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...The preamble of India’s constitution defines it as a “sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic republic”, but this year India’s more than 1bn people watched as Modi presided over the consecration of a massive...
...Patrick Lundberg This project is gonna add, you know, hundreds of new units and hundreds of new residents to the area as well as other work that’s happening in the vicinity....
...The US banking sector is a very large boat and it’s kind of trying to turn and adjust to the fact that the way it’s been doing business for the last 15 years has to change. Cracks and strains show....
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...News clip 6 Banking fallout continues as the American government tries to orchestrate a rescue of First Republic Bank with the aid of . . ....
...The most notable point here, however, is the special guest, India’s Narendra Modi, and whether this will help western powers — Australia will be doing something similar in a state visit to India earlier...
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...The European Commission has opened a formal investigation into its advertising business. In doing so, it’s going for the jugular. Google made $147bn in advertising revenues in 2020....
...“We’re very proud to have lots of very reliable and loyal locals in the pub,” he says. “We’re doing good business but it’s a decision in terms of family: a personal decision.”...
...(FT) How America could fail its democracy test In three out of four scenarios run by the Transition Integrity Project, a non-partisan group, to model the outcome of the 2020 election result, the US republic...
...As a child growing up in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gloire Ndongala didn’t know much about the wider world, with one exception: he adored US basketball star Michael Jordan....
...The hotels were the first in India to adopt a style that became “boutique”: colourful and carefully designed, with international food and modern music....
...Hubei province in China is experiencing some degree of normality as travel restrictions are relaxed after probably the biggest mass quarantine in history, with almost all 60m residents in lockdown....
...I recently had a meeting with a guy from the Czech Republic where neither of us spoke a word of each other’s language....
...Then came India’s “Lehman moment”: the end of a property bubble inflated by the shadow banking sector....
...Kentaro Iwamoto, Nikkei staff writer #MeToo comes to India The #MeToo movement took off in India in 2018, exposing predators in entertainment, the media, academia, politics and business....
...But we do not meddle in things; it is none of our business. We have invested billions of dollars there, mostly in the oil sector. So what? Other countries are doing the same as well....
...over assets he once ran in the Democratic Republic of Congo....
...“The consequences of a long-term estrangement are asymmetric: the quartet is not suffering nearly as much as Qatar is,” says Mohammed Alyahya, a non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council think-tank....
...Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba, has assumed the mantle of quasi-diplomat, taking his own brand of soft power as far afield as the US, where he had an early meeting with then -resident-elect Donald Trump, as...
...The city is the centre of most of the country’s manufacturing and home to a pan-African banking industry as well as a thriving music, fashion and film scene that reverberates around the continent....
...More than a third of GDP growth in the region in the post-crisis period is accounted for by dynamic service industries (ICT, business to business, and transport), as European companies increasingly resort...
...(Times) Manga danger Doraemon, a beloved Japanese manga character has been attacked as a bad influence by politicians and activists in India and Pakistan....
...The children used the drawings in lieu of actual objects. Music lessons were conducted on the same basis. “We don’t have any of this....
...Barry Forshaw Science fiction New Pompeii, by Daniel Godfrey, Titan Books, RRP£7.99/$14.95 Pompeii has been recreated in a former Soviet republic, complete with the residents of the original doomed city...
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