Washington, June 13 (IANS) South Korea and dozens of UN member states have launched an informal group aimed at addressing technology-facilitated trafficking in persons on Friday, as Seoul has stepped up diplomatic efforts to address the issue following online scams...
New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) India has emerged as one of the frontrunners in trade digitalisation and is well positioned to advance towards seamless cross-border paperless trade, according to policymakers, industry leaders and trade experts.The assessment emerged during a high-level...
New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) China has tightened oversight of its 23 trillion yuan (over $3 trillion) private fund industry amid growing concerns over inefficient capital allocation, fiscal risks and excessive state-backed investments in technology startups, a report has said.According...
New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) India’s real‑time digital payments system Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has been cited by South African Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago as a model as Pretoria moves to reduce cash use, a new report has said.Kganyago...
New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) India’s ethanol blending programme has achieved significant scale, with E20 operationalised nationwide, a report said on Saturday, as the biofuel landscape enters its next phase of growth beyond the 20 per cent ethanol blending milestone.The...
New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) Zerodha founder Nithin Kamath and Capitalmind Mutual Fund CEO Deepak Shenoy have drawn attention to restrictions imposed by US brokerage Fidelity on investors seeking to sell shares acquired in the recent SpaceX IPO, contrasting the...
New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) Bangladesh’s official budget and revenue shortfalls may mask a deeper crisis in ethics and good governance, and the country is expected to continue in the same trend unless "corruption and extraction are reduced", a report...
New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) Latin American countries are facing growing pressure to strengthen their capacity to negotiate, evaluate, and oversee projects linked to China as China-linked infrastructure projects across Latin America are increasingly challenging institutional oversight mechanisms during execution,...
New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) Balochistan is facing acute unemployment and economic insecurity and a new survey indicates that the province has emerged as Pakistan’s poorest region, with the poverty rate rising to 47 per cent.The ‘Pakistan Economic Survey 2025–26;...
New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) India recorded nearly 300 crore domestic trips over the past year which highlights the growing strength of the country's tourism sector and its ability to withstand global uncertainties, according to Union Minister of Culture and...
New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) AI company OpenAI has revealed two clusters of ChatGPT accounts, likely originating from China, that used its models in support of apparent covert influence operations that promoted narratives in an attempt to manipulate a legitimate...
New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) India needs to significantly reduce its dependence on fossil fuels and raise the share of non-fossil sources to more than 80 per cent of its energy basket to achieve its net-zero target, a senior NITI...