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HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 13 January 2023 – Cornerstone Technologies Holdings Limited (“the Group” or “Cornerstone Technologies”; Hong Kong stock code: 8391) is thrilled to announce that its first construction of EV charging-enabling infrastructure (“The Project”), under the EV-charging at Home Subsidy Scheme (“EHSS”), has been successfully completed. (From left) CLP Power eMobility Director Mr Saraansh Dave, President of the Owners’ Corporation of The […]

By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s virtual speech to the Global South leaders has come in for a degree of praise not expected for a leader under siege in his home country. A large constituency of Indians consider Prime Minister Modi’s nearly nine years in power not worth the calendars they were published in. […]

The post Prime Minister’s Address At Global South Leaders Meet Is Inspirational first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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 […]

The post Re-Thinking On Social Protection For Old Is Urgent In India first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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 […]

The post Supreme Court Has A Greater Role To Save Joshimath first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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 […]

The post Kejriwal govt gets notice over ‘political ads’ first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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 […]

The post Religio-Ethnic Tensions Mark Election Campaign In Meghalaya As State Polls Near first appeared on IPA Newspack.

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 10 January 2023 – GEODIS is pleased to announce the appointment of June Koh as the new Human Resources Director for the newly created Asia Pacific and Middle East region. June brings a wealth of experience and expertise to the role, having worked in the field of human resources for over twenty years. Prior to joining GEODIS, June held leadership positions at […]

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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 […]

The post Demolition of sinking Joshimath’s buildings begins first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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 […]

The post Surging Imports Are Behind India’s Growing Unemployment first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K R Sudhaman The preliminary official estimates by Ministry of Statistics has corroborated multilateral and other rating agencies forecast that India’s economic growth would be around 7 per cent in financial year 2022-2023. This only confirms that Indian economy is on a revival mode. The projected GDP growth may be less than 8.7 per […]

The post India Economy Is On A Revival Mode But Next Fiscal Will Be Challenging first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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 […]

The post Taliban Regime In Kabul Is In Deep Conflict With The New Pakistani Govt first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday called questions regarding the party’s chief ministerial and Prime Ministerial candidates “distraction attempts”. Addressing a press conference in Haryana’s Samana, Gandhi said the media is not giving enough coverage to Bharat Jodo Yatra. Answering a question on the chief ministerial face of Congress for the Haryana assembly polls, Gandhi said, “I have said this in earlier […]

The post Rahul skirts questions about PM, CM faces as irrelevant first appeared on IPA Newspack.

  By Arun Kumar Shrivastav India’s North-East has seen several major infrastructure projects in the past few years. The latest is a 57 km broad gauge railway line between India’s Kokrajhar and Bhutan’s Gelephu, for which the work is going to start this year. This would be Bhutan’s first railway project and one of the […]

The post India’s North East Gets A Big Infra Push With 57 Km Railway Line To Bhutan first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The Eknath Shinde government in Maharashtra is on ventilator support and will fall by February, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut said here on Saturday. He said if the “judiciary is not pressured, then 16 MLAs (of the Shinde faction, which is also called Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena) will be disqualified”. The case pertaining to the […]

The post Sanjay Raut claims Shinde govt on ventilator support first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Amid a cold wave prevailing in parts of northern India, Safdarjung in Delhi recorded a minimum temperature of 1.9 degrees Celsius, the India Meteorological Department said on Sunday. Meanwhile, Aya Nagar also in Delhi recorded a minimum temperature of 2.6 degrees Celsius, while Lodhi Road recorded 2.8 degrees Celsius and Palam 5.2 degrees Celsius, the […]

The post Fog delays trains, flights as Delhi shivers at 1.9 degrees first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The crucial Joshimath-Malari border road in Chamoli district which connects the China border has developed cracks at several places due to landslides in Joshimath. Strategically important Joshimath-Malari border road is subsiding near the Malari taxi stand. Earlier today, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami inspected the town and conducted physical inspections of the land subsidence-affected […]

The post Cracks on key defence road leading to China border first appeared on IPA Newspack.

TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appointed on Saturday a new police chief, nearly four months into protests triggered by Mahsa Amini’s death. The Islamic republic has been gripped

SHANGHAI, CHINA – Media OutReach – 6 January 2023 – De Beers Group Industry Services (“DBGIS”) was re-branded De Beers Institute of Diamonds (“DBIoD”) in 2020, in order to grow and strengthen consumer confidence across the diamond industry, as well as highlight its expertise that benefits both the trade and consumers. DBIoD aims to provide integrity in the industry through the application of a passion for the […]

HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM – Media OutReach – 5 January 2023 – With a dim outlook for the banking industry, most securities firms expect conservative profit growth for banks in 2023. Securities firm VNDirect said the State Bank of Vietnam has increased policy rates by 200 basis points and this rate hike would inevitably put pressure on banks’ net interest margin this year as the cost […]

A temple collapsed in the Himalayan town of Joshimath in Uttarakhand on Friday evening, heightening fears among residents who have been camping out in the cold as over 500 houses and other structures have developed cracks due to the soil shifting. A team of experts and scientists is conducting a door-to-door survey and Chief Minister Pushkar Singh […]

The post People out in cold in Uttarakhand’s ‘sinking’ town first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Prabhat Patnaik India’s current account deficit for the second quarter (July-September) of 2022-23 has reached a massive $36.4 billion which is 4.4 per cent of the gross domestic product, higher than at any time in the last nine years. It is only in October-December 2012 that the absolute level of the current deficit had […]

The post India’s Balance Of Payments Crisis Touches Precarious Level Under Modi Regime first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Prakash Karat India abstained on a resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 31, 2022 that asked International Court of Justice (ICJ) to render its opinion on the legal consequences of Israel’s prolonged occupation of Palestinian territories. The resolution was passed with 87 countries supporting and 26 opposing.  India abstained along […]

The post Under PM Narendra Modi, India Resiles Itself From Palestinian Cause first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) will send additional 18 companies to Jammu and Kashmir in the wake of recent killings of civilians in two fresh terror attacks in Rajouri district, sources familiar with the development said. The 18 CRPF companies – approximately 1,800 personnel – will be rushed to the Jammu region for deployment […]

The post More security forces for Jammu after terror attacks first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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