PM Modi urges financial institutions to reduce cost of credit for small businesses
NEW DELHI: India has emerged as the “bright spot” of the global economy and is playing a key role in the supply chain, Prime Minister…
Adani Group pre-pays ₹73.74 billion worth share-backed financing
Reuters | | Posted by Lingamgunta Nirmitha Rao Embattled Indian conglomerate Adani said on Tuesday it prepaid share-backed financing of 73.74 billion rupees ($901.16 million),…
France: France faces ‘standstill’ in protests against pensions overhaul
PARIS: France‘s trade unions headed for a crucial face-off against President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, with fresh strikes and protests planned against a controversial pensions…
Canada to examine if China interfered in its 2021 elections
TORONTO: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday he will appoint a special investigator to decide whether there should be a public inquiry into reports of…
Pakistani migrants play deadly ‘game’ chasing future abroad
When Muhammad Nadeem left home in eastern Pakistan, he asked his mother to pray for his safe passage to Europe then slipped away before she…
Israeli military caught up in divide over Netanyahu’s plan
TEL AVIV: Shraga Tichover is hanging up his fatigues. After more than three decades as a reservist in the Israeli military, the paratrooper says he…
‘Invisible hand’: Xi Jinping condemns US-led ‘suppression of China’
NEW DELHI: In a rare, direct aim at America, Chinese President Xi Jinping criticized the United States’s attempts to suppress and contain China during his…
Georgia nuclear plant begins splitting atoms for first time
ATLANTA: A nuclear power plant in Georgia has begun splitting atoms in one of its two new reactors, Georgia Power said Monday, a key step…
‘Xi Jinping’s guy’: Longtime acolyte Li set to be China’s next premier
BEIJING: Four years before Li Qiang gained notoriety as the force behind the two-month COVID lockdown of Shanghai, the man set to become China’s next…
US says Iran poisoning probe could fall under UN mandate
WASHINGTON: The White House said Monday an investigation into the recent poisoning of school girls in protest-hit Iran could fall under the mandate of the…