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Trump closer to declaring emergency; 800,000 won’t get paid

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is edging closer to declaring a national emergency to fund his long-promised border wall, as pressure mounts to find an escape hatch from the three-week impasse that has closed parts of the government, leaving hundreds of thousands of workers without pay. Some 800,000 […]

Trump closer to declaring emergency

PHOENIX — A doctor examined an Arizona woman in a vegetative state nearly nine months before she gave birth but did not find that she was pregnant, and medical experts said Thursday that it’s possible she displayed no outward signs that workers who cared for her every day […]

Trump closer to declaring emergency; 800,000 won’t get paid

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is edging closer to declaring a national emergency to fund his long-promised border wall, as pressure mounts to find an escape hatch from the three-week impasse that has closed parts of the government, leaving hundreds of thousands of workers without pay. Some 800,000 […]

JKSCB opens branch at Narwal

open view news desk JAMMU, JANUARY 09: To further expand its business coverage, the J&K State Cooperative Bank (JKSCB) Limited today opened its branch at Narwal. The branch of the Cooperative Bank in Jammu with ATM and other online facilities was inaugurated by Advisor to Governor Khurshid Ahmed […]

India’s inflation in December likely hit lowest since June 2017: Reuters poll

BENGALURU – India’s December retail inflation is expected to have eased to its lowest since June 2017 as food costs fell and fuel prices rose at a slower pace, a Reuters poll showed, giving the central bank breathing space to keep policy on hold. Inflation likely cooled to […]

Government offers tax sops under GST to small businesses ahead of election

NEW DELHI – The government announced a change in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) rules on Thursday that would exempt an additional two million small businesses, in a move that could help garner support ahead of a general election that must be called by May. “India will […]

U.S. judge dismisses Ashley Judd’s sex harassment claim against Weinstein

LOS ANGELES – A federal judge in Los Angeles on Wednesday dismissed actress Ashley Judd’s sexual harassment claim against movie producer Harvey Weinstein but said she could proceed with a defamation claim against him. Judd had accused Weinstein of defaming her in 1998 after she refused what she […]

Exclusive: RBI to eye December-quarter results before easing lending curbs on some banks

MUMBAI – Eleven state-owned banks will have to wait for about a month before knowing which of them will have lending curbs eased after a Reserve Bank of India (RBI) panel reviews their December quarter results, an official with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Thursday. […]

Trump demands USD 5.7 bln funding for US-Mexico border wall to end growing humanitarian crisis

Washington, Jan 9: President Donald Trump Wednesday asked the Democrats to allocate a whopping USD 5.7 billion funding for his controversial US-Mexico border wall plan to halt a “growing humanitarian and security crisis” and cited the cold-blooded murder of an Indian-origin police officer by an illegal immigrant to implement […]

Alok Verma shunted out as CBI chief

New Delhi, Jan 10: Alok Verma was shunted out as the CBI chief after a marathon meeting of high-powered selection committee led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday, officials said. Verma, a 1979-batch AGMUT cadre IPS officer, has been removed from the high-profile post on the charges of corruption […]

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