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Odisha CM urges entrepreneurs to invest in sports sector

11:03 pm January 19, 2020

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday exhorted startups and entrepreneurs to invest in sports as the state is promoting the sector in a big way. Patnaik was addressing the valedictory ceremony of SPORT IT 2020, touted as India’s first sports and innovation festival. The event, organised by Xavier Emlyon Business School (XEBS) and […]

Splits in France’s strike movement trigger fears of violence

9:24 pm January 18, 2020

PARIS: A French government minister warned that seditious groups bent on violence were hijacking the protest movement against pension reform that has gripped the country, after a fire Saturday damaged a renowned Paris restaurant patronized by President Emmanuel Macron. The Paris fire service said the pre-dawn blaze that singed a corner of the La Rotonde […]

Trump warns Iran’s supreme leader to be ‘careful with his words’

11:03 am January 18, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump on Friday warned Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to be “very careful with his words.” “The so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ of Iran, who has not been so Supreme lately, had some nasty things to say about the United States and Europe,” Trump tweeted of Khamenei’s comments earlier Friday in Tehran. According […]

China should reflect on global consensus; refrain from raising Kashmir at UNSC: India

8:26 pm January 16, 2020

New Delhi: India on Thursday delivered an unusually blunt message to China for its attempt to raise the Kashmir issue at the UN Security Council, asking it to seriously reflect on the global consensus and refrain from taking such action in the future. India also slammed Pakistan for trying to internationalise the Kashmir issue with […]

Millennials fear nuclear attack in next decade: survey

8:05 pm January 16, 2020

Geneva: More than half of millennials fear there will be a nuclear attack somewhere in the world within the next decade, according to a survey by the Red Cross released on Thursday. Some 47 per cent of respondents to the poll of 16,000 young people also believed it was more likely than not that there […]