MUMBAI: SBI chairman C S Setty said most banks don’t have the risk appetite to fund startups at an early stage. Nevertheless, he indicated the bank’s readiness to participate in funding from the Series B stage and beyond. “We need to work out an ecosystem where the equity support from the banking system is also…
Three and a half decades after reunification, a line runs through Germany where the Iron Curtain once stood. Instead of barbed wires and dogs, that line now divides Germans by measures like income and unemployment — and increasingly by the willingness to vote for extremist parties. If East Germany were still its own country, the…
US Department of Education The US Department of Education has launched an investigation into transgender support policies across five Northern Virginia school districts, potentially impacting over 400 schools across various districts in the state. The inquiry focuses on whether these districts violated Title IX regulations and a recent executive order by former President Donald Trump…
BJP MP Ramesh Awasthi received a warm welcome in Kanpur after his involvement in the party’s Delhi election campaign. Awasthi, who played a role in BJP’s efforts in Gandhinagar and Rajouri Garden, was greeted by supporters at the railway station with slogans and garlands.In the Delhi elections, BJP’s Arvinder Singh Lovely won Gandhinagar with 56,858…
President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an excerpt from an NBC interview published Friday night that Ukraine had a low chance of surviving Russia’s assault without U.S. support. In the excerpt from “Meet the Press with Kristen Welker,” Mr. Zelensky said: “Probably it will be very, very, very difficult. And of course, in all the difficult…
Vice President JD Vance’s defense of a divisive far-right political party in Germany was the latest jarring example of his willingness to embrace a provocative political issue and showed how hard-line immigration policy has emerged as the thread tightly knitting together a global patchwork of populist movements. The thrust of Mr. Vance’s speech on Friday…
Representative image (AP) Even as a US military aircraft carrying several Indians, who were deported from the US, arrived in Amritsar on Wednesday afternoon; the North American Punjabi Association (NAPA), a global non-partisan and non-sectarian organisation serving the Punjabi diaspora worldwide; urged the Punjab government to establish a substantial rehabilitation fund to support the young…
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader and member of parliament from West Bengal’s Asansol, Shatrughan Sinha, visited Delhi on Sunday to extend his support to Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal and chief minister Atishi, who is contesting from the Kalkaji Assembly constituency.Sinha, leader of a key ally in the INDIA bloc, took part in…
Alex Soros, son of American billionaire George Soros and chairman of his Open Society Foundations (OSF), met Bangladesh Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday. Sharing details of the meeting held in Dhaka, Yunus said that the delegation, led by Soros and OSF President Binaifer Nowrojee, expressed their support for the interim government’s reform agenda and…
The top American envoy to the Middle East was to meet on Wednesday with Israel’s prime minister and, potentially, visit the Gaza Strip to reinforce a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas that, if made permanent, would allow thousands more displaced Palestinians to return to their homes. The envoy, Steven Witkoff, was expected to inspect…