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China touts fiscal, monetary policies to revive flagging economy
China will focus on creating jobs and promote fiscal, monetary and industrial policies to stabilise its labour market, a top official has said.
China’s economy has struggled to rebound from lockdowns and slowing global growth, with the …
feel like a prisoner,’ say Rohingya refugees today.
Five years ago, a violent campaign by security forces in Myanmar sparked a mass exodus of about 730,000 Rohingya, who – carrying their belongings on their backs and sometimes crowding onto makeshift bamboo and jerry-can rafts – fled in…
According to Russia’s defence minister, Russia is ready to…
ISLAMABAD: In a bid to get stalled $6 billion IMF bailout package revived, the coalition government is likely to raise the prices of petroleum products by up to a whopping Rs20 per litre from September 1, revealed well-placed sources.
In…
Why is the Indian team staying at the Palm Jumeirah resort for…
Pakistani team is staying at a hotel in Dubai's Business Bay
By Sohail ImranAugust 25, 2022
A view of Palm Jumeirah resort in Dubai. Courtesy CNN
DUBAI: The Indian team has chosen to stay separately from…
Germany has launched the world’s first hydrogen-powered…
Germany has inaugurated a railway line powered entirely by hydrogen, a “world premiere” and a significant step forward for green train transport despite nagging supply challenges.
A fleet of 14 trains provided by French industrial giant…
At least 32 people have been murdered in India as monsoon rains…
New Delhi (CNN)At least 32 people have died since Friday in flash flooding and landslides triggered by heavy monsoonal rains in two of India's northern states.
The rainfall has overwhelmed villages, sweeping away houses and leaving…
The Russian campaign in Ukraine has not gone as planned, but…
Six months have passed since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, a war that by any conventional measure has been a calamity.
Millions of Ukrainians have been displaced. The city of Mariupol has…
Biden calls India an ‘indispensable partner’ on 75th…
WASHINGTON:
US President Joe Biden on Sunday congratulated India on 75 years of independence and said the United States and India were "indispensable partners" that would continue to work together to address global challenges in the…
COAS Bajwa becomes first Pakistani invited as chief guest at…
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa became the first ever Pakistani dignitary to be invited as a chief guest at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst on Friday.
The general was joined by cadets from 27 different countries…
Taiwan holds military drill after China repeats threats
TAIPEI: Taiwan's army held another live-fire drill Thursday after Beijing ended its largest-ever military exercises around the island and repeated threats to bring the self-ruled democracy under its control.
Beijing has raged at a trip…