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Back as chief coach of the Indian women's hockey team after a four-year hiatus, Sjoerd Marijne is focussed on bringing back unity, discipline and culture in the side, with eyes firmly set on creating a group to qualify for 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
World Bank is likely to double loan sanctions to India to about $3 billion annually for the next four years, as part of its Country Assistance Strategy to be announced in New Delhi on Friday.
ilver continues to outperform the yellow metal, with the gold-to-silver price ratio declining to its lowest level since 2013. The ratio fell to around 57 on Wednesday in the international market, from a five-year high of 100.8 at the end of April 2025.
The publicly exposed data includes 48 million accounts on Gmail, 4 million on Yahoo, 17 million on Facebook, 6.5 million on Instagram, 3.4 million on Netflix, 1.5 million on Outlook, etc.
"India did a self-assessment (by the Committee on Financial Sector Assessment, or CFSA) of its financial sector in 2009. This has given us the confidence to get our financial sector evaluated by international financial institutions like IMF and the World Bank. We have voluntarily sought a full-fledged Financial Sector Assessment Programme," Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said at the second International Finance Conference at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.
"Death is better for us than your beatings. That is why we are committing suicide... Sorry Papa."
The International Monetary Fund and World Bank heads want their shareholders' consensus before working to rebuild Iraq, but some countries worry the United States is trying to use the multilateral lenders to cut out the United Nations.
Gold imports climbed 349.22 per cent to $12.07 billion in January, while silver imports rose 127 per cent to $2 billion.
Under Aadhar, more than 1 billion people have their online identity.
Appreciating India's initiatives in containing spread of AIDS, vice president and corporate secretary of the World Bank Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said the World Bank is working closely with New Delhi to further improve the health scenario in the country.
India face arch-rivals Pakistan in a high-stakes U-19 World Cup Super Six clash, seeking revenge for their crushing Asia Cup final defeat in Bulawayo.
A World Bank reports says the country has shown signs of "some softening" that could slow down the pace of growth slightly in 2011.
The Washington-based multilateral lender had extended only $2.2 billion loan to the country for the year ended June 2009.
The World Bank has agreed to provide give a $900 million financial aid to Pakistan which is facing devastating flood that has affected 14 million people.
The Union Budget on Sunday proposed a tax holiday till 2047 for foreign companies that provide cloud services to customers globally using data centres located in India, signalling the government's push to make the country a major hub for AI and digital infrastructure.
The Union Budget on Sunday proposed a tax holiday till 2047 for foreign companies that provide cloud services to customers globally using data centres located in India, signalling the government's push to make the country a major hub for AI and digital infrastructure.
The World Bank has approved a $348 million loan to help improve the quality, capacity and safety of the road network in Tamil Nadu.
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, says a Financial Times report, had ordered the Bank's HR chief to give Shaha Riza, a lady official of the bank with whom Wolfowitz was romantically linked, a huge pay hike and promotion.
The Pakistani delegation, in its meetings with World Bank officials, insisted on early appointment of the judges and setting up the court.
Pharma firm Ambalal Sarabhai Enterprises Ltd, Mumbai-based Chemito Technologies, New Delhi-based Global Spin Weave Ltd and its director Sudhir Agrawal, have been banned from participating in any World Bank-financed or executed projects.
Notwithstanding US reservations over the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline, the World Bank has described it as a win-win deal and expressed readiness to fund the $7 billion project.
Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, the executive secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, stressed that poverty eradication has a lot to do with the agenda on biodiversity which needs to be understood by all.
The ministry is also holding a road show aimed at projecting investment opportunities in the sector. The visit is significant as the ministry is scouting investment of $70 billion for road construction in the next 3-4 years, out of which about $45 billion is expected to come from the private sector, including $10 billion from foreign investors.
'Global uncertainty is something which definitely occupies the minds of officials when we are preparing for the Budget.'
New Delhi will substantially reduce tariffs on industrial and agricultural goods while continuing to protect sensitive sectors. Tariffs on some agricultural products that are not traditionally considered sensitive will be brought down to zero, while in the case of relatively sensitive items, duties will be reduced in a graded manner and quotas will be imposed.
Leading non-banking financial company (NBFC) Shriram Finance on Friday said Japan-based MUFG Bank would invest Rs 39,618 crore, or $4.4 billion, to acquire a 20 per cent stake on a fully diluted basis through a preferential issue of equity shares.
All three Bharti group companies outperformed in CY25 but the biggest gain came from Bharti Airtel, the flagship.
What is required is a radical reworking of business processes and incentives to which staff respond.
Stocks of IT companies, including Wipro and Megasoft, took a beating at the bourses after it was revealed on Monday that the two firms were barred from doing businesses with the World Bank.
Foxnews.com on Tuesday reported that the World Bank ban started in September this year "due to alleged malpractice's including bribery". The news report said the World Bank debarment -- the harshest sanction ever made by the bank since 2004 -- was meted out for 'improper benefit to bank staff' and 'lack of documentation on invoices'.When contacted, a Satyam spokesperson said that "the company does not comment on individual clients".
World Bank report on Thursday called for initiatives at the policy and institutional level to tap the economic potential it offers.
The World Bank has asked the government to cut a slew of duties, including entertainment tax on broadband Internet connections in some states, on telecom services.
The ministry is seeking a $2.96-billion World Bank funding for double-laning of 6,300 km of single-lane highways, out of a total of about 19,000 km single-lane highways in the country.
Promising youngster Jadumani Singh upstaged seasoned campaigner Amit Panghal to storm into the final
