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02.01 / 04:43

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. SINGAPORE—During Donald Trump’s first term, U.S. companies argued that a trade war with China was bad for Americans.

02.01 / 01:47

COST SUN Bill show country Green electricity costs a bundle

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As nations use more and more supposedly cheap solar and wind power, a strange thing happens: Our power bills get more expensive. This exposes the environmentalist lie that renewables have already outmatched fossil fuels and that the “green transition" is irreversible even under a second Trump administration.

01.01 / 21:05

markets COST Target Extreme country It’s now a Doorand line: Afghan Taliban using TTP to further its interest of not accepting British-era border with Pakistan

Pakistan army took out its pent-up anger by carrying out airstrikes on an encampment of Pakistani nationals in Paktika province of Afghanistan on December 24, alleging that it was a training camp of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a charge vehemently denied by the Afghan Taliban. The Taliban claimed that those killed were mostly women and children of refugees living there.

01.01 / 18:09

Death country Pregnancy information New York employers must now offer paid medical leave during pregnancy

Pregnant New Yorkers will be entitled to at least 20 hours of paid leave to attend prenatal medical appointments under a new law

01.01 / 18:09

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Ukraine has halted Russian gas supplies to European customers through its pipeline network, almost three years into Moscow’s all-out invasion of its neighbor

01.01 / 18:01

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Republican Party over immigration, a signature promise in Donald Trump's return to the White House. Unsurprisingly, the pressure point is over high-skilled immigration through the H-1B visa programme, which mainly draws in tech professionals from India. On Tuesday, the incoming president said that he had not changed his mind over the contentious issue, adding that the US needs competent and smart people for the country. Trump's core constituency has a strong nativist element that informed his approach to H-1B visas in his first term.

01.01 / 17:47

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01.01 / 17:47

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Industrial policy is once again gaining favour worldwide. Whether through the US' Inflation Reduction Act 2022 or the Mario Draghi report for the EU, 'EU Competitiveness: Looking Ahead', the West — the traditional stronghold of market-driven economies — appears to have embraced state intervention. Even IMF, in its World Economic Outlook 2024, acknowledges that industrial policy can be used to address market failures. Against this backdrop, GoI efforts to establish a domestic semiconductor chip design and production ecosystem deserve closer scrutiny.

01.01 / 17:47

markets Strategy War PAM country Moscow, Kyiv end Russian gas transit to Europe via Ukraine

Russian gas transit across his country as a significant «defeat» for Moscow amid its near three-year invasion.

01.01 / 15:57

markets Digital Strategy Election Experts PAM country Microfinance company VFS Capital applies for small finance bank licence

Kolkata: VFS Capital, one of the oldest microfinance companies that operate in the country, has filed an application for a small finance bank licence, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said.

01.01 / 15:57

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Bangladesh would pursue while strong bilateral ties with Washington, Delhi and Beijing are priorities of the interim government, Foreign Affairs Adviser Touhid Hossain said on Wednesday. Hasina, 77, has been living in India since August 5 when she fled the country following a massive student-led protest that toppled her 16-year regime.

01.01 / 13:31

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Russia halted natural gas flows to Europe via Ukraine, as Kyiv’s refusal to extend a pipeline deal brought an end to one of the last remaining energy links between Russia and what was once its biggest market. A gas transit deal using Soviet-era pipelines crisscrossing Ukraine expired at the end 2024.

01.01 / 12:21

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Pakistan began its two-year tenure as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Wednesday, with Ambassador Munir Akram saying that the Pakistani delegation will play an «active and constructive» role in addressing key challenges facing the world. «Our presence will be felt in the Security Council,» Ambassador Akram, Pakistan's top diplomat at the UN, told state-run APP (Associated Press of Pakistan) news agency.

01.01 / 07:15

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A year into his undergraduate degree in economics at Cambridge, Manmohan Singh found his scholarship from Punjab University was not adequate for his expenses there. He occasionally had to resort to skipping meals or making do with a Cadbury’s bar.

01.01 / 06:41

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI : While sectors like financials and information technology (IT) are stealing the spotlight with bullish predictions, metals seem to be the market's underdog. Several fund managers either recommend steering clear of the sector or keeping exposure to a minimum.

01.01 / 05:59

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01.01 / 03:27

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President Xi Jinping underlined that no one could prevent China's 'reunification' with Taiwan, and affirmed that China will continue its «united front» efforts.

01.01 / 03:27

Citi Highways Southern Research country volunteers Homelessness rises to a record level in America

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Each year for a few frigid days in January volunteers fan out across cities, towns and rural areas to try to count every homeless person in America. The method is admittedly flawed: cities do their counting in different ways, and many homeless people are transient or hide away in subterranean tunnels and under highway overpasses.

01.01 / 02:25

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Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Wednesday that he welcomed equal, dignified, healthy and orderly exchanges with China, but wondered whether there was goodwill from Beijing given what he said was their blocking of simple things like tourism.

01.01 / 02:25

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01.01 / 01:35

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s latest survey of household consumption expenditure, carried out from August 2023 to July 2024, found a decline in the “Gini coefficient" of consumption inequality since the same period of 2022-23.

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