As of Friday, the treaty had 49 signatories and UN officials said Honduras’s 50th ratification had been received. The United Nations announced Saturday that 50 countries had ratified a UN treaty to ban nuclear weapons, triggering its entry into force in 90 days, a move hailed by anti-nuclear activists but …
Read More »2020 U.S. elections: what is fracking and why is it so widely discussed
In the third presidential debate that took place on Thursday, US President Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden again disagreed on the issue of fracking. This is not the first time that fracking has been discussed in this electoral cycle. Here is everything you need to know about the …
Read More »Kapil Dev is discharged from Delhi hospital after angioplasty
Veteran cricketer Kapil Dev was released from the hospital Sunday, two days after undergoing angioplasty following a heart attack. The 61-year-old World Cup-winning captain complained of chest pain on Thursday, after which he was taken to the emergency department at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute. He is fine now. “Mr. Kapil …
Read More »Amazon Wins Interim Relief; Future-Reliance Agreement Suspended
Amazon believes Future Group violated the contract by signing a deal with rival Reliance. Amazon won an interim award on October 25 against its partner Future Group selling retail businesses to Reliance Industries for ₹ 24,713 crore after a Singapore-based single-judge arbitration panel suspended the deal. Amazon, which had agreed …
Read More »US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark Esper will arrive in India on Monday
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark T Esper will arrive here on Monday for the third edition of the two plus two ministerial dialogue that takes place just one week before the presidential elections. Americans and amid Indian outrage. border row with China. The two plus …
Read More »Pompeo and Esper to push Trump’s anti-China message in India
Just a week before the November election, two of President Donald Trump’s top national security advisers will visit India for meetings primarily focused on countering China’s growing global influence. As the bitter race between Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden ends, this week’s talks in New Delhi are aimed …
Read More »Tata Motors Business: Tata Motors Seeks Passenger Vehicle Business Partner
NEW DELHI: Tata Motors is actively seeking a partner for its passenger vehicle business in order to be ready for growth in the next decade, which would see large investments in new technology and regulations, according to a senior company official. the car major is seeking collaboration even as the …
Read More »Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee, Head of South Korea’s Largest Conglomerate, Dies at 78
Lee Kun-hee, the charismatic leader of the Samsung Group, South Korea’s largest conglomerate, died on Sunday, the company said, six years after being hospitalized for a heart attack. Lee, 78, helped his father Lee Byung-chull’s noodle trading business grow into a powerhouse, with dozens of affiliates ranging from electronics and …
Read More »Samsung’s Lee Kun-hee: a tainted titan who built a global tech giant
In February 1993, five years after replacing his father in South Korea’s Samsung Group, Lee Kun-hee, 51, was frustrated that he was not making his mark. He summoned a group of Samsung Electronics executives to a Best Buy store in Los Angeles to check out the reality of the Samsung …
Read More »Andhra government partially demolishes GITAM university campus in Vizag for alleged usurpation
On an overnight trip, civic authorities in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam demolished the compound wall and some other structures at the University of Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management (GITAM), a prestigious private university in Rishikonda on the outskirts of the city on Saturday. . The demolition followed a recent report …
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