Beijing, July 25 (IANS) The value of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, weakened by 18 basis points to 6.1597 against the US dollar in its central parity Friday, authorities said. In China’s foreign exchange spot market, the yuan is allowed to rise or fall by two percent from the central parity rate each trading […]
Warsaw, July 25 (IANS) The Polish government Thursday announced that it has cancelled plans for celebrating Poland Year in Russia and Russia Year in Poland, a cultural project planned for 2015. “The decision was taken by the government but both Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski and Culture Minister Malgorzata Omilanowska agreed that in the light of the […]
New York, July 24 (IANS) Male and white workers occupy most of the tech and leadership jobs at Twitter, the microblogging site has acknowledged. Releasing the demographic make-up of its workers Wednesday, Twitter said that men account for 70 percent of employees and 90 percent of its tech staff. While 59 percent of the company’s employees […]
Washington, July 22 (IANS/EFE) The US Geological Survey (USGS) has developed the most detailed map of Mars to date, which includes topographic and thermal information as well as data on the properties of the Martian surface. Images captured by the 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet enabled the development of the new map, which […]
London, July 22 (IANS) A train with the remains of the victims of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 which crashed in Ukraine last week, arrived Tuesday in the city of Kharkiv, outside rebel territory. According to officials, the remains will be flown from a coordination centre in Kharkiv to the Netherlands for identification and forensic identification, BBC […]
Jakarta, July 22 (IANS) Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto and his running mate Hatta Radjasa Tuesday announced their withdrawal from the election process alleging fraud in the July 9 election. The pair ordered their team taking part in the vote recapitulation process being held in the General Election Commission (KPU) to walk out, rejecting any legal […]
Islamabad, July 11 (IANS) Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has called for collective efforts to end terrorism and intensify the on-going military operations in North Waziristan. At a meeting in Karachi Thursday, Sharif was given a detailed briefing about the overall law and order situation in Sindh province, Daily Times reported. The Pakistani Army launched a […]
Gaza/Jerusalem, July 10 (IANS) At least 81 Palestinians have died and more than 500 have been injured since Israel launched Operation Protective Edge two days ago to prevent rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said Thursday as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out any ceasefire. The number of injured was put at 567, […]
Berlin, July 10 (IANS) The German government Thursday decided to deport a representative of the US intelligence agencies in Berlin in view of the emerging US spy row. The German government took US espionage cases “very seriously”, Xinhua cited German government spokesman Steffen Seibert as saying Thursday in a statement. The representative of the US intelligence […]
Washington, July 7 (IANS) Citing resource constraints, the New York Times has dropped its special “India Ink” section providing in-depth coverage of “The World’s largest Democracy at a Crossroads” after a three year run. The Times though painted it only as a ‘change of address” saying “that kind of specificity is no longer the way The […]