Vietnamese civilians fleeing from Danang, fallen to the North Vietnamese Communist army, arrive at Vung Tau port near Saigon, April 1975  (Photo Courtesy: Nayan Chanda)

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Hoang Tung, editor of  Vietnamese Communist Party daily, Nhan Dan, speaking to the writer, then a correspondent of Far Eastern Economic Review, in Hanoi, July 1975 (Photo Courtesy: Nayan Chanda)

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North Vietnamese tank crashes through the cast-iron gate of the presidential palace in Saigon, April 30, 1975 (Photo Courtesy: Nayan Chanda)

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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 23: The Data Security Council of India (DSCI) has partnered with Privy by IDfy to launch PriView, a free-to-use tool that generates privacy notices for companies. It simplifies the process of generating and customizing clear and privacy-compliant notices.

DSCI collaborates with Privy to launch PriView, a DPDP-focused privacy notice generator

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 23: Inde News, owned by Sudhanshu Kumar, the visionary founder of Dashmani Media Private Limited, has reached a significant milestone by crossing 10 million subscribers on YouTube. Adding to this achievement, the platform has been awarded the Diamond Play Button by YouTube, symbolizing its growing impact in the digital journalism space.

Inde News Hits 10 Million YouTube Subscribers and Earns Diamond Play Button: A Triumph for Dashmani Media

Singapore, December 23: Siraj Finance PJSC, a leading Islamic Finance Company in the UAE, has signed an agreement with Azentio, a pioneer in the core banking technology service provider. The agreement represents the collaboration for implementation of the core and digital banking solution to further enhance the operational capabilities and digitization of Siraj Finance's product and service offerings. The step is directly in line with Siraj Finance's goal of providing diversified Islamic financial products and services via channels that are innovatively utilizing latest technology while remaining customer centric and regulatory compliant.

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The Swiss decision to suspend the most favoured nation clause in the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement will not delay the ratification and implementation of the already signed trade agreement between India and the EFTA bloc, Switzerland has said.
The Swiss government has suspended the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status, which could potentially impact Swiss investments in India and lead to higher taxes on Indian companies operating in the European nation.
India and the four-nation European Free Trade Association (EFTA) signed the pact, officially dubbed as TEPA (Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement), in March. Its members are Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland.
The agreement is yet to be implemented.
"No, the decision will not delay the ratification and implementation of EFTA-India TEPA," the Embassy of Switzerland in India has said in a response to PTI queries on the matter.
It also said that this decision does not negatively affect investments from Switzerland t

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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 23: Dun  &amp;  Bradstreet India, a global leader in business decisioning data and analytics, has announced today that it has partnered with the Northeastern Regional Agricultural Marketing Corporation (NERAMAC) to issue D-U-N-S® Numbers to Farmer Production Organizations (FPOs) in the North Eastern region of India. 

Dun  &amp;  Bradstreet India and NERAMAC sign MOU to foster MSME exporters\' growth in India

In 2024, NPCI issued 20 third party application approvals. This was much higher than three and four issuances in 2022 and 2023 respectively

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Experts fear that Indian exporters might have to pay higher duties while exporting pharmaceuticals, textiles, chemicals, and engineering goods

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The driver of the Naval craft, which rammed into a ferry off the Mumbai coast, lost control over the vessel during its engine trials, leading to the fatal crash mid-sea, an injured Navy staffer has told the police, an official said on Friday.  The police, probing the accident, recorded the statement of the injured Navy staffer, who was on the speeding craft, which collided with the ferry 'Neel Kamal' on way to the Elephanta Island, a popular tourist destination, from the Gateway of India on late Wednesday afternoon.  Fourteen persons, including four on the Naval speedboat, were killed in the collision which caused the ferry carrying more than 100 passengers to sink in the Arabian Sea.  A team from the Colaba Police Station, which is investigating the case, recorded the statement of the injured Navy staffer, Karmaveer Yadav, who is undergoing treatment at a hospital, said the official.  According to Yadav, the Naval craft was undergoing engine trials in the sea when the driver lost ...

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Milk collection capacity will see a substantial increase from 79,000 kg to 500,000 kg per day and the milk processing capacity in the state will triple to 400,000 litres per day

The deal was signed on Monday in the presence of Union Minister for Home and Cooperation Amit Shah.

The partnership underscores the push for clean energy solutions in India, which aims to achieve 500 GW of installed electric capacity from non-fossil sources by 2030

The green energy arm of India’s largest power generator, NTPC, has said in its DRHP filing that the government’s restrictions on trade ties with China will adversely impact its business, given that the neighbouring country is a leader in solar and wi

The green energy arm of India's largest power generator, NTPC, has said in its DRHP filing that the government's restrictions on trade ties with China will adversely impact its business, given that the neighbouring country is a leader in solar and wi

Netflix India is set to stream WWE content starting April 2025, marking its debut in Indian sports entertainment and ending WWE's two-decade partnership with SPNI

The Lok Sabha's Winter Session, hamstrung by disruptions over issues ranging from Adani to billionaire George Soros' "links" with the Congress leadership and Amit Shah's Ambedkar remarks, had a productivity of 57.87 per cent, official sources said on Friday.
The Lower House met on November 25 and was adjourned sine die (indefinitely) on Friday amid protests by the opposition and the treasury benches over the alleged insult to BR Ambedkar and directions by Speaker Om Birla to members against holding demonstrations at any gate of Parliament.
Among the key bills introduced during the session were two that lay down the mechanism to hold simultaneous elections.
The two bills were on Friday referred to a joint committee of Parliament for examination and wider consultations.
The Lower House last week saw a debate on 75 years of the Constitution's adoption, during which the treasury and the opposition benches launched a series of attacks at each other.
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Delhiites continued to breathe toxic air as the air quality on Friday remained in the severe category, with the 24-hour average Air Quality Index (AQI) of 429.
The predominant pollutant was PM2.5, the fine particulate matter that poses serious health risks, as they can penetrate deep into the lungs and enter the bloodstream.
Of the 36 monitoring stations across the city, 14 reported air quality in the 'Severe Plus' category, with AQI readings above 450.
The remaining stations recorded AQI levels in the 'Severe' range, between 401 and 450.
These levels signify a significant deterioration in air quality, which is considered life-threatening for vulnerable populations such as children, the elderly, and those with respiratory or heart conditions.
The maximum temperature on Friday was 23 degrees Celsius, slightly warmer than the usual for this time of year.
The day started with a cool, misty morning and high humidity, which fluctuated between 95 per cent and 71 per cent throughout the

Flagging delay in implementation of stricter measures for checking the alarming rise in pollution, the Supreme Court on Monday asked states adjoining the Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR) to immediately set up teams to enforce graded response actio

"This is a national tragedy, violating the spirit of the Good & Simple Tax the GST was meant to be," says former chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian

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Mr Powell brought to Wednesday's press conference details from 2018 Fed research that suggested looking past tariff-induced inflation

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