New York: US stocks ended a wild week with a burst of buying, pushing the S&P 500 up 1.5 percent on Friday, but still recorded their worst week in two years, and investors braced for more volatile trading days ahead. The sharp falls of the week confirmed the market...
Lucknow: The BJP, the SP and the Congress on Friday expressed confidence they would win the upcoming bypolls on Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha constituencies, vacated by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya. The Election Commission has announced that the bypolls on the...
Washington: President Donald Trump on Friday praised White House aide Rob Porter, who resigned this week after allegations that he abused two former wives, and stressed that Porter has maintained his innocence. “He says he’s innocent, and I think you have to remember that. He said very strongly yesterday...
Stating that Congress has faced setback and BJP has won wherever Rahul Gandhi has campaigned in the past, in another tweet in Kannada Yeddyurappa said “Rahul’s arrival is like arrival of good fortune for BJP.” PTI Updated:February 9, 2018, 8:24 PM IST Yeddyurappa has welcomed the Congress President to...
Brussels: A post-Brexit transition is “not a given”, Michel Barnier warned Britain on Friday, saying London had “substantial” objections to the European Union’s offer and that parts of it were not up for negotiation. The EU negotiator’s stark message, which weakened sterling, came after EU diplomats and officials warned...
“Auraton ke liye sabse badi beemari hai sharam (the biggest disease for women is shame),” – this line from the Akshay Kumar-starrer PadMan suggests how women are often forced to believe that they always need to be under some kind of veil which they can never remove. But I’m...
The class XI student, hailing from Kinannur Karinthalam panchayat in this northernmost district, stated that after her father C K Sukumaran joined BJP recently, he was being threatened by local CPI(M) workers. PTI Updated:February 9, 2018, 10:50 PM IST Image for representation only. Kasaragod: A video of a 16-year-old...
Pyeongchang, South Korea: The Winter Olympics sparked to life in a vivid, colourful ceremony of fire and ice in South Korea on Friday, though the diplomacy was tougher to choreograph in the stadium where leaders from nations that are sworn enemies sat close together. South Korea, which is using...
New Delhi: Patidar agitation leader Hardik Patel met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on in Kolkata on Friday and promised to campaign for her during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Patel said after the meeting, “I will definitely come here to campaign during the Lok Sabha elections in...
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres met briefly with North Korea’s ceremonial leader Kim Yong Nam while attending the opening ceremony for the Winter Olympics. Reuters Updated:February 9, 2018, 11:36 PM IST South Korean President Moon Jae-in toasts with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and North Korea’s nominal head of state...
New Delhi: Stock exchanges today said they will immediately stop the trading of indices of Indian securities on foreign bourses as part of a joint effort to stymie migration of liquidity to overseas markets. The decision of the three exchanges — BSE, NSE and Metropolitan Stock Exchange of India...
Patna: Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar on Friday hit out at Rahul Gandhi for seeking details of the Rafale fighter aircraft deal and alleged that the Congress President wants to pass them on to Pakistan and China. “Why does Rahul need information on the deal? For passing on...
In their resignation letter, the billionaire brothers cited a Delhi High Court verdict last week that upheld a 2016 order by a Singapore tribunal asking the brothers to pay damages worth 25.63 billion rupees ($398.34 million) to Japan’s Daiichi Sankyo Co Ltd. Reuters Updated:February 9, 2018, 8:18 PM IST...
Chennai: Ruling AIADMK today took exception to top actor Rajinikanth’s remark that the “system” in Tamil Nadu needs to be changed, saying such generalised statements are not acceptable. “If there is a mistake please point it out, but making generalised remarks is not acceptable,” senior party leader and fisheries...
Washington: US President Donald Trump’s immigration framework will end the diversity lottery visa to help reduce green card backlog of high-skilled workers, the White House said today amid growing demands by Indian H-1B visa holders to remove the per country-limit on its allotment. Indian-Americans, most of whom are highly...
Beijing: A US bill that encourages reciprocal visits by US and Taiwanese government officials threatens stability in the Taiwan Strait and the United States must withdraw it, China’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday. The bill passed the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations this week and will now move...
Kolkata: The BJP may have joined hands with the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) to take on the Left in the upcoming state polls in Tripura. But the move seems to have driven a wedge through representatives of the state’s tribal community. Another tribal body, Tipraland State Party...
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asked BJP MPs to take welfare schemes announced in the budget to the masses, saying that popularising them would lead to the party winning in the polls, according to leaders present at the meeting. The MPs’ success is linked to the...