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Times Business Awards 2021 is an initiative done by The Times Group to recognise and honour the trailblazers from Kolkata and celebrate the essence of their excellence. It was a grand event when the business community gathered to celebrate entrepreneurial excellence. Other dignitaries from different walks of life joined in to cheer the entrepreneurs who shone during these trying times in their respective fields. The chief guest of the function, Anupam Kher, said: “ It’s lovely to be back in the City of Joy. ” ( L to R - Lamp lighting ceremony by Subrata Chakraborty, Bratya Basu, Koel Mallick, Nusrat Jahan, Praveen Srivastava, Jacques Bartz ) Times Business Awards 2021: Winner List Times Best manufacturer of Structural Tubes - Tata Structura Times Leading Cement Brand - Ambuja Cement Times Best management school - IIM, Kolkata Times Leading Surface Disinfectant Spray – Savlon Times Best Cardiac & Multi-Speciality Hospital - Rabindranath Tagore International ... » Learn More about Times Business Awards Kolkata 2021: Recognizing brands & celebrating their excellence in the business world

M. Sreeshankar sailed past 8m for the fourth time in his life while winning the men’s long jump in the Indian Grand Prix-2 in Patiala on Thursday. The 21-year-old had problems with the board for a long time till his last-round effort of 8.05m. “Almost all my jumps were 20 to 25cm behind the board, even in the last my toe just touched the board,” the National record holder told The Hindu . National record holder Annu Rani was consistent in women’s javelin, Asian Games champion Tajinderpal Singh won the men’s shot put comfortably while Arokia Rajiv upset National record holder Muhammed Anas in the men’s 200m. The showdown between Dutee Chand and Hima Das did not materialise with the latter skipping the 100m. Dutee won the 100m while Hima took the 200m. The results: Men: 100m: 1. Krishnakumar Rane (10.71s); 2. Amiya Kumar (10.74); 3. Amit Tiwari (10.81). 200m: 1. Arokia Rajiv (21.24s); 2. Muhammed Anas (21.44); 3. Ashok Kumar (21.80). 400m: 1. Amoj Jacob (46.00s); 2. ... » Learn More about Indian GP-2 | Sreeshankar lights up the day

BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping announced on Thursday that China has scored a "complete victory" in its fight against poverty. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, said absolute poverty has been eradicated in the world's most populous country. Xi made the announcement while addressing a grand gathering held in Beijing to mark the country's accomplishments in poverty alleviation and honor its model poverty fighters. Over the past eight years, the final 98.99 million impoverished rural residents living under the current poverty line have all been lifted out of poverty. All the 832 impoverished counties and 128,000 impoverished villages have been removed from the poverty list. Since the launch of the reform and opening up in the late 1970s, 770 million impoverished rural residents have shaken off poverty when calculated in accordance with China's current poverty line. China has ... » Learn More about Xi declares ‘complete victory’ in eradicating absolute poverty in China

Video Player Close by Xinhua writers Li Laifang, Lou Chen and Lyu Qiuping BEIJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- China, the world's most populous country, on Thursday declared that it has eliminated absolute poverty. The feat means China has solved absolute poverty, which has existed for thousands of years. The nation's people have now realized their long-cherished wish for ample food and clothing as well as comfortable housing. Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that China has scored a "complete victory" in its fight against poverty and accomplished the arduous task of eliminating absolute poverty, hailing the achievement as another miracle of mankind that will "go down in history." Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the announcement while addressing a grand gathering held in Beijing to mark the country's poverty alleviation accomplishments and award model poverty fighters. ... » Learn More about China Focus: China takes historic step by eliminating absolute poverty

Video Player Close BEIJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- When Mao Zedong stood on Tian'anmen Rostrum in Beijing to declare the birth of New China in 1949, a Herculean task stood before him and the Communist Party of China (CPC) that he led: feeding and clothing 540 million Chinese people, nearly 90 percent of whom lived in rural areas. "Poverty is not socialism," "socialism means eliminating poverty," and "we must keep abreast of the times; that is the purpose of our reform," said Deng Xiaoping, the visionary chief architect of China's reform and opening-up which began in 1978 when the country's incidence of rural poverty was 97.5 percent. Eradicating poverty is a war China must win, with the hardest and most arduous tasks lie in the country's rural areas and poverty-stricken regions. In 2020, all of China's nearly 100 million rural residents living below the current poverty line shook off poverty after eight years of arduous efforts. The historical feat of eradicating absolute ... » Learn More about China Focus: Is China’s poverty cure replicable?

Video Player Close number of foreigners visiting Turkey stood at 12.7 million in 2020, dropping by 71.7 percent from the previous year mainly because of global travel restrictions and lockdowns, the Culture and Tourism Ministry announced recently. (Xinhua/Xu Suhui) ISTANBUL, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- Following a grim 2020 marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, Turkey's tourism sector anticipates better results this year amid a vaccination rollout, but a return to pre-pandemic times remains elusive for now, industry insiders say. Choked off by the coronavirus, the number of foreigners visiting Turkey stood at 12.7 million in 2020, dropping by 71.7 percent from the previous year mainly because of global travel restrictions and lockdowns, the Culture and Tourism Ministry announced recently. Meanwhile, the Turkish Statistical Institute revealed that Turkey's tourism revenues slipped by 65.1 percent year on year to 12.6 billion U.S. dollars last year. In 2019, Turkey's tourism ... » Learn More about Turkey’s tourism industry eyes rebound after grim year

Video Player Close Photo taken on Feb. 24, 2021 shows the COVID-19 vaccines donated by China at the Maputo International Airport in Maputo, Mozambique. A batch of COVID-19 vaccines donated by China arrived here on Wednesday to help the African country fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, and it was also the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines received by the country. (Photo by Israel Zefanias/Xinhua) MAPUTO, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- A batch of COVID-19 vaccines donated by China arrived here on Wednesday to help the African country fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, and it was also the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines received by the country. Speaking after a delivery ceremony at the airport, Mozambican Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosario praised China's role in fighting the pandemic and thanked the Chinese people for the friendship, adding that "the rapid availability of vaccines against COVID-19 reflects the commitment and determination" of both the Chinese and ... » Learn More about Mozambique receives its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines from China

BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday hailed the country's achievement of eradicating extreme poverty as a miracle that shall "go down in history." Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks while addressing a grand gathering held in Beijing to mark the country's accomplishments in poverty alleviation and award its model poverty fighters. In his speech, Xi declared a "complete victory" in the fight against poverty through joint efforts from all ethnic groups. Over the past eight years, China has lifted 98.99 million poor rural residents under the current poverty line out of poverty, with 832 impoverished counties and 128,000 poor villages removed from the poverty list. Eliminating poverty in rural areas is a key contribution to accomplishing the goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, Xi stressed. Since late 2012, China has built or ... » Learn More about Xi hails China’s poverty eradication miracle

New Delhi: With a goal of promoting local manufacturing, India’s new budget tripled to 15 per cent the duty on imported solar lanterns , while the duty on solar inverters would rise from 5 per cent to 20 per cent. The off-grid solar industry, which already saw a 10 per cent decline in solar lantern sales in 2019-2020, is bracing for an ever bigger hit because of the new tariffs. As a result, off-grid industry executives are calling for a more measured approach that accounts for the current gap in quality local production while ensuring that India’s rural poor are protected from expected price hikes until that gap is filled. “We understand that the increase in duties has the undesirable effect of making certain products in the market expensive for end-customers,” said Piyush Mathur, board member of CLEAN, a trade group representing over 200 distributed renewable energy companies. “However, the new duty structure also offers our member companies an opportunity to build and ... » Learn More about Off-grid solar industry bracing for impact of import duty hike for lanterns and inverters

Video Player Close BEIJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- China's anti-poverty success showcases the courage and strength of the Chinese people under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and its achievements and experience in this regard are inspiring for other developing countries, experts have said. China has secured a "complete victory" in its fight against poverty, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced on Thursday while addressing a grand gathering held in Beijing to mark the country's poverty alleviation accomplishments and honor model poverty fighters. "What impressed me most is the spirit of unity of the Communist Party of China, government, and people across the country," Sithixay Xayavong, director of the Chinese Studies Center at National University of Laos, told Xinhua, adding that what China has done in developing rural infrastructure and training agricultural technicians are worth learning for Laos. Noting that China's remarkable achievements in ... » Learn More about Roundup: Experts say China’s success in poverty reduction inspiring