MARCH 5, 2019
T-Mobile’s patronage of President Trump’s Washington hotel increased sharply after the announcement of its merger with Sprint last April, with executives spending about $195,000 at the property since then, the company told congressional Democrats in a letter last month.
Before news of the megadeal between rival companies broke on April 29, 2018, the company said, only two top...
MARCH 4, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he intends to end India's preferential trade treatment under a program that allows $5.6 billion worth of Indian exports to enter the United States duty free.
"I am providing notice of my intent to terminate the designation of India as a beneficiary developing country under the Generalized System...
MARCH 4, 2019
People watch a projection depicting a portrait of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during an event in the capital Riyadh. - AFP/Getty Images
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA - Muna AbuSulayman was relaxing in bed last month when her phone pinged with news that the grand mufti, Saudi Arabia’s religious leader, had died.
After checking that the alert appeared to originate...
MARCH 4, 2019
TikTok, the mini-music-video app launched by Chinese company ByteDance in 2016, last week surpassed one billon downloads, according to app data provider Sensor Tower. That makes it one of the world’s most-installed social networking apps last year behind only Facebook and its offerings.
The app was installed about 663 million times last year, compared with 711 million for...
MARCH 4, 2019
FILE PHOTO: Canadian PM Trudeau shuffles his cabinet after the resignation of Treasury Board President Brison in Ottawa,- Reuters/Patrick Doyle
OTTAWA, CANADA - In a serious blow to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a second member of his Cabinet resigned on Monday, saying she had lost confidence in how the government had dealt with an escalating political...
MARCH 4, 2019
Hackers from Pakistan attacked over 90 Indian government websites and critical systems within hours of the Pulwama suicide strike by a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist in which 40 soldiers of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were killed, senior officials in the security establishment said on condition of anonymity. “There was an unusual surge of activity, attempts to breach...
MARCH 4, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Trump reportedly directed his former economic adviser, Gary Cohn, to pressure the Justice Department to block the AT&T-Time Warner merger, according to a report in The New Yorker.
In an explosive new investigation into the relationship between the Trump White House and Fox News, the magazine reported new details that contradict the administration's assurances...
MARCH 3, 2019
NEW DELHI - The Reserve Bank has imposed a monetary penalty of Rs 2 crore on Dena Bank and Rs 1 crore on IDBI Bank for non-compliance with various directions, regulatory filings said Saturday. In a filing to the BSE, Dena Bank said the Reserve Bank has imposed a penalty of Rs 2 crore on it for...
MARCH 3, 2019
Russia's foreign minister told Secretary of State Mike Pompeo late Saturday that Moscow is prepared to hold bilateral talks with the U.S. about the ongoing standoff in Venezuela.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke with Pompeo about Venezuela, where Moscow and Washington have supported opposite sides.
“In connection with Washington’s proposal to hold bilateral consultations on the Venezuelan topic, it was...
MARCH 2, 2019
NEW DELHI - UNION MINISTER for Information Technology and Electronics Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday “appealed” to social media firms, asking them not to allow their platforms to be abused for “weakening the morale of the country”.
“I would like to make an appeal to all the social media platforms, India being a democracy fully respects freedom of...
