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bribery allegations against the conglomerate’s billionaire founder and other top executives. The US International Development Finance Corp. hasn’t reached a final agreement on the loan, an official said in an emailed response to questions. “We continue to conduct due diligence to ensure that all aspects of the project meet our rigorous standards before any loan disbursements are made,” the official said. “The project has not reached financial close or signed a loan agreement.”

«Odisha has always been a land of seers and scholars. The way the scholars here took our religious texts to every household and connected the public with those, it has played a crucial role in the cultural prosperity of India. »There was a time when India's eastern region and the states there were called backward. However, I consider India's eastern region as the country's growth engine. That is why we have prioritised the development of India's eastern region," he said.

Foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said the meeting of the deputy foreign ministers of Iran, France, Germany and the United Kingdom would take place on Friday, without specifying a venue. «A range of regional and international issues and topics, including the issues of Palestine and Lebanon, as well as the nuclear issue, will be discussed,» the spokesman said in a foreign ministry statement.

multi barrel rocket launchers (MBRL), India has started the supply of the highly capable Pinaka rockets to Armenia. The supplies of the DRDO-developed rocket launchers have started around the same time India has started deliveries of the Akash air defence missile system to that country. The first lot of the Pinaka multi barrel rocket launcher systems has been supplied to Armenia, defence sources told ANI.

Google Research India head Manish Gupta has disagreed with Infosys chairman Nandan Nilekani's comments that ‘India should not invest in building foundational models.’ Gupta, speaking at the Bengaluru Tech Summit held between November 19-21, firmly disagreed with Nilekani and said, “There’s a technologist that I deeply respect, Nandan Nilekani, who made this statement: India should forget about foundation model building, just focus on the use cases. And I would say, with the person I respect, I respectfully disagree.” Nilekani is credited with helming world's largest unique identity programme with Aadhaar. The Google research head countered, saying India should invest in foundational AI models or Large Language Models (LLMs). “I think he’s (Nandan Nilekani) wrong because he’s not preaching what he has practised. What he did, he revolutionised India’s technology landscape by starting with the basics for Aadhaar. He didn’t start with use cases. He started with foundations. So, I think we must start with foundations.”

Kazakhstan based on its visa free regime for Indians and facilities is attracting many Indians. The flow of Indian tourists has ‘rocketed’ to Central Asia’s biggest and resource rich state of Kazakhstan since the country introduced a 14-day visa-free regime for Indian citizens in 2022. The numbers have seen a sharp increase with an increase in the number of daily flights in the recent months between the two sides. In 2023 over 50,000 Indians visited Kazakhstan. A three-hour flight is the air distance between New Delhi and the historic and modern city Almaty that offers all facilities of a Western city coupled with ropeways and ski resorts.

Maharashtra Assembly polls where her party-led Mahayuti alliance trounced the Congress-led MVA. Lauding Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership, the actor-politician said she believed that he was born for the «salvation of the country and is invincible». Ranaut and then-Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray's Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government had a bitter run-in in 2020 with the then-undivided Shiv Sena-led Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation demolishing alleged illegal alterations at her Bandra bungalow. The BJP-led Mahayuti on Saturday retained power in Maharashtra, pocketing a whopping 230 of the 288 assembly seats, as the Congress-led MVA's dream of wresting power fizzled, with the opposition combine managing to garner just 46 seats.

Arshdeep Singh was sold to Punjab Kings for Rs 18 crore in the IPL 2025 auction on Sunday at Jeddah. He was the first player to be sold at the mega event. PBKS used the Right to Match card for the player. Chennai Super Kings opened the bidding at Rs 2 crore and was in a battle with Delhi Capitals. GT entered the bidding at Rs 7.75 crore after CSK stopped at Rs 7.50 crore. Royal Challengers Bengaluru entered the bidding much later with a bid of Rs 10 crore. However while RCB was contemplating a Rs 11 crore bid, it was Rajasthan Royals who bid for the amount. Sunrisers Hyderabad had the final bid for Rs 15.5 crore. However, Punjab Kings matched the bid and SRH rose the amount to Rs 18 crore to which PBKS agreed.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. With this year’s global summits on biodiversity (CoP-16) and climate change (CoP-29) done and the one on desertification (CoP-16) fast approaching, the consequences of the climate emergency are evident everywhere. Floods have ravaged central Europe, super-typhoon Yagi has just struck Southeast Asia, and Hurricanes Helene and Milton have wreaked havoc in the southeastern US.

Pakistan have killed at least 82 people and wounded 156 more, a local official said Sunday. «Among the deceased, 16 were Sunni, while 66 belonged to the Shia community,» said a local administration official in Kurram district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, speaking on condition of anonymity. Pakistan is a Sunni-majority country but Kurram district — near the border with Afghanistan — has a large Shiite population and the communities have clashed for decades.

Nigeria faces its worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation after the government ended costly subsidies that made petrol affordable for many in Africa’s most populous country

Canada Post said Saturday there’s been no “major breakthrough” in talks with the postal workers’ union as the ongoing strike entered its second week and the two sides remain far apart at the negotiating table.Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) kept negotiating over the weekend, along with the support of a special mediator.Jon Hamilton, Canada Post’s vice-president of strategic communications, told Global News the struggling company wants to reach a fair deal with the union that addresses their needs, but said fully meeting all the CUPW’s demands could limit its ability to grow its business.“Obviously, we want to continue to ensure that we have good paying jobs for our people, but there’s only so far we can go,” Hamilton said.The Crown corporation said Friday it lost $315 million before tax in the third quarter, larger than its $290-million loss a year earlier.The financial results put Canada Post on track for “another significant loss” in 2024, which would mark the seventh year in a row in the red.CUPW national president Jan Simpson told Global News that although “morale is up” among picketing postal workers, some layoffs and benefit cancellations have begun as the company tries to save its bottom line.“You can’t expect to negotiate a contract and save your company on the backs of workers,” she said in an interview.“We went to the bargaining table over a year ago with them. … This could have been done a long time ago.”Canada Post said Saturday it has seen a shortage of more than eight million parcels amid the ongoing strike compared with the same period in 2023.More than 55,000 workers across the country walked off the job on Nov.

climate agreement on Sunday, at the Cop29 conference in Baku, though developing countries criticised the $300 billion annual commitment from affluent historic emitters as inadequate.

United Nations climate talks, countries from around the world reached an agreement on how rich countries can cough up the funds to support poor countries in the face of climate change.

Donald Trump has made a flurry of picks for his cabinet and other high-ranking administration positions following his election victory, as per a Reuters report.

BAKU: The COP29 climate summit is nearly 24 hours into overtime with no final agreement in sight as negotiators suspended the meeting after talks through Friday and Saturday failed to produce a compromise acceptable to all.

Tens of thousands of Spaniards are marching in downtown Barcelona to protest the skyrocketing cost of renting an apartment in the popular tourist destination

Adrian Bosshard knows as much about time as he does about speed—he is the CEO of Rado and a former Swiss motorcycle champion. As head of Rado, he has overseen the brand’s growth over the past four years, with India emerging as its top sales market in 2023 and 2024.

open economy, we allowed other countries to get an advantageous playing field in the country and this has to stop, said External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday. Jaishankar was delivering a virtual keynote address at the 8th India Idea Conclave at Bengaluru. This year, the conclave, organised by India Foundation, is exploring the theme, 'building Brand Bharath'.