SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Various currency rates are displayed at a window of an exchange shop in downtown Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018. The Iranian rial fell Wednesday to its lowest rate on record and saw worried residents of Tehran line up outside of beleaguered moneychangers, part of a staggering 140-percent drop in the currency's value since America pulled out...
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
President Trump and his administration have been unsettled by Bob Woodward’s book “Fear,” which will be published next Tuesday. - Credits: Doug Mills/The New York Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump so alarmed his defense secretary, Jim Mattis, during a discussion last January of the nuclear standoff with North Korea that an exasperated Mr. Mattis told colleagues “the...
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
LONDON - A tech expert from the UK claims he has spotted the doomed MH370 plane on Google Maps.
Ian Wilson believes remains of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, which vanished carrying 239 people en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing , lie strewn deep in a jungle in Cambodia.
The video producer now plans to visit the...
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who's due to testify before two congressional committees Wednesday about his company's content practices, said he receives notifications on his phone for President Trump's Twitter account. | Teresa Kroeger/Getty Images
Twitter said Tuesday that not even President Donald Trump is immune from being kicked off the platform if his tweets cross a line with...
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
Amazon has become America's second $1 trillion company.
Amazon's total market value passed $1 trillion on Tuesday, following Apple's ascent into 13-digit territory at the beginning of August. Amazon and Apple now make up more than 8% of the entire value of the S&P 500, according to Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst for S&P.
A trillion dollars may be...
SEPTEMBER 3, 2018
Snapping its three-day rising streak, gold prices edged lower by Rs 100 to Rs 31,250 per 10 gram at the bullion market on Monday, reported news agency Press Trust of India (PTI). Gold prices dropped today amid weakening global trend and easing demand from the local jewellers. Meanwhile, silver also slumped below the Rs 38,000-mark by plunging Rs...
SEPTEMBER 3, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman recorded her widely disseminated White House conversations using her personal phone, according to Axios.
A source told the news outlet that Manigault Newman often put her phone on "record mode" before conversations about work or professional meetings. She reportedly carried her phone in her purse or pocket.
The source said Manigault Newman wanted to "cover her...
SEPTEMBER 3, 2018
LONDON, ENGLAND - Alastair Cook has announced he will retire from international cricket after the Oval Test against India. Cook, the sixth highest run-scorer in the history of Test cricket, is only 33-years-old but, after a grim run of form which has seen him average just 18.62 in nine Tests this year, he has decided to end...
SEPTEMBER 3, 2018
The rupee, which lost 10 paise against the US dollar in late afternoon trade on Monday, ended at a new record low of 71.10. - (Illustration: CR Sasikumar)
The rupee collapsed to a new lifetime low of 71.21 against the US dollar, while petrol prices rose to a new high of Rs 86.56 a litre in Mumbai on...
SEPTEMBER 3, 2018
Days after the GDP growth rate for the first quarter of 2018-19 was pegged at the highest in three years, Niti Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar has blamed former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan for a succession of declining growth rate over the last three years. Rajiv Kumar said that the GDP growth rate was declining for over half-a-dozen...
