JANUARY 8, 2019
US President Donald Trump speaks to the press as he departs the White House. - JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images
The major television networks said that they will provide wall-to-wall coverage of President Donald Trump's prime time address on border security on Tuesday.
NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS and Fox broadcast network all said on Monday that they had agreed to the...
JANUARY 7, 2018
US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed reducing the US trade deficit with India and increasing their cooperation in Afghanistan in a telephone call on Monday, the White House said.
"The leaders agreed to strengthen the U.S.-India strategic partnership in 2019 and exchanged perspectives on how to reduce the U.S. trade deficit with India, expand...
JANUARY 7, 2018
NEW DELHI - The Supreme Court of India on Monday issued a notice to Anil Ambani on a contempt plea by Ericsson India Pvt. Ltd seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against the chairman of Reliance Communication Ltd (RCom) for allegedly not complying with its order to clear dues of Rs 550 crore towards the completion of the...
JANUARY 7, 2019
Brief Scorecard: India 7 for 622 dec (Pujara 193, Pant 159*, Lyon 4-178) drew with Australia 300 (Harris 79, Kuldeep 5-99) and 0 for 6
India win first ever Test series on Aussie soil
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - Seventy-one years after they first toured Australia, India finally have a series win to show. While it wasn't...
JANUARY 7, 2018
FILE - This March 23, 2018, file photo shows an envelope containing a 2018 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident as part of the nation's only test run of the 2020 Census. (AP Photo/Michelle R. Smith, File)
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — A trial will begin Monday in federal court in San Francisco over the Trump...
JANUARY 6, 2018
China passes law to make Islam 'compatible with socialism' - Khaleej Times
China has passed a new law that seeks to "Sinicize" Islam within the next five years, the latest move by Beijing to rewrite how religion is practised in the country, the media reported on Sunday.
China's leading English newspaper, Global Times, reported on Saturday that after...
JANUARY 6, 2018
Malaysia is the only country in the world to have a rotational monarchy
Malaysia's king, Sultan Muhammad V, has unexpectedly abdicated in an historic first.
No Malaysian monarch has stepped away from the throne since the country gained independence from the UK more than 60 years ago.
The National Palace did not give a reason for his resignation but said...
JANUARY 6, 2018
People walk on the ice covered beach along Lake Michiga, Sunday, Jan. 7, 2018, in Milwaukee. Cold temperatures for days have gripped wide swaths of the U.S. from Texas to New England. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
A storm taking shape over the Plains this weekend will strengthen and barrel through the Midwest and Northeast through the beginning...
JANUARY 5, 2018
Scientists aboard a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ship in San Juan, P.R. The administration has furloughed many workers because of the government shutdown. - Danica Coto/AP
One of the first sessions of the American Meteorological Society’s annual conference in Phoenix this weekend seemed like just the sort to attract plenty of government scientists: “Building Resilience to Extreme...
JANUARY 5, 2018
Albert Einstein and Issac Newton didn't understand physics and Hindu deities had knowledge of guided missiles thousands of years ago -- the participants at the 106th Indian Science Congress that was held in Jalandhar on Friday, January 4 were in for many shockers.
Surprisingly, these words of wisdom came from an Indian scientist, Kanan Jegathala Krishnan and the...
