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June 3, 2024 2:12 PM

Twenty-seven Meghalaya nurses set to begin careers in Japan

Twenty-seven nurses from Meghalaya are set to begin their professional journey in Japan after completing their training in Japanese. They will be placed in various hospitals and care homes across Japan. The selection of these nurses followed an Overseas Nursing Job Fair in August 2023, where they s...

June 1, 2024 5:29 PM

South Africa election set to end three decades of ANC dominance

South Africa was set to end three decades of dominance by the party that freed it from apartheid on Saturday, as voters angry at joblessness, inequality and power shortages slashed the African National Congress's (ANC) share of the vote to 40%. A dramatically weakened mandate for the legacy party o...

May 31, 2024 3:38 PM

Indian American Bruhat Soma wins 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee

Bruhat Soma, a seventh-grader, won the US National Spelling Bee champion title along with a Scripps Cup trophy and a USD 50,000 check after acing a 90-second spell-off against the second runner-up, 12-year-old Faizan Zaki from Texas. Bruhat spelled 29 words correctly in the tiebreaker, surpassing Z...

September 16, 2024 5:45 PM

Former US President Donald Trump convicted: Can he still run for president?

Following a New York jury's verdict, former President Donald Trump stands convicted on all 34 felony charges of falsifying business records, raising pertinent questions about his future political endeavours and voting rights. As the verdict reverberates across political circles, one of the most pres...

May 30, 2024 7:49 PM

How China’s EV makers aim to beat Tesla, legacy automakers in Europe

Starting in the 1980s, European automakers steadily conquered China, racking up millions in sales with little local competition. Now they'll have to defend their home turf in Europe from an onslaught of formidable Chinese electric vehicles. Chinese EV titans, Chery and Great Wall Motor (GWM) are p...

May 30, 2024 11:22 AM

Global shift to renewables slowed in 2023, policy group says

The global shift to renewables in major energy-consuming sectors slowed in 2023, hindered by regulatory gaps, political pressures and a failure to set clear targets, a policy group said on Wednesday. The COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war helped ambitions to shift to renewables am...