GUATEMALA CITY: Second Foreign Office Consultations between India and Guatemala
May 5, 2021
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GUATEMALA CITY: Second Foreign Office Consultations between India and Guatemala

GUATEMALA CITY: The 2nd Foreign Office Consultations (FOC) between India and Guatemala were held virtually on 05 May 2021. The Indian side was led by Ms. Riva Ganguly Das, Secretary (East) and the Guatemalan side…

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BRUSSELS: Phone call between Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and H.E. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission
May 3, 2021
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BRUSSELS: Phone call between Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and H.E. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission

BRUSSELS: Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi had a phone call today with Her Excellency Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission. The two leaders exchanged views on the prevailing COVID-19 situation in India…

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LONDON: Visit of External Affairs Minister to the United Kingdom
May 2, 2021
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LONDON: Visit of External Affairs Minister to the United Kingdom

LONDON: External Affairs Minister will be visiting London from 3-6 May 2021 to participate in the G7 Foreign Ministers Meeting, at which India has been invited as a guest country. He will thereafter undertake a…

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HOUSTON: Indian-Origin Billionaire Pledges $10 Million For Oxygen Supplies To India
May 1, 2021
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HOUSTON: Indian-Origin Billionaire Pledges $10 Million For Oxygen Supplies To India

HOUSTON: Indian-American billionaire businessman Vinod Khosla pledged USD 10 million for the supply of medical oxygen to hospitals in India. This is in continuation with the Sun Microsystems co-founder’s efforts to fund hospitals for oxygen…

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TUNIS: Fourth Round of Foreign Office Consultations between India and Tunisia
April 30, 2021
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TUNIS: Fourth Round of Foreign Office Consultations between India and Tunisia

TUNIS: The 4th round of the India-Tunisia Foreign Office Consultations was held on 30th April 2021 in a virtual mode. The Indian delegation was led by Sanjay Bhattacharyya (Secretary CPV&OIA) while the Tunisian delegation was…

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LONDON: Indian-Origin Billionaire Brothers Buy UK Fast Food Chain Leon
April 30, 2021
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Business

LONDON: Indian-Origin Billionaire Brothers Buy UK Fast Food Chain Leon

LONDON: Indian-origin billionaire brothers Mohsin and Zuber Issa have acquired a popular British fast food chain, Leon, as part of what they described as their goal to grow their foodservice operations in Britain. The Issa…

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DUBAI: Six Indians Win Lucky Draw Worth Over $2,72,000 In UAE
April 27, 2021
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Culture

DUBAI: Six Indians Win Lucky Draw Worth Over $2,72,000 In UAE

DUBAI: Six Indians in the UAE have jointly won a lucky draw worth one million Dirhams. All the six participants, five of them from Kerala, matched five out of six numbers to split the 1,000,000…

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WASHINGTON: Indian-American Congressman Introduces Resolution “To Honour” BR Ambedkar
April 24, 2021
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WASHINGTON: Indian-American Congressman Introduces Resolution “To Honour” BR Ambedkar

WASHINGTON: An Indian-American Congressman has introduced a resolution in the US House of Representatives for a second consecutive year to honour Bhimrao Ambedkar, the architect of India’s Constitution, on his 130th birth anniversary so that…

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JOHANNESBURG: Never Saw Anything Like Covid: Indian-Origin Professor Behind HIV Research
April 20, 2021
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JOHANNESBURG: Never Saw Anything Like Covid: Indian-Origin Professor Behind HIV Research

JOHANNESBURG: World-renowned South African Indian-origin academic Prof Hoosen Mahomed “Jerry” Coovadia has described the COVID-19 pandemic as something he has never seen in a career of over six decades. Prof Coovadia, now retired at 80,…

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TOKYO: Stronger brain activity after writing on paper than smartphone, finds study
April 17, 2021
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TOKYO: Stronger brain activity after writing on paper than smartphone, finds study

TOKYO: Writing on a physical paper can lead to more brain activity when remembering the information an hour later, suggest the findings of a recent study led by Japanese university students and recent graduates. Researchers…

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