HÀ NỘI, VIETNAM – Media OutReach – 15 June 2022 – Vietnam’s Minister of Natural Resources and Environment on June 15 highlighted seven focus points to fully unleash Asia’s potential for renewable energy development. Minister Trần Hồng Hà, in his message delivered to the webinar “Asia: Renewable Energy Continent”, said: “Climate change, environmental pollution and ecosystem degradation are the crises to humanity today.” The webinar was held […]
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Delivering a historic ruling, the Supreme Court of India has recommended that sex work by consenting adults should be legal. Releasing a small set of guidelines on sex workers, the top court said prostitution is a profession and sex workers are entitled to equality, dignity, and protection from the law of […]
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By Kalyani Shankar Elections and defections go together despite stringent anti-defection laws in the country. The law proves ineffective as the legislators are lured by money and position. The lawmakers skirt around the rules, find loopholes to their advantage, and defy them. In last week’s Rajya Sabha polls, Rajasthan’s BJP legislator Shobharani Khushwaha, Congress’s Haryana […]
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By Anjan Roy Unabated rises in food and fuel prices have kept India’s retail inflation at elevated levels. Even without getting into the nitty-gritty of detailed figures, the price trend are hurting and needs to be tamed if only for maintaining overall stability. Several questions are now cropping up: first of all, how defiant are […]
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By Arun Srivastava In the New India of RSS and Narendra Modi it is the lathi and not the rule of law that defines and underlines the character of India. Though the RSS and BJP leaders are not tired of claiming that India has not deviated from its traditional path and continues to be a […]
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Simon Squibb is our host for this session, diving into NFTs, his own experience and how he changed his perspective. He is also joined by Regina Nogueira and Philip Mostert. From reading this you will have access to: – Opinions on NFTs – How Simon re-educated himself – Tips from personal experience Х No financial advice, just sharing experiences! Our Mission To start off the session, Simon explains our mission and […]
A Lankan official has resigned after triggering a massive controversy with his claim that an energy project in Sri Lanka was awarded to industrialist Gautam Adani’s group after Prime Minister Narendra Modi pressured President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. MMC Ferdinando, the chairman of Sri Lanka’s Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), quit three days after he claimed to a […]
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Did you join our Lunch and Learn on building brand partnerships? Bejay Mulenga, CEO of The Purposeful Project, Steve Dool, Head of Brand Partnerships at Depop, and Dave Wallace, founder of NMD+ discuss their top tips when engaging with other organisations and how to approach working together. When reading this blog, you will learn about: -The battle between your head and your heart – How to combat imposter syndrome – Techniques […]
By Nantoo Banerjee There is nothing to be surprised about the continuous exit from the Indian stock market by foreign portfolio investors (FPIs). It has been going on for the last several months. The market is overheated. It has been out of sync with the country’s economic growth since 2017 and corporate performance in general. […]
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By Sushil Kutty “Of course, you were not spreading rumours, the charge is you were spreading facts.” That’s the blurb on an RK Laxman cartoon of 1962, 60 years ago. Today’s cartoonists should take a kerchief out of Laxman’s pocket-cartoons. Lampooning is serious business. It should tickle the cerebral cells. The sarcasm should be biting, […]
The post Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Is A Judge, Jury And Executioner In Uttar Pradesh first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By James M Dorsey Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al-Baqr, a man known for his pithy retorts, pretended to quiver in his pants. Hindu nationalists had called for a boycott of the Gulf airline after Qatar took India to task for derogatory remarks about the Prophet Mohammed and Muslim worship by two spokespeople of the country’s […]
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By Harihar Swarup How the President of India is elected? The Election Commission has notified the election of India’s next President 0n July 18. A look at the voting procedure, how the votes of MLAs and MPs are weighted, and how, previous elections have played out? The President is elected by an electoral college consisting […]
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By Arun Srivastava The spate of violence that erupted across the country, in which two persons lost their lives in Ranchi on Friday is an ugly blot on the fabric of inclusive India. It ought to not have occurred in the first place. This has provided wide space of manoeuvring by the Hindutva forces who […]
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By Sushil Kutty It starts with “Dear Congresspersons…” and doesn’t stop till the last vestiges of the Congress party’s confidence in the Gandhi family haven’t been ridden to the ground, the Gandhis painted in mud colours. Who were the people behind this exercise is still not apparent to the eye, but what’s being spoken isn’t […]
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By Rahil Nora Chopra Strong differences of opinion continue to widen the gulf between Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his ally BJP. After CM Nitish’s initiative on caste census compelled alliance partner BJP to also come to the fore on the issue, the canny CM has now said that there was no need for […]
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By Branko Marcetic Allow me, for a moment, to indulge my inner Tom Friedman. A few weeks back, I was exchanging the usual banter with a taxi driver, Amandeep, an Indian immigrant who had lived in New York nearly two decades, when the conversation turned to politics. After telling me about the racist and sexist […]
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday said that because of the BJP, the country had to face an embarrassing situation at the international level as it was “brought to its knees and was forced to apologise” by the Gulf countries over the controversial remarks made by a BJP spokesperson on Prophet Mohammad. Addressing a […]
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Targets to provide more than 48 tonnes of consumable dairy products to 4,000 grass-roots families Aims to promote importance of dairy and healthy lifestyle among the underprivileged HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 9 June 2022 – Royal FrieslandCampina (“FrieslandCampina”), which has 150 years of expertise in dairy production, has celebrated World Milk Day in Hong Kong since 2013. FrieslandCampina has always been committed to its […]
By Anjan Roy Reserve Bank of India has done a delicate pirouette in formulating its monetary policy in the context of extreme volatility and uncertain turn of events. All that RBI has done on Wednesday is to raise the policy interest rate —called the repo rate— by half a percentage point. This rate hike comes […]
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The BJP has set new boundaries for its spokespersons and leaders joining TV debates as its government faces a huge international backlash over party leader Nupur Sharma’s comments on Prophet Muhammad. Only authorized spokespersons and panelists will participate in TV debates, BJP sources say, and they will be assigned by the media cell. The spokespersons […]
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HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 8 June 2022 – Victory Securities shared their view on the outlook of carbon neutrality, electric vehicle battery industry chain and automotive intelligence. As one of the fastest-growing emerging countries, China is driving social change and industry structural transformation with steadfast political determination. For example, industries such as green energy, advanced manufacturing, core technologies and high-quality commodities that are in […]
By Kalyani Shankar Will a caste census trigger a disaster or settle the demand of many political parties? While it plays such a dominant role in our social, economic, and political life, it is strange that no credible Caste data has existed since 1931. Also, the prominent four main castes, Brahmin, Kshatriyas, Vaishya, and Shudra, […]
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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 […]
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 […]
