Month: March 2018

China says North Korea’s Kim pledged commitment to denuclearisation

open view web desk BEIJING/SEOUL – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged his commitment to denuclearisation and to meet U.S. officials, China said on Wednesday after his meeting with President Xi Jinping, who promised China would uphold friendship with its isolated neighbour. After two days of speculation, […]

ICICI Bank board backs CEO amid nepotism rumours

open view web desk MUMBAI – India’s ICICI Bank moved to put to rest rumours that its Chief Executive Chanda Kochhar allegedly favoured Videocon Group in its lending practices, calling the rumours “malicious and unfounded”. The bank’s board “has come to the conclusion that there is no question […]

PNB to settle nearly $1 billion to peer banks in claims over fraud

open view web desk MUMBAI – Indian state-run Punjab National Bank has agreed to pay 65 billion rupees ($997.4 million) to counterparty banks, honouring an initial tranche of claims over a massive fraud case and ending uncertainty around repayments in the banking sector. In what has been dubbed […]

EC sets up panel to probe Karnataka poll date leak

open view web desk New Delhi, Mar 27: The Election Commission this evening set up a committee of senior officials to probe the leak of the poll schedule for Karnataka before it was announced by the Chief Election Commissioner earlier today. The committee, which has been asked to submit […]

Speculation on Kim visit to China rife as train departs

open view web desk Speculation that Kim Jong Un visited Beijing on his first-ever foreign trip as North Korea’s leader was rife Tuesday after Japanese media reported the arrival and departure of a special train met by an honour guard. Heightened security at possible venues for a high-level […]

Facebook data scandal widens as Canadian company accused of helping target U.S. voters

open view web desk LONDON – A scandal engulfing Facebook over the use of its data by political consultants widened on Tuesday when a whistleblower said Canadian company AggregateIQ had developed a programme to target Republican voters in the 2016 U.S. election. Christopher Wylie, who previously revealed that […]

Stormy Daniels threatened on ‘near-hourly basis’: lawyer

open view web desk Porn actress Stormy Daniels’s attorney said Monday his client receives threats on a “near-hourly basis” — the morning after she broke her silence on an alleged affair with US President Donald Trump. Daniels told CBS’s “60 Minutes” Sunday evening that she was approached by […]

It is a data leak government: Cong

open view web desk New Delhi, Mar 26: The Congress today questioned how safe the people’s money and their personal information were under the BJP-led government in the wake of a string of bank frauds and allegations related to data theft. “It is an attempt like Bigg Boss of […]

Facebook: call, text history logging requires users’ permission

open view web desk Facebook Inc, responding to reports in some technology industry media that it has been logging users’ call and text history without their permission, said in a statement on Sunday that the function “has always been opt-in only.” The social media site said that when […]

Porn star says she was threatened to keep silence on Trump: TV interview

open view web desk WASHINGTON – An adult-film actress who claims she had sex with Donald Trump before he was president said on Sunday she had been threatened in 2011 while in a parking lot with her infant daughter to discourage her from discussing the relationship. Stormy Daniels, […]

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