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Amazon CEO stuns Twitter with his buff look
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 15 (ANI): Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos looked all macho and Internet could not handle it as users were swooning all over the 53-year-old Silicon Valley billionaire.
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2.1 billion people lack safe drinking water at home, more than twice as ma
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland]/New York[United States], July 13 (ANI): Some three in ten people worldwide, or 2.1 billion, lack access to safe, readily available water at home, and 6 in 10, or 4.5 billion, lack safely managed sanitation, according to a new report by WHO and UNICEF.
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Baloch activists hold anti-CPEC protest during G-20 Summit in Hamburg
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Hamburg [Germany], July 8 (ANI): As world leaders gathered for the G-20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, activists from the Baloch Republican Party (BRP) held a protest against the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a multi-billion dollar project passing through the Balochistan province.
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Pak may get USD 6 billion loan from ADB over next three years
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 7 (ANI): After making an assessment of Pakistan's financing requirements for the period of 2018 to 2021, Asian Development Bank (ADB) Vice President Wencai Zhang has hinted that Islamabad could receive approximately USD six billion in new loans over the next t
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India, Israel vow to increase trade volume to USD 20 billion by 2022
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel] July 6, (ANI): India and Israel have committed to increase the amount of trade volume from existing USD 4 billion to USD 20 billion over the next five years. To realize this goal, the CEO's Forum of both countries signed 12 Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) in the fiel
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India, Israel firms ink 12 strategic business MoUs worth over USD 4.3 bill
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], July 6 (ANI): To revitalize and steer Indo-Israel economic and investment relations, the first formal meeting of India-Israel CEOs forum was organized here on Thursday to coincide with the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Israel.
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CEO forum aimed at greater cooperation, reach 20 billion trade in five yea
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], July 6 (ANI): Ahead of meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday officials of the Indo-Israel CEO forum said that the goal of the establishment of the forum is greater business cooperation to reach 20 billion trade mark in the next five years.
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China signs deal to buy 140 aircraft from Airbus
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Beijing [China], July 6 (ANI): Europe's largest aerospace company Airbus SE has signed an agreement to supply 140 aircraft to China and wide-body jets worth $22.8 billion at list prices. There are also talks to buy more A-380 super jumbos.
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Industry to contribute USD 280 billion to GDP in nine years: Study
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 5 (ANI): An ASSOCHAM-APAS study has revealed that with the rollout of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), the industry alone is expected to contribute USD 280 billion to India's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the next eight to nine years.
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Increased air pollution linked to shorter life-span: Study
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 3 (ANI): According to a recent study, an increase in pollution particles in the air, of 10 micrograms per cubic meter, cuts victims' life expectancy by 9-11 years, but the increase in pollution is also costing billions due to high usage of fossil fuels.
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Trump reverses U.S. policy on China
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [U.S.], June 30 (ANI) President Donald Trump's honeymoon period with Chinese President Xi Jinping has ended abruptly as U.S. has entered into a $1.4 billion arms sale deal to Taiwan, labeled China one of the world's worst human traffickers and imposed sanctions on a Chines
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FreeCharge crosses 500 mn transactions
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 28 (ANI-BusinessWireIndia): Amidst increasing digital payments preference and awareness amongst consumers, FreeCharge today announced that the number of transactions on its platform has crossed 500 million, with the value of these transactions exceeding USD 1.2 billio
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