A day after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) carried out searches at 17 locations in connection with the Rs 177 crore Jammu and Kashmir Bank fraud case, the financial probe agency on Friday claimed ... ( read original story ...)
Brothers Look to Consolidate Power After Sri Lanka Poll Win
The brothers ruling Sri Lanka scored a landslide victory in parliamentary elections even as they fell short of a two-third majority that would allow President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to push through ... ( read original story ...)
Trump’s Latest Call for Troop Withdrawal from Afghanistan is a Bad Idea
The idea of peace talks in Afghanistan is great, but the United States continues to get it wrong in terms of how and when to go about it. Negotiations with the insurgents (of which troop withdrawal is ... ( read original story ...)
India isn’t facing up to the true financial cost of Covid
Truth is currently as scarce as capital in India. The govt doesn’t have the appetite for large-scale socialisation of private losses, lest the opposition accuse PM Modi of cronyism. ( read original story ...)
Crucial Component of Crashed Air India Plane’s Black Box Found
The flight data recorder of an Air India Express jet that crashed on Friday -- killing at least 18 people -- has been recovered and authorities are searching for its cockpit voice recorder.Together, t ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese firms launch business in Taiwan
Growing numbers of Japanese companies have recently opened for business in Taiwan. The move comes at a time when Taiwan is strictly restricting foreign travel by its citizens to combat the coronavirus ... ( read original story ...)
Planned Taiwan visit escalates tensions between U.S., China
Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar is gearing up for a trip to Taiwan that will mark the highest-level visit to the island by a U.S. official since 1979 — and in the process add fuel to ... ( read original story ...)
Israel’s First Whisky Is Coming to America
This month, Israel’s first whisky is making its debut Stateside, and it was worth the wait. M&H (Milk & Honey) Distillery is launching a range of spirits (including sherry and gin) but is focusing its ... ( read original story ...)
Export from Azerbaijan to Turkey increases
Several groups of people allowed to travel between cities, districts of Azerbaijan Society 7 August 23:38 Rules regarding number of employees attracted to work per company lifted in Azerbaijan ... ( read original story ...)
Major South Korean Bank Joins the Crypto Custody Business
We’re suddenly seeing banks lining up to support crypto custody, and KB Kookmin Bank is looking to get in on the action ... ( read original story ...)