Author: Ruldu Patel

It also shows the rising interest by students from India to study hospitality, leisure and sports Students from India are exploring newer overseas destinations for studies in the wake of rising competition in the preferred countries such as the US, the UK, and Australia, a new report said. Italy, Austria, and Finland are among the new emerging as the new overseas destinations for prospective Indian students for their bachelor studies, a new report by Times Higher Education (THE) and Studyportals has found. The report ‘Spotlight on India Report: Recruitment Insight and Transnational Education Trends’, showed rising interest by students from India to…

Brussels (21/08 – 62.50) The theatrical performance, 40 Days of Miracles was shown in the main concert hall of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea by the Republican State Academic Korean Theater of Musical Comedy of Kazakhstan, which is on tour in South Korea. In total, more than 500 spectators attended the event, including the Chairman of the Korea-Kazakhstan Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, Woo Won Shik, deputies, politicians, the leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea, cultural and art figures, businessmen, as well as representatives of the…

Nationalism is on the march ahead of the Polish and Slovak elections, potentially ending unconditional support for Ukraine. Just as Ukraine’s EU membership hopes get traction among the traditional sceptics of enlargement, Kyiv’s ambitions run into trouble among CEE friends – write editors of the Visegrad Insight. Parliamentary elections in Poland and Slovakia this autumn are threatening to weaken the pro-Ukrainian unity of European Union members and complicate Kyiv’s path towards membership in the bloc. If the nationalist agenda triumphs, Ukraine’s “best friends forever” are likely to demand new bilateral concessions that will chill EU membership ambitions. If new governments…

PM attacks opposition parties during no-confidence motion called to force him to address ethnic violence in far-east Opposition parties have walked out of the Indian parliament in protest at the refusal of the prime minister, Narendra Modi, to address ethnic violence in the state of Manipur – a situation that has been described as being close to civil war. The opposition had tabled a no-confidence vote in Modi largely to force him to appear and speak about the three-month-long crisis, about which he had refused to say more than a few words. Modi raised the conflict in Manipur state about 90…

At Level 3 of the Convention Centre, a grand seating capacity of 7,000 individuals awaits, making it even larger than the seating capacity of approximately 5,500 of the iconic Sydney Opera House in Australia. The redeveloped ITPO complex (India Trade Promotion Organisation), which will host India’s G20 Leaders meetings will be inaugurated on July 26. It is likely to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. With a campus area of approximately 123 acres, the ITPO complex, (also known as the Pragati Maidan complex) is India’s largest MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions) destination. In terms of the covered space…

The delegation of Turkmenistan headed by Minister of Finance and economy S. Jorayev took part in the High-Level Forum on Sustainable Development in New York and held bilateral meetings on July 18, the Foreign Ministry reported. The delegation held talks with the UN Under-Secretary-General, High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States Rabab Fatima, UN Under-Secretary-General of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) Li Junhua, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support Oscar Fernandez-Taranko, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, Regional Director of the United Nations Development Program for Europe and the…

Goldman Sachs Research said India will become the world’s second-largest economy by 2075. India will become the world’s second-largest economy by 2075, Goldman Sachs Research said citing its article – ‘How India could rise to the world’s second-biggest economy’. “As India’s population of 1.4 billion people becomes the world’s largest, its GDP is forecast to expand dramatically. Goldman Sachs Research projects India will have the world’s second-largest economy by 2075,” it said with a disclaimer that the article is being provided for educational purposes only. It is globally accepted that India is one of the fastest growing major economies that…

Uzbekistani President Shavkat Mirziyoyev announced snap presidential elections, which are now set to take place on July 9—more than three years ahead of the originally scheduled date in 2026 (Gazeta.uz, May 8). Mirziyoyev provided four reasons for this decision: changes in the balance of power among the branches of government, new goals for governance, increased expectations and accountability from the general public, as well as challenging domestic and international situations. He concluded that holding snap presidential elections “will be the most correct and fair decision” given these circumstances (Kun.uz, May 8). The announcement came a week after Uzbekistan’s constitutional referendum,…

For more than 30 years Babu Joseph has been tending rubber trees on his small farm in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Kerala used to be home to thousands of producers like him, who made a living extracting latex from small plantations of rubber trees, but over the last decade those numbers have dwindled. “Rubber was once the state’s prime cash crop but over the past decade, prices have plunged,” he explains. Tapping rubber trees is a labour-intensive activity. In the evening or early morning workers slice through the bark with cuts deep enough to allow the latex to…

Almaty, Kazakhstan (16/6 – 35) Yerkin Tatishev, the Chairman and Founder of Kusto Group, has assumed the chairmanship of Almaty Management University (AMU), Kazakhstan’s oldest private university. Tatishev’s appointment, announced last week, marks a significant milestone for AMU as it looks to further enhance its reputation as a leading institution for business education in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) region. Tatishev, an accomplished entrepreneur, philanthropist, and passionate advocate for education, brings to his new role at AMU a wealth of experience and a visionary approach. As a key driver of growth and transformation in various industries across the CIS…