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Washington : Law enforcement agencies have arrested an Indian national in New Jersey on charges of fraudulently obtaining at least USD2.3 million from elderly victims by impersonating fraud prevention representatives from the US. Charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, Ashish Bajaj, 28, appeared Tuesday afternoon before US Magistrate Judge ... Read More »

Washington : The US is sending 1.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Nepal and another 500,000 to Bhutan, the White House has said, asserting that its donations around the world are without any strings attached. “Today we are sending three million doses to Indonesia, 1.5 million doses to Nepal, ... Read More »

Tata Steel is aiming an installed capacity of around 30 million tonne per annum by 2025 in India from the existing 18.5 million tonne. The company has recently acquired Bhushan Steel and Usha Martin plants, which has a combined rated capacity of 7 million tonne per annum. The planned 30 ... Read More »

Coal India has maintained its production target at 652 million tonne for fiscal 2018-19, even as the government embarks on an offer for sale (OFS) programme to sell 3% stake in the mining behemoth. In the last fiscal, the company produced 567 million tonne of coal and dispatched 580 million ... Read More »

Kridhan Infra’s Singapore-based 100% subsidiary — KH Foges has been awarded two new orders in Singapore worth $24.63 million. KH Foges has been contracted to execute Piling Works for a seven-storey distribution centre in Singapore. This order is worth $19.85 million and is to be completed within 5 months. Additionally, ... Read More »

Axis Bank has raised $50 million under the GMTN Programme through its Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) branch. The settlement took place on October 16, 2018. The Notes will be consolidated and form a single series with the $250,000,000 3.25% Notes due 2020 issued on March 11, 2015 and the ... Read More »

SAN FRANCISCO:  Facebook says hackers accessed personal data of 29 million users in a breach disclosed late last month. The leading social network had originally said up to 50 million accounts were affected in a cyberattack that exploited a trio of software flaws to steal “access tokens” that enable people to ... Read More »

PNB Housing Finance is currently trading at Rs. 857.30, up by 4.40 points or 0.52% from its previous closing of Rs. 852.90 on the BSE. The scrip opened at Rs. 853.00 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 868.85 and Rs. 853.00 respectively. So far 2103 shares were ... Read More »

Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) and overseas have discovered molecules of fat in an ancient fossil to reveal the earliest confirmed animal in the geological record that lived on Earth 558 million years ago. The strange creature called Dickinsonia, which grew up to 1.4 metres in length and ... Read More »

Water makes up to 71% of the Earth’s surface, the other 29% consists of continents and islands. The oceans hold about 96.5 percent of Earth’s water. But, even such volume of water is affected by plastic waste. Plastic in the ocean threatens the natural habitat of the marine life, disrupting ... Read More »

Recent gains against the burden of illness, injury, and disability and commitment to universal health coverage (UHC) are insufficient to close the enormous gaps that remain between what is achievable in human health and where global health stands today, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, ... Read More »

Listening to electro-magnetic waves around the Earth, converted to sound, is almost like listening to singing and chirping birds at dawn with a crackling camp fire nearby. This is why such waves are called chorus waves. They cause polar lights but also high-energy ‘killer’ electrons that can damage spacecraft. In ... Read More »

The Group of Seven summit gathering of top industrialized democracies finished in disarray after the US president abruptly rejected its joint statement and bitterly attacked Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Behind the scenes, Trump’s counterparts were dismayed by his verbal jabs on topics ranging from trade to terrorism and migration, ... Read More »

Mark Lowcock told the UN Security Council the situation in Idlib, one of the opposition’s last remaining footholds in Syria, is “alarming” with airstrikes, clashes between armed groups, overcrowding and severely stretched basic services. Idlib has suffered deteriorating security in recent months as rebel and jihadist factions battle with the ... Read More »

The bones of the tiny mammal were found at a fossil site in 1999, unearthed when a new high-speed train track was built east of Brussels, but researchers spent decades sifting through tonnes of soil to make the discovery. Eventually they encountered the bones of a tiny bat, from the ... Read More »

According to the health institution, about a quarter of deaths from heart disease, stroke, and lung cancer can be attributed to air pollution. These numbers have remained unchanged in the past years, with, globally, outdoor air pollution remaining high and largely unchanged, while indoor air pollution has got worse, as ... Read More »

19/8/2018 – Vietnamese asset management firm VinaCapital is investing US$10 million in Ricons Construction Investment JSC, a subsidiary of the country’s leading developer Cotec Construction Joint Stock Company (CotecCons). Fundings for the investment was made through its London Stock Exchange-listed Vietnam Opportunity Fund (VOF) and VinaCapital said, “this investment is ... Read More »

2/2/2018 – Vietnam’s leading rubber plantation and processing company Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG) has raised VND1.31 trillion (about US$57.7 million) at the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange board. The proceeds were far lower when compared to the state’s expectations of at least VND6.2 trillion (about US$273.1 million) for the IPO. ... Read More »

9/3/2018 – JW Therapeutics, a biotech startup based in Shanghai has secured a US$90 million Series A financing round joined by a consortium of leading global investors including Temasek and Sequoia Capital China. The financing also saw the participation of existing investors WiXi AppTec Group and Juno Therapeutics, alongside YuanMing ... Read More »

16/3/2018 – According to Hanoi Stock Exchange, Vietnam Cable Television (VTVCab), a unit of state-owned broadcasting agency Vietnam Television (VTV), will be offering its shares to the public in the first half of April. The initial public offering will see the pay television service provider auction 42.29 million shares, which ... Read More »