Day: May 15, 2019

Sensex logs 9th straight loss, crashes 372 pts

Mumbai :  Continuing their losing spell for a ninth session in a row on Monday, the BSE Sensex crashed over 372 points and the NSE Nifty dived nearly 130 points on sustained sell-off across the board. The index widened its loss towards the fag-end on emergence of intense selling […]

Rupee opens marginally higher in early trade

Mumbai : The rupee recovered marginally and opened 9 paise higher at 70.43 against the US dollar Tuesday amid weak global cues and foreign fund outflows. The rupee opened at 70.43 at the interbank forex market, displaying gains of 9 paise over its last close. The rupee Monday fell […]

Apple revamps TV app for direct subscriptions to channels

New York :Apple users will be able to subscribe to HBO, Showtime and a handful of other channels directly through Apple’s new TV app, bypassing the need to download or launch a separate app. The new capabilities available Monday come ahead of Apple’s plan to offer its own […]

Sensex, Nifty open lower on weak domestic, global cues

Mumbai : Domestic equity benchmarks BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty started on a choppy note Tuesday tracking downbeat global market sentiment and foreign fund outflows. The BSE gauge Sensex fell 61.88 points to trade at 37,028 in early deals, while the NSE Nifty declined 18.45 points to 11,129.75. On […]

US, Russia test tense ties as Pompeo visits Putin

Sochi : Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday meets US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the highest-level talks between the rival powers in nearly a year as they see if they can make headway on a raft of disagreements from Venezuela to Iran to arms control. Pompeo will […]

UN chief meets NZ mosque victims, decries online hate

Christchurch : UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned hate speech was spreading online “like wildfire” at a meeting with victims of the Christchurch mosque shootings Tuesday, vowing the world body will lead efforts to extinguish the problem. Guterres visited the Al Noor mosque, one of two Muslim centres in […]

Iran too ‘great’ to be intimidated: Rouhani

Tehran :  Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has pledged the Islamic republic is “too great to be intimidated by anyone” in a late night meeting with clerics. “God willing we will pass this difficult period with glory and our heads held high, and defeat the enemy,” Rouhani said late Monday […]

Putin meets Pompeo as US seeks ‘a way forward’ in ties

Sochi (Russia) : Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday meets US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the highest-level talks between the rival powers in nearly a year as they see if they can make headway on a raft of disagreements from Venezuela to Iran to arms control. Pompeo […]

Still stand by my word not to contest next assembly polls: Siddaramaiah

Bengaluru : Senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah Tuesday termed the growing clamour within his party to make him chief minister once again as an expression of supporters’ “affection”, but said he still stands by his word about not contesting the next assembly polls. The Congress Legislature party Leader said he […]

Govt extends ban on LTTE for 5 more years: HM

New Delhi : The central government on Tuesday extended for five more years the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a terror group that was behind the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The ban has been extended under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, […]

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