US President Donald Trump has said he would prefer to wait until after the November mid-term congressional elections before signing an updated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). “NAFTA, I could sign it tomorrow, but I’m not happy with it,” Trump told Maria Bartiromo of the Fox Business Network on Sunday. “I want to make […]
When it comes to genome analytics, data may run in petabytes (PB is 1,000 terabytes). Keeping this data stored in Cloud is paramount and Amazon Web Services is helping Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) achieve that. “We do have a lot of data when we’re studying cancer or heart disease. That’s human data and for […]
A total of 5,791 pilgrims left Jammu in escorted convoys on Monday to perform the Amarnath Yatra. Two groups of 4,047 and 1,744 ‘yatris’ left the Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas in 201 vehicles in the fifth batch for the Kashmir Valley, police said. The first group is headed for the Pahalgam base camp while the […]
China on Thursday urged the US to complain to the World Trade Organization instead of accusing Beijing of illegal practices. Reiterating the country’s commitment to WTO regulations, China’s Vice Minister of Commerce Wang Shouwen said that if Washington was sure about the alleged violations, they should complain to the WTO. Wang presented a report by […]
At least five persons, including a pregnant engineer and a pedestrian, were killed and three others injured when a small private plane belonging to gutka baron Deepak Kothari crashed in the thickly populated suburb of Ghatkopar in north-east Mumbai on Thursday afternoon, officials said. Eyewitnesses said the plane was seen hurtling down in the narrow […]
Heavy rains slowed down the progress of Amarnath Yatra pilgrims as authorities allowed only a small batch of 856 yatris from here to move towards the valley on Friday to avoid overcrowding at the base camps. Reports from the two base camps in Baltal and Pahalgam indicate that it has been raining all along the […]
China-based technology company Lenovo is confident of registering triple-digit growth when it comes to the ultra-slim laptop market in India, a senior company executive has said. According to German market research company Gfk, Lenovo India registered a 202 per cent Year-on-Year (YoY) growth in the financial year 2017-18. “In the ultra-thin category, we would want […]
Value buying coupled with positive Asian stock exchanges pushed the key indices of the Indian equity market higher during the morning trade session on Friday. According to market observers, healthy buying was witnessed in oil and gas, metals, consumer durables and automobile stocks. However, caution prevailed on expectations of further US trade protectionist measures. Around […]
The Pentagon announced that it has received a request from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) “to house and care for an alien family population of up to 12,000 people”. A Defence Department spokesman said on Wednesday that the Pentagon has been asked to “identify any available facilities that could be used for that purpose”, […]
Russia’s Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump will meet in a third country for their first official summit, which has been sought out for some time by the two leaders to attempt to mend the badly strained bilateral relations, senior officials of both governments said here on Wednesday. Confirmation of the summit came after […]