AUGUST 8, 2018
PepsiCo's departing CEO Indra Nooyi, center, stands as she introduces herself during a dinner meeting with President Donald Trump, right, first lady Melania Trump, left, and other business leaders, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018, at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. | Photo Credit: AP
Donald Trump referred to Indra Nooyi as one of the ‘most powerful’...
AUGUST 8, 2018
‘Impact in 2017-18 at ₹36,694 cr. more than twice seen in previous 2 years, each’
Indian banks reported a total loss of about ₹70,000 crore due to frauds during the last three fiscals up to March 2018, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
The extent of loss in fraud cases reported by scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) for 2015-16,...
AUGUST 8, 2018
Lifelong love: M. Karunanidhi addressing the third meet of the International Conference of Tamil Studies, inaugurated at the College de France in Paris on July 15, 1970. | Photo Credit: UNESCO
In June 2010, the DMK regime conducted the World Classical Tamil Conference in Coimbatore; he made the success of the meet a matter of personal prestige.
Language...
AUGUST 8, 2018
Alzheimer's disease. Diabetes. Arthritis. Unwanted hair growth. Baldness. Infertility. Erectile dysfunction. Hangovers. Glaucoma. Cancer.
If you have an ailment, there's a good chance that someone, somewhere, is studying whether turmeric can treat it. There are more than 15,000 manuscripts published about curcumin, the active ingredient in turmeric, and about 50 manuscripts added to this collection each week, according...
AUGUST 8, 2018
The United States will begin collecting 25 percent tariffs on another $16 billion in Chinese goods on Aug. 23, the U.S. Trade Representative's office said on Tuesday as it published a final tariff list targeting 279 imported product lines.
The action is the latest by U.S. President Donald Trump to put pressure on China to negotiate trade concessions...
AUGUST 8, 2018
Looks like it is the design of RSS to deny our great leader @kalaignar89 a place in Marina, tweeted DMK's Saravanan Annadurai.
CHENNAI - DMK spokesperson Saravanan Annadurai, who also argued on behalf of the party at Madras High Court bench for burial of M Karunanidhi at Marina beach, blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the...
AUGUST 7, 2018
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner ordered the removal of stories in the New York Observer about his friends and peers when he owned the paper,
Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, in 2012 had editors at the newspaper delete "a handful of articles," according to Buzzfeed, citing emails obtained during its reporting.
The Buzzfeed report lists three articles that Kushner...
AUGUST 7, 2018
M. Karunanidhi in 1969, the year he became Tamil Nadu Chief Minister. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Archives
M. Karunanidhi (1924-2018) - A strong advocate of the rights of the State governments, State autonomy and federalism, he secured the right for Chief Ministers to hoist the national flag on Independence Day.
CHENNAI - M. Karunanidhi, five-time Tamil Nadu...
AUGUST 7, 2018
NEW YORK, NY - JULY 3: New U.S. citizens recite the Oath of Allegiance during naturalization ceremony at the New York Public Library, July 3, 2018 in New York City. 200 immigrants from 50 countries became citizens during the ceremony, one day before America's Independence Day. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is...
AUGUST 7, 2018
A tweet shows a jet near the CN Tower in Toronto. (Screengrab/Twitter - Provided by Al Jazeera)
A group in Saudi Arabia apologized and deleted a Twitter post showing an image of an Air Canada passenger plane veering towards Toronto's tallest skyscraper with a warning against meddling in others' affairs.
Some on social media noted the image was reminiscent...
