Indians have moved on since the Queen took the throne. But they’d like the Koh-i-Noor back

15 September 2022 Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 Comment

India was still a British colony when Queen Elizabeth II was born in 1926, but it had been independent for nearly five years by the time she became Britain’s monarch in February 1952.

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Honoring Our Soil: Hua Parakore

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Honoring Our Soil: Hua Parakore agnes Wed, 08/31/2022 – 13:39 CSQ Issue 46-3 Indigenous Stewardship: Fulfilling Our Responsibilities to Land and Community September 2022 Read on Issuu Buy a copy Subscribe   Dr. Jessica Hutchings (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Huirapa, Gujarat) is a decolonizing researcher in the areas of Māori food […]

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Red Tape Around Employment Share Schemes Stripped Back

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The Treasury Laws Amendment (Cost of Living Support and Other Measures) Act 2022 (the ESS Act), which received royal assent on 31 March 2022, introduces a new Division 1A into Part 7.12 of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). The ESS Act, which takes effect from 1 October 2022, will significantly […]

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K&L Gates Expands Asset Management and Investment Funds Practice with Miami Of Counsel Addition

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Miami – Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added Carly E. Howard as of counsel in the asset management and investment funds practice. She joins K&L Gates’ Miami office from her independent consultancy, which she founded in 2017 after practicing with large law firms and financial institutions. Howard is […]

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U.S. looks at how to convert coal power plants to nuclear

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Existing coal plants in the United States could be converted to nuclear facilities as part of the clean energy transition, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that details how coal-to-nuclear (C2N) might work. The DOE says the shift to nuclear power at hundreds of […]

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Pakistan Flooding Shows ‘Adapting’ to Climate Change Can Be a Dangerous Illusion

14 September 2022 Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 Comment

A flooded village in Matiari, in the Sindh province of Pakistan. Credit: UNICEF/Asad Zaidi By Philippe BenoitPARIS, Sep 14 2022 (IPS) One third of Pakistan is now under water. The scope of the destruction is difficult to fathom, not just the enormity of the devastation its people are facing today, […]

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Examining ways to promote mobile money use in refugee-hosting areas in Ethiopia

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Examining ways to promote mobile money use in refugee-hosting areas in Ethiopia Sep 14, 2022 jmcquaid Wed, 09/14/2022 – 10:12 Examining ways to promote mobile money use in refugee-hosting areas in Ethiopia Alan de Brauw Shalini Roy Just downloading an app doesn’t guarantee it will be be used. IFPRI Blog […]

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Urgent action needed as 6.9 million children are out of school and 12 million face learning disruptions in Sudan

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Country: Sudan Sources: Save the Children, UN Children’s Fund With the socio-economic crisis, recurring conflicts, and prolonged COVID-19 school closures, once children drop out of school, the chances of girls and boys returning to school are low.

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Hong Kong court sentences speech therapists to 19 months in prison over ‘seditious’ children’s books

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A Hong Kong court on Saturday sentenced five speech therapists to 19 months in prison over children’s books deemed to be seditious, in a case that rights defenders say marks a major blow to free speech amid a tightening of civil liberties in the Chinese territory.

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Litigation Minute: The Changing Landscape of Mass Claims Procedures

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW IN A MINUTE OR LESS As discussed in our 6 September edition of Litigation Minute, mass arbitration filings allow plaintiffs’ lawyers to take advantage of the asymmetry in filing fees that major arbitration institutions charge—to individual claimants versus corporate defendants—to gain significant settlement leverage before any […]

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