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  European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen on Monday said a partnership with India will be a priority for the EU as she told New Delhi of a threat to its regional interests after  Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ms Von der Leyen is the latest international leader to visit India in an attempt to lure the South Asian nation away from Russia’s influence with pledges of security, defence and energy co-operation. New Delhi has walked a tightrope between Moscow and Kyiv since the Russian invasion began, irking Ukraine and its western allies. To know more: https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/asia/2022/04/25/eu-to-strengthen-trade-and-technology-ties-to-lure-india-from-russia/

  Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was just 19 years old when the assassination of his mother catapulted him from carefree student to leader of one of  Pakistan ‘s biggest political parties. Three days after a Taliban bomb killed  Benazir Bhutto  in 2007, the Oxford history student took over as chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). His precocious rise to political prominence has continued with his appointment as the youngest foreign minister in Pakistan’s history, taking one of the most high-profile postings in the new  Shehbaz Sharif government  at just 33. The role places Mr Bhutto Zardari on the world stage and at the head of attempts to soothe relations with the US after former prime minister Imran Khan accused Washington of  plotting to have him removed . But analysts also see the appointment as a step towards achieving the hopes of the storied Bhutto family and their party of  returning to power in Pakistan . As the son of Benazir Bhutto, who was prime mini

  RANCHI: As a war of words between Jharkhand’s ruling JMM and opposition BJP continues over Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s alleged office of profit case, legal experts claimed that in the light of earlier Supreme Court verdicts, it is unlikely that he will be disqualified as an MLA. The chief minister, who was accused of violating a provision of the Representation of the People Act, is currently not in Jharkhand and speculations are rife that he is consulting lawyers. To know more: https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2022/apr/29/office-of-profit-jharkhand-cm-hemant-soren-unlikely-to-be-disqualified-as-mla-say-legal-experts-2447992.html

  Europe may be hurtling toward a  sudden halt of Russian gas , a scenario that would trigger energy rationing, higher inflation and a deep recession. A showdown over payment terms has already led  Moscow to turn off taps to Poland and Bulgaria . With supply already tight, it won’t take much more to send energy markets into shock. Europe’s natural gas balance is “fragile and it remains just one supply disruption away from completely falling apart”, said Shikha Chaturvedi, an analyst at JPMorgan Chase. To know more : https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/energy/2022/04/30/europes-fragile-energy-market-waits-for-putins-next-move-on-gas-exports/

  In May, Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein was caught red-handed by Prime Minister of UAE Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum when he suddenly visited their London home and found Princess Haya and her lover-cum-bodyguard. The Dubai ruler also found strips of used condoms beside Haya’s bed as well as two glasses, proving the romantic couple were having sex in the bedroom while their children were in the next room. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum was already suspecting his wife Princess Haya had inappropriate relations and the suspicion was proved as the couple were found to having sex. The Dubai ruler unexpectedly returned to London from attending a joint wedding of three sons in Dubai in May. According to sources, he was shocked seeing the 45-year-old Princess Haya with the bodyguard at the lavish residence and demanded her immediate return to Dubai with him. But the Princess refused and abruptly left the house with her two children and flew to Germany. The Dubai ruler and members

                                              Managing Director at Usha Martin-Rajeev Jhawar Usha Martin is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of wire rope. Established in the year 1960, today Usha Martin is a multi-unit and multi-product organization. The wire rope manufacturing facilities located in Ranchi, Hoshiarpur, Dubai, Bangkok and UK produce one of the widest ranges of wire ropes in the world. Rajeev Jhawar , the son of Brij Jhawar, is the managing director of Usha Martin Limited since May 19, 2018. He had completed his studies from London Business School. Rajeev Jhawar's strong willpower is the backbone of Usha Martin. Rajeev Jhawar, the son of Brij Jhawar, is the managing director of Usha Martin Limited since May 19, 2018. He had completed his studies from London Business School. Rajeev Jhawar's strong willpower is the backbone of Usha Martin. Usha Martin, established in the year 1960, is a multi-unit and multi-product organization. The wire rope manufacturing

  Russia plans to take full control of Donbas and Southern Ukraine as part of the second phase of the military operation, the deputy commander of Russia’s central military district said on Friday, the Interfax news agency reported. Stay with TOI for live updates To Know More:  https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-live-updates-april-21/liveblog/90966633.cms

  As we waited to see exactly what would happen, so was Israel’s prime minister. A right-wing nationalist himself, some of those here once supported Naftali Bennett. But not anymore. Angry chants on Wednesday told him to “go home”. “We came here because it’s the Passover holiday, to show that this city is ours, that it belongs to the nation of Israel,” said Matan, gripping the hand of his smallest child. “This is our city, our capital, our country.” The prevailing feeling was that as the leader of an ideologically diverse coalition, which includes an Arab Islamist party, Mr Bennett had sold out and failed to deal effectively with recent tensions in Jerusalem. A prominent banner declared his rival, the opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, to be “king”, and there were big cheers for far-right politician, Itamar Ben Gvir. He told me that Mr Bennett was being held back from doing the correct thing by his fragile government, which recently lost its parliamentary majority after one of his o

  The company has resisted making major changes for the past year despite slowing growth. Now it’s tearing up its playbook. For more than a year, Netflix has told anyone who would listen that there was nothing to worry about. Its subscriber growth was slowing, but the problem was temporary. It was just working through Covid weirdness. Yesterday, the company reversed itself and admitted its business is losing momentum. Netflix lost 200,000 customers in the first three months of the year. The company predicts it will lose another 2 million this quarter. Its stock dropped more than 35% today. Netflix, worth $308 billion in November, is now worth less than $100 billion. You will read a lot of takes about what this means over the coming days and weeks. Many skeptics of the streaming business will use this moment to claim they were right all along. Netflix is doomed, as is anyone who blindly follows in its footsteps. Ignore them. Netflix defied expectations for a decade and gave every compan

  Alka Jain, an Indian Revenue Service officer posted as Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals) in Udaipur, and her husband Amit Jain, an India Railway Engineering Service officer posted as Group General Manager, Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd have been named in the FIR along with Chartered Accountant Vikas Rajvanshi who helped them acquire illegitimate assets, they alleged. To know more:  https://news.knowledia.com/IN/en/articles/cbi-books-1989-batch-civil-servant-couple-in-rs-55-crore-8771e0f25ecf31e460f4f3d9a481e66f1718d430

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a chargesheet against the four so-called upper caste men accused in the Hathras case, wherein a Dalit girl was allegedly gangraped and murdered. The Uttar Pradesh police had previously claimed the victim had not been gangraped. However, the CBI has said the victim was gangraped and murdered by the accused. The special report has been filed under the SC ST Atrocities Act; Section 376 D, which pertains to rape; Section 302, which pertains to murder; and Sections 354 and 376 A. All the four accused have been named in the chargesheet, said lawyer Munna Singh Pundhir, who is representing them. The CBI’s report has been filed in a Special SC-ST court. To know more: https://news.knowledia.com/IN/en/articles/hathras-case-cbi-files-chargesheet-against-all-4-accused-report-says-7da7f796223eb70eb22b9c48c8412df6a0cb6894

  According to top ED sources, the agency has also collected other electronic gadgets from them as part of its probe. The sources said that the agency had taken the mobile phones to see if SMSes shared between Rhea and Sushant, or Rhea and her family members, or with associates of Sushant have been deleted from the devices. The sources also disclosed that during her questioning by the ED, she had shared her experience about a trip to Italy in October 2019 when she allegedly saw Sushant depressed in a hotel room. To Know more: https://www.news18.com/news/movies/sushant-singh-rajput-deth-case-ed-seizes-mobiles-electronic-gadgets-of-rhea-chakraborty-kin-2780241.html

  Caution is the eldest child of wisdom. When a lion approaches, you would definitely stay cautious. But a lot of companies have failed in keeping up with this situation. Instead, they tried to control the lion themselves, only to see their plan ending badly.   Be it in the case of  Bhushan steel  or  Ruchi Soya , excess debt and furious expansion plans have always landed companies in trouble. Alok industries hold a story that is similar in lines with them but with a twist no one expected.  Want to know what that twist is all about. Then, jump in to find out.  To know more: https://blog.finology.in/success-stories/alok-industries-and-its-revival-story

  CUET 2022  will be conducted for students who seek admission to undergraduate courses or programmes at central universities across the country. New Delhi: CUET 2022:  The registration process for the Common Universities Entrance Test, or CUET 2022, is underway and will be continued till May 6, 2022. Administrated by National Testing Agency (NTA), CUET 2022 application form is available online on the official website cuet.samarth.ac.in. Aspirants should visit the official website to know every detail related to the application form for CUET 2022. This newly-introduced entrance test CUET will be conducted for students who seek admission to undergraduate courses or programmes at central universities across the country. CUET 2022 will be a computer-based test with Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQ) pattern. As CUET 2022 registration is underway and students are applying for it for the first time, there are a lot of queries have been built surrounding the test. While CUET 2022 registration,

  Clashes in Jerusalem that have stoked tensions during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan spread into Sunday, triggering 18 arrests and putting further strain on Israel’s coalition government. Israeli riot police faced off with fireworks-hurling Palestinians in the alleyways of the walled Old City after a visit by Jews to a disputed holy site. Several passengers on two buses were lightly wounded when stone-throwing Palestinians smashed the vehicles’ windows. And a small group of Jewish worshippers was attacked. Sunday’s confrontations were less violent than clashes at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound two days earlier, but they were enough to prompt a small but pivotal Arab party to review its membership in Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s ruling coalition, which no longer has a majority in parliament. The United Arab List – the first party drawn from the country’s 21 percent Arab minority to join an Israeli government – said it was suspending its government membership over Is

The ISIS group on Sunday vowed “revenge” over the killing of its former leader, calling on supporters to take advantage of war in Ukraine to stage attacks in Europe. “We announce, relying on God, a blessed campaign to take revenge” over the death of Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi and the group’s former spokesman, an audio message attributed to the group and circulated on the Telegram messaging app said. The group’s new spokesman, Abu-Omar al-Muhajjir, also called on supporters to resume attacks in Europe, taking advantage of the “available opportunity” of “the crusaders fighting each other” — in reference to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The militant group’s previous leader died in early February when he detonated a bomb to avoid capture during a US raid in northwest Syria, the White House and US defence officials said. On March 10, the group confirmed his death, along with the group’s former spokesman, naming Abu Hasan al-Hashemi al-Qurashi as the new leader. Little is known about the new lea

Usha Martin is a leading manufacturing company known for making a wide range of wire rope products, which have applications across the world. Rajeev Jhawar is the Managing Director at Usha Martin Limited. He is the son of Brij Kishore Jhawar. Rajeev Jhawar is also the Director of Neutral Publishing House Ltd.  Managing Director at Usha Martin-Rajeev Jhawar Usha Martin is a leading manufacturing company known for making a wide range of wire rope products, which have applications across the world. The ropes manufactured by Usha Martin serve in some of the most critical applications across diversified industrial segments, which include oil & offshore, cranes, mining, elevators, aerials, fishing, conveyor belts and general engineering. Rajeev Jhawar is the Managing Director at Usha Martin Limited. He is the son of Brij Kishore Jhawar. Rajeev Jhawar is also the Director of Neutral Publishing House Ltd. Rajeev Jhawar has been the guiding light of Usha Martin since its early days. Basa

  Ahmad has been selling naem, a Ramadan delicacy, for years. He makes the sweet bread himself, mixing water, flour and grape molasses, a concoction that proves popular every year with the public in Damascus. But business is flagging, and the prices of the ingredients he uses are at an all-time high. To Know More: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/syria-ramadan-impoverished-food-scarce-exorbitant-prices

  Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian woman on Sunday near Bethlehem, the Palestinian health ministry said, as tensions heighten in Israel and the occupied West Bank. The ministry said the woman, identified as Ghada Ibrahim al-Aridi, a 47-year-old widowed mother of six from Husan village, west of Bethlehem, died in a hospital in the West Bank city of Beit Jala after suffering massive blood loss from a torn artery. To Know More: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestinian-forces-kill-woman-west-bank

  An anonymous hacker states to have released the entire application logic of Twitch, including its source code and client payout data. The hacker posted a 125GB archive with a lot of Twitch resources to 4chan on Wednesday, expressing that the hole was expected to To Know More: https://www.hackingnews.com/breaking-news/twitch-hacked-the-entire-source-code-was-leaked-streamers-payouts-made-public/

Spain’s Civil Guard arrested Wednesday three individuals accused of fraudulently selling high-quality sofas that in fact did not exist. Authorities report that the group has defrauded at least 175 people for over half a million euros.The group’s website advertised the sale of high-quality sofas that could be custom-made to the specifications of each individual client. The alleged scammers interwove several layers of deceit into their ploy in order to gain their prospective clients’ trust. To Know More: https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/16178-spanish-police-dismantle-fake-online-sofa-store-operation

 Saodat Narzieva, a 56-year-old obstetrician and gynecologist living in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, is now among the officials, oligarchs, and their relatives placed under “restrictive measures… in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.” The sanctions, based on the EU Council Decision in response to the 2014 invasion of Crimea include, among other measures, “asset freeze and the prohibition to make funds and economic resources available to designated persons and entities.” More About: https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/16180-eu-sanctions-the-sister-of-one-of-putin-s-favorite-oligarchs

For 20 years, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been hiding his daughters from his marriage to Lyudmila Putina. They lived under assumed surnames and never appeared in public in connection to him. He attributed this to security concerns and to their own reluctance to take on public roles. To Know More : https://www.occrp.org/en/37-ccblog/ccblog/16172-2022-04-07-16-58-45  

According to the Spanish diplomat, Gustavo de Arístegui , his countries’ change in authority on the Western Sahara will put an end to the tragedy suffered by the populations in the Tindouf camps. He says that thousands of Saharawis living in Tindouf win because they have a glimpse of a solution. Spain’s new position should inspire the whole world and lead to “a reconciliation between Algeria and Morocco” said Gustavo de Arístegui , diplomat and international analyst, when speaking about a letter that President of the Spanish government, Pedro Sanchez sent to the King of Morocco, Mohamed VI, in which Spain’s change of position on Western Sahara is reflected. As Spain changes its position and a diplomatic and political issue over the years is overcome, he expects Morocco to provide guarantee on territorial waters and migration. Gustavo de Arístegui asserts that the stability of the Sahel is fundamental for Morocco. “We are already seeing that terrorist groups are increasingly invol

 MADRID, April 5 (Reuters) - Spain's central bank on Tuesday lowered its economic growth forecast for this year and next due to the impact from Russia's invasion of Ukraine that has stoked inflation, and said the pace of recovery had already slowed down in the first quarter. The Bank of Spain now expects gross domestic product to expand 4.5% in 2022, below its December estimate of 5.4%. Growth is then expected to slow down to 2.9% in 2023, also less than the previously predicted 3.9%. Last year, the Spanish economy rebounded 5.1% after a record 10.8% slump in 2020 induced by the coronavirus pandemic. The central bank put first-quarter GDP growth at 0.9% from the previous three-month period, when the expansion was 2.2% and expects EU-harmonized consumer inflation to have clocked 7.9% in the first quarter. For all of 2022, inflation should reach 7.5%, double its previous forecast of 3.7%, before gradually dropping to 1.6% by 2024. MADRID, April 5 (Reuters) - Spain's central b

April 5 (Renewables Now) - Portuguese renewables company Greenvolt - Energias Renovaveis SA (ELI:GVOLT) has launched a business unit dedicated to providing solar distributed generation (DG) solutions for commercial and industrial (C&I) customers in Spain. The new business, named Perfecta Industrial, outgrew from Perfecta Energia, a Spanish solar panel installer focused on the residential segment. Image by Fronius International GmbH. All Rights Reserved. Last year, Greenvolt took a 42.19% stake in Perfecta Energia and secured the option to acquire its entire share capital in 2024. After installing some 4.5 MWp of solar panels for homes in Spain, Perfecta Energia is now venturing into the C&I waters. According to Greenvolt, Perfecta Industrial will design and provide customised solar panel installation services without customers needing to make upfront investments.

MADRID, April 5 (Reuters) - Spain will expel some 25 Russian diplomats and embassy staff from Madrid, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said on Tuesday, in response to alleged war crimes by the Russian military in Ukraine. "We have decided to expel Russian diplomats and staff from the Russian embassy in Spain who represent a threat to the interests and security of our country," he said after the weekly cabinet meeting, without ruling out further measures. A source said the Russian ambassador was not among the diplomats to be expelled. Italy, Denmark and Sweden also announced expulsions of Russian diplomats earlier on Tuesday.

  The Strategic Project for economic recovery and transformation (Perte) plans announcement on Monday April 4th by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, received an unusual intervention as multi-billionaire Elon Musk weighs in with his views. The man behind Tesla and Space-X Elon Musk, shared his views about what the country should invest in. Musk reacted to the announcement of the flagship project Slashdot, which will see the country invest 11 billion euros into a microchip plant, saying that he believed Spain should be investing in solar energy that could be supplied to all of Europe. Replying to a tweet by Slashdot confirming the government’s investment he said: “Spain should build a massive solar array. It could feed the whole of Europe.” The tweet attracted many comments and amongst those the former Minister, Pedro Duque , who wasn’t going to miss the opportunity to tempt Musk into investing in Spain. He tweeted: “We welcome investments in Spain to boost our already large product