Month: October 2018

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 […]

“Good” Hindus won’t want Ram temple by demolishing somebody’s else’s place of worship: Tharoor

Chennai/New Delhi, Oct 15: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has kicked up a row with remarks that no “good” Hindu would favour a Ram temple in Ayodhya by demolishing somebody else’s place of worship, drawing stinging criticism from the BJP which dubbed his party and its chief Rahul Gandhi “anti- […]

Focus: Labour strife in manufacturing hubs may undermine Modi’s jobs push

CHENNAI/NEW DELHI – Labour unrest is on the rise at two centres in India where motorcycles and components are manufactured, underlining the problems Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government faces in creating new manufacturing jobs that are sustainable and pay attractive wages. Motorbike makers, such as Japan’s Yamaha, and […]

People shouldn’t face power woes during winters: CS to PDD

open view web desk SRINAGAR, OCTOBER 15: Chief Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam today directed the Power Development Department (PDD) to ensure that there is no power problem in Kashmir and winter zone of Jammu during the winters. He said there are clear instructions from the Governor that the consumers […]

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