Top related persons:
Top related locs:
Top related orgs:

Search resuls for: "External Affairs"


25 mentions found


The video shows Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) anchor Heather Sells (here) interviewing Catholic Jesuit priest Thomas Reese (here , twitter.com/ThomasReeseSJ). Reese was one of three delegates from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) who, in 2016, had their visas applications to India denied. Social media users sharing the clip in 2023 accompanied it with captions linking it to recent violence in Manipur. “Visas rejected for US delegation to visit Manipur. The video shows a March 2016 CBN News report, which predates the 2023 ethnic violence in Manipur.
Persons: Heather Sells, Thomas Reese, Reese, , USCIRF, Read Organizations: Christian Broadcasting Network, Catholic, U.S . Commission, Social, US, Facebook, YouTube, CBN News, Reuters, India’s, External Affairs Locations: U.S, India, Manipur, Meiteis, Kuki
GANDHINAGAR, India, July 17 (Reuters) - Debt restructuring talks made little progress during the third finance meeting of the G20 countries in India as the bloc was unable to overcome key differences and low attendance due to domestic issues adding to the roadblocks. The finance ministers of the G20 countries gathered in the western Indian state of Gujarat, hoping to push for agreements on debt restructuring for vulnerable countries, global minimum taxation and reforms on multilateral development banks. "We are not making much headway with the debt restructuring issue," a senior official, who is part of the meeting, told Reuters on Monday. Officials said several finance ministers were forced to skip the meetings due to domestic issues that were a "priority". Finance ministers from Japan, Australia, Canada, Indonesia, South Korea, Indonesia, South Africa, along with the United States and India were present.
Persons: Janet Yellen, Joachim Nagel, Aftab Ahmed, Chizu Organizations: Reuters, United, Treasury, Officials, Finance, Thomson Locations: GANDHINAGAR, India, Gujarat, Zambia, United States, New Delhi, Japan, Australia, Canada, Indonesia, South Korea, South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, France, Mexico, Germany's, Parisian, Germany
"India has made suggestions to get its due share of taxing rights on excess profits of multinational companies," one official said. The suggestions have been made to the OECD and will be discussed "extensively" during the G20 meeting on Monday and Tuesday, the official said. Under the agreement, global corporations with annual revenues over 20 billion euros ($22 billion) are considered to be making excess profits if the profits exceed 10% annual growth. The 25% surcharge on these excess profits is to be divided among countries. The G20 host nation will also propose that withholding taxation be de-linked from the excess profit tax principle.
Persons: Sarita Chaganti Singh, Shivangi Acharya, Nikunj, Aftab Ahmed, William Mallard Organizations: Organisation for Economic Cooperation, Development, OECD, People's, India's Consumer, Thomson Locations: DELHI, India, Australia, Japan, Gujarat, U.S, New Delhi
"India has made suggestions to get its due share of taxing rights on excess profits of multinational companies," one official said. The suggestions have been made to the OECD and will be discussed "extensively" during the G20 meeting on Monday and Tuesday, the official said. Under the agreement, global corporations with annual revenues over 20 billion euros ($22 billion) are considered to be making excess profits if the profits exceed 10% annual growth. The 25% surcharge on these excess profits is to be divided among countries. The rules now say countries offset their share of taxes with the withholding tax they collect.
Persons: Sarita Chaganti Singh, Shivangi Acharya, Nikunj, Aftab Ahmed, William Mallard Organizations: Organisation for Economic Cooperation, Development, OECD, People's, India's Consumer, Thomson Locations: DELHI, India, Australia, Japan, Gujarat, U.S, New Delhi
BEIJING, July 15 (Reuters) - China's top diplomat Wang Yi told the Indian foreign minister that bilateral ties need to be stabilised, as the two Asian neighbours searched for ways to ease simmering military tensions along their vast border. Since the 1990s, ties have improved after a series of border agreements, and China is now India's second-largest trading partner. China and India need to work in the same direction to find a solution to border issues acceptable to both sides, Wang told Jaishankar during their meeting on Friday. The two sides agreed to hold the next round of military commander-level talks on border issues at an early date, the Chinese foreign ministry said. On India's recent restrictions against Chinese companies, Wang urged a fair, transparent and non-discriminatory business environment for Chinese companies.
Persons: Wang Yi, Wang, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Jaishankar, Ryan Woo, Edmund Klamann Organizations: ASEAN, Affairs, Thomson Locations: BEIJING, Indonesian, Jakarta, India, China, New Delhi
Putin used his moment to speak at the one-day summit to give his answer to that question. That event stretched over two in-person days in Samarkand, Uzbekistan and featured a number of sideline meetings between attending leaders. India announced last month that its leaders’ summit would be held virtually, without specifying why. At last year’s SCO summit, Modi told Putin in “today’s era is not an era of war.”And India has its own friction with neighboring China. In May, Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari became the most senior-level official to visit India in seven years, when he joined a SCO foreign ministers meeting.
Persons: Hong Kong CNN — Vladimir Putin, Narendra Modi, Putin, Wagner, , ” Putin, China’s Xi, Belarus ’ Alexander Lukashenko, Iran’s Ebrahim Raisi, ” Modi, Modi, Joe Biden, Xi, ” Xi, Biden, , Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Yevgeny Prigozhin Organizations: Hong Kong CNN, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, SCO, Indian, India, China’s Foreign Ministry, India’s Ministry, External, CNN, Pakistani, Belarus Locations: Hong Kong, Moscow, Russian, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, spreadheaded, China, India, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Eurasia, Tuesday’s, Iran, Beijing, Samarkand, New Delhi, Pacific,
To revitalize the area, the city has approved three projects to turn vacant commercial space into affordable housing. While some residents are skeptical, the LaSalle Reimagined Initiative is just one of many creative solutions urban planners are raising to fill the space. Chicago's downtown office space posted a 22.4% vacancy rate in the first quarter of 2023, which poses the question: What does the city do with all that vacant commercial office space? The LaSalle Reimagined Initiative: A new housing developmentThree adaptive reuse proposals were selected for the LaSalle Reimagined Initiative, Chicago's ambitious plan to repurpose a portion of LaSalle Street's 5 million square feet of vacant commercial space into mixed-income housing. Marisa Novara, the commissioner of Chicago's Department of Housing, said that the LaSalle Reimagined Initiative hopes to create nearly 600 affordable-housing units.
Persons: Chicago's, , Marisa Novara, who's, Amy Masters, Masters, DOH Organizations: LaSalle, Service, Chicago's Department of Housing, Association of Chicago Locations: Chicago's, LaSalle Street's, Chicago, Novara
India's foreign ministry is consulting with departments on their appetite for fertiliser and gas from Cairo as part payment for the credit line, an Indian official said. India, the world's second-largest wheat producer, banned wheat exports in May 2022 to help control rising domestic prices, rescinding a plan to export 3 million tons of wheat to Egypt in the year 2022/23. The other sources from India and Egypt did not wish to be identified as they are not authorised to speak to the press. India's external affairs ministry, finance ministry, trade minister, and Egypt's foreign ministry and trade ministry did not immediately respond to requests for comment. India exported $4.11 billion of goods to Egypt in the last fiscal year, while importing $1.95 billion.
Persons: Narendra Modi's, Ali Moselhy, Moselhy, Rajendra Jadhav, Conor Humphries Organizations: Reuters, Indian, Thomson Locations: CAIRO, DELHI, India, Egypt, Delhi, Cairo, New Delhi, Russia
Akhand Bharat,” tweeted Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Pralhad Joshi alongside a photograph of the map. “Akhand Bharat in (the) New Parliament. It also took place on the birthday of the late Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, the man widely considered to have developed the Hindutva ideology and one of the first proponents of Akhand Bharat. “We have to see the dream of Akhand Bharat in this lifetime and it has started with (this),” said deputy chief minister of the state of Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis. Faisal Khan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images/FileExperts say such rhetoric has made India’s neighbors nervous.
Persons: Arindam Bagchi, Ashoka, Akhand Bharat, Bharat, , Pralhad Joshi, Akhand, Manoj Kotak, Bharat ”, Bharat ’, Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, , KP Sharma Oli, Baburam Bhattarai, Shahriar Alam, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, , Salil Tripathi, Narendra Modi, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Savarkar, Modi, Amit Shah, Praful, Sushant Singh, Manjunath Kiran, Critics, Devendra Fadnavis, Faisal Khan, Ayesha Jalal, Fahd Humayun Organizations: CNN, India’s Ministry, External Affairs, Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, Parliamentary, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, stoke, Mahasabha, Hindustan Times, Centre for Policy Research, Getty, India’s, Anadolu Agency, Tufts University Locations: Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, New Delhi, India, Afghanistan, Myanmar, , Kathmandu, New York, Mumbai, ” India, Indian, Kashmir, Karnataka, Bangalore, Maharashtra, Srinagar
The White House said on Friday that EV charging stations that offer Tesla plugs would be eligible for billions of dollars in federal subsidies as long as they included CCS connectivity. The White House aims to spur deployment of hundreds of thousands of chargers, which it sees as integral to EV adoption. The person, who now works for a charging company, is not authorized to speak to the media and declined to be named. The company that is developing CCS chargers, is "reviewing" its strategy because of the Tesla-GM deal. Logvinov, who is also chief executive of EV charging parts supplier IoTecha, said CCS was worth backing because it had worked for more than a decade with multiple vendors.
Persons: Biden, Tesla, Asaf Nagler, Ashley Horvat, BLNK.O, Jonathan Levy, Aatish Patel, Patel, Superchargers, Oleg Logvinov, Abhirup Roy, Hyunjoo Jin, Jarrett Renshaw, Sayantani Ghosh, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: Ford, GM, Tesla Inc, Tesla's, EVgo Inc, ABB, America, ABB Ltd, Schneider, EV, Ford Motor Co, General Motors Co, ChargePoint Holdings, Reuters, Tesla, CharIN, Logvinov, IoTecha, Thomson Locations: U.S, Swiss, America, CharIN North America, San Francisco, Philadelphia
Ron DeSantis' administration admitted it was behind the migrant relocation flights to California. Ron DeSantis' administration confirmed it's behind the recent flights sending migrants from Texas to California — and insisted that the trips were all voluntary and the immigrants were treated well. The Florida Division of Emergency Management shared a 2-minute-20-second-long video with Insider of migrants the agency said boarded the flights. Florida's emergency management agency provided Insider with a table that listed other government officials who had relocated migrants, including Republican Gov. DeSantis acknowledged in September that his administration orchestrated another plane carrying 49 migrants from San Antonio, Texas, to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
Persons: Ron DeSantis, , it's, California —, Amelia Johnson, Johnson, DeSantis, Greg Abbott of, Eric Adams, Gavin Newsom, Rob Bonta, Newsom, Joe Biden, Donald Trump Organizations: Service, Gov, Florida Division, Emergency Management, Catholic Charities, Migrants, New York Times, Times, Republican Gov, Democratic, New, DeSantis, Democratic Party, Sacramento Bee Locations: California, Florida, Texas, Sacramento , California, Monday, El Paso, Texsas, Greg Abbott of Texas, New York City, United States, Sacramento, San Antonio , Texas, Vineyard , Massachusetts, Mexico
Visa spatOn Sunday, Xinhua published a first-person account from Hu Xiaoming, the state agency’s New Delhi bureau chief since 2017, describing the “torment” of Chinese reporters’ “visa hassle” in India. A spokesperson for India’s Ministry of External Affairs on Friday declined to comment on the number of Chinese journalists in the country when asked in a regular briefing. “All foreign journalists, including Chinese journalists, have been pursuing journalist activities in India, without any limitations or difficulties in reporting,” spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said. Bagchi did not confirm that any Indian reporters had lost accreditation in China, but said such reporters had faced difficulties doing their jobs there. Because Chinese reporters are working for state media outlets, New Delhi is also likely looking at them as “state actors,” according to Kewalramani.
Persons: Mao Ning, It’s, Hu Xiaoming, , , Hu, Arindam Bagchi, Bagchi, Ananth Krishnan, Anshuman Mishra, Narendra Modi’s, , Manoj Kewalramani, Modi, Xi Jinping, Kewalramani Organizations: Hong Kong CNN —, Beijing, CNN, Foreign, Washington, Visa, Xinhua, India’s Ministry, Affairs, Ministry, Prasar, Foreign Ministry, BBC, Takshashila, Huawei, Shanghai Cooperation Organization – Locations: Hong Kong, Hong Kong CNN — India, China, New Delhi, Beijing, India, Aksai Chin, Ladakh, Delhi, India China, Mumbai, British, Bengaluru, If, United States, Japan, US, Australia, Jammu, Kashmir, Pakistan
Russia's amassing $1 billion worth of Indian rupees each month that it's struggling to use. India has been buying Russian oil using rupees as Moscow has been shut out of the USD-denominated global payments system. And it's not like Russia can send the rupees back home either because India has restrictions over capital flows by foreign investors — the country is looking at $2 to $3 billion worth of rupees stuck in India every quarter. India and Russia are now trying to work out how Russia can use its mounting rupee stash. Another option under discussion is having Russia channel the rupees into Indian infrastructure projects in exchange for equity stakes, per the media outlet.
Persons: Russia's, it's, , Sergei Lavrov, Lavrov, Moscow doesn't, Alexander Isakov, Ian Hall Organizations: Service, Bloomberg, Bank of, Reuters, Treasury, Russian, Bloomberg Economics, Australian Institute of International Affairs, Griffith Asia, Griffith University, Kremlin, Affairs Locations: India, Moscow, Russia, Ukraine, , Bank of Russia, Australia, Russian
EU will go easy on Indian resale of Russian fuel
  + stars: | 2023-05-23 | by ( Shritama Bose | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
Yet, the risk of an energy inflation resurgence makes a European Union ban on Russian oil reselling a tough call. The war in Ukraine has offered India an opportunity to boost purchases of discounted Russian oil. European imports of oil derivatives jumped to 200,000 barrels per day after the EU banned Russian crude products imports on Feb. 5 from 154,000 barrels previously, according to Kpler data. And New Delhi argues oil products substantially transformed in a third country cannot be subject to EU sanctions. loadingTo avoid an open clash with India, the EU could try to target European companies buying Russian-origin refined oil.
How a deadly bat virus found new ways to infect people
  + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +16 min
Scientists found bats with Nipah virus roosting near Sabith’s home. A search of the neighborhood led to a colony, near their house, of flying foxes, a common fruit bat. NETTING NIPAH: Researchers in Bangladesh use nets to catch bats and collect samples to find the Nipah virus in the wild. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir HossainWhether Sabith ate contaminated fruit or somehow came into direct contact with a bat, the virus entered his cells. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir HossainA year later, Chua’s team found the same strain of Nipah virus in flying foxes.
LONDON, May 16 (Reuters) - Millions of British borrowers repeatedly missed payments on bills in the six months to January amid the steep surge in the cost of living and higher interest rates, a survey from the Financial Conduct Authority regulator showed on Tuesday. The FCA said the number of adults in Britain who missed payments on domestic bills or failed to meet any of their credit commitments in three or more of the six months to January rose to 5.6 million from 4.2 million in May 2022. The latest survey also showed a significant rise in the number of people struggling to keep up with payments who now accounted for one in five adults. "The convergence of higher living costs and higher interest rates has pushed people’s finances right to the edge and sometimes over," Karen Noye, mortgage expert at Quilter said. It also said it will introduce its Consumer Duty rule in the coming months, requiring firms to ensure they provide better support for consumers.
Insider built an org chart showing the most senior executives under BlackRock CEO Larry Fink. To provide a window into the current power structure, Insider has mapped out the roughly 150 most senior BlackRock executives. This week, the firm overhauled its alternative-investments business and made changes to the makeup of its Aladdin business, two core BlackRock offerings. "We are spending a great deal of time at BlackRock getting the firm ready for when the founders are retiring. Investment stewardship head Joud Abdel Majeid and Willie Alford, Fink's new chief of staff, are among the executives who report to Fink.
Investment giant BlackRock has been planning for CEO Larry Fink's succession for years. Leadership has discussed BlackRock cofounder Susan Wagner as someone who could succeed Fink if the board does not have a clear candidate. For years, BlackRock has been planning for Chief Executive Larry Fink's succession, a torch-passing the industry has long speculated over. BlackRock has become shorthand for the intense backlash from primarily Republican lawmakers over sustainable investment strategies that Fink has championed as CEO. Goldstein, 49, is a BlackRock lifer and has been chief operating officer for nearly a decade.
China assures Russia, India of deepening 'cooperation'
  + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
[1/3] India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Qin Gang pose for a photograph during the SCO Council of Foreign Ministers' meeting in Goa, India, May 4, 2023. Currently the bloc includes Russia, India, China, Pakistan and four Central Asian countries - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Iran and Belarus are expected to be inducted into the SCO at a summit in New Delhi in July, an Indian foreign ministry official said. In a separate meeting with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Qin said China is willing to deepen "coordination and cooperation" on international and regional issues with India and bring ties back to a "healthy" track of development. China's ties with India have deteriorated since 2020, when their troops clashed on a disputed Himalayan border and 24 people were killed.
(PRAKASH SINGH/AFP via Getty Images) Prakash Singh | Afp | Getty ImagesIndia's relationship with Russia remains steadfast as both sides seek to deepen their economic ties. Russia also wants to "intensify" free trade discussions with India, Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov said during a visit to Delhi. watch nowIt's becoming "more difficult with every passing day because of the closeness that we are witnessing between Beijing and Moscow," Pant noted. This defense cooperation is vital given India's tensions along the Himalayan border with an increasingly assertive China, said ORF's Pant. Now, the country cannot expect Russia to play "the same strategic role for India as it used to prior to the Ukraine war.
To curb Moscow's oil revenues following the Ukraine war, the Group of Seven Nations, the European Union and Australia imposed price caps on Russian crude and oil products from December and February, respectively. Lars Lange, secretary general of the International Union of Marine Insurance said: "We are definitely not able to assess the oil prices of shipments." "I get an attestation, which is a compliance with the price cap, but I know actually that something different is happening in the background...and this is something where no law can prepare you for these particular cases." HEIGHTENED SAFETY RISKSIn addition to risks of violating sanctions, the growing "shadow or dark fleet" - tankers purchased by states to deliver Russian oil - has increased safety risks for the shipping sector, the executives said. "I don't have a solution regarding the shadow fleet.
Collisions are more likely in such cases, raising the odds of a devastating oil spill. It’s also harder to tell whether the vessels with murky ownership comply with the strict rules governing oil transfers at sea, according to Kenney. Group of Seven nations have imposed a cap on the price of Russian oil and oil products, and a smaller pool of buyers can also negotiate greater discounts. China’s imports of Russian oil in the first quarter of the year rose 38% compared with a year prior, according to Kpler data. As trade of Russian oil has become more complex, many Western shippers have pulled back.
DeSantis' board overseeing Disney is considering new taxes, public transit, and housing. The board met for the first time since Disney's surprise maneuver. The five-member board met Wednesday for the first since Disney stealthily arranged a deal that would allow the theme park and resort to maintain control of its land, virtually in perpetuity. Much of the meeting made the legal case for the new board moving ahead, despite the maneuver Disney pulled last month. Firefighters who work for Disney's district said the previous board failed to give them the resources they needed to do their jobs, including new ambulances, even as Disney grew.
Oliver Wyman says its shadow board helped contribute to a 30% reduction in attrition in 2022. Andrew Pérez started at the management-consulting company Oliver Wyman three years ago. Oliver Wyman started its shadow board in 2021. Oliver Wyman's executive team tends to be older, while the shadow board skews younger and more diverse. She was eager to join the shadow board last year.
MUMBAI, March 26 (Reuters) - India summoned Canada's High Commissioner on Sunday to "convey strong concern" over Sikh protesters in Canada and how they were allowed to breach the security of India's diplomatic mission and consulates. According to Canadian media reports, hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the Indian consulate in Vancouver on Saturday over demands for an independent Sikh state, a simmering issue for decades recently triggered again. Canada has the highest population of Sikhs outside their home state of Punjab in India. Khalistan is the name of an independent Sikh homeland that some members of that community aspire to, both at home in India and in countries where Sikhs have settled. Reporting by M. Sriram, editing by YP Rajesh and Michael PerryOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Total: 25