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NEW DELHI: Minister of State for External Affairs, V Muraleedharan called on visiting Gambian Vice President Badara Joof here on Thursday. After meeting Joof, Muraleedharan hailed “significant progress” in bilateral relations in development cooperation, capacity building, trade, and people-to-people contacts in the recent past. Both the leaders recalled their earlier interactions when the minister visited […]

As citizens worry about rising prices, many fear they won’t be able to afford gas to heat their homes this winter “A lot of people will freeze,” says Barbara, grimacing. Barbara is a 70-year-old sculptor in Ruhland, a small town in what was once East Germany. The conversation is about climate change and Green policies, […]

Profound global changes happen long before human beings realize them. The world, for example, went multipolar before a lot of us could even guess what multipolarity truly meant. It initiated multipolarity when the West, in its attempt to ‘connect’ the globe through globalisation, literally shipped out its different lifelines to different corners, without a thought […]

NEW DELHI: There is a need for an early amendment to the India-Australia Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) to stop taxation on offshore income of Indian IT firms, Union MoS for Commerce Anupriya Patel told a senior Australian official. The Union minister of state raised the matter during her meeting with visiting deputy premier of […]

MAHABALIPURAM (TN): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin is all set to invite Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the inauguration of the 44th International Chess Olympiad in Mahabalipuram during his visit to New Delhi on July 19. The Olympiad will take place between July 28 to August 10. Tamil Nadu, the home state of five-time […]