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UN court hearings into Rohingya genocide to resume

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  • 2022-02-21 --

Netherlands: An international case accusing Myanmar of genocide against the Rohingya ethnic minority returns to the United Nations’ highest court Monday amid questions over whether the countr Read more...

Canada’s protests settle down, but could echo in politics

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  • 2022-02-21 --

TORONTO: Most of the streets around the Canadian Parliament are quiet now. The Ottawa protesters who vowed never to give up are largely gone, chased away by policemen in riot gear.

The re Read more...

Shelling in east Ukraine, Russia N-drill up tension

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  • 2022-02-21 --

Ukraine: Hundreds of artillery shells exploded along the contact line between Ukrainian soldiers and Russia-backed separatists, and thousands of people evacuated eastern Ukraine, further increasing Read more...

Invisible Olympics: strict COVID protocols are keeping the 16,000 athletes and other participants completely separated from the local population

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  • 2022-02-21 --

Zen Soo

Zhou Jun remembers the run-up to the 2008 Summer Olympics, when it seemed like everyone was learning English to be able to communicate with the foreign visitors about to descend o Read more...

Tata Technologies to hire additional 1,000 in FY23

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  • 2022-02-21 --

Tata Technologies, a global engineering and product development digital services firm, will hire at least 1,000 more people in FY2023 than its planned recruitment of over 3,000 innovators over a 12 Read more...

FPIs pull out Rs 18,856 cr from Indian markets

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  • 2022-02-21 --

Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) have withdrawn a net Rs 18,856 crore from the Indian markets in February so far amid geopolitical tensions and chances of a rate hike by the US Federal Reserve.Read more...

People with Covid in England won’t need to self-isolate

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  • 2022-02-21 --

LONDON: People with COVID-19 won’t be legally required to self-isolate in England starting in the coming week, the U.K. government has announced, as part of a plan for “living with COVI Read more...

Afghan refugees leave NJ base after evacuation

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  • 2022-02-21 --

WASHINGTON: The last of thousands of Afghan refugees who awaited resettlement at eight U.S. military installations departed Saturday from a base in New Jersey, completing a journey that started wit Read more...

Fixing the web’s biggest bug: Online harassment

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  • 2022-02-21 --

David Klepper

It should have been a time of celebration: Brittan Heller would soon graduate from college and head to one of the nation’s top law programs.

But when a class Read more...

Yogi saga: Skeletons tumble out at NSE

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  • 2022-02-21 --

Technology is a tiger that everyone is riding, India’s top stock exchange NSE’s then CEO Chitra Ramkrishna had told PTI eight years ago.

At the time, she herself was riding th Read more...

Devas Recovery Suit: Air India wins nod to appeal against seizure ruling in Canada

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  • 2022-02-21 --

Air India has won a nod of an appeals court in Quebec to challenge a Canadian court order that allowed foreign investors in Bengaluruheadquartered Devas Multimedia to seize its funds to recover com Read more...

Biz mix tweak: LIC set to ‘rattle’ pvt players

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  • 2022-02-21 --

Amendments to the surplus/profit distribution rules for IPO-bound LIC, which has already improved its margins by 700 bps to 9.9 per cent and will further rise to 20 per cent when the national insur Read more...