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Global leaders commit to accelerate transition to clean energy by 2030
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Bangkok [Thailand], June 26 (ANI): Annual investments of 35 billion dollars can bring electricity access for 759 million people who currently lack it and 25 billion dollars a year can help 2.6 billion people gain access to clean cooking between now and 2030, said delegates at the five-day UN
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Defaults in Asia fall, ratings remain effective indicators of credit risk:
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Singapore, June 23 (ANI): Nine companies rated by S&P Global Ratings including two confidential issuers defaulted in Asia last year, accounting for 1.7 per cent of the 353.4 billion dollars in debt globally affected.
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Pakistan should look at alternatives to China, G7 initiative on global inv
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 22 (ANI): Pakistan should look at alternatives to its alliance with China and not miss a historic opportunity of 'Build Back Better World (B3W) initiative' launched at the G-7 June 2021 Summit and which aims to influence, broadly within a decade, 40 trillion dollar
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India gets $64 billion FDI in 2020: UNCTAD
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 21 (ANI): Foreign direct investments in India rose to 64 billion dollars in 2020, making it the fifth-largest recipient in the world, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said on Monday.
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Superplum raises pre series A funding from marquee investors
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 21 (ANI): Agritech startup Superplum said on Monday it has completed pre-series A investment round of funding, raising 6.8 million dollars (about Rs 50 crore) since its inception in 2019.
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'Fake' Mona Lisa sells for USD 3.4 million
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Paris [France], June 19 (ANI): A replica of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa fetched about 3.4 million dollars at an auction in France on Friday (local time).
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White House denies pausing military aid package to Ukraine
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 19 (ANI): The United States has never decided to hold back security assistance to Ukraine, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in response to media reports that the Joe Biden administration held back 100 million dollars worth of arms for Ukraine.
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Ssquad signs multi-million-dollar deal with IBM to provide digital workpla
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 18 (ANI/Mediawire): Economies the world over are in a state of rapid transformation, and the key impetus driving this transformation is the need to go digital. Companies recovering from the jitters of the pandemic are doubling down on the digitisation process as they
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US-based Pak NGOs 'mop up' funds raised to help India in COVID-19 crisis,
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 15 (ANI): United States-based Pakistan-linked charity organisations collected funds in name of helping India in the COVID-19 crisis, however, the donated millions of dollars are likely to be used for "fomenting protests and sponsoring outright terror attacks", according
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COVID-19: WHO urges countries to bridge 16 billion USD funding gap for ACT
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 15 (ANI/Xinhua): The World Health Organization (WHO) urged countries on Monday to close a funding gap of 16 billion US dollars for the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator project, which aims to accelerate the development, production, and equitable access to
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Cash-strapped Pakistan requests another year to pay back Chinese loans
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 14 (ANI): A debt-ridden Pakistan has requested its all-weather ally China that it needs another year to pay back a billion dollars Islamabad had borrowed from Beijing last year.
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Pakistan's Gwadar loses shine as Saudis shift billion-dollar oil refinery
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], June 14 (ANI): Saudi Arabia has decided to shift a planned USD 10 billion oil refinery to Karachi from Gwadar, the epicenter of the country's flagship China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, further highlighting the infrastructural deficiencies of the project in the port city.
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