Category: World News

Soccer: Real Madrid ease past Al Ain for fourth Club World Cup title

ABU DHABI – Real Madrid lifted the FIFA Club World Cup for a record fourth time on Saturday after thrashing local side Al Ain 4-1 in the final in Abu Dhabi with the help of impressive distance strikes in either half from midfielders Luka Modric and Marcos Llorente. […]

Tsunami kills at least 222 in Indonesia after Krakatau eruption

PANDEGLANG, Indonesia – A tsunami killed at least 222 people and injured hundreds on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra following an underwater landslide believed to have been caused by the erupting Anak Krakatau volcano, officials said on Sunday. Hundreds of homes and other buildings were “heavily […]

India, China discuss enhancing academic exchanges, tourism

NEW DELHI — The foreign ministers of India and China on Friday discussed steps to deepen ties through academic exchanges and tourism even as they vie for influence with their smaller neighbors. Sushma Swaraj and Wang Yi at their meeting in New Delhi took up enhancing cooperation in […]

Saudi prince’s reform: Car race, concerts, but no criticism

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Women, some without headscarves, drove themselves to a Formula-E car race where thousands of young Saudis and hundreds of international visitors partied into the night at concerts by Enrique Iglesias, The Black Eyed Peas and DJ David Guetta. It’s a vision of Saudi Arabia […]

Holiday-season gridlock in DC brings partial federal closure

WASHINGTON — Christmas-season gridlock descended on the nation’s capital Saturday liked an unwelcomed present just before the holiday as America’s elected leaders partially closed down the government over their inability to compromise on money for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Congressional Democrats are refusing to accede to […]

New Settlement Rules of SEBI

open view web desk SEBI has introduced the SEBI (Settlement Proceedings) Regulations, 2018 that have been notified on 30.11.2018 and will come into effect from 01.01.2019. On the date of commencement of these Regulations the existing SEBI (Settlement of Administrative and Civil Proceedings) Regulations, 2014 shall stand repealed. […]

Certain important issues referred by GST Council to various Committees / GoM

open view web desk The GST Council in its 31st meeting held today at New Delhi decided to refer the following issues to Committees / GoM indicated against them: Extending the Composition scheme to small service providers. The rate of tax and threshold limit to be proposed – Law […]

The Latest: Dems blame Trump’s “temper tantrum” for shutdown

WASHINGTON — The Latest on efforts to avoid a government shutdown (all times local): 12:40 Democratic leaders say the government has shut down because President Donald Trump threw a “temper tantrum.” Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi say Trump “has gotten what he […]

Privacy and other matters with Facebook’s video-call gadget

NEW YORK — It’s rare that a new gadget these days serves a true need. Rather, it creates a want. You certainly don’t need the Facebook Portal, whose primary purpose is to let you make the types of video calls you can already make on Facebook’s Messenger app. […]

Breaking up (with Facebook) is hard to do: Here’s how

NEW YORK  — Every relationship has a breaking point. Even yours with Facebook. There’s a way out, though the social network will try to win you back with promises to do better. Maybe even flowers. For some users, though, the past two years of privacy scandals, election manipulation […]

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