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West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra   He was speaking at a CII event in Kolkata. West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra on Tuesday said suspicious transactions relating to GST is going up, while ₹46,000 crore is yet to be recovered from penal interest charges arising out of delayed GSTR…

For the better part of a decade, observers of Japan’s conservative film industry have predicted that its repeatedly utilized formula would begin to fail. That is to say, audiences would tire of the continued churn of films adapted from legacy content, such as manga and television programs. It hasn’t happened.…

IT IS PROBABLY the first time in years that Lebanon has wanted to turn down a loan. With the economy in free fall the country’s new government, seated in January after months of horse-trading, has reluctantly turned to the IMF for help. They held a first round of talks on…

IT IS PROBABLY the first time in years that Lebanon has wanted to turn down a loan. With the economy in free fall the country’s new government, seated in January after months of horse-trading, has reluctantly turned to the IMF for help. They held a first round of talks on…

World leaders, executives, bankers, and policymakers attend the 50th annual meeting of the World ... Economic Forum in Davos from Jan. 21 - 24. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg © 2020 Bloomberg Finance LP At the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos last month, a group of 140 of the world’s largest…

Browsing the agenda for last year’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, it’s reasonable to think that “cryptocurrency” was quite literally the Topic Which Shall Not be Named. Not a single session referred to digital currencies, and yet the underlying blockchain technology was very much on the agenda. Industry…

Hao Li and the team from Pinscreen recently demonstrated real-time interactive face replacement, effectively allowing people to walk up to a screen and see themselves in a live, real-time ‘deepfake’. The installation was at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Switzerland. The WEF was held in Davos, a town in…

theearnestproject EARNE$T announces the upcoming auction of The Davos Collection, a portfolio of artifacts covertly harvested during the 2018 WEF at Davos. The Collection presents the unique opportunity to gain genetic insights into a most influential population and a class traditionally resilient to data collection. 2018 Davos attendees included Donald…

A topic at the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos this year was the question “How do we upskill a billion people by 2030?”Product Owners and Scrum Masters are specifically named on the WEF list of Jobs of Tomorrow. All the other skills that Development Teams need in the digital…

For the World Economic Forum to truly achieve its mission in “bringing together people from all walks of life” it must do more to embrace the world’s fastest-growing and youngest population, writes Elizabeth Rossiello. Making my way around Davos last week, one aspect was missing in general: Africans. Among the…