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UN chief lauds India's COVID-19 vaccine assistance to nations
Rediff.com29 Jan 2021India has airlifted more than 6 million COVID-19 doses to nine countries in Phase-I under its initiative termed "Vaccine Maitri".
Apple's business in India still quite low relative to size of opportunity: Tim Cook
Rediff.com28 Jan 2021Apple CEO Tim Cook has said the company's share in India "is quite low relative to the size of the opportunity" and setting up retail stores in the future in the country will be a great initiative. Apple launched the Apple Store online in India on September 23, offering Apple's full range of products and support directly to customers across the country for the first time. "If you take India as an example, we doubled our business last quarter compared to the year ago quarter. But our absolute level of business there is still quite low relative to the size of the opportunity. "And you can kind of take that and go around the world and find other markets that are like that as well," Cook said on Wednesday in the company's Q1 2021 results earnings call.
Despite Covid-19, FDI into India rose by 13% in 2020
Rediff.com25 Jan 2021Foreign Direct Investment into India rose by 13 per cent in 2020, boosted by interest in the digital sector, and while fund flows "declined most strongly" in major economies such as the UK, the US and Russia due to the Covid-19 pandemic, India and China "bucked the trend", the UN has said.
Foreign fighters in Syria have moved to other places: India at UNSC
Rediff.com21 Jan 2021India has expressed concern that foreign fighters involved in the conflict in Syria have moved to other places as mercenaries, as New Delhi underlined that it is ready to play a constructive role in the Security Council to help realise the objective of the West Asian country reclaiming its place in the comity of nations.
'Your faith in me brought me to this moment': Kamala remembers mom
Rediff.com21 Jan 2021Harris remembered her late mother Shyamala Gopalan, a cancer researcher and civil rights activist from India, saying she has always carried that lesson from her mother with her throughout her career from serving as the first woman District Attorney of San Francisco, to the first woman Attorney General of California, and the first woman of colour to represent California in the United States Senate.
Biden, Harris will heal US: Indian-American lawmakers
Rediff.com21 Jan 2021'Today we prove that our democracy still works and that the power always belongs to the people through the power of our vote'
Trump leaves note for Biden in White House
Rediff.com20 Jan 2021CNN reported that Trump has left Biden a letter at the White House, in keeping with the tradition that outgoing presidents do for their successors.
2020 was one of 3 warmest years on record
Rediff.com15 Jan 2021The warmest six years have all been since 2015, with 2016, 2019 and 2020 being the top three. The differences in average global temperatures among the three warmest years are indistinguishably small. The average global temperature in 2020 was about 14.9C, 1.2 ( 0.1) C above the pre-industrial (1850-1900) level.
Trump ban is 'right' but 'dangerous': Twitter chief
Rediff.com14 Jan 2021'I do not celebrate or feel pride in our having to ban @realDonaldTrump from Twitter, or how we got here. After a clear warning we'd take this action, we made a decision with the best information we had based on threats to physical safety both on and off Twitter. Was this correct?'
Meet Vijaya Gadde, who spearheaded ban on Trump's Twitter account
Rediff.com12 Jan 2021Hyderabad-born Gadde, 45, is Twitter's legal, public policy and trust and safety lead.
India to chair UNSC's panel on counter-terrorism
Rediff.com8 Jan 2021India, which has been at the forefront of the years-long efforts to reform the UNSC, began its two-year tenure at the Council on Friday last.
Trump is 'menace', must be removed as Prez: US Media
Rediff.com7 Jan 2021"President Trump and his Republican enablers in Congress incited a violent attack Wednesday against the government they lead and the nation they profess to love. This cannot be allowed to stand."
India records highest number of babies born on New Year's Day
Rediff.com5 Jan 2021More than 3,71,500 babies were born worldwide on New Year's Day and India is estimated to have recorded the highest number of births at around 60,000, according to the United Nations' children's agency.
Won't shy away from speaking against terrorism, India tells UNSC
Rediff.com5 Jan 2021India's Permanent Representative to the UN, T S Tirumurti, made the remarks while speaking at a special flag installation ceremony organised at the Security Council stakeout here on Monday. Flags of the five new incoming non-permanent members of the Security Council - India, Norway, Kenya, Ireland and Mexico - were installed at the stakeout during the special ceremony.
India begins its 2-yr tenure as non-permanent UNSC member
Rediff.com1 Jan 2021India will sit in the 15-nation United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the 2021-22 term as a non-permanent member - the eighth time that the country has had a seat on the powerful horseshoe table.
India's economy could prove to be 'most resilient' in subregion over long term: UN
Rediff.com29 Dec 2020India's economy could prove to be the "most resilient" in the subregion of South and South-West Asia over the long term, according to a report by the UN, which says a positive but lower economic growth post COVID-19 pandemic and the country's large market will continue to attract investments. The report titled 'Foreign Direct Investment Trends And Outlook In Asia And The Pacific 2020/2021', and compiled by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), stated that inward FDI flows to South and South-West Asia slightly decreased by 2 per cent in 2019, from $67 billion in 2018 to $66 billion in 2019. The growth, however, was mainly driven by India, which accounted for 77 per cent of the total inflows to the subregion and received $51 billion in 2019, up 20 per cent from the previous year.
Nirav Modi's brother charged in $2.6 m fraud in New York
Rediff.com20 Dec 2020Nehal, 41, is charged in a New York Supreme Court indictment with Grand Larceny in the First Degree, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, Jr. said.
New York nurse first to get Covid vaccine in US
Rediff.com14 Dec 2020The news comes as the United States approaches 300,000 deaths from COVID-19.
Biden, Harris named TIME '2020 Person of the Year'
Rediff.com11 Dec 2020The publication named the Democratic leaders for its annual prestigious honour, choosing them over other finalists -- Frontline Health Care Workers and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr Anthony Fauci, the Movement for Racial Justice and US President Donald Trump.
UN chief says will take COVID-19 vaccine publicly, calls it his 'moral obligation'
Rediff.com10 Dec 2020Guterres reiterated his call for a COVID-19 vaccine to be a global public good available to everywhere and particularly, available in Africa.