President Droupadi Murmu, addressing the joint session of Parliament ahead of the Union Budget, emphasised the government’s commitment to making India a global leader in innovation. “Our aim is to ...

Global growth is projected at 3.3 percent both in 2025 and 2026, below the historical (2000–19) average of 3.7 percent. The forecast for 2025 is broadly unchanged from that in the October 2024 World ...

The ranking, released by global telecom standard body GSMA ... Ghana’s mobile money system achieved perfect scores in Transparency and Disclosure Requirements, Authorisation, and Consumer ...

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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming ... announced in 2021 that the United States will aim to cut emissions by 50 to 52 percent compared ...

The UEFA Champions League is – of course – slightly different this season. Where UEFA used to adopt a system involving eight groups of four teams, the competition was expanded to 36 teams for the 2024 ...

Green Day's long-awaited South African debut on Jan. 19 was anything but ordinary. By Jessica Lynch Green Day delivered a politically charged performance during their Jan. 19 concert at ...

The subsequent political backlash has contributed to a growing appetite for tariffs and industrial policies in many advanced economies as they attempt to make their own manufacturing sectors more ...

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said Trump is hardly to blame for some of the inequities that shape the global system and rankle many in the Global South. His transactional style of politics is refreshing for many outside the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US share of global cross-border investment projects has soared to its highest level on record ...