New Delhi [India], December 3 (ANI/PRNewswire): The elite list of '100 Most Admired BrandsInspirational Leaders' which features the epic journey of prominent brands and leaders across industries is out in the market and was revealed at the 8th White Page Leadership Conclave (virtual) held on 28 and 29 November 2020. This conclave also witnessed the release of 50 Marketing Marvels- The Best MarketingCommunications Professi

8th White Page Leadership Conclave - 2020

A reach stacker handles cargo containers at the Manzhouli Railway Station in Manzhouli, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, July 1, 2020. (Xinhua/Yu Jia)HOHHOT, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- A total of 2,158 China-Europe freight trains passed through the border port of Erenhot in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the first 11 months of this year, an increase of 53.4 percent year on year, acco

China-Mongolia border port sees surge in China-Europe freight trains

Italians were completely unprepared for war with the Soviet Union. And, apart from their leaders, they didn't have much desire to fight against the Russians."When an Italian soldier knows what he is fighting for, he doesn't fight badly, as was the case in the time of Garibaldi. In this war, however, soldiers not only do not know what they are fighting for, but they did not want this war and do not want it. There

How and why Italy fought against the USSR in WWII

Many Australian cities have fallen back on offering free car parking to attract visitors back to the CBD after the pandemic. In contrast, cities around the world are basing their recovery strategies on bold and evidence-based urban transformations. Read more: How COVID all but killed the Australian CBD <

Why Australian cities need post-COVID vision, not free parking

Britain's&#8239;prime minister,&#8239;Boris Johnson,&#8239;has likened the scientists who&#8239;have&#8239;developed coronavirus vaccines to the cavalry arriving just in the nick of time. "The toot of the bugle is louder," he reassured Britons during a recent news conference.&#8239;&#8239;But like&#8239;his&#8239;European counterparts,&#8239;Johnson's government&#8239;is scrambling to come up with a vaccine dist

Mass COVID-19Immunization PlansRaiseHuge Challenges

Panaji (Goa) [India], December 3 (ANI): Chief Secretary, Goa Parimal Rai on Wednesday chaired the first meeting of the State Level Steering Committee set up for streamlining the COVID-19 vaccination program in advance.
The meeting was attended by other Secretaries, official members, Government Health Experts and members of civil society including Presidents of Global Rotary International and Lions Club, SMO (World Health 

COVID: State Level Steering Committee's meeting held in Goa

A commentaryThe Russian-brokered ceasefire that stopped fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan last month included a provision allowing Azerbaijan to use a road through Armenian territory to access its Nakhchivan exclave.Nakhchivan shares a border with Turkey. The road, then, should boost trade between close partners Turkey and Azerbaijan, while reducing the role Iran plays in regional transportation net

Perspectives | How China gains from Armenia-Azerbaijan war

Toxic waste and electronic waste (e-waste) is generated from a wide range of industries - such as health, hydrocarbon or manufacturing - and can come in many forms, such as sludges or gas. E-waste is used electronic items that are nearing the end of their useful life, and are discarded or given to be recycled. If these types o

Toxic waste dumping in the Gulf of Guinea amounts to environmental racism

The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has described the fight against the climate crisis as the top priority for the 21st Century, in a passionate, uncompromising speech delivered on Wednesday at Columbia University in New York.The landmark address marks the beginning of a month of UN-led climate action, which includes the release of major reports on the global climate and fossil fuel production, culminati

Climate Action: It&#039;s time to make peace with nature, UN chief urges

Moscow [Russia], December 2 (ANI/Sputnik): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday congratulated UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and the country's people on the 49th National Day, wishing bilateral cooperation to become more powerful.
"I want to wish His Highness, Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, and all the citizens of the United Arab Emirates, our new friends, a very joyous National D

Israeli PM Netanyahu congratulates UAE

2020 became the final year for the transport that helped Muscovites to move around the city since 1933.The need for new transport arose in the 1930s, as the population in Moscow was growing significantly. The main transport for the residents of the capital at the time was still the tram - over 90% of residents used it every day.One of Stalin's closest ally, <a href="https://www.rbth.com/history/332916-sta

End of an era: Moscow says goodbye to Soviet trolleybuses

The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine has just been approved for widespread use in the UK and the government has ordered 40 million doses - enough to vaccinate 20 million people. The first 800,000 doses are expected to be delivered to the UK in the next few days.The <a hr

Vaccines are here, but how will we get them to billions of people?

New Delhi [India], December 2 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Uttar Pradesh government to evaluate the value of trees, proposed for felling for the Krishna Goverdhan road project in Mathura, by taking into account the cost of oxygen the trees would have given to the nature in their lifetime.
A bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice of India SA Bobde, asked the Uttar Pradesh government the natu

SC directs UP govt to evaluate value of trees for felling

BEIJING - A Chinese spacecraft took samples of the moon's surface Wednesday as part of a mission to bring lunar rocks back to Earth for the first time since the 1970s, the government said, adding to a string of successes for Beijing's increasingly ambitious space program.The Chang'e 5 probe touched down Tuesday on the Sea of Storms on the moon's near side after descending from an orbiter, the China National Spac

China Spacecraft Collects Moon Samples to Take Back to Earth

Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], December 2 (ANI): The Punjab cabinet on Wednesday approved 100 percent exemption on motor vehicle (MV) tax till December 31, 2020, for all stage carriage, mini, and school buses effective from March 23, 2020, to support private transport operators amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The cabinet gave post-facto approval to the notification issued in June to exempt these vehicles from MV tax till May 19

Punjab nods 100 pc exemption on MV tax till Dec 31

People dance to celebrate the launch of the Nairobi-Naivasha Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) cargo service in Nairobi, Kenya, on Dec. 17, 2019. (Xinhua/Li Yan)Chinese infrastructure projects being undertaken in Kenya are viable because they will have a positive effect on the economy, a senior government official said.NAIROBI, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- Chinese infrastructure projects being undert

Kenya says Chinese infrastructure projects in Kenya are viable

YUNNAN, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- With a stethoscope, flashlight, medicine kit and blood pressure meter, doctor Fan Yunfu busily shuttles between inpatient wards. Those in Fan's care are prisoners with HIV/AIDS, patients uncommon for many doctors.Fan, Head of the Jianshui Prison Hospital in southwest China's Yunnan Province, has devoted himself to patients from the Eighth Prison Ward, which was created in 2008 exclu

Prison doctors devoted to treating inmates with HIV/AIDS in SW China

New Delhi [India], December 2 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed a High Powered Committee to consider afresh in two weeks applications filed by the Defence Ministry and Road Transport and Highways Ministry seeking widening of roads in the border areas and completion of the Char Dham project in Uttarakhand with originally specified width of road.
This comes as the Chairman of the High Power Committee had in a m

Consider afresh widening border area roads: SC tells panel

Gurugram (Haryana) [India], December 2 (ANI): As the world sets out to rid itself of the COVID-19 pandemic once and for all, SpiceXpress, the cargo arm of SpiceJet, is gearing up to extend logistical support in the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine across the country.
SpiceXpress, in a press statement on Tuesday, said that the temperature sensitivity to maintain the efficacy of the vaccine calls for a reliable, fast an

SpiceXpress to extend support in COVID vaccine distribution

NAVAL, Biliran, Dec. 2 (PIA) -- The Land Transportation Office (LTO) - Biliran Field Office offers a 15-hour theoretical driving course for free to driver's license applicants in the island province of Biliran.During the PIA-Biliran's Pulong-Pulong ng Bayan radio program over Radyo Natin-Naval, Romeo P. Alianza, LTO-Biliran chief, said that their office is one of the three LTO offices that offer theoretical driv

LTO-Biliran offers free theoretical driving course

An Iranian constitutional watchdog has approved a law requiring the government to suspend United Nations inspections of the country's nuclear facilities and step up uranium enrichment beyond the limit set under the 2015 nuclear agreement between Tehran and world powers if sanctions are not eased in one month.The Guardians Council approved the legislation on December 2, a day after it was passed in parliament in 

Iran&#039;s Guardians Council Approves Law To Harden Nuclear Stance

The electorate in Kazakhstan will sleepwalk through next month's parliamentary elections, which will be utterly dominated, as usual, by the Nur Otan ruling party.Turnout will be strong, because if there is one thing the authorities are effective at, it is press-ganging the masses into taking part in pseudo-democratic performances. But there is no papering over the festering disillusionment."We have no cho

Kazakhstan sleepwalks toward choice-free parliamentary election

The COVID-19 pandemic has made it clearer than ever that we are at risk of losing control of our economies.Our institutions have increasingly struggled to meet the challenges of economic development before the crisis, and yet throughout the pandemic we've seen surging <a href="

Why we should rein in the big tech giants in 2021 - and beyond

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 2 (ANI/NewsVoir): Amidst the current scenario where businesses are trying to get back in motion, CFBP held the 32nd Jamnalal Bajaj Awards for Fair Business Practices at the Indian merchant chambers lifting spirits of the corporates on the evening of 1 Dec 2020.
Kotak Mahindra, VIP Industries Ltd., CRISIL Ltd., GSK Pharmaceuticals Ltd. and many other reputed companies were awarded in 

CFBP holds its 32nd Jamnalal Bajaj Awards

New Delhi [India] , December 3 (ANI): On December 3, 1971 around 4 pm, Gen Yahya Khan left the President's House to go to the Air Command Centre to launch the pre-emptive air strikes on India. Just then, according to Arshad Sami Khan, Yahya's ADC, an unusually large vulture appeared from nowhere and landed a few meters ahead of his jeep, blocking the driveway to the exit gate.
The vulture refused to move even when Gen. Ab

Baloch, Pashtun struggle similar to East Pakistan's separation

South Africa is looking to raise about $400 million from the sale of a stake in its bankrupt national airline, according to people familiar with the situation, a plan likely to lower the chances of finding a partner to aid its revival.The funds would be used to re-capitalise the reformed South African Airways, the people said, asking not to be identified because the information hasn't been made public. The gover

Govt seeks $400 million from buyer for stake in SAA

Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh) [India], December 3 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh Governor Biswa Bhusan Harichandan participated as Chief Guest at the "Hygiene Matters" seventh WASH Conclave organised by UNICEF and the National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR).
Addressing the participants at the 7th WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) Conclave via virtual mode from Raj Bhavan on Wednesday, Andhra Pradesh Go

Ensure drinking water supply to all by 2024: Andhra Guv

Members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) and the South Africa Cabin Crew Association (SACCA) marched to the Kempton Park police station on Wednesday to lay criminal charges against current and former executives and board members of South African Airways (SAA) and its subsidiary SAA Technical (SAAT).In the view of the two unions, this is due to the board members and executives during 

SAA unions lay criminal charges against board members, executives

Lahore [Pakistan], December 2 (ANI): Pakistan's Lahore on Wednesday ranked as the third-most polluted city in the world, as per data by IQAir, a Swiss air technology company.
According to IQAir, at the time of filing this report, Lahore's Air Quality Index was recorded five times over the upper limit of a good range, reported Geo News.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency regards air quality as satisfactory i

Lahore ranked as third-most polluted city

Passengers arrive at Terminal 2 building of the Shanghai Pudong International Airport in east China's Shanghai, Nov. 24, 2020. (Xinhua/Ding Ting)BEIJING, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- Delta Air Lines has resumed nonstop flight services on its Shanghai-Seattle and Shanghai-Detroit routes starting Dec. 2, according to the airline.These flights will no longer need to stop in Seoul-Incheon, providing more convenience

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