How does one determine the finances of a country where the growth rate is slowing, banks are sceptical to lend and tightening fiscal space leaves little scope...
Archive - June 2019
In a move to make conversations on public posts more meaningful, Facebook has rolled out an update where it will rank comments to promote those that are most...
Countries have approved programmes and projects worth almost $1 billion to tackle growing threats to the environment and to help some of the...
Governments and tanker companies were stepping up efforts to protect key shipping routes as the US and Iran traded accusations over attacks on two tankers in...
According to NASA, Returning astronauts to the ‘moon’ in 2024 could cost about “$30 billion”, or roughly the same price tag as the Apollo 11 spaceflight when...
Students from the Muslim community received about 80 per cent of total scholarships offered under 20 Central government schemes in 2018-19, official data shows...
Concerned about the water crisis in rural areas, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has written a personal letter to ‘Gram Pradhans'(village chiefs) requesting...
Researchers have developed a new application that uses Machine Learning (ML) to detect Twitter bots in any language. The study presented at the fourth...
A group of West Bengal intellectuals on Friday stood by the agitating junior doctors at the NRS Medical College and Hospital here and urged Chief Minister...
Bihar Chief Minister Mr Nitish Kumar on June 14 launched the ‘Mukhyamantri Vriddha Pension Yojna’ (MVPY) for poor people above 60 years of age in...
The doctors’ strike that started in Kolkata earlier this week has now spread across India with the doctors’ association of AIIMS showing full support to their...
Late Manohar Parrikar was a virtual ‘university’ of political nitty-gritty, whose initial successes as a Chief Minister were unfortunately washed...
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover, its latest robotic mission to the Red Planet, will include technology to explore ancient life on Mars, according to the space...
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has announced the 20 candidates, including former Vice President Joe Biden, who have qualified for the party’s...
US President Donald Trump has unveiled a red, white and blue colur scheme for new Air Force One jets. Trump, who has expressed an intention to replace the...
A total of 661 US companies and associations have signed a letter to President Donald Trump, urging his administration to abandon tariff hikes and reach a deal...
Indian intelligence agencies are probing a deep-rooted nexus involving underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and a London-based former Colonel of the Bangladesh army...
Actress Parineeti Chopra, set to start the official remake of “The Girl on the Train”, knows comparisons with Emily Blunt who essayed the...
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders will step down at the end of the month, President Donald Trump announced Thursday. Trump making the surprise...
Congratulating Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his “strong and decisive mandate”, US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said that Washington...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned attacks on two oil carriers in the Gulf of Oman, calling for the establishment of facts. “I strongly...
Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik said on Thursday that the ‘fidayeen’ (suicide squad) attack in Anantnag district on Wednesday was...
Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov awarded his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping the Manas Order of the First Degree, the highest national honour of the Central...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo praised Indian Prime Minister as a “new kind of leader for the world’s most populous democracy”, and quoted...
Credit rating agencies played major villain in the IL&FS crisis as they adjudged positive and impressive ratings on a regular basis to commercial papers...
There has been a 509 per cent increase in the number of cases registered under the child labour law since 2017, according to a research study on child labour...
Cyclone Vayu has changed its course and it is unlikely to hit the Gujarat coast, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said Thursday. “It (cyclone...
The US House Oversight Committee voted to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress for not complying with...
The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved the draft Homoeopathy Central Council (Amendment) Bill, 2019. It will replace the...
Kremlin said Moscow has not received any confirmation from Washington regarding US President Donald Trump’s readiness to meet with Russian President...
India plans to have its own space station, and modalities for it will be worked out after the first manned mission, Gaganyaan, scheduled for August 2022, K...