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Amazon launches $2bn fund to invest in climate change mitigation

June 24, 2020 San Francisco: Amazon has announced a $2 billion venture capital fund to invest in companies whose products and services will facilitate the transition to a zero carbon economy. The announcement is part…

Rights/Media

JFA demands action into UP scribe murder

June 24, 2020 Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA), while expressing serious concern over the brutal murder of a young and spirited scribe Shubham Mani Tripathi. in Unnao  town of Uttar Pradesh (UP), has urged the…

World

Yemen’s Houthis launch attack on Saudi Arabia

June 23, 2020 Sanaa:  Yemen’s Houthi militia said they attacked Saudi Arabia on Tuesday morning, Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported. “A military statement on the operation would be broadcast within hours,” it said. Meanwhile, the Saudi-owned…

World

China rejects ‘interference’ in HK after EU concerns

June 23, 2020 Beijing:  China on Tuesday rejected “any foreign intervention” in Hong Kong after the European Union (EU) warned of “very negative consequences” if the cpntroversial national security law was implemented in the city.…

World

Pakistan’s local govts disconnected from citizens: UNDP

June 22, 2020 Islamabad: The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has said that local governments around the world were at the forefront of the current COVID-19 crisis, but in Pakistan these institutions were to an extent…

Health

Goa’s first Covid-19 victim had asthma, diabetes: CM

June 22, 2020 Panaji:  As Goa reported its first Covid-19 death after an 85-year-old man died on Monday morning, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said the patient was suffering from asthma and diabetes. “He was a…

IT & Communications

70% firms see half of their workforce to be digital post Covid-19: Survey

June 22, 2020 Bengaluru: As organisations move away from physical locations and remote workforce is the new normal, more than 70 per cent organizations feel at least half of their workforce will be digital workers…

Life/Society

I see online community being hurtful to each other: Ratan Tata

June 22, 2020 New Delhi: Ratan Tata, Chairman Emeritus, Tata Group on Sunday called for an end to online hate mongering and bullying and asked the online community to be more kind and sensitive. In…

World

Controversial Lenin statue erected in German city

June 21, 2020 Berlin: A far-left party in Germany has erected a controversial statue of communist leader Vladimir Lenin, a media report said on Sunday. The Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD) installed the statue in…

World

1 in 4 UK adults at hunger, malnutrition risk post-lockdown: Survey

JUne 21, 2020 New York: One in four adults in the UK are experiencing food insecurity, which is likely to have left them susceptible to hunger and potential malnutrition, during the Covid-19 pandemic, a new…

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