[ad_1] by Arshid Hussain Peer and Munshir C The current budget has allocated a higher share to capital expenditure which is a step in the right direction. Besides, the recent budget is optimistic about meeting its fiscal target in the coming year. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman along with JammuContinue Reading
[ad_1] Warren Gatland has said he would not support his Wales players should they carry out a threat of strike action when England are due to visit Cardiff in the Six Nations a week on Saturday. A dispute between the players and the governing body intensified on Tuesday when theContinue Reading
[ad_1] Now it’s time to get angry. Chelsea were slick, measured and rather impressive – until they reached the final third. Chances came, chances went and, when Graham Potter looks over the statistics and thinks of all the near misses, he can be forgiven if yet another sloppy display fromContinue Reading
[ad_1] The Welsh Rugby Union and the Welsh regions have said there is “no room for manoeuvre” on the budget for player contracts in Wales despite the threat of strike action putting next week’s Six Nations fixture against England in jeopardy. Nigel Walker, the WRU’s interim chief executive, met withContinue Reading
[ad_1] Washington: Cash-strapped Pakistan and the IMF have failed to reach a staff-level agreement on a much-needed USD 1.1 billion bailout package aimed at preventing the country from going bankrupt. After 10 days of talks here, discussions between the two sides remained inclusive, with the Washington-based global lender saying thatContinue Reading
[ad_1] Images of a jailed Iranian doctor and human rights activist have circulated on social media platforms after he declared a hunger strike in support of the ongoing anti-hijab protests since the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody. 53-year-old Farhad Meysami, who has been imprisoned since 2018 for supportingContinue Reading
[ad_1] San Francisco: Dozens of third-party employees at YouTube Music, hired by Alphabet sub-contractor tech company Cognizant, have gone on strike over alleged unfair labour practices. According to a report in The Verge, 40 striking workers alleged that both companies’ management have “leveraged unfair labour practices to get in theContinue Reading
[ad_1] Tehran: Iranian award-winning director, Jafar Panahi, who has been imprisoned in Tehran for six months, announced that he has begun a hunger strike to protest the authorities’ refusal to release him on bail pending a retrial. The note from Jafar Panahi, starting of his hunger strike, was published onContinue Reading
[ad_1] London: Britain on Wednesday faced what has been dubbed the biggest industrial action in a decade as teachers, university lecturers, train and bus drivers and public sector workers went on a strike to demand better pay conditions. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s official spokesperson admitted that the mass strike actionContinue Reading
[ad_1] LONDON — Public sector workers on strike, the cost-of-living climbing, and a government on the ropes. “It’s hard to miss the parallels” between the infamous ‘Winter of Discontent’ of 1978-79 and Britain in 2023, says Robert Saunders, historian of modern Britain at Queen Mary, University of London. Admittedly, theContinue Reading