Shops are expected to close in solidarity, with the nation’s largest retailer announcing it will shut all of its outlets. Nearly all private bank branches have also closed.
Russia's vaccine, perhaps its biggest scientific breakthrough since Soviet era, won’t change hostility towards Putin among Western govts, but could boost geopolitical clout in other regions.
Scientists on the WHO-sponsored mission visited the Wuhan lab as well as the wet market that were widely speculated to be the origin points of Covid-19.
Supporters of jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny are hoping to repeat scenes from 23 January, when tens of thousands of supporters were on the streets despite police bans.
Not many are taking the Sputnik V vaccine with the low numbers being blamed on Russians’ distrust of officialdom dating back to the Soviet era and doubts over the vaccine.
What has been colourfully and accurately labelled as the 'uprising of the little guys' reflects the confluence of information platforms, data, and easy-to-use products and trading apps.
In November, central bank Governor Murat Uysal was fired by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the leader’s son-in-law Berat Albayrak resigned from his duties as finance minister.
Real gains can be achieved when the government focuses its reforms upstream in better contract design, stronger capacity to monitor performance and maintain documentation.
The report released at Charcha 2025, an annual gathering of India’s social development sector, found that women remain largely concentrated in low-value and routine roles.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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