A lawyer for US President Donald Trump arranged to fork over $130,000 in hush money to a former porn star a month before the 2016 election over an alleged affair, a new report has said. Popularly known as “Stormy Daniels” had a “hookup” with Trump the married future President in 2006, the New York Post […]
Donald Trump paid tribute to Martin Luther King Jr, one of the principal advocates of the civil rights movement, at a time when the US President is facing accusations of racism for his alleged insult of Haiti, El Salvador and several African countries. Trump refused to answer questions about the controversy during an event on […]
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, the world’s largest online book retailer, and his wife, MacKenzie, are donating $33 million in scholarship to fund 1,000 undocumented immigrant students, a scholarship fund has announced. The scholarship fund said, TheDream.US, which is the country’s largest scholarship programme for Dreamers, will give the grant, the largest sum ever awarded […]
US President Donald Trump has reportedly lashed out at immigrants in a foul-mouthed Oval Office outburst, media reports said. A backlash to his latest remarks was swift. “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Trump told lawmakers on Thursday, according to the Washington Post. The remark was reportedly in reference […]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday asked governments to treat migration as a positive global phenomenon and refrain from setting up barriers to legal international migration. “Let me emphasize: migration is a positive global phenomenon. It powers economic growth, reduces inequalities, connects diverse societies and helps us ride the demographic waves of population growth and […]
A Security Council mission is to visit Afghanistan in a show of support to the war-torn nation, Council President Kairov Umarov has said. Kazakhstan will organise and lead the Council mission to Afghanistan, which would be the first in seven years, Umarov told reporters on Thursday. “We think it is important for the Security Council […]
The US is planning to reimpose sanctions on Iran, an official said ahead of President Donald Trump’s decision on sanctions relief on Tehran under the 2015 nuclear deal. “I am expecting new sanctions on Iran. We continue to look at them. We’ve rolled them out,” US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told reporters on Thursday at […]
The World Bank is estimating India’s economy to grow by 6.7 per cent during the current fiscal year, higher than the 6.5 per cent estimate by the Indian government. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth is expected to rise to 7.3 per cent in 2018-19, making India again the world’s fastest growing economy, according to […]
Ecuador’s Foreign Minister on Tuesday said that Quito may pursue mediation to resolve the standoff between the South American nation and Britain over the fate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has spent more than five years holed up at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. “We have an enormous interest in reaching a definitive solution […]
The barometer index of the Indian equity market — S&P BSE Sensex — touched its new record high level during the early morning trade session on Wednesday. Similarly, the the broader NSE Nifty50 also closed-in on its record high level during the trade session. According to market analysts, healthy buying in healthcare, oil and gas […]