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Intel Announces World’s Best Gaming Processor: New 9th Gen Intel Core i9-9900K

Intel Unveils Full Desktop Product Lineup for Gaming and Content Creation, Including New 9th Gen Intel Core and Intel Core X-series Processors Debuts 9thGen Intel® Core™ desktop processors, including the Intel Core i9-9900K processor, the world’s best gaming processor, with preorders starting today. Full details on new Intel Core X-series processors designed for premium content …

The Plastic Storm: Ocean Plastic Waste Brewing Tidal Wave of Consumer Activism and Increased Industry Uncertainty, IHS Markit Says

Rapidly changing consumer expectations for plastics and increasing regulations or bans creating market challenges and disconnects for producers   HOUSTON (October 8, 2018) –The growing global plastics sustainability movement is one of the biggest potential disruptors for the plastics industry and is putting future plastics resin demand and billions of dollars of industry investments at …

HDFC Bank launches Accelerator Engagement Programme

  Partners with UK DIT, 91SpringBoard, IvyCamp   Mumbai, October 08, 2018: HDFC Bank today announced the launch of its Accelerator Engagement Programme (AEP) under the Bank’s Centre of Digital Excellence (CODE). In this first-of-its-kind programme, HDFC Bank will partner with leading start-up accelerators from across the world to gain early access to potential fintech …

This festive season, buy a refurbished handset on Togofogo and get Rs. 1 Lakh Personal Accident Insurance

New Delhi, October 08, 2018: Togofogo, the most trusted online marketplace for buying and selling of pre-owned and refurbished smartphones & tablets has today announced offering Rs. 1 Lakh Personal Accident Insurance to its customers on account of any purchase made on the website. The offer is live on Togofogo’s website until 7th November, 2018. …

La Collection by Le Club AccorHotels launches in Asia Pacific

An e-boutique where loyalty members can earn and redeem points La Collection by Le Club AccorHotels has announced the launch of its e-boutique platform in Asia Pacific. Already available in France and Australia, loyalty members residing in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Japan, Macau, Malaysia, New Zealand, The Philippines, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and …

International Panel Calls for End to Global War on Fossil Fuels

OCTOBER 5, 2018 – More than 100 leading scholars from 12 countries have issued a report contending “the global war on fossil fuels … was never founded on sound science or economics” and urging the world’s policymakers to “acknowledge this truth and end that war.” The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), an independent …

Mojhi to offer 4 “Women-Only” tours to African adventure destinations a year

New Delhi, October 5, 2018: Women these days are stepping out of the traditional routines and following their heart’s calling.  Brimming with enthusiasm and excitement to travel the world, a rapidly increasing number of women are leaving their workstations behind and embarking on heart pumping adventures across the world. Mojhi, an adventure marketplace, is celebrating …

UNODC Executive Director congratulates UNODC Goodwill Ambassador Nadia Murad on Nobel Peace Prize

VIENNA, 5 October (UN Information Service) — Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), congratulated Nadia Murad Basee Taha, UNODC Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking, on being awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize today. “The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize is truly a well-deserved …

Perspectives on RBI Monetary Policy

“This is a risky move by the RBI since the market was positioned for a rate hike, purely as a rupee defence. In its absence currency and asset markets could see sharper corrections. A narrow focus on inflation targets perhaps not desirable in the middle of a financial crisis. Change in stance suggests that the …