Rebeca Grynspan was nominated by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as secretary-general of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, known as UNCTAD. AP | PUBLISHED ON JUN 12, 2021 10:29 AM IST The UN general assembly on Friday approved the nomination of Costa Rican economist Rebecaca Grynspan to head the UN agency promoting trade and development, the first woman and Central American to lead the Geneva-based organization.She was nominated by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as secretary-general of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, known as UNCTAD. It supports developing countries in their efforts to benefit from the…
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Two Indian-Americans were among winners of the top American awards for journalism announced on Friday.BuzzFeed News’ Megha Rajagopalan won a Pulitzer for international reporting, with contributors Alison Killing, a licensed architect and Christo Buschek, a programmer, for a series exposing the scale of internment of Uighur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang province. This was the first Pulitzer for BuzzFeed News, a digital news publication founded in 2014.Tampa Bay Times’ Neil Bedi won the Pulitzer for local reporting with Kathleen McGrory, for their investigative series on a Florida county police’s use of computer modelling to identify potential crime suspects, including children who…
The most well-travelled mouse sperm in history left Earth in 2013, its destination being the International Space Station (ISS). After almost six years of soaking high levels of cosmic radiation in space, the free-dried sperm was brought back to the planet in a SpaceX shuttle and used to breed litters here on Earth to assess how it held up over time in outer space. The result was astonishing, to say the least. The study, conducted by a group of Japanese researchers, found that despite being stored in space for years, the mouse sperm remained viable and produced a number of…
Russia’s president Vladimir Putin on Friday said that his country’s bilateral relationship with the United States of America has reached its lowest point in years, noting that US president Joe Biden is a “radically different” man than his predecessor, Donald Trump. In an interview with American media outlet NBC News, Putin hardly concealed his admiration for ex-president Trump, calling him an “extraordinary” and “talented” individual, while he referred to Biden as a career politician disparate with such traits.Also Read: ‘Can’t get away with making threats’: Putin likens US behaviour to Soviet UnionPutin’s statements regarding US-Russia relations come just ahead of…
Child labour has risen to 160 million worldwide – an increase of 8.4 million children in the last four years – with millions more at risk due to the impacts of Covid-19, according to a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and Unicef.”Child Labour: Global estimates 2020, trends and the road forward” – released ahead of World Day Against Child Labour – warns that progress to end child labour has stalled for the first time in 20 years, reversing the previous downward trend that saw child labour fall by 94 million between 2000 and 2016.”We are losing ground…
World Day Against Child Labour, which aims to spread awareness about the illegal employment practice and also talk about the ways to eradicate it completely, will be observed on Saturday by people across the globe. It was launched by the International Labour Organization (ILO), an agency of the United Nations, in 2002. This year’s theme is ‘Act now: End child labour’.Child labour exists across the globe and children, mostly from poor families, are forced to work in hazardous conditions which leads to unending physical, mental and social exploitation and suffering from the employers. Children are deprived of living their childhood…
Pakistan government on Friday proposed Pakistani rupees 8,487 billion budget for the next financial year with a fiscal deficit target at 6.3 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP).Pakistani rupees 1,370 billion have been allocated to defence services, up 6.2 per cent from last year.Expenditure on Defence Services makes up around 16 per cent of total expenditure budgeted for FY22, down from 18 per cent last year, Dawn reported.The budget was presented by Pakistan Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin at a time Pakistani debt-ridden economy is facing an economic crisis aggravated due to the coronavirus pandemic.Tarin began his speech by saying…
Brazil’s health regulator Anvisa met with representatives of Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Janssen on Friday to discuss extending the expiry date of a batch of 3 million doses of its Covid vaccine bought by the South American nation.The batch of vaccines expires on June 27.Janssen is proposing extending the expiry to four-and-a-half months from three at present, as approved on Thursday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Anvisa said in a statement.The health regulator is expected to follow the FDA’s approval. A decision will come next week, Anvisa said.The vaccines are the first batch of Janssen’s single shot…
(Photo : GettlyImages/ David Becker) LG TV screen LG has increased its warranty on its OLED TVs for its customers in the United States. If you have plans of getting one of LG’s pricey G1 OLED TVs for a while, then you have another reason to buy one. LG’s Five-Year Warranty LG has officially introduced a new five-year limited panel warranty covering all 2021 G1 OLED TV that it sells in the United States. In the first year, the warranty covers both the labor and parts. Afterward, you will need to pay for the labor costs. With that said, you…
Useless tech is all around us, and they can easily make us wonder, “what’s the point?” But then again, some people have a lot of time on their hands. And with that much time, they can think of almost anything. (Photo : Getty Images ) Anything means anything, meaning you’ll find some inventions which are so hilariously useless, they’re funny without even trying. Now, it’s not uncommon for some inventions to fail after initially starting out strong, like the ones in this list made by Informi. But the ones on this list, however, are an entirely different breed. And you’ll…