The Syrian Parliament on Thursday sacked its speaker, Hadiya Khalaf Abbas, over her “lack of performance”. The Syrian parliament members assembled on Thursday evening in an emergency session to discharge the speaker of the parliament who has been in her post since June last year, Xinhua reported. Abbas was the first woman to claim the […]
An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale shook the Fukushima Prefecture and northeast Japan on Thursday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. However, no tsunami alerts or damage to the nuclear power plant were reported, Efe news said. The quake was registered at 9.11 a.m. at a depth of 40 km with an epicentre located […]
US President Donald Trump’s oldest son and the chairman of his 2016 campaign will testify next week before the Senate Judiciary Committee about alleged Russian interference in the elections, the panel said on Wednesday. Donald Trump Jr. and Paul Manafort are on a list of witnesses scheduled to appear on July 26, Efe reported. The […]
Though the population worldwide protected by tobacco control measures has grown almost five-fold than ten years ago, the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday called on countries to do more to prioritize these life-saving policies. In a latest report on the global tobacco epidemic, the WHO said about 4.7 billion people, or 63 per cent […]
US Senator and former Republican presidential candidate John McCain was diagnosed with a brain tumour, his office has said. On July 14, the 80-year-old senator underwent an operation at Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix to remove a blood clot from above his left eye, which has been known to be associated with a primary brain […]
Taking a cue from global markets the key Indian equity market indices on Thursday opened higher. The Sensitive Index (Sensex) of the BSE, which had closed at 31,955.35 points on Wednesday, opened higher at 32,033.82 points. Minutes into trading, it was quoting at 32,015.29 points, up by 59.94 points, or 0.19 per cent. At the […]
The Asian Development Bank on Thursday predicted Asia’s economy to expand faster in 2017; South Asia to remain the fastest growing of all sub-regions and India to achieve a 7.4 per cent growth due to strong consumption. In its latest report, the ADB projected a 5.9 per cent growth for the developing Asian economy riding […]
Three persons were killed and several houses and shops were damaged on Thursday in a cloudburst in the hilly Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. The cloudburst hit Thathri town after midnight triggering a flash flood in the area, the police said. “We have recovered three dead bodies from the debris of the […]
Saying that its Q3 results were negatively impacted by Apple’s contract manufacturers not paying royalties, chip giant Qualcomm on Thursday reported its revenue down 11 per cent over the previous year. The third quarter fiscal 2017 revenue stood at $5.37 billion, beating analyst estimates of $5.26 billion. Qualcomm’s net income was down 40 per cent […]
More than half of the terror attacks in the world in 2016 took place in five countries, including India and Pakistan, a senior US counter-terror official has said. Justin Siberell, Acting Coordinator for Counterterrorism, in a media briefing on the release of the Country Reports on Terrorism by the US State Department, also said that […]