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Birthday Special: Quentin Tarantino and his world of imagination
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
As a young man, Tarantino used to visit the now-closed Video Archives rental store in Manhattan Beach, where he worked while writing, directing, and starring in his first unfinished film, titled 'My Best Friend's Birthday'.
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India, US, Japan secure USD 2.286 bn IMF bailout for Sri Lanka
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
After a protracted battle by India, the United States and Japan to get China to agree to restructure its massive loan of USD 7bn to Sri Lanka, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved the USD 2.286 billion (about USD 3bn) bailout for Sri Lanka on March 20. The Sri Lankan government und
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Pakistan circular debt for Chinese Independent Power Producers reaches PKR
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Pakistan's Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal chaired the meeting and discussed progress on Special Economic Zones, ML-1, KCR and several new development initiatives to be discussed by the Joint Working Groups (JWGs).
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India's forex reserves rise sharply
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
India's foreign exchange reserves rose sharply by USD 12.798 billion to USD 572.801 billion in the week ending March 17, according to the Reserve Bank of India's latest data.
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Lok Sabha passes Finance Bill 2023 with 64 amendments; marginal relief pro
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Lok Sabha on Friday passed the Finance Bill 2023 with several offiical amendments amid din created by sloganeering by the Opposition parliamentarians who continued with their demand of a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into the Adani-Hindenburg issue
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IMF asks Pakistan to provide external financing assurances for release of
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
It should be noted that Pakistan and the IMF have been negotiating since early February on an agreement that would release USD 1.1 billion to the cash-strapped, nuclear-armed country of 220 million people and its supercritical for the liquidity-challenged country, whose deficient foreign exc
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Pakistani politicians ignore Gilgit-Baltistan's problems, treat people lik
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Gilgit-Baltistan gets grants in aid like alms. Currently, the Developmental and Non-Developmental Grant in Aid is Rs.18.48 billion which is less than the budget allotted to some districts of the federation. The vernacular media further write that despite this, Gilgit -Baltistan are cursed an
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Ben Affleck, Matt Damon shared bank account to fund their acting auditions
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
On a recent episode of "The Bill Simmons Podcast", Ben Affleck and Matt Damon appeared and revealed they had one bank account between them starting in the late 1980s in order to fund auditions and start their acting careers
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Unified Payments Interface (UPI) makes India a global leader in next-gener
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], March 24 (ANI/PRNewswire): With Cash use declining from 71 percent of POS transaction value in 2019 to just 27 percent in 2022, India has emerged as a global leader in payments with the development of its next-generation real-time payments (RTP) infrastructure,
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Finance Bill passed in Lok Sabha, FM Sitharaman announces committee to loo
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Nirmala Sitharaman said that the committee will set up for looking into the pension system, such as to address the needs of employees, while also maintaining the fiscal prudence of the country.
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Budget session: Nirmala Sitharman to move Finance Bill 2023 today
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will move the Finance Bill 2023, on Friday, to give effect to the financial proposals of the central government for the financial year 2023-24 to be taken into consideration.
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Washington stands with women in Iran, Afghanistan who face violence: US Pr
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
"We stand with women in Iran and Afghanistan who are facing down violence ... The budget I laid out two weeks ago, includes more than three billion dollars, a record amount, to advance general quality globally not just at home," he said, as quoted by TOLO News.
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