Mumbai : The Indian rupee Friday rallied 49 paise to close at 69.53 against the US dollar in line with a massive surge in domestic equities following a decisive mandate for Narendra Modi’s BJP in the general elections. On weekly basis, the Indian currency gained 70 paise helped […]
Brussels : The European Union said Friday that Prime Minister Theresa May’s resignation does nothing to change its position on the Brexit withdrawal deal that its members agreed with Britain. EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker noted May’s decision “without personal joy,” a spokeswoman said, adding that the council of […]
Kathmandu : Two more Indian climbers have died on Mount Everest due to an hours-long ‘traffic jam’, taking the toll to 8 of the Indian mountaineers who perished in their expedition to the world’s highest peak during this season. Nihal Bagwan, 27, and Kalpana Das, 49, died along with […]
Dubai : The Yemeni president has accused UN envoy Martin Griffiths of siding with the country’s Huthi rebels in a letter addressed to the UN chief. Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi said he was giving Griffiths “a final chance” to implement hard-won truce deals reached in Sweden last year. In the […]
Dubai : The Yemeni president has accused UN envoy Martin Griffiths of siding with the country’s Huthi rebels in a letter addressed to the UN chief. Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi said he was giving Griffiths “a final chance” to implement hard-won truce deals reached in Sweden last year. In the […]
Colombo : Sri Lankan police on Friday arrested five suspects, allegedly having links with local Islamist group National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ) and its leader Zahran Cassim, the mastermind behind the Easter Sunday bombings. The five suspects were arrested in Horowpathana area on the day when the Parliament passed the […]
Washington : President Donald Trump has directed the US intelligence community to “quickly and fully cooperate” with Attorney General William Barr’s investigation of the origins of the multiyear probe of whether his 2016 campaign colluded with Russia. The move Thursday marked an escalation in Trump’s efforts to “investigate the […]
New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday thanked world leaders and personalities as their congratulatory messages kept pouring in after he led his Bharatiya Janata Party to a super-sized victory for a second term in office. Thanking American vice president Mike Pence, who congratulated him saying he looked […]
New Delhi : The BJP which swept all the seven seats in Delhi, set new records in five constituencies where its candidates defeated their opponents with the highest margins ever. Parvesh Verma, the sitting MP from the West Delhi constituency, won a second term with a record-breaking margin of […]
Bhopal : After losing to the BJP’s Pragya Singh Thakur in Bhopal Lok Sabha seat, Congress veteran Digvijay Singh said Friday that ideology of the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi has triumphed in the country. Thakur, a Malegaon blast accused, had created a stir during the campaign when she called […]
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