Month: July 2019

India-U.S. trade talks to restart Friday with little sign of compromise

NEW DELHI – Indian and U.S. trade negotiators will meet on Friday, with little sign of a compromise on a series of protectionist measures taken by the two governments in recent months that have strained ties between the strategic partners. U.S. President Donald Trump has been putting pressure […]

Exclusive: Walmart told U.S. government India e-commerce rules regressive, warned of trade impact

NEW DELHI – Walmart told the U.S. government privately in January that India’s new investment rules for e-commerce were regressive and had the potential to hurt trade ties, a company document seen by Reuters showed. The lobbying effort yielded no result at the time – India implemented the […]

Exemption to Handloom Sector From GST

open view news desk Turnover of most of the weavers does not exceed Rs 20 Lakh and therefore they do not require registration under GST. Moreover, GST is implemented through an Act of Parliament with States as equal partners in GST Council with Government of India. GST has […]

Shri Mansukh Mandaviya to flag off vessel with Bhutan cargo to Bangladesh

via Indian Inland Waterways tomorrow Movement first of its kind – connects landlocked Bhutan to Bangladesh open view news desk Taking ahead the Prime Minister’s vision of promoting Inland Waterways, Minister of State for Shipping (Independent Charge) and Chemical & Fertilizers, Shri Mansukh Mandaviya will flag off an inland waterways […]

Indian Army Makes all out Effort to Hand over Body of Seven Year Old Abid of Gilgit

open view news desk On 09 July, a dead body was recovered from the Burzil Nala close to Line of Control near Acchura village. The Indian Army immediately swing into action and were able to establish the identity of the young boy through civil administration as a seven […]

Here’s a fact: We went to the moon in 1969

NEW YORK — Fifty years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon, some people insist it never happened and was all a big hoax by the U.S. government. The suspicions arose even as the lunar landing was taking place in 1969, said Roger Launius, NASA’s […]

Britain says Iranian vessels tried to block tanker in Gulf

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The British navy said it prevented three Iranian paramilitary vessels from impeding the passage of a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz early Thursday, a day after Iran’s president warned of repercussions for the seizure of its own supertanker. Iran’s Revolutionary […]

Trump to announce new action at census news conference

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is expected to announce new executive action Thursday during a news conference on the 2020 census and his push to include a citizenship question. Trump tweeted Thursday morning that he planned “a News Conference on the Census and Citizenship” after a White House […]

Why should I resign, says Kumaraswamy

Bengaluru, Jul 11: With his government fighting for survival following the resignation of 16 Congress-JD(S) MLAs, Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy sought to know on Thursday why should he step down from the post. “Why should I resign? What is the necessity for me to resign now?,” Kumaraswamy shot […]

Man absconding in murder case arrested from Bihar

New Delhi, Jul 11: A 42-year-old man absconding in a case of murder for the last nine years has been arrested from Bihar, police said Thursday. The accused, Ranjit Singh, carried a reward of Rs 25,000 upon his arrest and was declared Proclaimed Offender by a city court, they […]

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