NEW HEIGHT OF MOUNT EVEREST
Foreign Ministers of Nepal and China jointly certified the elevation of Mount Everest at 8,848.86 metres above sea level — 86 cm higher than what was recognised since 1954 The …
SAARC NEEDS A TERROR-FREE ENVIRONMENT
SAARC can only be fully effective in the absence of “terror and violence” This statement was given by PM Modi at South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation on its 36th …
INVESTMENT PROMOTION AWARD 2020
“The United Nations (UNCTAD) has declared Invest India- the National Investment Promotion Agency of India- as a winner of the 2020 United Nations Investment Promotion Award” The award ceremony took …
India and Free Trade Agreements
Recently, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) was finally signed with participation of 15 members including 10 ASEAN member countries and Australia, China, Korea, Japan and New Zealand, after over …
Google Warns Australians Could Lose Free Search
Google on Monday criticised proposed Australian antitrust laws, saying its free search service would be “at-risk” and users’ personal data could be shared if it is made to pay news …
Turkish authorities ended the week of volatility in financial markets with tightening monetary policy, which helped lift the lira back from an all-time low
Turkey’s central bank on August 7 cut off financing to local lenders at its one-week buyback rate, forcing banks to borrow at a more expensive overnight window. This will result …
The Central Bank of Australia left the interest rate and target rate unchanged. Economists’ forecasts
The Reserve Bank of Australia on Tuesday left the rate on the cash rate and the yield on three-year bonds at 0.25%. The bank would buy Australian government securities on …
Donald Trump has pledged to ban TikTok because the administration completed a US national security review of the company
The video app had two options for solving the situation, in chaise if Microsoft bought the application from Bytedance, after changing the internal settings, the application could avoid blocking. But, …
AstraZeneca began to receive positive results from the vaccine
A vaccine, from the University of Oxford against the coronavirus, has begun to give positive results and produce antibodies and T cells, that can fight coronavirus, the experiment was carried …
The US may put Tiktok in the blacklist
The administration of President of the USA with several ministers, namely the Minister of Finance and Technology and with President Donald Trump is discussing the possibility of blocking the popular …