Republican Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton sparred over a number of issues including the billionaire’s lewd comments about women and the former State Department Secretary’s deleted emails, in the second presidential debate here on Sunday night. The two presidential nominees accused each other with Clinton saying Trump was “not fit to be […]
Increased movement of personnel and vehicles has been detected in North Korea’s main missile launch site, indicating preparations for a long-range missile launch in the near future, Yonhap news agency reported on Friday. Yonhap quoted a senior South Korean official as saying that moves in North Korea’s Tongchanr-ri missile base have remarkably increased recently, noting […]
India on Wednesday hit out at Pakistan – a country that has “established itself as a global epicentre of terrorism”, and asked it to abandon its “futile quest” of Kashmir. India’s Permanent Representative in the UN, Syed Akbaruddin, in his statement on the Work of the Organization, also called for a comprehensive reform of the […]
As Google, Salesforce and even Walt Disney join the race to buy Twitter, the micro-blogging website is expected to receive bids this week, media reported on Wednesday. According to Wall Street Journal, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is “building a case to Salesforce.com Inc. investors and others that his company should be the buyer.” Like LinkedIn […]
Ahead of the festive season, domestic smartphone-maker Karbonn Mobiles on Monday launched two new smartphones in India. Karbonn Titanium Vista (priced at Rs 5,499) comes with a 5-inch screen, 1.3MHz quad-core processor that runs on a Mediatek MT6580 chipset along with 2,300mAh Li-ion battery. The smartphone has 8GB internal memory that can be expanded up […]
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday said that the Kashmiri freedom movement would not be suppressed by Indian “brutalities” anymore, even as the political leadership of the country put forward a united front on the issue. Sharif said “their (Kashmir) struggle for self-determination was legitimate and in accordance with UN resolutions”. “Kashmiris and Pakistanis […]
In joining the Paris climate agreement, India has taken a bold and decisive step in combating climate change, the US has said.A “We commend Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his leadership and thank all those who have worked on the Agreement over many years,” US Ambassador Richard Verma said in a statement on Sunday. India’s […]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed India formally joining the Paris climate change agreement. “India now joins the 61 other parties that have deposited their instruments of ratification, which, including India, together account for close to 52 per cent of total global greenhouse emissions,” Xinhua news agency cited a statement released by Ban’s spokesperson as […]
With harsh rhetoric as the brand image of the 2016 US presidential election, an overwhelming majority of voters have said that this year’s race has brought out the worst in people, according to a new poll. The new Monmouth University poll showed 70 per cent of registered voters believed that the matchup between Democrat Hillary […]
World leaders gathered on Friday morning in Jerusalem to bid farewell to one of Israel’s founding fathers and former President Shimon Peres. More than 70 delegations from around the world attended the funeral, including dignitaries such as US President Barack Obama, former US President Bill Clinton, Britain’s Prince Charles, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and […]