WORLD Against the backdrop of a coronavirus pandemic that has killed over 175,000 Americans, Republicans plan a partly virtual, partly in-person extravaganza. Jeff Mason and Jarrett Renshaw WORLD Washington/Charlotte, N.C.: Republicans will make their case this week that the United States’ economic and political future depends on the re-election of Donald Trump at a party convention designed […]
The United Democratic Front has sought to highlight the gold smuggling case. A faction of Kerala Congress is boycotting the motion. PTI POLITICS Thiruvananthapuram: The opposition Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) Monday moved a no-confidence motion against the Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left government in Kerala, raising a slew of allegations including the gold smuggling case. Congress legislator […]
The bench had given Bhushan a few days to reconsider his tweets for which he was held in contempt and apologise. The Wire Staff LAW RIGHTS New Delhi: Advocate and rights activist Prashant Bhushan has told the Supreme Court that he will not be apologising for remarks he made which the court held him in contempt […]
It just so happens that both countries can no longer afford to prolong disagreements, whether over the border or otherwise. Kamal Dev Bhattarai DIPLOMACY EXTERNAL AFFAIRS SOUTH ASI Kathmandu: Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli, who had until recently faced pressure from party leaders to quit as prime minister and party chairman, seems to have managed […]
Stephen Nellis (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp on Sunday said in a court filing that Apple Inc’s threat to cut off the creator of “Fortnite” from Apple’s developer tools would hurt Microsoft’s gaming business, as well as other game developers. The filing came in a dispute between Apple and Epic Games. Apple removed Epic’s titles from […]
Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump, in a Fox News interview airing Sunday, raised the possibility of decoupling the U.S. economy from China, a major purchaser of U.S. goods. In a video excerpt, Trump initially told interviewer Steve Hilton “we don’t have to” do business with China, and then later said about […]
DUBAI (Reuters) – Analysis from the black boxes of a downed Ukrainian passenger plane shows it was hit by two missiles 25 seconds apart and that passengers were still alive for some time after the impact of the first blast, Iran said on Sunday. The announcement by the head of Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization marks […]
MUMBAI (Reuters) – The number of coronavirus infections in India crossed the 3 million mark with 69,239 new cases reported on Sunday even as the country opened up various sectors from a lockdown that ground businesses to a halt and hurt economic growth. With the fifth straight day of more than 60,000 new cases, India’s […]
PARIS (Reuters) – The new coronavirus is circulating four times more among people under 40 in France than over among 65-year-olds, France’s health minister said, though he warned that contamination was on the rise among the elderly and more vulnerable too. “We’re in a risky situation,” Olivier Veran said in an interview with France’s Journal […]
Soutik Biswas India correspondent Coronavirus pandemic India has registered more than 50,000 Covid-19 deaths, overtaking the UK to become the fourth-worst-affected country for fatalities. But the number of deaths per million people stands at 34 – far lower than what has been reported in Europe or North America. The case fatality rate or CFR, which […]
