Category: Government News

Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu BBC News Reuters Tamara Lanier, pictured in 2018, has waged a 15 year battle with Harvard over the photos Harvard University has agreed to hand over a set of historic photos believed to be among the earliest depicting enslaved people in the United States. The agreement ends a long legal battle between…

Record date for the rights issue is 5 June, 2025, and the issue period will be from 13 June, 2025, to 20 June, 2025 UGRO Capital on Saturday said it will offer new equity shares totalling up to ₹400 crore at a price of ₹162 per share. The MSME-focussed non-banking finance company’s shares had closed…

Israel has refused to cooperate with the Ramallah meeting planned by Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE ministers. The foreign ministers of five Arab countries who had planned to visit the occupied West Bank this weekend have condemned Israel’s decision to block their plans. The ministers condemned “Israel’s decision to ban the delegation’s visit…

Jean Mackenzie Seoul correspondent BBC Listen to Jean read this article The border between North and South Korea is swamped with layers of dense barbed-wire fencing and hundreds of guard posts. But dotted among them is something even more unusual: giant, green camouflaged speakers. As I stood looking into the North one afternoon last month,…

The robust GDP numbers of the Indian economy in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year 2025 are because of good domestic consumption, government investment, and relatively lower dependence on exports, say experts reacting to the numbers. Manoranjan Sharma, Chief Economist at Infomeric Valuations and Ratings said “India’s economy rose by 6.5 per cent in…

Gaza is the “hungriest place on Earth” and its entire population is at risk of famine, warns the United Nations, as desperate Palestinians are shot at, starved, and forced from their homes by the Israeli forces. Calling on Israel to stop its campaign of deliberate starvation and allow food into the besieged enclave, the UN…

Kristina Voelk BBC News, Madrid Xavi Torrent/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management Real Madrid’s stadium played host to two back-to-back Taylor Swift concerts last May Last year, tens of thousands of ‘Swifties’ – Taylor Swift fans – thronged Madrid to watch back-to-back concerts at the Spanish capital’s famous Bernabéu stadium, home to Real Madrid, who…

Hinting that the upcoming container port at Vadhvan in Maharashtra poses little threat to ports in neighbouring Gujarat, Girish Aggarwal, managing director of Gujarat Pipavav Port Ltd (APM Terminals Pipavav) said that the both Mundra and Pipavav will continue to be “cheapest hinterland-connected ports.” “North India is landlocked and between us and Mundra, we continue to be the cheapest…

Singapore – Of the many military officials darting across the lobby of Singapore’s Shangri-La Hotel this weekend, there has been one significant absence. China’s Defence Minister Dong Jun skipped the annual Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia’s premier security forum, with Beijing sending a delegation of lower-ranking representatives instead. It was the first time since 2019 that China…