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Investment of India’s rising foreign exchange reserves in equity funds, especially index funds, can fetch higher returns as interest rates which have been on a declining trajectory over the last four decades in advanced economies, have…

Berlin, Oct. 18 (UNI/XINHUA) The liberal FDP party has followed in the footsteps of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the Greens by agreeing to enter into official coalition negotiations to form a new government, German media…

UEFA invited bidders on Tuesday to host a 24-team European Championship in 2028, though did not rule out changing the dates and format of the tournament. The European soccer body has been looking at whether to expand the tournament again…

Washington, Oct 13 (UNI/Sputnik) YouTube users have reported a disruption in the service, according to online outage tracker Downdetector. The issues are mainly reported in the United States. Apart from YouTube problem, the users…

What do Jim Corbett, Indira Gandhi, Shekhar Kapur, Supreme Court lawyers, TV professionals and some top advertising professionals have in common? They have all, some time or the other, stayed at The Retreat. Bruce Chatwin, in fact, wrote…

Stockholm, Oct 6 (UNI/Sputnik) The 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Benjamin List from Germany's Max-Planck-Institut and David WC MacMillan from the US Princeton University "for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis,"…

Berlin, Oct 6 (UNI/Sputnik) Christian Social Union (CSU) leader and Bavarian Minister-President Markus Soeder told reporters that German liberals from the Free Democratic Party and the Greens de facto rejected the coalition with the…

India grapplers continued their dismal show for the fourth consecutive day of the World Wrestling Championships at Nye Jordal Amfi, Oslo in Norway. On Tuesday, in the women’s 55kg category, Pinki who reached the bronze medal round lost…

BOSTON: Restricting air traffic between India and Germany is hurting both the economies and the Lufthansa group is eagerly waiting for the Indian government to allow more flights between the two countries, said its CEO Carsten Spohr here on…

Conservative chancellor candidate Armin Laschet won some time in a fight for his political future on Tuesday as lawmakers in his CDU/CSU alliance met to decide what to do after suffering their first national election defeat since 2002.…

Exit polls are in for Germany’s 2021 federal election, with the center-right Christian Democrats and their Bavarian sister party (CDU/CSU) neck-and-neck with the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) on 25%. The environmentalist Greens were…

Berlin, Sep 26 (UNI/Sputnik) Olaf Scholz, the leader of Germany’s Social Democrats, called the outcome of this Sunday’s federal election a success that proved voters wanted to see him as their next chancellor. "I am happy with the election…

Berlin, Sep 26 (UNI/Sputnik) Markus Soeder, the leader of Germany’s Christian Social Union (CSU), said he would support forming a federal coalition government together with the liberals and Greens. The Greens and the liberal Free…

Berlin, Sep 24 (UNI/Sputnik) Outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel said those voting for her conservative CDU/CSU bloc would be voting for a "stable" Germany in this Sunday’s federal election. She told a televised conference in Munich…

New York, Sep 22 (UNI) External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and the other G4 Foreign Ministers - Heiko Maas of Germany, Toshimitsu Motegi of Japan and Carlos França of Brazil, met here on Wednesday during which the grouping “sent a clear…

On a day that India threatened to retaliate against new British travel rules putting those who are vaccinated with Covishield in the category of the “unvaccinated”, the US said it would open up to “fully vaccinated” travellers November…

In 2013, after the sport narrowly dodged an Olympic-sized snub, a desperate International Hockey Federation (FIH) immediately turned towards India for help – and to help. Eight years later, both are smiling – for India, the performances…