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ADB sells $4.5 billion five-year global benchmark bond
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Manila [The Philippines], April 22 (ANI): The Asian Development Bank (ADB) returned to the US dollar bond market on Wednesday with the pricing of a 4.5 billion dollars five-year global benchmark bond issue proceeds of which will be part of ADB's ordinary capital resources.
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Combating COVID-19: South Africa to allocate USD 26 billion social relief
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Pretoria [South Africa], April 22 (Sputnik/ANI): South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Tuesday an economic and social relief package of 500 billion rands (about USD 26 billion) to support the population amid the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic, local media reported.
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US: Missouri AG sues China over COVID-19 pandemic, demands billions as dam
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], April 22 (ANI): Missouri's Attorney General Eric S Schmitt on Tuesday (local time) announced that he has filed a lawsuit in a District Court against China, holding it responsible for the coronavirus pandemic, besides demanding repayment of 'billions of dollars' the state
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Covid - 19: The Economy, where to?
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 21 (ANI): What kind of world will emerge post Covid-19? Never in the history of mankind has our planet suffered such pain. No country has been spared and over four billion people are under lockdown. Will it be business as usual once Covid-19 disappers and the man ha
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NBD should enhance the emergency facility to USD 10 billion: Sitharaman
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 21 (ANI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday asked New Development Bank (NDB) to enhance the emergency facility to USD 10 billion to combat COVID-19 pandemic.
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Milky Way could be catapulting stars into its outer halo
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
California [USA], April 20 (ANI): Astronomers have shown that clusters of supernovas can cause the birth of scattered, eccentrically orbiting suns in outer stellar halos of Milky Way, upending commonly held notions of how star systems have formed and evolved over billions of years.
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Hong Kong approves US$18 billion aid to fight virus outbreak
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Hong Kong, April 18 (ANI): Hong Kong's legislature on Saturday approved HK$137.5 billion (US$18 billion) in emergency funding, the largest aid package rolled out since COVID-19 hit, even though lawmakers on both sides said measures needed to be expanded to help the unemployed.
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COVID-19 : Trump announces multi-billion-dollar relief for farmers
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 18 (ANI): US President Donald Trump on Friday announced USD 19 billion relief to the farmers amid the coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallouts.
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COVID-19: IMF approves over USD 1.3 billion emergency financing to Pakista
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 17 (ANI): The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday approved USD 1.3 billion in emergency financing to Pakistan to address the economic impact of the COVID-19 shock.
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Simulating early ocean vents shows life's building blocks form under press
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C.[USA], April 16 (ANI): Where did life first form on Earth? Some scientists think it could have been around hydrothermal vents that may have existed at the bottom of the ocean 4.5 billion years ago.
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COVID-19 pulls down monthly exports by 34.57 pc: FIEO
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 15 (ANI): Reacting to the highest-ever double-digit decline in monthly exports during March by 34.57 per cent at USD 21.41 billion, the Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) president Sharad Kumar Saraf on Wednesday said the spread of COVID-19 across the g
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US returns another USD 300 mn of recovered 1MDB funds to Malaysia
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], April 15 (ANI): The US Department of Justice on Tuesday (local time) said it has repatriated approximately USD 300 million (RM 1.292 billion) to Malaysia in additional funds misappropriated from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (MDB), the Asian country's investment developme
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