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 From the small town of Katihar in Bihar to getting my first job in Tokyo Japan, Shyam Maheshwari feels it has been very fulfilling. He completed his undergrad and Chartered Accounting from Kolkata and an MBA from IIM Bangalore. He got an opportunity to work for Lehman Brothers, right after the Asian Financial Crisis, in their Tokyo and Hong Kong offices as part of their special situation desk. He witnessed closely the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers which triggered the Global Financial Crisis and ultimately led to the founding of SSG Capital in early 2009. He grew SSG Capital to be one of the premier and the largest special situation and credit funds in Asia over the next 12 years ultimately doing a strategic partnership and integration with Ares Management. After successful integration and transition, he has taken a break. But knowing his personality and having spoken to many industry participants, “break” is not what is expected of Shyam Maheshwari . SSG Capital has a very strong...

 Former Presidents George W. Bush and Clinton visited a Ukrainian church in Chicago on Friday, laying down flowers in a show of solidarity with the nation. A video shared by the George W. Bush Presidential Cente r shows the 42nd and 43rd presidents each carrying yellow sunflowers wrapped in blue and yellow cloth to represent the Ukrainian flag. The presidents placed the flowers outside of the Saints Volodymyr and Olha Catholic Church in Chicago, which is home to one of the largest Ukrainian populations in the U.S., ABC 7 Chicago reported . Chicago is considered a sister city to Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv. The Ukrainian Village , where Bush and Clinton visited, has deep and historic roots for the Ukrainian population, according to the Ukrainian National Museum. Ukrainian immigrants started to populate the area that would become the Eastern European enclave during the first of four immigration waves beginning in 1870. The village is now home to three Ukrainian churches, as well as Ukra...

 Ukrainian leaders are sourcing power from a volunteer “IT Army,” fundraising through cryptocurrency donations and using public pleas on social media to leverage global attention as they fight an adversary adept at online attacks. The country’s novel digital tactics are part of an “on [the] fly” approach to respond to the Russian invasion that changed Ukrainian life overnight, Ukraine’s deputy minister of digital transformation, Alex Bornyakov , told The Hill. “Till the last moment, we didn’t believe it was going to be a full scale war,” he said. “Even the day before the war, we were just living the normal life and planning meetings, planning our actions — all like regular life. And once it started, we realized that we have to act completely differently than it was before,” he added. Like so many others, Bornyakov said he was woken up early in the morning three weeks ago by the sounds of explosions. Two days after the first attacks, he was evacuated from Kyiv to a safer location in...

  Pope Francis on Saturday unveiled a new constitution for the Holy See that will place term limits on clerics, better protect minors and allow women to head Vatican departments for the first time. The Praedicate evangelium, or “Preach the Gospel,” will be enacted on June 5 as the new constitution for the Catholic church’s governing body. It replaces the 1988 constitution passed by Pope St. John Paul II. According to a release from the Vatican, the new constitution allows any baptized lay Catholic, or an ordinary member of the church, to be appointed to governmental roles. That opens the door for women to head a Vatican department for the first time. “One cannot fail to take this into account in the updating of the Curia, whose reform, therefore, must provide for the involvement of laymen and women, even in roles of government and responsibility,” the constitution reads. The Praedicate evangelium also unifies the Commission for the Protection of Minors into the Doctrine of Faith...

  Up to 1,000 may have been taking refuge underground at the time of the blast, which Ukraine blames on Russia. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that 130 people had been saved after the bombing of a theatre in the port city of Mariupol under Russian siege, but “hundreds” were still trapped in the rubble. Ukraine accused Russia of hitting the theatre on Wednesday. It had been feared that up to 1,000 people may have been taking refuge underground at the time of the blast. Russia has denied responsibility for the attack. “More than 130 people have been saved. But hundreds of Mariupol residents are still beneath the rubble,” Zelenskyy said in a video address on Facebook on Friday. He promised to continue rescue operations in Mariupol “despite shelling” in the southern city that has suffered vast destruction. Read More : https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/18/zelenskyy-130-rescued-hundreds-under-mariupol-theatre-rubble

  While there is no shortage of generosity in Ukraine’s Central European neighbour, space runs out in several cities. Krakow, Poland  — In four weeks of war, three million people have left war-ravaged Ukraine with the majority crossing into Poland. While the welcome from the government and civil society has been open-armed, space is running out for the newcomers. Krzysztof Chawrona, a 41-year-old entrepreneur from Krakow and founder of Nidaros, an organisation that supports Ukrainian nationals, is among those who have given up space in their own homes for refugees. “My son is staying with his auntie because I gave my flat away to eight refugees,” Chawrona, father of four, told Al Jazeera. “In my second flat, which I used to rent out to one company, there are seven people in 40 square metres. And they are grateful that they have a place to stay.” Read More https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/18/polish-cities-running-out-of-capacity-to-help-ukraine-refugees

  Officials courted Russian influence but the interference and the war in Ukraine are driving a wedge between its two most powerful men and stirring up domestic tensions. Khartoum, Sudan  — On February 23, the eve of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a group of Sudanese officials landed in Moscow. The delegation was led by Mohamad Hamdan Dagalo — aka Hemeti — who is the deputy chairman of Sudan’s Sovereign Council and head of a powerful paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). As various voices worldwide condemned and sanctioned Russian President Vladimir Putin for the invasion, Hemeti took part in a photo-op with the Kremlin’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov. “Russia has the right to act in the interests of its citizens and protect its people under the constitution and the law,” Hemeti said during his visit to Russia. Read More : https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/3/18/sudan-russian-influence-and-ukraine-war-stir-domestic-tensions

  While Indonesia’s government has condemned the invasion, the mood online is more sympathetic to Russia Medan, Indonesia  — In recent weeks, a story resembling one of Indonesia’s many popular soap operas has been doing the rounds on the country’s social media. In the tale, a woman and her loyal husband divorced, and he agreed to pay off her debts while giving her custody of their three children. But after a rich neighbour seduced the woman, her ex-husband was so furious that he took one of the children back. The two others, meanwhile, demanded that their father discipline their mother. Read More : https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/19/why-are-indonesians-on-social-media-so-supportive-of-russia

  The warm relationship between leaders of China and Russia is unlikely to differ much in short term, even if Beijing distances itself from the Ukraine invasion. It was only six weeks ago that Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, met shortly before the start of the Beijing Winter Olympics and released a sweeping 5,000-word statement that reaffirmed their no-limits relationship . As Moscow massed tens of thousands of soldiers on the border of Ukraine, together the pair in their 38th in-person meeting in nine years disavowed NATO, the United States-European military alliance forged in the Cold War and now grappling with a resurgent Russia. Read More : https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/18/personal-ties-that-bind-how-xi-putin-relationship-has-evolved

  Ukrainian president calls again for substantive peace discussions, as US puts pressure on China over conflict. Chinese President Xi Jinping tells Joe Biden that “ all sides ” must support Russia-Ukraine “dialogue”. Biden did not offer incentives to Xi in video call between two leaders, White House says. First United Nations aid convoy arrives in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy. Ukraine says more than 9,100 people were evacuated from Ukrainian cities through humanitarian corridors on Friday. More than half of those evacuated — 4,972 people — left the besieged city of Mariupol . Russia slams Council of Europe as a “Russophobic” tool of the West. UN says 6.5 million people have been internally displaced due to the war. Luhansk humanitarian corridor for evacuation agreed: Governor The governor of Luhansk region has said a humanitarian corridor for evacuations will be opened Saturday morning. “A humanitarian corridor has been agreed, we will try to evacuate people and bring fo...

Anurag Batra says that the Business world is a Business Media platform but business recycling also has an impact on the environment and as we move towards sustainability, the last 21 months have taught us that all of us are more connected and what happened in one part of the world impacts all of us.   He thinks the value of sustainability and recycling is becoming more and more important and each stakeholder is taking his or her duty of contributing to a better greener environment and to a greener economy that is sustainable over time.   The recycling summit for a greener tomorrow is an initiative by the BW business world in that direction to be able to contribute to the consciousness of recycling and sustainability. People today can understand the recycling domain and the business domain.   When broadly contextualised, we don’t think of recycling as a business and we don’t think that recycling can be done in many forms and with many materials, says Anurag Batra. The big...