A federal appeals panel unanimously rejected US President Donald Trump’s bid to reinstate his temporary ban on citizens from seven Muslim-majority nations, the media reported. The ruling late Thursday from a three-judge panel meant that citizens of the seven countries — Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Sudan, Somalia — will continue to be able to […]
At least 300 pilot whales were found dead on Friday in New Zealand after over 400 of them were stranded in the remote Golden Bay in South Island. Sources from the Ministry of Conservation said that it was estimated that a total of 416 whales were beached on Thursday night in a sandy area known […]
A coder hacked into an Amazon gadget designed to instantly order consumer goods for the home and coded it donate $5 to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) with every press, a media report said. “I would love to see these become a real product that organisations across the political spectrum could offer,” NBC News […]
US President Donald Trump will welcome Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to the White House on Monday for their first talks, the White House said on Thursday. “President Trump and Prime Minister Trudeau look forward to a constructive conversation on strengthening the relationship between our two nations,” Xinhua quoted a White House statement as saying. […]
Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) state is bracing for bushfires on Friday, as authorities issue high alert warnings for an extreme heatwave. State Emergency Services Minister Troy Grant said the “catastrophic conditions” will be unlike anything the state has seen since 2013, Xinhua news agency reported. “Emergency services will be on high alert to deal […]
Indian equities markets traded on a flat-to-positive note during the early morning trade session on Friday, as healthy buying was witnessed in consumer durables, banking and IT stocks. The wider 51-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) inched up by 9.80 points or 0.11 per cent, to 8,788.20 points. The barometer 30-scrip sensitive index […]
US President Donald Trump told his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping that he will honour the “One China” policy that recognises Beijing as the only legitimate Chinese government, the White House said in a statement. The two leaders spoke by phone on Thursday night, the statement said, their first phone conversation since Trump’s inauguration. “The two […]
The year gone by was marked by huge uncertainty on the energy front with anti-globalisation events on one hand conflicting with the interconnectedness of the market as demonstrated by the volatility in global oil prices, a renowned Saudi expert on the oil industry said here. “The sheer volume of unexpected events in 2016 is overwhelming […]
Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Sitaram Yechury on Thursday said that the “raincoat” jibe at former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh probably came of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “peculiar imagination”. “I think the raincoat example came out of the peculiar type of imagination that the Prime Minister has,” Yechury said half jokingly while speaking with […]
After Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi’s attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his ‘raincoat’ barb on former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, veteran actor Anupam Kher reminded him of how he insulted Singh. “Sorry but nobody has insulted the Prime Minister more than you. Remember tearing the ordinance in a press conference. Unless you think […]