India is committed to follow the green path but needs technology and finance as it continues to work to meet objectives of the international environmental conventions, an Indian official said here on Thursday. Playing a crucial role to mitigate climate change and other environmental challenges across the globe, Union Environment Secretary C.K. Mishra said India […]
Newly elected Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte will visit Washington and meet President Donald Trump on July 30, the White House has said. During Conte’s visit, Washington and Rome will look to deepen cooperation in addressing global conflicts and promote economic prosperity on both sides of the Atlantic, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said […]
Apple and Samsung have decided to end their epic patent infringement battle that began in 2011 and went all the way to the US Supreme Court. In a filing at a district court in San Jose, California, late on Wednesday, the two tech giants notified the judge that that “they have agreed to drop and […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping told visiting US Defence Secretary James Mattis that Beijing is committed to peace but will not give up “any inch of territory” in the Pacific Ocean, media reports said on Thursday. “Our stance is steadfast and clear-cut when it comes to China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” CNN quoted Xi as saying […]
There were on average five new threat samples every second that resulted in a massive 629 per cent growth in cryptojacking and other cryptocurrency mining malware in the first quarter of 2018, a new report said on Thursday. The coin miner malware grew a stunning 629 per cent to 2.9 million in the first quarter […]
To address abuse and trolls on its platform, Twitter has introduced new policies on hateful conduct and violent extremism, including a plan to bring in new technology and staff to fight spam and abuse. The micro-blogging platform said that in May, its systems identified and challenged more than 9.9 million potentially “spammy” or automated accounts […]
Facebook said on Tuesday that it is taking steps to ease a January policy banning financial products and services associated with cryptocurrency. Rob Leathern, Product Management Director at Facebook, said in an official blog post that the world’s largest social media network has “looked at the best way to refine this policy — to allow […]
Reeling under an “over supply” situation and “stagnating prices”, the tea industry would be in hot water unless prices of the commodity take an upturn, Tea Board Chairman P.K. Bezboruah has said. He also said wages paid to tea garden workers are “low” compared to wages paid by other organised sector industries, even when the […]
Following the example of Occupy Wall Street, 250 people including many children camped out in front of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters here, defying an order to take down their small tent city and move on. This movement, which has spread to Detroit, Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago and New York, seeks […]
The US Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday in favour of anti-abortionists in a dispute over a California statute that was seen as a possible precedent for giving states the power to legislate on the right to abortion, permitted in the country since 1973. The court thus established its position against the law of the state, […]