how inflation is affecting retirement portfolios Examines the need to review how we study the U.S. labor market in light of changing demographics and attitudes toward work HONG KONG – Media […]
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 […]
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By Dr Arun Mitra That the students from Sumy have been evacuated and are on way to western Ukraine is a matter of great satisfaction not just for the family but for the country as a whole. Better late than never; finally the Indian government woke up and took effective steps to plan this evacuation. […]
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HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 9 March 2022 – DYXnet, a leading carrier-neutral network service provider in Greater China, is honored to be awarded in the 21st Golden Peak Award for ‘Top 10 Outstanding Enterprise of the year” organized by the Outstanding Enterprises Manager Association (OEMA) in Taiwan. Ms. Chris Chen, General Manager at DYXnet Taiwan, received the award from the former vice-president Mr. Wu, […]
By James M Dorsey The Russian Orthodox Church blesses rather than fires weapons. In doing so, it has emerged as a powerful weapon in its own right in President Vladimir Putin’s civilisationalist arsenal. Putin justified his 12-day-old invasion of Ukraine in part by asserting that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government had been preparing for the “destruction” […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Bias is all pervading making moving ahead for Indian women too difficult. Gender gap is too wide that they are unable to bridge on their own, and the bias against them is too great to overcome. Indian women have been braving all the odds in their paths even before the pandemic […]
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By Sushil Kutty March 8, and it was another International Women’s Day (IWD). Men worldwide were expected to throw their misogyny out the window and praise women sky high, applauding them for their many victories including succeeding in teaching men how to behave with women in general, and with the particular women in their lives. […]
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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 Harihar Swarup In the Uttar Pradesh’s assembly elections, the overriding perception is that Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is the man most likely to benefit from electoral tide. Akhilesh Yadav is the complete antithesis of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. This is most marked in the language he uses in election campaign. Akhilesh does not […]
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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 […]
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By Rahil Nora Chopra Amid a lot of buzz for the coming presidential elections, names of political veterans such as Sharad Pawar, BSP Supremo Mayawati and a few others have been doing the rounds and discussed as possible candidates for the post. Speculations have been rife of late with Bihar chief minister and long-time BJP […]
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By Sushil Kutty In this age of Social Media, there are dime-a- dozen political analysts. From age 20 to age 60 and beyond. Many of these pundits base their political predictions on caste arithmetic. There is also the analyst who argues using the communal factor. Stacked against these two is a third kind, the one […]
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