Tag: India

First, the official death count is an undercount.This was the interpretation offered to me by Dr. Friederike Otto, of World Weather Attribution, in May; by Kathy Baughman-McLeod, director of the Atlantic Council’s Arsht-Rockefeller Resilience Center, in June; and by Avikal Somvanshi, of India’s Center for Science and the Environment, ...

NEW DELHI: Around 8pm on Thursday, Twitter went delirious. IPL mastermind Lalit Modi had just posted his photographs with ex-Miss Universe and Bollywood star Sushmita Sen in various poses of endearment. In the accompanying tweet, Modi described her as " my #betterhalf" and gushed that he was "over the ...

Unmarried youth – Jammu Kashmir tops list in India by percentage Figure increases from 25.3 percent in 2011 to 29.1 in 2019, reveals report Srinagar, Jul 14 : The percentage of unmarried youth is on rise in India with J&K topping the list, reveals a report issued by Ministry of ...

Shuja Pakhliwal, Multi-Sector Executive S. Pakhliwal Sometimes the genesis of stories will determine and shape who we are and how we work. I recently interviewed Shuja Pakhliwal, a fellow Texan and multi-sector executive who found his passion in both distribution and the medical industry. I had the opportunity to ...

The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha on Thursday announced that it will support the National Democratic Alliance’s candidate in the Droupadi Murmu presidential elections, ANI reported.“For the first time after Independence, an Adivasi woman has got the opportunity to become the president of India,” the party said while extending its support ...

Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN) has acquired the media rights for the World Athletics Championships Oregon22, which is scheduled from July 15 – 24, 2022, in Eugene, Oregon, United States. As per the company, this deal will give SPN rights to broadcast the upcoming edition of the World Athletics ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday sought the Uttar Pradesh government’s response to a plea filed by Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan seeking directions to remove barriers and barbed wires set up at the premises of the Mohammad Ali Jauhar University, Live Law reported.The bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar and ...

ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that it had reached a staff-level agreement with Pakistan on the combined seventh and eighth reviews for a $6 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) loan facility. "The immediate priority is to stabilize the economy through the steadfast implementation of the recently ...

Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik on Wednesday requested a special court in Jammu that he be allowed to physically appear before it in two separate cases of abduction and murder, The Indian Express reported.Malik is facing trial before a Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act court for the killing ...

ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Thursday it had agreed with Pakistan to resume a suspended loan programme that will inject $1.17 billion into the struggling economy. A statement from the IMF said a "staff level agreement" -- which is still subject to board approval -- will bring ...