G7 sets minimum tax of 15% for MNCs
London, June 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) The G7 group of leading economies have reached “a historic agreement” to reform the global tax system to make it fit for the global digital age. Speaking outside Winfield House in…
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Palestine, the old conflict in a new context
BY D.C. PATHAK The recent spell of violence lasting eleven days in which rockets fired on Israel from Hamas-controlled Gaza and the deadlier missile offensive of Israel that demolished entire buildings on the other side…
Meet the new, unstoppable Indian tech honchos on world map
New Delhi, June 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) It is time to move over for Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, Google’s Sundar Pichai or Adobe’s Shantanu Narayan as new faces have joined the high-profile league of Indian-led businesses, calling the…
Network blues pushes Mizoram students to hilltops for online exams
By Sujit Chakraborty Aizawl, June 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) The students of Mizoram University (MZU) on an average have to trek 2-3 km through forested areas to climb atop hills in order to get internet connectivity to…
After Covid2.0 fiasco, Goa readies to protect kids from 3rd wave
Panaji, June 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) Criticised for its poor preparation and handling of the second wave, the Pramod Sawant government in Goa appears to have stormed off the blocks quickly to gear up for the impending…
Teenagers seriously sick as adults were vaccinated: US CDC
Washington, June 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) As the US doubled down on vaccinating adults in March and April, Covid hospitalisation rates teenagers (between 12 and 17 years old) went significantly up and many were seriously sick, a…
Social media abuzz over monument for former foe of Kerala CPI-M
Thiruvananthapuram, June 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) A day after the revised budget was presented by new Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal on Friday, which has kept allocation to build a monument at the cost of Rs 20 lakh…
Tribals in this MP village risk their lives every day for water
By Naresh Kumar Mishra Damoh, June 4 (IANS/ 101Reporters) On a warm morning, Rakesh Singh walks up a jagged valley bristled with stones, carrying up a ‘kuppa’ (a spherical vessel) full of water on his…
UP’s Mainpuri to be part of Sarus circuit
Mainpuri (Uttar Pradesh), June 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) Mainpuri in Uttar Pradesh, which is home to the largest Sarus crane population in the country, will soon be developed as a Sarus circuit as part of promoting eco-tourism….
Gangster Ravi Pujari being questioned over Kochi firing case
Kochi, June 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Kerala Police’s Crime Branch, which has got custody of gangster Ravi Pujari, on Thursday began questioning him in the case of a firing at a beauty parlour, owned by an…
Vax policy: Centre says no to judicial interference; SC rebuts
New Delhi, June 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court on Wednesday hit back at the Centre’s “do not interfere in vaccine policy decision” stand, saying that it has the power for judicial review. The top court…
Central Vista: Plea in SC challenging HC order allowing construction
New Delhi, June 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) A plea has been moved in the Supreme Court challenging a Delhi High Court judgment, which junked a petition to halt the Central Vista redevelopment project amid the Covid2.0 outbreak….
China, SE Asia ‘hotspot’ for new coronaviruses: Study
New York, June 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) China, Japan, Philippines and Thailand may turn into “hotspots” favourable for bats that carry coronaviruses and conditions in these places could become ripe for the disease to jump from bats…
4 years after illegally crossing into Pak, Hyd techie returns home
Hyderabad, June 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) A techie, who had illegally crossed over into Pakistan four years ago while trying to go to Switzerland on ‘foot’, returned home here on Tuesday. Vaindam Prashanth, who had a tearful…
Ailing Andhra boy dies after visit to court seeking mercy-killing permission
Chittoor (AP) June 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Fate dealt a cruel blow to a mother who had knocked the doors of the local court with a mercy-killing petition for her ailing 10-year old son. With courts not…
Class 12 students in ‘No Man’s Land’ amid Covid blues
By Archana Sharma Jaipur, June 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Class 12 students seem to be stuck in ‘No Man’s Land’ as neither do they feel connected with their schools any more, nor can they decide on their…
Business resumption registers first uptick after falling for 11 weeks
New Delhi, June 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) The worst hit to economic activity is limited to May, and a sequential improvement will follow in June, Japanese brokerage Nomura has said in a report. After falling for 11…
Climate change caused 1/3rd of heat deaths: Study
New York, June 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Human-induced climate change is responsible for nearly a third or 37 per cent of heat deaths in the last three decades, according to a study led by an international team…
MHA under Shah completes J&K’s integration with India amid Covid pandemic
New Delhi, June 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Amidst the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic, Home Minister Amit Shah took major decisions vis-a-vis Jammu and Kashmir in 2020 to completely merge the newly carved out Union Territory with the…
Defence Ministry comes up with 2nd negative import list of 108 items
New Delhi, May 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Defence Ministry on Monday came up with a second negative defence import list to boost indigenisation. The second list includes 108 defence equipment which will not be imported. Earlier,…