Droupadi Murmu took oath to head the highest constitutional post of the country at 10:15 am, followed by a 21-gun salute. Chief Justice of India NV Ramana administered the oath of office of the President to her. The President-elect visited Rajghat, the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi, early in the day and paid her respects to […]
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By Hilary Goodfriend In January 2022, Xiomara Castro became Honduras’s first woman president, restoring electoral democracy to the country after more than a decade of dictatorship. Running with the leftist Liberty and Refoundation (LIBRE) party, Castro’s election breaks with the century-old two-party system that traded power between elites in the establishment National and Liberal Parties. […]
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By Harihar Swarup The NDA’s Presidential pick Droupadi Murmu has been elected to the high office defeating her rival Yashwant Sinha, joint Opposition candidate. Hailing from a predominantly tribal district of Odisha, Mayurbhanj, Murmu’s work as a state functionary in various capacities is remembered as bold with grit and humility. Known for her unwavering connections […]
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By Sushil Kutty The rupee struck 80 and trespassed into the BJP’s ‘Margdarshak Mandal’ territory, and the opposition parties took note of it. But none from the BJP cared to respond, even when Congress leader Rahul Gandhi took a swipe, tweeting “Amritkaal at 80”, and newly-minted Congress Rajya Sabha MP Randeep Surjewala tweeted “Marg Darshak […]
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By Saifur Rahman Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday broke ground to launch the US$500 million (Dh1.83 billion) Zim Cyber City – a state-of-the-art mixed-use hi-tech park at the outskirts of Zimbabwe’s capital city Harare – that is being developed by UAE-based diversified industrial conglomerate Mulk International. Sprawled across 2.5 million square feet, Zim Cyber City is currently under construction in Mount Hampden, New Harare. Mount Hampden’s master plan includes […]
By Sushil Kutty India has a new President, and so does Sri Lanka. But look at the difference. India’s president-elect will ease into her new job while Sri Lanka’s new President Ranil Wickremesinghe has done it with a mixture of unease and determination writ large on his face. What ails his mind would make for […]
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By Rahil Nora Chopra All over the country mass protests were held by the Indian National Congress workers, while several senior party members were detained outside the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters in New Delhi on Thursday. The Congress leaders were registering their protest against the Enforcement Directorate’s questioning of party president Sonia Gandhi […]
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Hundreds of Sri Lankan soldiers and police raided the main anti-government protest camp in the capital early Friday and began tearing down tents of unarmed activists, an AFP reporter said. They swooped in on the protesters blocking the Presidential Secretariat in the capital hours before demonstrators were due to vacate the area. Security personnel armed […]
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By Ambuja Raj The Bharatiya Janata Party (‘BJP’) is widely denounced as an elite party most. justifiably so, as it has, through its two tenures of rule and much before that, engaged in the political sphere through a creedal backbone of Hindu, upper-caste interests. However, ever so often, the caste and class composition of BJP’s […]
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In 2010, the announcement was made that the World Cup would go to Qatar, making it the first Arab country to host the world’s biggest national team tournament. Criticism was rife, but the organisation promised to deliver the best World Cup ever, and so far the spending has been impressive. This winter the best teams will face each other to see who will lift the FIFA World […]
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress “cannot be taken for granted” for Opposition unity, said party leader Derek O’Brien today. Speaking to NDTV on why the party has chosen to abstain in the Vice-Presidential election on August 6, he said that the TMC — which has 35 MPs — is not an ally […]
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi today congratulated Droupadi Murmu on winning the presidential election. “India scripts history,” PM Modi tweeted after the National Democratic Alliance candidate – now the first tribal President of India – defeated the joint opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha. “At a time when 1.3 billion Indians are marking Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, a […]
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Rishi Sunak, the Indian-origin former UK Chancellor, retained the lead in the fifth round of voting on Wednesday to succeed Boris Johnson as leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister. The race has now come down to just two, with UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss battling against Mr Sunak. Boris Johnson, the scandal-ridden outgoing […]
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TOKYO, JAPAN – News Direct – 21 July 2022 – CoorsTek KK (Tokyo, Japan) announced today that its parent company, CoorsTek, Inc.’s board of directors has approved a capital expenditure plan to expand the company’s semiconductor ceramics business in response to strong market demand. The company will invest to add additional semiconductor ceramics manufacturing capabilities at existing facilities, mainly in Oguni town, Yamagata prefecture and Kawatana town, […]
ÅLAND ISLANDS, FINLAND – Media OutReach – 20 July 2022 – Galleri Skarpans, located in the idyllic Åland Islands in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland, presents an emotive exhibition of new oil paintings by renowned Australian artist, Danelle Bergstrom, with the largest paintings spanning almost 2 meters in width. This is the latest exhibition of Bergstrom in Finland and follows the unveiling of her portraits […]
The continued partnership will support SingHealth in streamlining its clinical workflows to enhance care coordination SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 20 July 2022 – Altera Digital Health, formerly the Allscripts Hospitals and Large Physician Practices business segment, a global leader in healthcare IT, has signed a multi-year agreement with Singapore’s largest public healthcare group, SingHealth, for the use of its Sunrise™ suite of healthcare IT solutions across […]
India is naturally worried over the “very serious crisis” in Sri Lanka and there are “very strong” lessons of fiscal prudence, responsible governance and not having “a culture of freebies” to be learnt, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar told an all-party meeting on Tuesday. Jaishankar, who made the initial remarks, and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad […]
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By Sushil Kutty Citizens of Uttar Pradesh should beware. The next time they come across pictures of Modi or Yogi out in the streets leave it where it is, and flee the spot, as hastily as they can; or they’ll be in the tattered shoes of Bobby, 45, who picked up framed photographs of Modi […]
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By Arun Srivastava Judges of Supreme Court are feeling aggrieved at the insinuation against them by a section of the social media. They nurse the feeling that social media has been targeting the judges for no tangible reason. Justice J.B. Pardiwala, one of the judges on the bench which had been critical of BJP leader […]
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SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 19 July 2022 – Okta, the leading independent identity provider, today announced that it has appointed IT industry veteran and senior business executive Ben Goodman as SVP and General Manager for Asia Pacific (APAC). Ben Goodman, SVP & General Manager, APAC, Okta Goodman will preside over Okta’s entire business operations and spearhead the company’s growth plans in the region. Goodman has over […]
By Sankar Ray A clear win in 15 out of 20 seats in the bye-elections to Punjab provincial assembly by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has unnerved the 13-party ruling Pakistan Democratic Movement.It indicates that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz is not at all formidable in its home turf. It was thrashing late swinger by the former Pakistan […]
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Matein Khalid Brent’s rise to $103 is entirely rational on short covering, the Friday rally in risk assets and the absence of any firm commitment by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and UAE, to boost output during President Biden’s state visit to the kingdom. Apparently, the Jerusalem Declaration and fist pump diplomacy have not been sufficient to reset relations between the Biden White House and MBS. This rally is […]
