PM Shehbaz Sharif orders joint investigation into the Besham terrorist attack on Chinese nationals. The meeting discussed in detail the heinous attack on innocent civilians working on a development project, meant to contribute to energy and water security of Pakistan.
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The benchmark Sensex and Nifty indices are likely to open higher on March 28. The market erased previous session's losses helped by buying in heavyweights and auto, realty, power and capital goods stocks on March 27. On the lower side, the index may take immediate support at 22,070, followed by 22,036 and 21,983 levels. We have collated a list of important headlines across news platforms.
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Nirmala Sitharaman said she declined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president JP Nadda’s offer to contest the Lok Sabha elections from Tamil Nadu or Andhra Pradesh citing lack of money. In a lighter vein she added that the Consolidated Fund of India does not belong to her. The poll panel’s limits on spending by parties are not adhered to, as parties find ingenuous ways of justifying spending over the prescribed cap.
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Kenya received provisional approval for the Yr. 2 PEPFAR Country Operational plan (COP) – USD 322,000,000 (KES43B) funding for HIV response whose implementation will run from 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2025. This was announced during the COP 23 approval meeting.
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Table 1 Correlation matrix and principal component analysis results We use the PCA approach to construct the quality of governance and ICT indices. The results in Panel A1 of Table 1 show evidence of high and moderate collinearity between these indicators. On average, government health expenditure accounted for only 1.60 percent of THE, with a standard deviation of 96.93 USD, indicating significant variations between countries. Countries in the final club 1 are the worst-performing among African countries regarding OOPHE per capita.
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Jadeveon Clowney agrees to a two-year, $20 million contract with incentives. The player is coming off a strong season with the Baltimore Ravens in 2023. He will play outside linebacker in Carolina's 3-4 defensive scheme.
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Yahoo Sports Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger & SI’s Pat Forde kick off the podcast. Forde believes the combination of early upsets coupled with big time programs and storylines moving on to the second weekend will only help the tournament's interest.
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Super Eagles captain, Kenneth Omeruo, has assured that Nigeria will not falter in their bid to qualify for the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada. The Eagles missed the last edition of the competition in Qatar in 2022 and are currently third in Group C with two points behind leaders Rwanda and South Africa. This comes after their loss to Mali in an international friendly game played on Tuesday in Marrakech, Morocco.
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Elon Musk announced a significant change in subscription offerings for users of the platform. Users with over 2,500 verified subscriber followers will now receive Premium services at no additional cost. Premium+ subscribers will have the privilege of accessing GrokAI.
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5G recorded a marginal increase from 1.04 per cent recorded in December 2023. 2G subscriptions continued to dominate, representing 57.78 per cent of connections in January 2024. MTN Nigeria led the commercial launch of 5G activities in September 2022.
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