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Trump names Peter Navarro to lead new White House trade body
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [United States], Dec. 22 (ANI): United States President-elect Donald Trump has named a fierce critic of China, Peter Navarro, to lead a new White House office overseeing American trade and industrial policy and billionaire investor Carl Icahn as a special adviser on regulat
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China: 'Air-pocalypse' blights half a billion, smog refugees fle
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
London [UK], Dec. 21 (ANI): With the world's most populated nation being hit by "airpocalyse" reducing people to survive under a blanket of toxic fumes, several of "smog refugees" have reportedly fled China's pollution-stricken north.
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British-Indian Sanjeev Nanda invests in Dubai
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 21 (ANI-BusinessWireIndia): Sanjeev Nanda a serial entrepreneur in the hospitality sector with investments in India, United Kingdom and now the UAE. Sanjeev Nanda has established Billionaire Mansion at the Taj Hotel in Dubai. 'Billionaire Mansion' is a one-st
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CPEC is another East India Company in the making: Pakistan daily
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Dec.21 (ANI): There is a view emerging in Pakistan that the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) could well have the makings of another East India Company, given the kind of control the Chinese are being allowed to have over the 46 billion dollar project.
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Astronomers release largest digital survey of visible Universe
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Belfast[UK], Dec. 20(ANI): The world's largest digital survey of the visible universe, mapping billions of stars and galaxies, has been publicly released.
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Rahul Gandhi frustrated as he lost black money post demonetisation: BJP
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 20 (ANI): Reacting to Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi's remark that demonetisation helped "50 families" gain 60 percent of India's wealth, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said the Gandhi family is among those who became billionaires under the
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Sri Lanka: Hambantota residents join protest against decision to lease lan
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Dec. 14 (ANI): Residents of Hambanthota, Sri Lanka have joined a protest organised by port workers against the government decision to lease land in the region to the Chinese and entering into a public-private partnership (PPP) with a Chinese company for a USD 1 billion d
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China will use CPEC to loot Balochistan and gain access to global market,
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Dec.14 (ANI): The USD 46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project will just be another case of China using Pakistan to loot and plunder the people of Balochistan and simultaneously gain access to global markets, says a sensational report in a leading Paki
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India closely working with Mongolia to implement US$ 1 billion credit line
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 8 (ANI): India is closely working with the Mongolian government to implement the US$ 1 billion credit line announced during the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Mongolia in May 2015 in a manner that is deemed beneficial to the friendly people of Mongolia by it
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Trump wants Air Force One order at Boeing cancelled
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [United States], Dec. 7 (ANI): U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump wants to cancel an order of Air Force One from Boeing which is being built to carry "future presidents" as it is costing more than $4 billion.
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Indian Navy capable of tackling every situation, says Admiral Lanba on dep
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec.2 (ANI): Commenting on reports of China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) planning to deploy its naval ships, submarines and troops to guard the Gwadar port and the USD 46 billion CPEC, India's Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sunil Lanba on Friday said that
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FDI in telecom sector registers six to seven fold increase; to cross USD 1
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 30 (ANI): The foreign direct investment (FDI) attracted by the telecom sector in India has jumped to more than USD 10 billion in first eight months of 2016-17 registering a six to seven fold increase as against USD 1.3 bn in 2014-15 and USD 2.9 bn in 2015-16, Telecom S
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