New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) The latest proposal from Pakistan's Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) seeks to tax YouTubers based on the number of views they receive, a move that has triggered a major controversy over its coherence, legality, and alignment with the realities of online monetisation, according to a report in Maldives Insight.
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday gave a clarion call for launching the 'Khet Bachao Abhiyan' from Monday to enlighten farmers across the country on the harm that excessive use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides causes to the health of the soil.
Beijing, May 31 (IANS) China's manufacturing activity slowed further in May as new export orders contracted and input costs kept rising, according to a survey by the country's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released on Sunday.
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor which was projected for close to a decade as being a game changer for the Pakistani economy has instead turned out to be “a heavily securitised network of incomplete infrastructure, mounting debt obligations, stalled industrial zones, and growing frustration on both sides,” a report has said.
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) A vast expanse of solar panels is rapidly transforming the white salt deserts of Gujarat’s Rann of Kutch into one of the world’s biggest renewable energy hubs, a report has said.
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) Billionaire Gautam Adani has said that matters related to the Adani Group's legal proceedings in the United States were now "behind us" and the conglomerate was focusing on accelerating investments across energy, transport, logistics and digital infrastructure as part of the next phase of growth.
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) on Sunday released its preliminary report into the serious incident involving a Swiss International Air Lines flight that suffered an engine failure during take-off at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport on April 26.
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) Sridhar Vembu, founder and chief scientist of Zoho Corporation, has cautioned that soaring valuations of some of the world's largest technology companies, fuelled by investor enthusiasm around artificial intelligence (AI), exhibit characteristics of a market bubble that could eclipse the dot-com era.
Ahmedabad, May 31 (IANS) For most of modern history, the sequence was predictable. Physical infrastructure came first -- roads, ports, power plants -- and technology followed, amplifying what had already been built. Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani believes that sequence has fundamentally changed.
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) The government is set to launch ‘MAHA on Water’ (Mission for Advancement in High-Impact Areas for Water), a joint initiative of the Ministry of Jal Shakti and the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), to promote cutting-edge research in priority areas such as water resources management, drinking water, climate resilience and water-use efficiency, it was announced on Sunday.
