Funds for legacy waste treatment in MCC budget
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Tree parks, circle development receive priority
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M.S. Shobha, chairperson, Standing Committee on Taxation, Finance and Appeal, presenting the MCC budget for 2021-22 in Mysuru on Thursday. | Photo Credit:
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Tree parks, circle development receive priority
The city’s legacy waste of nearly 3 lakh tonnes is finally set to be cleared through biomining and remediation process for which the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has earmarked funds in the budget for the year 2021-22 presented on Thursday.
Tabled almost a month into the new financial year, the MCC budget has a slew of projects for the city with focus on shoring up the environment.
DMCC plans to launch cacao centre in Dubai
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Ahmed bin Sulayem, executive chairman and chief executive officer of DMCC, said the DMCC Cacao Centre represents the next phase of our growth strategy.
The Dubai Multi Commodities Centre will transform Dubai into an international cacao trade hub
The Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) on Sunday announced plans to launch a cacao centre that aims to make Dubai a global hub for trade in the bean, the Dubai government’s media office said on Sunday.
The world’s flagship Free Zone and Government of Dubai Authority on commodities trade and enterprise said it would initially incubate a select range of cacao services starting in mid-2021 within its Coffee Centre in Jebel Ali free zone. The new initiative will transform the emirate into an international trade hub for the in-demand superfood as part of its mid to long-term development strategy, it said.
Diplomatic License | Nepal, get done with the MCC
The MCC compact has been turned into a political football that has little to do with American foreign policy published on 2021-04-22 14:04:00
Four years after Nepal and the US signed the MCC compact, we are back to square one. Those who believed in 2017 that the compact was a devil’s bargain continue to be dead-set against it. The camp pushing it is as adamant about the great good the compact, once ratified, can do for Nepal.
With the Nepal Communist Party government’s near two-thirds majority while only a simple majority would be needed for the compact’s parliamentary approval it should have had no trouble getting it passed. But a party faction intent on pulling the rug from under PM Oli would have none of it. Those in this faction saw in the compact American imperial designs writ large. Not coincidentally, the compact’s strongest opponents have also traditionally been seen as C
Nearly 300 people vaccinated at a single site
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NGO collaborates with MCC for the purpose
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The people who were vaccinated at Gouri Shankar Nagar in Mysuru on Friday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
NGO collaborates with MCC for the purpose
Nearly 300 persons were vaccinated at a single site in Gouri Shankar Nagar in the city following a collaboration of an NGO with the Mysuru City Corporation on Friday.
The initiative was facilitated by Centre for Rural Education, Development and Innovative Technologies of India (Credit i) which teamed up with the Maharani Women’s College for Arts.
M.P. Varsha, Managing Trustee and CEO of Credit i, said that such collaboration will continue and help bring more number of people in the qualifying age group to get vaccinated. There was reluctance among a section of the population and Credit i volunteers with local residents launched a campaign to dispel any fears. This enabled people from Gouri Shan
GCC’s first blockchain-enabled precious metals refinery to open in Dubai in 2022 issacjohn@khaleejtimes.com Filed on April 21, 2021
The free zone said it has signed a sale and purchase agreement with Reit Development to establish the facility. Supplied photo
The first-of-its-kind facility will refine and store gold, silver, platinum, palladium, rhodium; The innovative refinery to be completed in the last quarter of 2022
The largest precious metals refinery and storage facility in the GCC, which will be the first in the region totally enabled by blockchain, will open in Dubai by the last quarter of 2022.
The first-of-its-kind facility by Reit Development – a leading organisation specialised in precious metals and blockchain technologies – will refine and store precious metals including gold, silver, platinum, palladium and rhodium, which will be tokenised on goldexchange.com, DMCC, a leading global free zone for commodities trade and enterprise, said in