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Special Desk For a second consecutive night hundreds of people held protests in cities across Lebanon over the handling of the country’s economic crisis. Protestors pointed out that the Lebanese pound has fallen to record lows, having lost 70% of its value since October, when the protests began. The financial …

News Desk In what could be said as highest ever India’s total foreign exchange (Forex) reserves was standing at around US$ 501.703 billion. Foreign exchange assets (FCA) component at around US$463.630 billion, gold reserves at around US$32.352billion, SDRs (Special Drawing Rights with the IMF) of around US$1.442 billion and around …

News Desk Authorities in the north-western state of Washington have hit back as president Trump threatened to take back a police-free district controlled by protesters in Seattle. Governor Jay Inslee said Trump should stay out of the state’s business. Trump argued that the area had been overtaken by domestic terrorists. …

Special Desk Police has asked for maximum punishment in the death of Intelligence Bureau official Ankit Sharma. Charge sheet has put together how, according to the police, Ankit Sharma, who had allegedly gone to the spot to calm tensions between the mob, was singled out, attacked and killed by rioters. …

News Desk Reserve Bank of India released the results of the May 2020 round of the Inflation Expectations Survey of Households (IESH). In view of the Covid-19 pandemic, the survey was conducted through telephonic interviews between May 5 and 17 in 18 major cities, stated the RBI website. The results …

#George Floyd’s death case Special Desk Majority of the Minneapolis City Council has pledged to dismantle the local police department, a significant move that comes amid nationwide protests sparked by George Floyd’s death last month. In all nine of the 13 councillors said a new model of public safety would …

Special Desk Lollipops were meant to sweeten the taste for kids, but the sweetener actually took away chair of Madagascar’s education minister. Madagascar’s education minister was fired over plans to order more than $2m (£1.6m) worth of sweets for schoolchildren. Minister Rijasoa Andriamanana said last week she was ordering sweets …

News Desk Reserve Bank of India has released the results of the May 2020 round of its Consumer Confidence Survey (CCS). In view of the Covid-19 pandemic, the survey was conducted through telephonic interviews between May 5 and 17 in thirteen major cities. During the entire May the country was …

News Desk Lt Gen level officials will from both ends of Indo-China border on June 6 to discuss the brewing border tension between two most populous nations of the world. The meet along the Line of Actual Control in Eastern Ladakh, comes after a series of ongoing diplomatic discussions between …

News Desk Union Cabinet has given its approval to re-establish Pharmacopoeia Commission for Indian Medicine and Homoeopathy (PCIM&H) as Subordinate Office under Ministry of AYUSH by merging into it Pharmacopoeia Laboratory for Indian Medicine (PLIM) and Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia Laboratory (HPL)- the two central laboratories established at Ghaziabad since 1975. The …