At least eight persons have died and over 10 injured in a tourist boat accident in the US state of Missouri, said an official. According to Southern Stone County Fire Protection spokesman Eric Nielsen, the incident occurred on Thursday on the Table Rock Lake near Branson, CNN reported. There were more than 20 people onboard […]
As the government served WhatsApp with a second notice asking it to check the spread of fake and provocative content, the Facebook-owned platform has said it is launching a test to limit forwarding that will apply to everyone in India. “In India where people forward more messages, photos, and videos than any other country in […]
The US on Friday said that the first edition of the US-India 2+2 strategic dialogue will be held in the national capital on September 6. “The US is pleased to announce that the inaugural US-India 2+2 Dialogue will be held in New Delhi, India, on September 6,” a statement said. US Secretary of State Mike […]
US lawmakers have asked tech giants Facebook, Google and Twitter to draw clearer limits and flush out hyper-partisan pages from their platforms. In a three-hour hearing on Tuesday, Republicans and Democrats told the social media platforms to make it clearer when they would ban accounts of repeat offenders, The Verge reported. Monika Bickert, Facebook’s Global […]
US President Donald Trump has said there is “no time limit” for North Korea to denuclearise and there is no need to rush the process. It marks a shift in tone from Trump who previously said nuclear disarmament would start “very quickly”, BBC reported on Wednesday. Last month, Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un […]
Geologists have classified the last 4,200 years as being a distinct Earth age and are calling it a new chapter — the “Meghalayan Age” — the onset of which was marked by a mega-drought that crushed a number of civilisations worldwide. They divide up the 4.6-billion-year Earth existence into slices of time. Each slice corresponding […]
China’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew 6.8 per cent year-on-year in the first half of 2018 to about 41.90 trillion yuan ($6 trillion), official data revealed on Monday. According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) data, the pace was well above the government’s annual growth target of around 6.5 per cent, extending a steady […]
Israeli consumption of plastic bags decreased by 80 per cent in 2017 than the year before, according to Israeli Environment Ministry on Sunday. The Ministry said sharp reduction was attributed mainly to a law from 2016 that put restrictions on big supermarkets chains, Xinhua reported. The “plastic bag law” was sponsored by the Environment Ministry […]
US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he considers the European Union an adversary of his country. “I think we have a lot of foes,” Efe quoted Trump as saying to CBS Evening News in response when anchor Jeff Glor asked him to name his “biggest foe globally right now”. “I think the European […]
The key Indian equity indices was trading flat-to-negative on Monday soon after opening. The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex), was trading 15.79 points or 0.04 per cent lower soon after opening. The wider 50-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was also trading 23.30 points or 0.21 per cent lower at 10,995.70 points. The Sensex […]