US President Donald Trump has showed mixed attitude toward Russia, emphasising his toughness on Moscow while expecting better bilateral relations. “Probably nobody’s been tougher to Russia than Donald Trump,” said Trump on Tuesday at the White House in a working luncheon with visiting leaders from three Baltic countries, Xinhua news agency reported. Meanwhile, Trump said […]
China strongly condemns and firmly opposes the US tariff proposals and is ready to take countermeasures on US products, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said on Wednesday. An MOC spokesperson made the statement after the US administration announced a proposed list of products subject to additional tariffs, which covers Chinese exports worth $50 billion with […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that he was suspending a plan to send thousands of African migrants to three Western countries, putting the brakes on a decision he had announced only hours earlier, the media reported. On Monday night, Netanyahu said on his Facebook page that the deal would be re-examined, reports CNN. […]
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is looking into President Donald Trump’s adviser Roger Stone’s ties to Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange, a media report said. According to The Wall Street Journal report on Monday, Stone said in an email on August 4, 2016, that he had “dined with Julian Assange last night”, reports CNN. Stone […]
Closing Lashkar-e-Taiba’s (LeT) loopholes, the US has taken aim at its political party, the Milli Muslim League (MML), and seven leaders, as well as another front organisation adding them to its list of terrorist groups. The State and the Treasury Departments announced on Monday that the MML, which openly campaigns with posters of LeT chief […]
Positive Asian cues, along with value buying pushed the key indices of the Indian equity market higher during the early morning trade session on Monday. According to market observers, healthy buying was witnessed in automobile, capital goods and oil and gas stocks. At 9.30 a.m., the barometer 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) of the BSE traded […]
The Election Commission’s surveillance and flying squads have seized over Rs 9.9 lakh in cash, 18.9 litres of liquor and 2.4kg gold in poll-bound Karnataka, said an official on Saturday. “The flying squads have seized Rs 9,91,700 cash, 18.9 litres of liquor, eight silk sarees, 2.4kg gold (worth over Rs 49 lakh) in the past […]
The Delhi Police SIT, investigating the CBSE paper leaks case, has got a response by Google team which helped them identify the man who has sent the mail to alert the Board Chairman Anita Karwal, a police officer said. The police officer, speaking anonymity because he was not authorised to give probe details, said: “The […]
Russia has decided to expel 60 US diplomats and close the American Consulate in St. Petersburg in retaliation to a similar move by Washington against Moscow over the former-spy poisoning incident in Britain, media reports said. The 60 diplomats — 58 from the US mission in Moscow and two from Yekaterinburg — were declared “persona […]
An Indian national has been charged with people smuggling after allegedly attempting to sneak a team of fake journalists into Brisbane, Australian authorities said Thursday. The group was posing as a media contingent coming to the state of Queensland to cover the 2018 Commonwealth Games, which start on the Gold Coast on April 4, CNN […]