According to this year's Worldwide Cost of Living Index, released by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the average cost of living is up 8.1 per cent in 2022, owing to the Russian war in Ukraine and the lingering effects of the pandemic. This year New York and Singapore climbed up to the number 1 position of the world's most expensive cities to live in.
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], December 1 (ANI/NewsVoir): Global stakeholders from the palm oil industry gathered for the RSPO Annual Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RT2022), the first physical meeting to take place since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Zurich [Switzerland]/ Neemrana (Rajasthan) [India], November 29 (ANI/PRNewswire): The Barry Callebaut Group, the world's leading manufacturer of high-quality chocolate and cocoa products, announced the groundbreaking of its third manufacturing facility in India. The new chocolate and compound factory will be located in the Ghiloth industrial area, in the city of Neemrana, about 120 km southwest of Delhi. Upon completion of the new chocolate factory, India will become Barry Callebaut's largest chocolate producing market in Region Asia Pacific. With this announcement, Barry Callebaut's total investment in India over the last 5 years is projected to exceed CHF 50 million.
New Delhi [India], November 22 (ANI/Mediawire): Switzerland Tourism has teamed up with Olympic Gold medallist Neeraj Chopra as its friendship ambassador to promote its notable tourist destinations to the burgeoning Indian travellers. As part of his new role, Chopra will share his experiences exploring the country and its numerous offerings to tourists such as snow sports, hiking, biking and adventure sports.
Famous as 'Babita Ji' of comedy series 'Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah', actress Munmun Dutta recently met with an accident in Germany. She shared her ordeal via Instagram stories.
The social behavior that was previously believed to be exclusive to humans was witnessed in a wild chimpanzee exhibiting an object to its mother purely for sharing. The chimpanzee was seen in the video coaxing her mother to look at a leaf with her while it was being observed by researchers from institutions such as […]
Blood stem cell transplantation is a radical but highly effective therapy for multiple sclerosis. A study has now examined in detail the way in which the treatment curbs the autoimmune disease and how the immune system regenerates afterward. A better understanding of these mechanisms should help the treatment approach, currently approved in only a few countries, to gain wider acceptance.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], November 11 (ANI/NewsVoir): Switzerland Tourism has appointed Olympic Gold medalist Neeraj Chopra as the 'Friendship Ambassador'.
New Delhi [India], November 8 (ANI/SRV): After the raging success of exhibitions across prime cities around the globe such as Los Angeles, and Zurich, on premium interior designing and furnishing products for homes and workspaces, AAR KAY VOX, a foremost door hardware company, has set its goals to conduct 12 such exhibitions in 2023 across Globe.
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], November 3 (ANI/PNN): Chubb, a renowned property and casualty insurance company in partnership with NGO Nirmaan Launched a digital laboratory at ZPHS Gajularamaram, in the Rangareddy District of Telangana, benefitting more than 500 students. The new digital laboratory, which is under Chubb's Disruptive Digital Intervention (DDI) program in India, is part of the company's long-term initiative to support digital literacy in students from marginalized socio-economic backgrounds in Telangana.