The US has declared a full-scale trade war against Russia with the enactment of a new sanctions bill, said Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. “The hope of improving our relations with the new US administration has come to an end,” said Medvedev on Facebook on Wednesday, commenting on the signing of the bill by US […]
The Myanmar government will not set up a trading zone on its border with India due to insufficient basic requirements and poor potential trading, a top commerce official told the House of Representatives here. When asked by parliamentarians on Wednesday if there was a plan for the move, Deputy Commerce Minister U Aung Htoo said […]
The key Indian equity market indices on Thursday opened higher after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its third bi-monthly monetary policy review of 2017-18 had lowered the key rates. The Sensitive Index (Sensex) of the BSE, which had closed at 32,476.74 points on Wednesday, opened higher at 32,502.55 points. Minutes into trading, it […]
A proposed US immigration reform legislation is narrowly focused on Green Cards and it does not cover temporary non-immigrant visas like the H1-B given to tens of thousands of Indian professionals. The Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy (RAISE) Act, which was unveiled on Wednesday, “doesn’t deal with guest workers and temporary non-immigrant visas” […]
India won the toss and elected to bat against Sri Lanka in the second cricket Test match here on Thursday. India made one change to their playing XI. Fit-again opener Lokesh Rahul replaced Abhinav Mukund in the top order. Host Sri Lanka made three changes to the side that was thrashed by India in the […]
Venezuela’s newly elected National Constituent Assembly (ANC), a legislative body created to rewrite the nation’s constitution, will meet for the first time on Friday, President Nicolas Maduro announced. Maduro made the announcement on Wednesday night in a televised speech, reports CNN. “This constituent assembly is the hope of an entire country,” he said. The President […]
A suicide attack on a mosque in the Afghan city of Herat has left at least 29 people dead and 63 others wounded, said an official. Jailani Farha, a spokesman for the Herat provincial governor said an attacker on Tuesday shot at the worshippers before entering the mosque and detonating explosives, Efe news reported. Hospitals […]
Jammu and Kashmir police approached the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi and asked them to claim the body of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) divisional commander Abu Dujana, killed by the security forces on Tuesday. Munir Khan, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kashmir told reporters on Tuesday that Pakistan High Commission has been approached to claim the body […]
The Delhi High Court has formed a six-member committee to make recommendations to the court on “how court proceedings ought to be covered in the media in Delhi”. Setting up a committee, Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal gave three months time to it to come up with its recommending guidelines for media personnel and organisations […]
Better than expected iPhone sales led to Apple posting a quarterly revenue of $45.4 billion — up seven per cent YoY (year-over-year) — for the third quarter of 2017. These results compare to revenue of $42.4 billion and earnings per diluted share of $1.42 in the year-ago second quarter, the company said in a statement […]