Friday, March 31, 2023

EU

Smartphone makers may be forced to bring back removable batteries

The European Union (EU) has now agreed on new laws and regulations aimed at making batteries more sustainable and reusable which might force smartphone makers to bring back removable batteries, the media reported.This move comes after making USB Type-C...

Meloni takes over as Italy’s first woman PM

Giorgia Meloni officially took over Sunday as Italy’s first woman prime minister at the helm of the country’s most right-wing government since World War II.Four weeks after her post-fascist Brothers of Italy party won the elections, Meloni joined outgoing...

Medicines agency says EU is seeing ‘new wave’ of COVID-19

A senior official at the European Union medicines agency said Thursday that many nations in the bloc are seeing a new wave of COVID-19, driven by highly-transmissible mutations of the omicron variant. The European Medicines Agency’s Marco Cavaleri told...

Chinese President Xi hits out at US, EU for imposing sanctions against Russia

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday hit out at the US and EU for imposing sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, saying the act of wilfully imposing curbs will harm people around the world.History has shown that...

India, EU to launch trade, technology council

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen agreed on Monday to launch the EU-India Trade and Technology Council, a strategic coordination mechanism to tackle challenges at the nexus of trade, trusted technology and security.It...

MGM College EU orientation programme

MGM College Evangelical Union held its orientation programme on March 3 in the College auditorium. At the launching programme, welcome address was delivered by the College Principal Rev.Fr.Dr.P.S.Varghese. Hundreds of students attended the programme which was led by college...

India on track to achieve $400 billion exports: Piyush Goyal

India is on track to achieve the USD 400-billion export target in the current fiscal and is negotiating trade agreements with countries like the UAE, the EU and Canada, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Wednesday.In a...