Month: December 2018

Ukrainian president leaves top three contenders for Ukrainian presidency, poll shows

The list is headed by the leader of the Batkivshchyna party, Yulia Timoshenko KIEV, December 14: Leader of the Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party Yulia Timoshenko, showman Vladimir Zelensky and head of the Civil Initiative party Anatoly Gritsenko represent the top three contenders for Ukrainian presidency, with the election due […]

About 50 flights delayed or canceled in Moscow due to snowstorm

MOSCOW, December 13: More than 30 flights were delayed and 13 more canceled at Moscow’s Vnukovo, Domodedovo and Sheremetyevo airports on Thursday because of the day-long snowfall, according to Yandex Timetable online service. Thus, as of 21:20 Moscow time, nine flights were delayed and two were canceled at […]

Privatisation of PSBs not panacea; need to cut govt mandates for PSBs: Rajan

New Delhi, Dec 14: Pointing out that privatisation of public sector banks is not panacea for all ills, former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan Friday made a case for reduction of uncompensated mandates like lending targets and pushing government schemes through branches of state-owned lenders. He also said there is […]

Gehlot to be Rajasthan CM, Pilot his deputy: Cong

New Delhi, Dec 14: The Congress on Friday named Ashok Gehlot as Rajasthan’s next chief minister and Sachin Pilot his deputy after party president Rahul Gandhi successfully brokered peace between the veteran leader and his younger colleague following several rounds of discussions After Congress’ observer to the state K […]

Canada caught between 2 powers, feeling alone in the world

TORONTO — First U.S. President Donald Trump attacked Canada on trade. Then Saudi Arabia punished it for speaking up for human rights. Now China has the country in its cross-hairs, detaining two Canadians in apparent retaliation for the arrest of a top Chinese tech executive on behalf of […]

Indian man gets 9 years in prison for sex assault on flight

An Indian man living in the U.S. on a work visa was sentenced to nine years in prison Thursday for sexually assaulting a sleeping woman during an overnight flight to Detroit

13 young miners feared dead in India’s remote northeast

Rescuers work at the site of a coal mine that collapsed in Ksan, in the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya, Friday, Dec. 14, 2018. Thirteen young miners were missing and feared dead following the collapse of a shaft and flooding of a coal mine they were digging illegally in India’s remote northeast

Analysis: In democracies’ political chaos, new model emerges

It’s a chaotic moment for the countries that have long underpinned the global order, a time of instability for the balance of power that has reigned for decades.

Trump’s son-in-law Kushner possible next chief of staff: US media

Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner is on the short-list of potential candidates for the president’s next chief of staff, US media said Thursday. Kushner, an influential White House adviser and husband of Trump’s daughter Ivanka, met with the Republican leader to discuss the job, according […]

In Pakistan public education suffocates under surging population

At the Tanjai Cheena school in northwest Pakistan students squeeze into makeshift classrooms where plastic tarps serve as walls and electricity is sparse, as a surging population overstretches the country’s fragile education system. Sandwiched behind desks like sardines, students repeat words learned in Pashto and English during an […]

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