The US could become the oil world’s new king in 2018 as it was poised to ramp up crude oil production by 10 per cent to about 11 million barrels per day, according to a report. The report by research firm Rystad Energy on Wednesday said surging shale oil output should allow the US to […]
Four members of a family, including two children, were charred after a fire broke out as they slept in a residential building in Andheri East area of Mumbai. A least five others were brought out injured from the fire that broke out at 2 a.m. in Marol’s Maimun Manzil at the sprawling Dawoodi Bohra Colony, […]
It was a foggy Wednesday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 7.4 degrees Celsius, normal for the season’s average. Visibility stood at 800 metres. A total of 21 trains were cancelled, 13 rescheduled and 59 delayed due to fog in several parts of northern India, a railway official said. The India Meteorological Department […]
Apple has acquired Canadian start-up buddybuild, a mobile iteration platform focused on building integration and debugging tools for iOS developers, for an undisclosed sum. “We’re excited to share that the buddybuild team has joined the Xcode engineering group at Apple to build amazing developer tools for the entire iOS community,” buddybuild said in a statement […]
Democrat Senator Al Franken has officially submitted his resignation after being pressured late last year to step down in the face of sexual misconduct allegations, the media reported. “I am grateful to Minnesotans for giving me the chance to serve our state and our nation, and I am proud to have worked on their behalf,” […]
Kargil in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday recorded a bone chilling minimum of minus 20.6 degrees Celsius. The intense cold wave will continue, the Met said. Jammu city also witnessed the season’s coldest night at 4.3 degrees Celsius as the weather office forecast severe cold wave on Thursday and Friday. Leh recorded […]
Facebook has replaced Twitter to livestream Golden Globes’ red carpet pre-show slated for January 7. In 2017, Twitter scored the rights to livestream the red carpet show. “The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) announced the two-hour event would be exclusively available on the Golden Globes Facebook page, starting from 6 p.m. ET on Sunday, January […]
A Canadian man who was held captive by the Taliban in Afghanistan for five years with his wife, has been arrested after he was charged with 15 criminal offences, according to his lawyer. Joshua Boyle and his American wife, Caitlan Coleman, returned to Canada in October 2017 with their three children, reports CNN. The charges […]
US President Donald Trump will go all out to cut off aid to Pakistan if it continues to back terrorists, US Permanent Representative Nikki Haley has warned. “The President is willing to go to great lengths to stop all funding for Pakistan if they continue to harbour terrorism,” she told reporters here on Tuesday. “The […]
Pakistan’s central bank has allowed the Chinese yuan to be used for bilateral trade and investment activities, ensuring that imports, exports and financing transactions can be denominated in the Chinese currency. In a statement late Tuesday, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) stated that the Chinese yuan was an approved foreign currency for denominating foreign […]