New Delhi : A Delhi court Tuesday summoned scribe Priya Ramani as an accused in a defamation case filed by former Union minister M J Akbar after she levelled allegations of sexual misconduct against him in the #MeToo campaign. The court directed Ramani to appear before it on February […]
London : Europe’s stock markets slid Monday on jitters over looming high-level trade talks between China and the United States. Around 1115 GMT, Frankfurt and London each shed 0.2 per cent while Paris slipped 0.4 per cent. The pound dropped against the dollar ahead of Tuesday’s vote on British […]
New Delhi : India is optimally leveraging technology to offer various services on digital platforms and is poised to take full advantage of new generation of technological advancements, Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu said Tuesday. Speaking at Convergence India 2019, the minister said that digital technologies are advancing […]
Hyderabad : T-Hub,an initiative by the Telangana government for startups, is expected to complete its phase-II in the second half of this year, said the newly appointed chief executive officer (CEO) of the incubator Ravi Narayan said Tuesday. Narayan told reporters here that he has a three-pronged strategy forthe […]
New Delhi : Kerala is targeting to double the number of foreign tourist arrivals to over 20 lakh by the end of 2020 as it undertakes a number of initiatives to hard sell the state as a preferred tourist destination, a senior government official Tuesday said. The state is […]
Mumbai : The Indian rupee Tuesday ended flat at 71.11 against the US dollar, with focus shifting to the Fed policy meet and US China trade talks. The forex market sentiment got revived towards the fag-end trade offseting early losses amid increased selling of the greenback by exporters. At […]
Kabul : Negotiators for the United States and the Taliban insurgents have reached “agreements in principle” on key issues for a peace deal that would end 17 years of war in Afghanistan, the top US envoy has said. The statement by US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad followed six days of […]
Washington : Donald Trump will deliver the State of the Union Address on February 5 after it was delayed due to a government shutdown over the US president’s demand for funding for a wall along the border with Mexico. The traditional annual speech by President Trump was initially scheduled […]
Dhaka : Nearly 5,000 low-paid Bangladeshi garment workers stitching clothes for global brands have been sacked by factory bosses for joining strikes over wages this month that turned violent, police said Tuesday. Thousands of labourers walked out of factory floors across the country in days-long protests that disrupted the […]
Tehran : Iran’s senior security official says his country has no plans to increase range of its missile systems. Tuesday’s report on state TV quotes the secretary of Iran’s top security body, Ali Shamkhani, as saying that Iran “has no intention of increasing the range of our missiles.” In […]
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