The French President and the German Chancellor on Thursday said it was necessary to maintain a close dialogue with their US counterpart, despite disagreements on topics such as the fight against global warming. Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel had just finished a Franco-German council of ministers meeting when they discussed Donald Trump, Efe reported. “The […]
The US special envoy for the Middle East announced on Thursday that an agreement has been signed between Israelis and Palestinians to build a canal between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea, which includes selling about 33 million cubic meters of water annually to the Palestinian National Authority. At the press conference with Israeli […]
Egyptian Petroleum Minister Tarek el-Mulla said on Thursday that new areas in the Red Sea will be open for bidding for exploration as part of Egypt’s effort to expand oil, gas production. Mulla did not disclose the exact date for the bidding. He told a news conference that the bidding comes after the recent approval […]
The US said on Thursday it would add an additional $119 million for humanitarian aid in Iraq. The announcement was made by Brett McGurk, the US special envoy for the coalition against the Islamic States (IS), in a meeting in Washington. It came three days after Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared that Mosul in […]
Time magazine has featured Donald Trump Jr. on the cover of its latest issue with the words “red handed” printed on his face over his alleged plans of meeting a Russian lawyer to obtain “incriminating information” about Hillary Clinton, the media reported. The cover on the magazine’s July 24 issue features an image of Trump […]
The key Indian equity market indices opened flat on Friday with the profits of IT companies seen falling in the first quarter. The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) was trading 21.91 points or 0.07 per cent lower during the early session. The wider 51-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was trading 13.40 points or […]
Two persons have died in the Uttarakhand capital here due to swine flu, an official said on Friday. One of them was being treated at the Himalayan hospital in Jolly Grant while the other one was being treated in Dehradun’s Max hospital. Another person, diagnosed with the H1N1 virus, was kept at a government hospital. […]
Software major Infosys Ltd on Friday reported Rs 3,483-crore consolidated net profit for the first quarter (Q1) of fiscal 2017-18, registering 1.4 per cent year-on-year (YoY) flat growth from Rs 3,436 crore in the same period year ago but declined 3.3 per cent sequentially from Rs 3,603 crore quarter ago in rupee terms. In a […]
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson left Saudi Arabia on Wednesday after talks with Foreign Ministers of the four anti-Qatar countries on the month-long dispute among Gulf states, with no announcement released so far. He met the Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt and Bahrain – the four countries boycotting […]
AIADMK General Secretary and convict V.K. Sasikala Natarajan was on Wednesday accused of bribing Karnataka Director General of Prisons (DGP) Satyanarayana Rao and city central jail officials for undue favours. “Sasikala has given Rs 1 crore bribe to Rao and another Rs 1 crore was distributed among officials, including warden of the central jail where […]