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Tripura: Bypolls underway, CM Manik Saha faces first-ever direct election
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Agartala (Tripura) [India], June 23 (ANI): Polling for bye-elections in Tripura is underway at four assembly segments--Agartala, Town Bardowali, Surma and Jubarajnagar.
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WBJEE to announce results today, check details here
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 17 (ANI): The West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEE) 2022 will announce results on Friday via press conference for admission to engineering, technology, architecture, and pharmacy degree courses in universities and colleges, said a WEBJEEB state
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US Federal Reserve hikes interest rates by 75 basis points
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], June 16 (ANI): The US Federal Reserve on Wednesday (local time) raised interest rates by 75 basis points (bps) or three-quarters of a percentage point in the boldest move since 1994.
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OECD upgrades Argentina's 2022 growth forecast to 3.6 pct
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Buenos Aires [Argentina], June 9 (ANI/Xinhua): The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on Wednesday upgraded its economic growth forecast for Argentina in 2022 to 3.6 per cent, or 1.1 percentage points higher than its previous December forecast.
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World Bank downgrades 2022 global growth forecast to 2.9 pc, warns of stag
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], June 7 (ANI/Xinhua): The global economy is on track to grow by 2.9 percent in 2022, down 1.2 percentage points from the January projection, the World Bank Group said in its latest Global Economic Prospects released on Tuesday, warning of stagflation risk.
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India has 2-3 times higher percentage of heart diseases than western count
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 2 (ANI): With singer KK's death due to a cardiac arrest leaving the country in a shock, top experts warned about India's predisposition to heart diseases which is 2-3 times higher in percentage in comparison to western countries.
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Taiwan lowers forecast for 2022 economic growth
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Taipei [Taiwan], May 31 (ANI/Xinhua): Taiwan's statistics agency has lowered the expectation for the island's economic growth in 2022 to 3.91 per cent, down 0.51 percentage points from the February forecast.
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Niine Hygiene and Personal care successfully creates menstrual hygiene awa
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 27 (ANI/NewsVoir): Menstrual health and hygiene in India is the need of the hour as a very small percentage of the female population has access to sanitary napkins while the rest are still forced to use old clothes and rags during their periods. As part of t
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Study: Family planning, contraceptive use, and birth spacing
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Massachusetts [US], May 24 (ANI): A study of the impact of family planning on women's postpartum contraceptive use and birth spacing involving 2,143 married women aged 18-35 years in Lilongwe, Malawi, who were pregnant or had recently given birth, found that women who received free family pl
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Bank of Canada says hikes rates by half pct point, the most in 20 Years
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 13 (ANI/Sputnik): The Bank of Canada raised its benchmark interest rate for the most in 20 years, saying that it has added half a percentage point to bring rates to 1 per cent in a bid to rein in inflation.
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Strict lockdown policy cut down China's GDP by half
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Beijing [China], March 30 (ANI): In the last few weeks, China has seen its worst COVID outbreak since the initial height of the pandemic in early 2020 when the economy slumped. The latest surge in cases could hit first-quarter gross domestic product by at least half of a percentage point.
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The Equilibrium decodes the impact of social media addiction in 2022 and i
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], March 8 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Checking notifications, scrolling through social media, following the trend, carrying your smartphone everywhere you go, all this has become a norm from the past decade. An increase in smartphone usage and internet accessibility
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