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Pakistan's trade deficit widens by 32.9 per cent in FY21
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 3 (ANI): Already burdened by high inflation, rising food prices, raised electricity charges, Pakistan's trade deficit widened by 32.9 per cent, or USD 7.616 billion, in the outgoing fiscal year (FY21).
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India has set target of USD 400 billion merchandise export in 2021-22: Piy
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 2 (ANI): India has set a target of USD 400 billion merchandise exports for 2021-22, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday.
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Nutraceuticals essential for wellbeing as world fights Covid pandemic
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 2 (ANI/ Target Media): This year's Doctor's Day caught the attention of the world like never before as billions of people adjust to live in the 'New Normal' with the long pandemic story and with daily stress.
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Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson to make spaceflight on July 11
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
London [UK], July 2 (ANI/Sputnik): UK billionaire and founder of the Virgin Galactic company Richard Branson says he will make a spaceflight on July 11, earlier than Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
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India has target of creating additional 2 billion carbon sequestration by
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 1 (ANI): Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar on Thursday set a target of creating additional 2 billion carbon sequestration by 2030.
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'W.O.M.B' documentary to open the Indian Film Festival Of Melbourne 2021
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 1 (ANI): The latest edition of the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) is scheduled to take place in August, and it's Ajitesh Sharma's 'W.O.M.B' (Women Of My Billion) that has been selected as the opening night film of the upcoming event.
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Tanzania to revive port project in Bagamoyo amid China's hope to ease 'Mal
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Dodoma [Tanzania], July 1 (ANI): Tanzania's decision to resuscitate a USD 10 billion port project in Bagamoyo has set off guesswork that China, the port's main financier, is seeking a foothold on the East African coast.
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India's current account balance records deficit of USD 8.1 billion for Mar
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 30 (ANI): India's current account balance (CAB) recorded a deficit of USD 8.1 billion for the fourth quarter of the financial year 2020-21, which is 1 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to data released by Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday.
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HMD launches Single-Use Dispojekt Safety Needle to prevent injuries
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Faridabad (Haryana) [India], June 30 (ANI/BusinessWire India): According to the WHO (World Health Organisation), over 16 billion injections are administered annually in transitional and developing countries the world over.
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Pak minister decries Sindh High Court order to ban TikTok, calls for judic
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 30 (ANI): Pakistan Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry has slammed the recent Sindh High Court's decision to ban the Chinese app TikTok, saying the country has suffered losses worth billions of dollars due to "judicial activism".
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World Bank approves 130 million USD to help Kenya fight COVID-19
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Nairobi, June 30 (ANI/Xinhua): The World Bank said it has approved 14 billion shillings (about 130 million U.S. dollars) additional financing to help Kenya facilitate affordable and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines.
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America plans to spend billions of dollars to counter China
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 29 (ANI): The US plans a massive spending plan to counter China. According to the Senate, China is America's greatest geopolitical and geo-economic challenge and passed the United States Innovation and Competition Act 2021 to spend more than USD 250 billion to ensure th
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