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Pakistan admits feeling challenged over seeing CPEC through
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Dalian [China], June 28 (ANI): Pakistan's Planning Minister, Ahsan Iqbal, who is here to participate in a World Economic Forum meeting, admitted Wednesday that his government is facing some challenges in steering the ambitious over USD 50 billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)
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EU slaps Google with record $2.7 billion fine
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [U.S.A.], June 28 (ANI): European Union (EU) regulators penalised U.S. tech giant Google a record USD 2.7 billion antitrust fine on Tuesday, for denying 'consumers a genuine choice' by using its search engine to unfairly steer them to its own shopping platform.
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Indo-US commitment to improve IT sector is commendable, notes ASSOCHAM
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 27 (ANI): Lauding the commitment shown by India and the United States towards increasing market access in the Information Technology (IT) and other sectors, ASSOCHAM on Tuesday asserted that it will be highly beneficial to the upliftment of the USD 150 billion softwar
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Rising ocean levels could lead to 2 bn refugees by 2100
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 27 (ANI): Climate change is causing sea level rise around the world. According to a recent study, in the year 2100, two billion people - about one-fifth of the world's population - could become climate change refugees due to rising ocean levels.
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'Sachin: A Billion Dream' creates one more record
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 23 (ANI): 'Sachin: A Billion Dream' creates a record just like the master blaster himself. It is the first ever docu-drama to cross 50 million.
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World Drug Report 2017: 29.5 million people globally suffer from drug use
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Vienna[Austria]/New York[U.S.A.]/Geneva [Switzerland], June 22 (ANI): In 2015 about a quarter of a billion people used drugs. Of these, around 29.5 million people - or 0.6 per cent of the global adult population - were engaged in problematic use and suffered from drug use disorders, includin
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UCWeb registers user traffic of 0.75 billion during IPL, ICC Champions Tro
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 22 (ANI-NewsVoir): Consumption of cricket-related content exceeded 0.75 billion on UCWeb Platforms - UC News and UC Browser, for the latest edition of IPL 2017 and the recently-concluded ICC Champions Trophy 2017, according to a data report, titled Insights into India
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Online banking users to reach 150 billion by 2020: Study
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 22 (ANI): With the ongoing digital drive in India, the number of users opting for online banking is expected to double to reach 150 million mark by 2020, from the current 45 million active urban online banking users in India, according to a report drafted by Facebook
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Transcending current gifting ideology, Bigsmall.in brings forth collection
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 22 (ANI-BusinessWire India): Corporate gifting has emerged out to a pioneering gifting sector in the recent years. As per the statistics, in 2015, India alone had a gifting market of USD 30 billion, out of which, USD 2.5 billion belonged to corporate gifting. Compani
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Balochistan Govt. allocates unspecified funds for completing CPEC projects
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Quetta [Pakistan], June 16 (ANI): The Balochistan Government plans to spend over a quarter of its Rs.325.238 billion budget for year 2017-18 on the development of social and economic infrastructure linked to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
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Pentagon agrees to USD 12 billion jet deal with Qatar
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [United States], June 15 (ANI): The Gulf region may be in throes of a major diplomatic crisis, with several countries cutting off ties with Qatar owing to its reported support for terror-related intiatives, but this has not stopped Doha from arriving at an agreement with the
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Storecheq aims to disrupt India's USD 40 bn gifting market through it
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 15 (ANI): Aiming to disrupt India's estimated 40 billion dollar gifting market, which is almost predominantly cash based, Storecheq Innovation Pvt. Ltd. announced the launch of the country's first GiftTech platform - STORECHEQ.com.
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