—File photo Measures to increase IT exports have been included in the federal budget for the upcoming fiscal year 2023-24. According to the budget document, the export of the IT sector has been targeted to increase to 4 billion 50 million dollars. It is proposed to introduce a fixed tax regime in the budget of…
A Russian court fined WhatsApp 3 million rubles for not removing banned content. Last year, Moscow declared WhatsApp’s source company, Meta Platforms, an ‘extremist’ organization. Other Metta services Facebook and Instagram are banned in Russia, and have also been fined for their content. Russia fined WhatsApp for refusing to comply with the country’s data laws…
The total population of Saudi Arabia has exceeded 32.1 million. According to the Department of Statistics of Saudi Arabia from Riyadh, the Department of Statistics has announced the population data until 2022. According to Arab media, the number of Saudi citizens in the total population is 188 million. The Saudi Department of Statistics said that…
Russia has given passports to 1.5 million citizens of the annexed territories of Ukraine. Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said that passports have been given to citizens of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson of Ukraine. Moscow announced the annexation of these areas to Russia in September last year. According to the foreign news agency, Russia…
America needs 1 million electricians for its environmental goals. According to Rewiring America, the U.S. needs 1 million electricians to install solar panels, build electric vehicle charging stations and heat pumps by 2035 as part of its carbon-free electricity plan. According to data from the Bureau of Labor, the annual salary of an electrician in…
A Singapore court ordered Credit Suisse to pay $926 million to the former Georgian prime minister. Credit Suisse was bought by another Swiss bank, UBS, in March amid fears that the bank might go bankrupt due to various scandals. Former Prime Minister of Georgia Budzina Ivansholi filed lawsuits against Credit Suisse in Singapore, New Zealand…
The United States has announced 245 million dollars in humanitarian aid for Sudan, an African country suffering from civil war. According to the news agency, US Secretary of State Anthony Blanken says that they are giving 245 million dollars in humanitarian aid to Sudan and its neighboring countries. He added that the aid is being…
According to WMO, weather, climate and water-related hazards caused close to 12,000 disasters between 1970 and 2021. Developing countries were hit hardest, seeing nine in 10 deaths and 60 per cent of economic losses from climate shocks and extreme weather. WMO said that Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States suffered a “disproportionately” high…
More than seven million children under the age of five remain malnourished and in need of urgent nutrition aid, and over 1.9 million boys and girls* are at risk of dying from severe malnutrition. As the region comes out of one of the worst droughts in 40 years, vulnerable communities have lost cattle, crops, and entire livelihoods over the past three years of failed rains. “The crisis…
A wave of deadly attacks reportedly targeted West Darfur’s capital, El-Geneina, in recent days, while the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said that more than 700 people had been killed and nearly 5,300 injured nationwide, after five weeks of intense clashes and bombardment. “Over one million people have now been recorded as displaced, within Sudan…
