President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said friendship between India and New Zealand will continue to strengthen. “Friendship between two countries will continue to strengthen in the years to come to mutual benefit of our peoples,” President Mukherjee said in a tweet on his visit to New Zealand. Mukherjee visited the War Memorial Museum at New […]
A police officer was killed and 13 people were injured on Sunday in an explosion near the main police station in the Turkish city of Gaziantep. The blast hit the southern city, 10 km from the Syrian border, at about 9.30 a.m. Nine policemen and four civilians were injured in the suspected car bomb attack, […]
South Korea’s exports slid 11.2 percent in April compared to the same period last year, the government announced on Sunday. Goods sales overseas were worth $41 billion, according to data supplied by the country’s ministry of trade, industry and energy. South Korean imports, meanwhile, fell 14.9 percent year-on-year to stand at $32.2 billion, bringing the […]
US President Barack Obama ended his final White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday night with what was the ‘coolest’ exit by a president in history when he said, “Obama out”, dropped the mic and walked away from the podium. Hundreds of well-known journalists, politicians, and celebrities attended the dinner, which was held at the Washington […]
Cambodia’s passenger train services resumed regular operations between capital Phnom Penh and southwestern Sihanoukville on Saturday after a 14-year hiatus. In a bid to promote the country’s railways, Prime Minister Hun Sen boarded the first train, which ran on the 266-km railroad from the capital to the coastal province, Xinhua news agency reported. John Guiry, […]
Hundreds of demonstrators descended on the California Republican Convention to protest against party front-runner Donald Trump ahead of his speech. Protesters — some of whom wore bandanas over their faces and carried Mexican flags — blocked off the road in front of the Hyatt Regency in Burlingame city on Friday, forcing the Republican front-runner’s motorcade […]
Inspired by the humble cactus, a new type of membrane has the potential to significantly boost the performance of fuel cells and transform the electric vehicle industry. The membrane, developed by scientists from CSIRO and Hanyang University in Korea, was described today in the journal Nature . The paper shows that in hot conditions the […]
US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended a free trade agreement under negotiations between the US and European Union on Sunday, saying the agreement will benefit the economy on both sides of the Atlantic. In a joint press conference in the northern German city of Hanover, Obama said it is “indisputable” that […]
Japanese automobile giant Toyota Motor restarted production in several factories in Japan on Monday after they were halted due to powerful earthquakes that struck the southeastern part of the country. Toyota has 30 production lines in the country and operations were restarted on five production lines, out of the 26 that were closed due to […]
The world’s largest solar-powered aircraft, Solar Impulse 2, has completed a three-day flight over the Pacific Ocean, a media report said on Sunday. It flew over San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge on Saturday at around 5:15 p.m. as it prepared to land in California, BBC reported. The plane took off from Hawaii on Thursday, where […]