World economy

18 Apr 2022

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09 Mar 2022

Russia announced the ceasefire for evacuation of the civilian population from Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Mariupol, and Zaporizhzhia, even as  Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he is no longer pressing for Nato membership for Ukraine, and cooled down on break-away provinces

07 Mar 2022

Putin's move to sign a decree recognising Donetsk and Luhansk (Donbass) as independent regions, will pave way for Russian military forces to enter into these separatist-dominated regions claiming to be an ally of the rebels

24 Jan 2022

20 Jan 2022

‘Throw away’ culture and consumerism has deepened the climate challenge and this has made it imperative for the world to rapidly move to a circular economy, Modi said

05 Jan 2022

20 Dec 2021

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13 Dec 2021

13 Dec 2021

13 Dec 2021

While Germans see a continuation of Merkel's governing style in Scholz, who is a calm, steady hand in a crisis and a pragmatic leader striving for compromise, on foreign policy and on European policy, Scholz will be more aligned with the President Joe Biden of the United States

22 Nov 2021

11 Oct 2021

11 Oct 2021

David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens have provided new insights about the labour market and shown what conclusions about cause and effect can be drawn from natural experiments that has spread to other fields and revolutionised empirical research,” says the Nobel Prize committee

11 Oct 2021

08 Oct 2021

Maria Ressa used freedom of expression to expose abuse of power, use of violence and growing authoritarianism in her native country, the Philippines, while Dmitry Muratov has for decades defended freedom of speech in Russia under increasingly challenging conditions, according tp the Nobel Prize Committee

08 Oct 2021

`Abdulrazak Gurnah's dedication to truth and his aversion to simplification are striking,; the Nobel Committee for Literature said, adding, `His novels recoil from stereotypical descriptions and open our gaze to a culturally diversified East Africa unfamiliar to many in other parts of the world’

06 Oct 2021

Benjamin List and David MacMillan have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 for independent research leading to the development of a third type of catalysis, called asymmetric organocatalysis that builds upon small organic molecules

06 Oct 2021

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 has been awarded to three scientists, with Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann jointly sharing half of the prize money "for the physical modelling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming" and the other half going to Giorgio Parisi "for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales."

06 Oct 2021

The groundbreaking discoveries of the TRPV1, TRPM8 and Piezo channels by this year’s Nobel Prize laureates have allowed us to understand how heat, cold and mechanical force can initiate the nerve impulses that allow us to perceive and adapt to the world around us, says the Nobel Prize Committee

30 Aug 2021

While the pandemic-led recession, the briefest and deepest on record, displaced roughly 30 million workers in the United States in the space of two months, recovery has ben even faster, the Fed chief said

11 Aug 2021

28 Jul 2021

Based on the trends in the post-pandemic recovery and vaccine economics, the IMF’s update on its World Economic Outlook has lowered the growth forecast for India by 3 percentage points while raising it for the US and the UK to levels around 7 per cent

14 Jun 2021

The new prime minister, leading the far-right Yamina party of six MPs and heading a coalition of diverse left-wing, centrist, right-wing and Arab parties, is in a precarious position with a narrow 60-59 win in the confidence vote