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Why Aren’t More International Students Choosing India’s Booming B-Schools?
Poets&Quants - California
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July 16, 2025
India is booming. The country’s economy is among the fastest-growing in the world, and its top business schools are steadily rising in global rankings. Yet international students remain a rarity across India’s higher education system — and...
Oil breakthrough: Assam to become first state in India to produce and profit from crude
The Economic Times
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July 16, 2025
Assam is set to become the first state government in India to take a direct role in oil production, marking a significant turning point in the country’s energy sector. The move follows a hydrocarbon discovery in the Namrup Borhat-1 well, located...
NW China's Qinghai pioneers green growth with ecology-first strategy
CGTN
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An international delegation, composed of journalists from the United States, Germany, Japan and Spain, experienced firsthand how the northwestern province of Qinghai is pioneering China's ecological civilization drive through concrete green...
Howard Lutnick's Political Ties May Have Swayed Nvidia's AI Chip Sales to China — Report Claims
International Business Times - United Kingdom
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July 16, 2025
A backroom political deal may have just unlocked billions in frozen AI chip sales to China, with whispers linking Howard Lutnick's Washington connections to Nvidia's sudden pathway back into the world's second-largest economy. The semiconductor...
Taiwan 'hopes' China will follow Olympic Protocol at Chengdu World Games
Focus Taiwan
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July 16, 2025
Taipei, July 16 (CNA) Beijing on Wednesday indicated that Chinese media will continue to refer to Taiwan's team as "Taipei, China" in reports on the upcoming World Games in Chengdu, while Taiwan said it "hopes" the Chinese side will follow the...
China court sentences Japanese man to 3.5-yrs in jail for spying
The Mainichi
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July 16, 2025
Japanese Ambassador to China Kenji Kanasugi, center, speaks to reporters in Beijing on July 16, 2025. (Kyodo) BEIJING (Kyodo) -- A Chinese court on Wednesday sentenced a Japanese man to three years and six months in prison for spying, the Japanese...
From ragi idli to jowar upma, grilled fish with veggies: Check what's on Parliament's new 'health menu' for MPs
DNA India
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July 16, 2025
From ragi millet idli and jowar upma to moong dal chilla and grilled fish with vegetables, Parliament's new 'Health Menu' plans to serve up a plateful of nutrition for lawmakers, officials and visitors to the temple of democracy. Representative...
Myanmar's Exiled Government Slammed for Inertia
Asia Sentinel
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July 16, 2025
By: David Scott Mathieson Physician Tayzar San says get it together Myanmar’s rebel government, the National Unity Government (NUG), has been subject to years of criticism for its uneven performance, with its 20-month-old Operation 1027" offensive...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘doing our best’ to serve China after meeting Beijing officials
Fortune
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Wednesday his firm was “doing our best” to serve China’s vast market for semiconductors after meeting Beijing officials. Huang is in the Chinese capital this week to attend the China International Supply Chain Expo,...
Iran's top diplomat assures China that Tehran not developing nuclear weapons
TASS
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July 16, 2025
BEIJING, July 16. /TASS/. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi assured his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi that Tehran is not engaged in any activities related to the development of nuclear weapons, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry....
Fearing collapse, Taiwan pulls billions from China’s crumbling economy
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
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July 16, 2025
Taipei [Taiwan], July 16 (ANI): Taiwan's financial exposure to China dropped sharply by the end of May, as concerns grow over China's slowing economy and political instability, Focus Taiwan reported. The Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC),...
Ragi Millet Idli To Grilled Fish: Parliament Canteen’s New ‘Healthy' Menu For MPs
News18
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July 16, 2025
Last Updated:July 16, 2025, 17:23 IST Millets, which gained significant national attention during the 2023 International Year of Millets, take the centrestage in the menu. Parliament Monsoon Session will begin from July 21. (PTI)From ragi millet...
Former Intel CEO calls for US sovereign wealth fund to counter China’s tech investments
CTech
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July 16, 2025
Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has called on Washington to create a sovereign wealth fund aimed at safeguarding U.S. leadership in critical technologies, warning that America risks falling behind China without a more coordinated national...
Pakistan, China reaffirm commitment to regional cooperation
GEO TV
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July 16, 2025
Ishaq Dar, Wang Yi meet on SCO summit sidelines. Leaders discuss progress on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. Both express satisfaction with current level of coordination. Pakistan and China have reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening...
(LEAD) Senior diplomats of S. Korea, U.S., Japan to hold talks in Japan this week
Yonhap News Agency
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July 16, 2025
(ATTN: CHANGES dateline; ADDS State Department's comment in paras 6-7) SEOUL/WASHINGTON, July 16 (Yonhap) -- Vice foreign ministers of South Korea, the United States and Japan will hold trilateral talks this week to discuss ways of further...
Korea protests Japan’s repeated claim to Dokdo in 2025 defense white paper
Hankyoreh
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July 16, 2025
Yoshiyasu Iseki, the deputy chief of mission at the Embassy of Japan in Seoul, arrives at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs office in Seoul on July 15, 2025, after being summoned in relation to the Japanese government adopting a defense white paper...
NYT Schlub Tom Friedman Can’t Stop Brown-Nosing Communist China to Attack Trump
NewsBusters
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July 16, 2025
Seriously, what is it with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s obsession with simping for Chinese communists just so he could “muh, get Trump?” Of course, he presents it the other way around: Trump is stupidly aiding the Chinese by being...
New study reveals details of lives of ancient Chinese nobles
Xinhua News Agency
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BEIJING, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Chinese archaeologists have investigated the lives of nobles from the Qin state during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, providing new insights into ancient Chinese social hierarchy, dietary customs and cultural integration....
World News | Nvidia CEO Downplays Role in Lifting US Ban on Chip Sales to China
Latestly
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July 16, 2025
Beijing, Jul 16 (AP) The head of Nvidia downplayed his role in getting the US government to lift a ban on selling an advanced computer chip in China and said it will take time to ramp up production once orders for the AI-processor come in. CEO...
America was already losing to China on clean energy. Trump just sealed its fate
CNN
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July 16, 2025
Follow The new clean energy regime can be summarized in one incredible statistic: China installed more wind and solar power in a single year than the total amount of renewable energy currently operating in the United States. America was already...