India’s penultimate budget 2023-24 has focused on balanced growth with fiscal sops to propel the country to $5 trillion economy by 2025.
Pernod Ricard India Accused of Forming Cartel, Money Laundering
The Enforcement Directorate, India’s economic crime-fighting agency, has accused Pernod Ricard India of participating in cartelization and money laundering. French-based Pernod Ricard is the world’s …
Rage, fear in India’s Azamgarh over land acquisition for airport
Months-old protest becomes ‘fight for survival’ as mainly marginalised residents of eight villages resist gov’t’s move.
Hong Kong property developers, led by Sun Hung Kai, K Wah, rush 27,000 new homes to market as sales uptick stokes hopes
Hong Kong’s major property developers are rushing to put more than 27,000 new homes on the market this year, seizing on an uptick in buying sentiment and transaction volume after the relaxation of …
Georgia law enforcement conducts ‘clearing operation’ as construction begins on ‘Cop City’ facility
Law enforcement in Georgia carried out a “clearing operation” on Monday at the planned site of a $90 million police training facility — dubbed “Cop City” by opponents — nearly three weeks after a …
Do We Know Apartheid When We See It?
In Arabic, the term sumud means roughly steadfastness or steadfast perseverance. It is a term that has become a cultural rallying point and a liberatory …
East Palestine evacuated residents: ‘It’s terrifying’ as train derailment site worsens
Anyone within a one-mile radius of the train derailment site in East Palestine, Ohio, is under a mandatory evacuation notice by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine.
Value of real estate deals rise 6% in 2022: Oman
The value of real estate transactions in the sultanate increased six per cent to RO2.706bn in 2022, compared to RO2.552bn in 2021, according to the latest data released by the National Centre for …
Dia Mrad captures the tangible repercussions of Lebanon’s economic crisis
In ‘Utilities’, on view at Dubai’s Zawyeh Gallery, Lebanese photographer Dia Mrad documents his home country’s multi-layered economic crisis through Beirut’s urban fabric …
Supply Vehicle Of Russian Peacekeepers Moves Along Azerbaijan’s Lachin-Khankendi Road
The peaceful protest on the Lachin-Khankendi road against the illicit exploitation of Azerbaijan’s mineral resources in the area of Russian peacekeepers’ temporary deployment has been going on for …