April 5, 2016
Washington: The US is poised to sell nine AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters worth USD 170 million to Pakistan, weeks after Obama administration decided to provide eight F-16 fighter jets to the country despite strong opposition from some Congressmen and India.
April 4, 2016
New Delhi: Less than a month after petrol prices were hiked by over Rs 3 per litre, they were on Monday increased further by Rs 2.19 per litre while that of diesel went up by 98 paise a litre.
Petrol price was earlier hiked on March 16 by Rs 3.07 a litre, reversing its 3-month declining trend, while diesel rates went up by Rs 1.90 per litre.
April 4, 2016
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a network across 78 countries, has published one of the world’s biggest leaks of documents on secret offshore accounts held by the world’s big and mighty.
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April 3, 2016
Brief Scorecard: West Indies 161 for 6 (Samuels 85*, Brathwaite 34*, Willey 3-20) beat England 155 for 9 (Root 54, Brathwaite 3-23, Bravo 3-37) by four wickets
Eden Gardens delighted in West Indies' celebrations © Getty Images
April 3, 2016
KANDALAKSHA, Russia — So many decrepit Soviet-era cars carried migrants into Europe from this frozen Russian town in recent months that border officials in Finland, who confiscate the rust-bucket vehicles as soon as they cross the frontier, watched in dismay as their parking lot turned into a scrapyard.
April 3, 2016
Australia's transport minister Sunday said new debris found on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius would be examined to see if it belonged to MH370, just weeks after two Mozambique fragments were linked to the missing flight.
April 2, 2016
Donald Trump said in an interview that economic conditions are so perilous that the country is headed for a “very massive recession” and that “it’s a terrible time right now” to invest in the stock market, embracing a distinctly gloomy view of the economy that counters mainstream economic forecasts.
April 1, 2016
Chip maker to collaborate with two startups to help companies move computing jobs through multiple clouds
Santa Clara, California: Intel Corp. announced new chips targeting cloud computing as well as partnerships to address concerns of companies that have stayed on the sidelines of that technology trend.
April 1, 2016
A top staffer for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Friday that Hillary Clinton owes her Democratic presidential rival an apology, after video circulated online of Clinton accusing the senator of lying about her taking money from fossil fuel companies.
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April 1, 2016
Digital privacy advocates and users of Reddit expressed their alarm on Friday over a change in the forum's transparency report that suggested it may have been asked to give customer data to FBI investigators under a secretive government authority.
