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By Ashis Biswas With Panchayat elections due early next year in West Bengal, there are ominous signs that the polling process could be just as violent and troublesome as the last time in 2018. That year parties opposing the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) could not put up candidates for 34% of the seats in contention, […]

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By Sankar Ray The monolithic dictatorship of the Taliban shows cracks as the compulsion for compromises on certain issues looms large. There is bitter opposition within the top leadership. It was apparent months ago when the Taliban’s deputy foreign minister, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, publicly pulled up the Taliban high command for banning girls from […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Within 10 days of India celebrating two days Bharat Drone Mahotsav 2022 on May 27-28, the technical analysis of drone seized by Indian security forces has revealed an alarming trend of increasing security threat for the country – Drones are being used in smuggling of drugs and weapons from the neighbouring […]

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A Kuwaiti supermarket pulled Indian products from its shelves even as Iran became the latest Middle Eastern country to summon the Indian ambassador as a row grew on Monday over a BJP official’s remarks about the Prophet Mohammed. Workers at the Al-Ardiya Co-Operative Society store piled Indian tea and other products into trolleys in a […]

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HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 6 June 2022 – On 31 May 2022, the Court of Appeal allowed the appeal against the first instance judgement lodged by SUNeVision in a judicial review application, quashing the decision of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) not to take immediate steps to rectify its failure or refusal to take reasonable steps to enforce restrictions in […]

By the end of the year, the partnership will have provided safe water access to over 10,000 people HUNG YEN PROVINCE, VIETNAM – Media OutReach – 7 June 2022 – Planet Water Foundation, a nonprofit organization that addresses global water poverty by providing clean water access and hygiene education programs, and Hung Yen Knitting & Dyeing Co. Ltd – an Italian leading textile manufacturer operating in Vietnam […]

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 7 June 2022 – UFC® returns to Singapore with Southeast Asia’s first-ever Pay-Per-View event UFC® 275: TEIXEIRA vs PROCHAZKA on June 11 (live in Singapore on June 12) featuring the first UFC championship bouts to take place in the region. This historic event will be UFC’s fourth event hosted in Singapore with support from the Singapore Tourism Board. UFC LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP […]

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BEIJING, CHINA – Media OutReach – 6 June 2022 – Insilico Medicine, a clinical-stage end-to-end artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery company, announced today that it has completed a $60 million Series D financing from a syndicate of global investors with expertise in investing in the biopharmaceutical and life sciences sectors. The financing comprised a mix of new investors, including a large, diversified asset management firm on the […]

Understanding parenting from different aspects helps couples to begin the happy journey, say experts HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 7 June 2022 – Under the pandemic, has family planning between couples been affected as changes arise all the time? Hong Kong parents and kids spend longer time at home together, do parents have enough communication on childcare? Mead Johnson Nutrition Hong Kong (“Mead Johnson”) earlier […]

By Nantoo Banerjee It is a matter of serious concern that India’s public debt level is among the highest in emerging economies while the country’s debt affordability is among the weakest. Generally, the average threshold limit prescribed for public debt-to-GDP ratio is 77 percent with each additional percentage point of debt costs 0.017 percentage points […]

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By Arun Srivastava RSS supremo Mohan Bhagwat’s sermons which appear to be virtuous having high quality of sense of morality are simply façades to assuage the feelings of the liberal Hindus and to provide protection to the Hindutva fringe has given birth to and to fortify it against criticism from the liberals and centrist forces. […]

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HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 6 June 2022 – Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) announced a strategic collaboration today, aiming to foster a robust Innovation and Technology (I&T) ecosystem in Hong Kong. With this collaboration, AWS and HKSTP will launch a series of programs under four key pillars to drive innovation of IT companies, startups, and researchers […]

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 6 June 2022 – Henderson Sunlight Asset Management Limited (the “Manager“) and Bank of China (Hong Kong) (“BOCHK“) jointly announce that Sunlight Real Estate Investment Trust (“Sunlight REIT“) has secured its second tranche of HK$800 million sustainability-linked loan (“SLL“). Together with the first tranche of HK$500 million, this HK$1.3 billion SLL commitment represents a significant sustainable finance collaboration between Sunlight […]

Trend Micro study reveals the impact of threats to ICS/OT environments HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 6 June 2022 – Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global cybersecurity leader, today announced new research* revealing that 89% of electricity, oil & gas, and manufacturing firms have experienced cyber-attacks impacting production and energy supply over the past 12 months. To read a full copy of […]

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 6 June 2022 – In celebration of World Environment Day, A.S. Watson Group’s flagship health and beauty brand Watsons is extending its regionwide recycling programme to Hong Kong. This rides on the hugely successful launch of recycling programmes in Taiwan, Thailand, and Indonesia. Malina Ngai (right), CEO of A.S. Watson (Asia and Europe) is excited to extend Watsons’ regionwide recycling […]

Spackman Media Group artist Son Suk-ku took the top spot in the brand reputation of actors in Korea, based on the Korea Corporate Reputation Research Institute Son Suk-ku’s latest film THE ROUNDUP exceeded the 9 million viewer mark, topping the weekend box office for three consecutive weeks since its release Following his role in THE ROUNDUP, Son Suk-ku is set to star in two highly anticipated Netflix […]

RIYADH: Bahrain announced on Monday 24 deaths from COVID-19 – the highest figure since the pandemic began. The number of cases in the kingdom has increased sharply during May, with 3,177 new

By Julian-Nicolas Calfuquir With France’s parliamentary elections scheduled on June 12, Jean-Luc Mélenchon looks in a stronger position than ever. Where other left-populist challengers around the West have struggled to build lasting organization, or even to repeat their initial electoral scores, his France Insoumise movement has established itself as a key force in national politics. […]

The post Broad Left Coalition Has An Edge In French National Assembly Poll On June 12 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Under the Sponsorship of Abu Dhabi Police, Aramco & Saudi Electricity Company Two Strategic partnership agreements were signed with Emirates Health Services (EHS) and The Kurdistan Agency for Normalization DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – African Media Agency – 1 June 2022 – EFQM concluded the first edition of its Middle East Summit “ACHIEVING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE FOR THE MIDDLE EAST THROUGH TRANSFORMATION.” at the Grand Hyatt hotel […]

Alleging “imposition” of an outsider in the state, Maharashtra Congress leader Ashish Deshmukh today wrote to Congress president Sonia Gandhi announcing his resignation from the post of General Secretary of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee. Calling it an injustice on Congress workers, Deshmukh objected to Uttar Pradesh leader Imran Pratapgarhi being named the party’s pick […]

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By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It is celebration time for the Congress and the party-led united Democratic front (UDF) after a long drought of election victories. The Congress has just scored a spectacular victory in the Thrikkakara assembly by-election with its candidate Uma Thomas defeating CPI(M)’s Dr Jo Joseph by a record margin of 25,016 votes. […]

The post Congress Win In Thrikkakara Bypoll Is A Big Boost To The Party And UDF first appeared on IPA Newspack.

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 3 June 2022 – NTUC LearningHub (NTUC LHUB), Singapore’s leading Continuing Education and Training provider, announced today that former labour chief Mr Lim Swee Say will assume the role of Chairman to lead NTUC LHUB’s ongoing initiatives in upskilling and uplifting the Singapore workforce. Mr Lim will succeed Mr Eugene Wong, whose role as the previous Chairman had been pivotal in NTUC […]

By Arun Kumar Shrivastav For the last two-three days, Indian media is running a story that says a Bangladeshi woman crossed the swampy Sundarban forests, also home to Royal Bengal Tigers, and then swam for an hour to cross a river and meet her Indian boyfriend. The 22-year-old Krishna Mandal had met her boyfriend Abhik […]

The post India Govt Has To Take Care Of The Bangladeshis Working In The Country first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Prabhat Patnaik Central banks all over the capitalist world are raising, or are about to raise, interest rates as a means of countering the currently rampant inflation, which is certain to push a world economy that is barely recovering from the effect of the pandemic, back towards stagnation and greater unemployment. Of course the […]

The post Neo-Liberal Economic Agenda Can Never Tackle Inflationary Pressures first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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