Day: October 16, 2018

India’s Trade Gap Narrows To Five-Month Low As Import Growth Slows

open view web desk India’s trade gap narrowed to a five month low in September, driven by slower growth in imports even as exports contracted compared to a year ago. The gap between exports and imports stood at $13.98 billion, compared with $8.9 billion in the same month […]

Police to file criminal complaint after fetus remains found

DETROIT : Police in Detroit said they would file a criminal complaint against the owners after the remains of 10 fetuses and one infant were found hidden in a former funeral home that had lost its license when decomposing embalmed bodies were found there earlier this year. A […]

US wants drug prices in TV ads: ‘Patients deserve to know’

TRENTON : The federal government said Monday that it wants to force drugmakers to disclose prices for prescription medicines in their TV commercials. The drug industry’s main trade group said drug companies are only willing to disclose the prices on their websites, not in commercials, and they’ll start […]

NASA X-ray Space Telescope back online after brief shutdown

    CAPE CANAVERAL: One of NASA’s space telescopes is back in business after a two-day shutdown. NASA said Monday that the Chandra X-ray Observatory came back online Friday. Chandra’s trouble occurred less than a week after the Hubble Space Telescope was sidelined. In both cases, the problem was in […]

In Florida, families seeking the missing amid storm damage

    PANAMA CITY : Joanne Garone Behnke has replayed every possible scenario in her mind a hundred times. Maybe her 79-year-old aunt sought shelter at the sturdy condo nearby that withstood Hurricane Michael’s devastating winds. Maybe she was rescued and is lying in a hospital bed somewhere. […]

2 CRPF jawans injured in militant attack in J&K

Srinagar, Oct 15 : Two CRPF jawans were injured in a militant attack on a security force camp in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir Monday night, police said. “Terrorists late evening fired upon a security forces’ camp at Newa in District Pulwama in south Kashmir,” a police spokesman […]

PM warns of high oil prices hurting global economic growth

    New Delhi, Oct 15 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday warned oil producers like Saudi Arabia that high crude prices are hurting the global economy and sought a review of payment terms to provide a temporary relief to the local currency. India, the world’s third-biggest oil consumer, […]

WPI inflation rises to 5.13 pc in Sep

New Delhi, Oct 15 : Inflation based on wholesale prices rose to a two-month high of 5.13 per cent in September, mainly due to hardening of food prices and rise in cost of petrol and diesel. The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) based inflation stood at 4.53 per cent in […]

Rupee softens 9 paise against US dollar in early trade

Mumbai, Oct 16 : The rupee weakened by 9 paise to 73.92 against the US dollar in early trade Tuesday on increased demand for the American currency from banks and importers. At the Interbank Foreign Exchange, the domestic currency opened higher at 73.79 but lost ground and fell to […]

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