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The head of emerging markets and chief global strategist, Ruchir Sharma, has resigned from Morgan Stanley which is the leading global investment bank and wealth management firm after working for 25 years. Sharma who is based out of New York had joined the firm in 1996 and has 27 years of investment experience. Along with […]
The last white president of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize winner along with his bete noire, Nelson Madela, Frederik Willem de Klerk has died at the age of 85 at his home in Fresnaye, Cape Town. He was diagnosed with mesothelioma – a cancer that affects the lining of the lungs. De Klerk who […]
The lure of UK for EU citizens does not seem waning post-Brexit as it was suggested at times. People from “continent” as the natives of this great island nation like to describe, are flocking to submit their applications to continue living and working in the UK. As many as 2,36,840 applications received after the deadline […]
With the pandemic induced lockdowns, many offices around the world shifted to a work-from-home basis. While many struggled to maintain a healthy work-life balance, Portugal could soon see a change under the new labour laws approved by the country’s parliament. The Portugal parliament recently approved a new set of laws as a response to the […]
One of many first few crops introduced into the agriculture fold about 10,000 years, chickpea or chana has acquired a genomic leg up. A world consortium of scientists are successful in tracing its origin to the Fertile Crescent space. Rajeev Varshney, a Analysis Program Director on the Worldwide Crops Analysis Institute for the Semi-Arid Troipcs […]
The Pakistan cricket board recently appointed a new chairman, Ramiz Raza. Within the first few days of taking charge of the office, he announced that they are hoping to launch a women’s version of the Pakistan Super League Twenty20 tournament soon. In a video posted on Twitter, he also announced that the board plans to […]
Tech-savvy youngsters today tend to spend hours and hours scrolling through instagram and DMing their day out losing track of time which then erodes their mental health. Instagram head Adam Mosseri had announced previously that it was looking into “Take a Break” reminders – a feature that would let users set a reminder for themselves […]
Earlier in June this year, Canada witnessed one of the worst heat waves ever after which there was smog caused due to wildfires that filled the sky. Among many affected provinces, British Columbia was the worst-hit that ended up causing 500 deaths as per the reports. In an unusual case, a Canadian senior citizen from […]
Nobel Peace Prize winner from Pakistan and an activist for female education, Malala Yousafzai took to micro-blogging site Twitter on Tuesday to announce that she has tied the knot with Asser. Sharing pictures of her wedding in her post, Malala tweeted, “Today marks a precious day in my life. Asser and I tied the knot […]
The Government in Pakistan and the banned outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan have reached to an agreement for complete ceasefire. The Pakistan Taliban, under the name of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP , are ostensibly different form the Taliban in the power in the neighbouring Afghanistan. Their aim is to overthrow the democratically elected Government in Pakistan and […]
Diwali or Deepawali, the Hindu Festival of lights, signifying the victory of luminescence over darkness, good over evil has gone global in today’s ever shrinking world. The Indian diaspora, especially Gujaratis and Punjabis, present in every corner on earth since centuries have been celebrating this festival of joy, believed to have started with the God […]
President Joe Biden is supposed to be committed to reducing gas emissions, but when he produced a little natural gas of his own at the COP26 summit, It made the Duchess of Cornwall blush. Reportedly on Sunday, Camilla was taken aback to hear Biden ‘break wind’ as they made polite small talk at the global […]
The people who have recently recovered from Covid and want to travel abroad who will now be allowed to enter the US from Monday, November 8 on some conditions. The US Transportation and Security Administration (TSA) issued a statement on Friday night stating that from November 8, 2021, onwards all non-US citizens and non-US immigrants […]
UK is now the first country in the world to approve an oral antiviral that can be taken at home for Covid. US drug companies Merck, Sharp and Dohme (MSD) and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics developed Molnupiravir, the first antiviral medication for Covid which can be taken as a pill rather than injected or given intravenously. The […]
Citing that Pegasus spyware sold to foreign governments has been used to target government officials, journalists and others, the U.S. Commerce Department has blacklisted Israel’s NSO Group. While NSO maintains it only sells its products to law enforcement and intelligence agencies, it has been accused of selling hacking tools to authoritarian regimes around the world. […]
South African author Damon Galgut has been awarded the 2021 Booker Prize for his novel “The Promise.” In his acceptance speech at the award ceremony in London on Wednesday, the 58-year-old Capetown-based author said, “This has been a great year for African writing. I would like to accept this award on behalf of all the […]
Fifteen-year-old Vinisha Umashankar, one of the finalists of Prince Williams Earth shot Prize, delivered an impactful speech at the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow on climate change. She urged the world leaders, business leaders, international organizations as well as civil society to just stop the talks and begin with the implementation “We have every […]
Social Media giant Facebook made an announcement on Tuesday that it plans to shut its face recognition system amid growing security concerns from the users as well as regulators. “Facebook will no longer automatically recognise people’s faces in photos or videos” – read a blog post by Facebook’s parent company, Meta. It said that it […]
The Snapchatters will soon have to the option to make their stories even more interesting that before. The company recently reached a deal with the NCBUniversal that will bring audion clips from hit movies and TV shows like Bridesmaids, The Office, Parks and Recreation, SNL and many more to the platform. Along with music, Snapchatters […]
World Leaders from more than 120 countries are attending the UN’s 26TH COP Summit including our Prime Minister, Narendra Modi in the Scottish city, Glasgow. Conference of Parties (COP-26) has begun on 31 October 2021 and will continue till 12 November 2021. The high-level segment of COP-26 to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate […]
