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As Pakistan grapples with economic hardships and seeks financial aid, its decision to significantly boost the defence budget by 15% stands in stark contrast to its prolonged GDP decline.
India's dominance in the electric vehicle sector is underscored by its surpassing of China in electric 2-wheeler sales and maintaining positive growth trends in the electric 3-wheeler market. As India solidifies its position as a global leader in electric mobility, the future of sustainable transportation looks promising
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Navigate the nuanced landscape of the JN.1 sub-variant, unraveling its complexities to stay informed and empowered in the ongoing battle against COVID-19.
Here is a timeline of the significant events leading up to the far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro's supporters' invasion of Brazil's Congress, Supreme Court, and Presidential Palace on January 8, during which they contested the election of leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
The South American nation declared a 90-day environmental emergency due to oil spill caused by Tonga volcanic eruption
There’s a growing discontent among Kanzakhs at the current regime and Nazarbayev family. Recent LPG price hike only added fuel. Here’s how it developed and how it impacted cryptocurrency market
Authorities in Belgium seized over 65 tonnes of cocaine, follwed by Netherlands with 43 tonnes, according to a 2019 data by European Monitoring Centre for Durngs and Drug Addiction
A look at what was achieved, and what wasn’t, in Glasgow
The coronavirus that has infected more than 80 million across the globe has not even spared the rich and the famous
On October 22, an estimated 63 million viewers tuned into the second presidential debate featuring President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden
The US presidential election is round the corner. But many states have policies in place to allow eligible voters to cast ballots either through mail or in person ahead of the Election day.
In the United States, the president is elected indirectly by Electoral College, which allots electoral votes to the 50 states and the District of Columbia largely based on their population.
The US presidential election is an expensive affair. The cost of campaigning to be elected as president has steadily risen over the years
The US presidential election is round the corner. On election day, Americans from each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia head to the polls to cast their vote for president.
In the United States, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party dominate modern politics. Since 1852, every US presidential election has been won by either of these two parties.
The US presidential elections depend on two types of votes. One is popular vote which is the sum of all votes cast in every state, and second is the electoral college vote.
In little over three weeks, the US would be holding its presidential election. The voters would decide whether they want to give four more years to President Donald Trump and Vice President, Mike Pence or opt for Democratic candidate Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
The 2020 US presidential election is round the corner (November 3). The voters would decide whether they would for Republican President Donald Trump or elect Democratic presidential nominee Joe Bide
More than one million people have died after contracting the novel coronavirus that first emerged in December last year in China.
Did you know that a Greenland shark is considered as the world’s longest lived vertebrate? Lately, a picture of a 393-year-old marine predator resurfaced on social media, garnering thousands of shares on both Facebook and Twitter.
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is in coma after falling ill from suspected poisoning. On Thursday, he started feeling unwell while on a return flight to Moscow from the Siberian city of Tomsk.
On July 20, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) launched its first-ever interplanetary Hope Probe mission to Mars from Japan's Tanegashima Space Centre.
Immunisation saves the lives of two to three million children every year, but the Covid-19 pandemic has majorly disrupted children's immunisations around the globe.
It is pretty well-known to all that Covid-19 spreads through respiratory droplets when an infected person comes in close contact. It also spreads indirectly by touching a contaminated surface and then rubbing eyes, nose or mouth.
After Covid-19, it could be the bubonic plague that may have the world worried. On July 7, China confirmed a case of bubonic plague in Inner Mongolia
Originated in China's Hubei province last year, Covid-19 has now reached 220 countries and territories. At present, there are over 8 million cases and death toll has crossed the 4 lakh-mark
The global military spending surged to $1.9 trillion in 2019, a growth of 3.6% from 2018, according to a report from Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. With $732 billion, the US is the largest spender followed by China & India. China’s military expenditure reached $261 bn in 2019. On the other hand, India’s expenditure grew by 6.8% to $71.1 billion.
When it comes to ultra-rich people, US tops the list. China with 61,587 ultra-rich people is second-placed country..Germany takes third position in the rankings (23,078) followed by Japan (18,776).
Throughout history, nurses have played a crucial role in fighting pandemics. But do you know world is grappling with huge shortage of nurses? As of today, world needs an estimated 5.9 million nurses.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has added six symptoms to its Covid-19 list. Previously it had listed just three symptoms: fever, cough and shortness of breath. Here's a look at the complete list.
To stop the coronavirus from rebounding after this lockdown, we will need to wear masks in public for a long, long time. How willsecurity at malls, subway stations, etc, cope with this new challenge?
In order to stall the spread of the coronavirus, measures like social distancing are being enforced around the world. The latter plays an effective role in reducing the spread of the virus.
The Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) originating from Wuhan, China, has now spread to 27 countries and territories worldwide.
More than 28,000 species around the world are in danger of becoming extinct. That's over a quarter of all species assessed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in its latest update of Red list. Of them 40% are amphibians and 25% are mammals.
The gathering of 50,000 strong crowd of Indian-Americans in Houston, addressed by PM Narendra Modi, was nearly three times the size of crowd that turned up at New York's Madison Square Garden in 2014.
Of the 10 fastest-growing large economies between 2000 and 2018, eight were in Asia. India and China were the top two. Countries in Latin America — another continent with rapid growth possibility — continue to belie their potential, though. Here's a look.
A whopping 12.6 million children aged below 5 years died of various diseases in 1990. With improved healthcare, the number fell to 5.4 million in 2017. In many countries, fewer than 1 in 500 children now dies before turning 5.
In the 1960s, every fifth child in developing countries died within a year of birth. Since then, the infant mortality rate (IMR) has fallen sharply, thanks to better sanitation, availability of clean drinking water and immunisation, delayed motherhood and better maternal health.
The Amazon rainforest in Brazil is burning for weeks, and smoke from these fires are spreading thousands of miles away. On Monday, it blotted out the sun over Sao Paulo, the nation's largest city.
In 1970, people working abroad sent home altogether less than $2billion.
The sustainable development goal of zero hunger by 2030 seems further away as global hunger rises for third year in a row.
Just 20 years ago, wind and solar power were considered economically unviable, but today, Germany and the UK get about a quarter of their electricity from renewables.
Now that everyone has seen pictures of the Everest ‘traffi c jam’, any thought of summiting the world’s highest peak swiftly and heroically may be banished.
If the Earth were to be divided into four quarters based on population, this is what the world map would look like. South Asia, including India, takes up little space, but is packed tight, unlike the Americas.
In 2018, the world spent $1.8 trillion on its military. Just the five biggest spenders accounted for 60% of all spending. A look at where India’s military expenditure stands.
The gigantic, six-engined mega jet with the wingspan of an American football field made its first test flight over the Mojave desert in California on Saturday.
On April 3, 2019, Algeria’s president Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigned after spending nearly two decades in office.
Finland has been named the happiest country (among 156 nations surveyed) for the second consecutive year in World Happiness Report produced by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network .
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos topped the list with $131 billion networth, followed by Bill Gates with $96.5 billion. Warren Buffet was in third plae with $82.5 billion.
There was a time when the internet — the “network of networks” superstructure on which the online world is built — was limited to a few hundred computers and about a couple million users. But this month 30 years ago saw the birth of the idea that would unleash the power of information technology that has driven the leap from the industrial into the digital age.
Of the 10 most polluted cities in the world, seven are in India alone, according to recently released data by IQAir AirVisual and Greenpeace
Colombian capital Bogota faced the worst traffic jams in 2018
Our biggest fears are often not unfounded and the threats we anticipate shape the decisions that impact our lives.
Post her divorce from Jeff Bezos, MacKenzie Bezos is expected to become the world's richest women.
There’s no end in sight to the United States’ government shutdown, which has entered its 27th day and is the longest in the country’s history.
The rupee fell over 10% against the US dollar between March-end and September-end, but in terms of the real effective exchange rate (the weighted average for a currency in relation to a basket of currencies after factoring in inflation), it was the Turkish Lira that saw the steepest decline. Here's a look:
On November 12, 2018, Marvel founder and comic book titan Stan Lee breathed his last. His legacy, the comic characters created by him has earned Hollywood loads of money.
The weakening rupee is reminiscent of the forex markets in 2013. But the Indian macro situation now is much better than it was five years ago, with one indication being the real policy rate (adjusted for inflation)…
On October 23, 2018, the world's longest sea bridge linking Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China was opened by Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The changes proposed by the Trump administration will make it substantially tougher for US employers to hire foreign talent under the H-1B visa regime, one of whose biggest beneficiaries so far have been Indians. Here's a look at why it will impact Indians most...
Human beings were seen trying to imitate the chimps almost at the same rate as the chimps tried to mimic the visitors. The researchers who mapped imitative behaviour between chimpanzees and humans at Swedish Furuvik Zoo were among this year’s winners of the Ig Nobel award.
Austria's capital Vienna has beaten Melbourne to be ranked the "world's most liveable city" in a new annual survey released Monday, ending the Australian city's seven-year reign.
August 6 marks the day the US dropped an atomic bomb named "Little Boy" on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, the second bomb named "Fat Man" was dropped on Nagasaki. The two bombings claimed the lives of 140,000 people in Hiroshima and 74,000 people in Nagasaki, most of them were civilians. None of the destruction hasn't however deterred countries from building larger and deadlier nuclear arsenals. Here’s a look at how the atomic bombs of 1945 compare to the most powerful warheads in the world today and the countries with the biggest nuclear stockpiles.
With heatwaves resulting in deaths in Japan and uncontrollable fires in Greece, hot-weather systems have persisted for longer than usual in July 2018. A look at some cities that broke their temperature records…
It's a celestial treat for stargazers on Friday. The longest lunar eclipse of the 21st century is set to occur on the intervening night of July 27-28, 2018, as the Moon moves into the shadow of the Earth.
It's a celestial treat for stargazers on Friday. The longest lunar eclipse of the 21st century is set to occur on the intervening night of July 27-28, 2018, as the Moon moves into the shadow of the Earth.
Here’s a quick explainer on BRICS, why it matters and who will be there at the 10th BRICS summit starting July 25.
In the 71 years since independence, Pakistan has witnessed a troubled path to democracy. It has seen 29 prime ministers, none of which have completed a full term.
Pakistan’s disgraced ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif faces a 10-year prison sentence or corruption. However, this is hardly the first time that Nawaz Sharif has faced controversy or prison.
In order to build trust and encourage healthy conversation after it faced global scrutiny for its fake and spam accounts, micro blogging site Twitter removed accounts locked due to suspected fraud from follower-count tallies.
Sponsors may have shied away from the 2018 World Cup that kicks off today in Moscow but the event will still generate $6.1 billion in revenue — 10% more than Fifa estimated and far more than the last World Cup in 2014 in Brazil. A look at the revenue generated by FIFA over the last few years.
Some languages, based on their scripts and grammar rules, are easier to learn for those who speak English, while more complex languages with unique characters and structures can pose a greater challenge.
PM Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping are meeting for the eleventh time at the 18th SCO summit being held on June 9-10, 2018 in the central port city of China, Quingdao.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet today at the annual Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit being held in the Chinese city of Qingdao.
Bees and butterflies play a vital role in the pollination of plants and the production of crops. However, they along with other pollinators like birds and bats are threatened with extinction. Their decline could cause some major global food production problems. Here's more:
Every minute 11 million people puff around the world and 10 people die from smoking. Tobacco is leading cause of preventable death, killing millions every year. On World Anti-Tobacco Day, here are some startling facts and figures:
Taken together, Delhi and the cities bordering it — Faridabad, Gurgaon, Ghaziabad, Noida, etc — make up the world’s second most populated urban settlement with a national capital at its centre. Tokyo is first while Mexico City is third. Here's a look:
Data is money now, and India — always a favourite outsourcing destination — is mining data for the world. Domestically, revenues amounted to about $85 million, only about 0.75% of revenue from the US. Here's a look:
French President Emmanuel Macron believes US will one day come back to the Paris Climate treaty, which it has exited under Donald Trump. Even though the US prez is loath to admit that the burning of fossil fuels is a major driver of global warming, these cause around three-fourths of all carbon dioxide emissions. In 2014, CO2 emissions stood at some 9.9bn tonnes a year and Half of all emissions in the last 200 years or so happened in the 40-odd years since the 1980s. A look:
The 2018 State of the World’s Birds report, published by BirdLife International, paints a bleak picture for birds, one in eight species of which faces the threat of extinction. That is bad news for the planet as a whole as the health of bird species is a key measure for the state of ecosystems in general. Among the threatened avians is the Snowy Owl, Atlantic Puffin and European Turtle-dove. A look...
Most countries don’t have a mandatory retirement age. Instead, they fix an age at which a worker can retire with all social security benefits. An analysis of the World Bank data for 177 countries shows that in roughly half of them the full benefit retirement age is 60 or more years. In India, the retirement comes quite early at 58 for private workers, while employees in the government sector are required to hang up their boots at the age of 60.
With 1,830 individuals worth over $500 million, the US is home to the maximum number of ultra-wealthy people in the world. This is nearly four times what the second-ranked country, China (490) has. India, on the other hand, has 200 individuals with a worth over a half billion.

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