The World Bank has appointed Indermit Gill, an Indian national, chief economist and senior vice-president for development economics at the multilateral development bank. "Indermit Gill brings to this role a combination of leadership, invaluable expertise and practical experience working with country governments on macroeconomic imbalances, growth, poverty, institutions, conflict, and climate change," World Bank President David Malpass said in a statement. His appointment will be effective September 1, 2022.
The fandom of Walter Becker was rather obscure, but his death has left a huge void in the music industry.
Kamala Harris is now the first woman, the first Black American and the first Asian American to hold the country's second highest office, and is now in a strong position to run for the top job four years from now.
Here's a look at some of the protests which has unravelled in America post the elections.
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A federal security official on Thursday said Badawi's name appeared on a US terror watch list, but provided no further details.
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'I have seen myself as nothing but an Indian,' Prakash Amritraj tells Ashish Magotra.
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