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Increasing trade finance gap has been impeding growth, jobs, and poverty reduction across the globe. The COVID-19 impact widened the gap by 15 per cent in 2020 in comparison to 2018. Moreover, despite various measures to support the Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs), the sector that employs the majority of workforce, during the pandemic, 40 per cent of trade finance applications rejected by banks were from SMEs.

Greece is facing big challenges in terms of the country’s political situation as also the economic directions. For the last two years, Greece has seemed as if it is switching between two national costumes. The winter one consists of rising coronavirus deaths, decimated hospitals, unemployment, business closures, severe restrictions, and authoritarianism. Then, after May, Greece puts on its summer clothes to welcome the foreign guests. And from October, we’re back to the satanic mills, with the government blaming the crisis on “irresponsible citizens,” just like usual.

Chilean author and human rights advocate Ariel Dorfman recently memorialized Orlando Letelier, former Chilean President Salvador Allende’s foreign minister. Agents of dictator Augusto Pinochet murdered Letelier in Washington in 1976. Dorfman noted that Chile and the United States were “on excellent, indeed obscenely excellent, terms (like they are today, shamefully, between the United States and the corrupt regime in Honduras).”

With Mamata Banerjee getting ready for a major intervention in the national politics and project her Trinamool Congress as the only genuine dynamic organization with Congress legacy , Rahul Gandhi has acquired a proactive stance and working tirelessly to present the Indian National Congress, the grand old party, as the only alternate to the BJP.

October 12 marked 16 years of the RTI Act. The Act supposedly empowered “we the people” with the right to seek information so that governments could be held accountable. The baseline property was that “all citizens shall have the right to information.” Did the Act guarantee that absolute right? According to one report, the Act was “weakened absolutely and decisively.”

Jaipur: Bengaluru’s M Dharma dominated round two with a second straight eight-under 62, to open up a three-shot lead at 16-under 124 at the Rs. 40 lakh Jaipur Open at the par-70 Rambagh Golf Club (RGC) here on Wednesday.

New Delhi: India’s five-member Team CS:GO and Tekken 7 athlete Hitesh Khorwal put up impressive performances at the Regional Qualifiers and qualified for the Finals of the 13th Esports World Championship.

Chandigarh: In-form Amandeep Drall justified her top billing with a flawless 4-under 68 to top the leaderboard after the first round in the 10th leg of the Hero Women's Pro Golf Tour at the Chandigarh Golf Club here on Wednesday.

That out of a population of 100000 in our country 32 persons die due to Tuberculosis every year, is a matter of grave concern and shame. Recently we have seen death of large number of children having fallen prey to Dengue fever and Encephalitis in Uttar Pradesh. Similar is the situation with Diarrhoea, Malaria and many other communicable diseases. Needless to mention the havoc caused by the COVID Pandemic where we failed to prevent several thousand deaths because of mismanagement and skewed priorities. It is not only the communicable diseases; the non-communicable diseases too are on the rise.

LUCKNOW: Battleground Uttar Pradesh is ready for assembly polls with three important opposition leaders former chief ministers Akhilesh Yadav of Samajwadi Party and Mayawati of BSP and Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi launching their election campaign.