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Hinduja family members jal: A Swiss criminal court has sentenced four members of the wealthy Hinduja family to between four and 4 1/2 years in prison for exploiting their domestic workers. The court, however, dismissed more severe charges of human t...

India rejects UN High Commissioner Volker Turk's comments on foreign influence laws, emphasizing transparency and accountability for all. Ambassador Arindam Bagchi disagrees with Turk's remarks in the Global Update 56th session of the Human Rights C...

Prof. Alexander Dynkin discussed the significance of the Primakov Readings International Forum and the role of BRICS in shaping global economic trends. He emphasized India's pivotal role in BRICS and highlighted the growth potential in Russia-India ...

In this episode of the ET Circle multimedia series, discover what differentiates leading a legal services firm compared to a conventional business, the significance of a value system for building institutions that outlive physical assets, and enduri...

Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) estimates that failing to address climate change, notably heat, could cost India up to 2.3% of GDP by 2023, and 6.7% by 2050. India can't roll the heat back. But we can prevent it from charring our econo...

In the debut episode of the new podcast series "Doing Business in India," Jonathan Hymer, the Minister Counsellor for Commercial Affairs at the United States Embassy in New Delhi, welcomed Alexander Slater, the Managing Director of the US India Busi...

Indian pharma CEOs met senior officials in FDA and other key agencies to start a conversation. Even if a little late, given the looming presidential election, the proposal deserves attention. The basic idea is to capitalise on India's expertise and ...

Guwahati: Assam will soon get an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) with IIM Ahmedabad mentoring the new IIM in Guwahati. Assam's Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who previously advocated for this, announced the approval and highlighted the col...

Thousands of workers are trafficked to Southeast Asia to commit cyber fraud on their fellow citizens over social media. Ex-serviceman Botcha Sankhar, who was forced to work in the scam compounds of Cambodia for six months, unravels the modus operand...

Bihar's 2016 alcohol ban prevented 24 lakh cases of daily and weekly alcohol consumption and 21 lakh cases of intimate partner violence, according to a study published in The Lancet Regional Health Southeast Asia journal. The ban is also estimated t...

Emphasizing the significance of this breakthrough, Dr. Rishi Maiti, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati and co-author of this work, said, "This novel nano-patterning technique using optically induced strain opens doors to a myri...

"Being the global bank that we are, what we do, therefore, is connect India to the rest of the world and connect the rest of the world to India and GIFT is clearly onshoring what was happening offshore," HSBC India CEO Hitendra Dave told ET.

Delhi faces extreme heat due to climate change, impacting outdoor workers, low-income communities, and informal houses. Heat action plans lack adjustments like school timings, water use suspension, and power supply to health facilities. Met office i...

GIFT City to launch foreign currency settlement system chaired by K Rajaraman, IFSCA, supported by RBI and Clearing Corporation of India. System to settle US dollar transactions between IBUs in real-time. CCIL subsidiary to operate FCSS, aiming for ...

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman Sreedhara Panicker Somanath on Sunday attended a programme at a school and said that the space agency aims to explore human space flight activities and build space stations.

As this year’s summer, with its extended heat waves and record temperatures, warns, how to adapt to a warmer world is no longer a hypothetical question. A new study by World Weather Attribution says climate change has made a 30-day heat wave in Sout...

Colonel Waibhav Anil Kale (Retd), a former Indian Army officer working with the United Nations (UN), was killed in Gaza's Rafah region when his vehicle was attacked. This marks the UN's first international casualty since the Israel-Hamas conflict. S...

Infosys, AEEE, and IIHS collaborate on 'ASSURE' to decarbonize India's commercial building sector, aiming for 100 million sq. ft. of high-performance buildings by 2030. The initiative includes experts, lighthouse projects, and engagement with financ...

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