AUGUST 6, 2018
FILE PHOTO - U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un shake hands during the signing of a document after their summit at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore June 12, 2018. Susan Walsh/Pool via Reuters/File Photo
SEOUL - North Korean state media on Monday urged the United States to drop sanctions, as...
AUGUST 5, 2018
Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a signing ceremony with King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein of Jordan at the Great Hall of People on September 18, 2013 in Beijing, China. - Getty
BEIJING, CHINA - Rumours have swirled in Beijing in recent weeks that China’s seemingly invincible leader, Xi Jinping, is in trouble, dogged by a protracted...
AUGUST 5, 2018
After a rather dramatic experience at Mike Cook’s Top Speed Shootout in Bolivia, the Hunter Sills Racing team is walking away with an official speed record (pending FIM ratification) and an unofficial speed record.
The HSR team broke the record for fastest speed achieved on a 1,000cc naturally aspirated four-cylinder partially streamlined motorcycle (very specific, yes, but still...
AUGUST 5, 2018
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council on Saturday cleared a pilot project to offer digital incentives, in the form of cashback of 20 per cent of GST paid on business-to-consumer transactions using RuPay and BHIM platforms, subject to a cap of Rs 100 per transaction.
Revenue shortfall concerns and issues being faced by micro, small and medium...
AUGUST 4, 2018
After working together on Jio Payments Bank, Reliance Jio and the State Bank of India have decided to widen the scope of their partnership to online banking services and loyalty programmes.
After working together on Jio Payments Bank, Reliance Jio and the State Bank of India have decided to widen the scope of their partnership to online banking...
AUGUST 4, 2018
India has become the third Asian country after Japan and South Korea to get the Strategic Trade Authorization-1 (STA-1) status after the US issued a federal notification to this effect, paving the way for high-technology product sales to New Delhi, particularly in civil space and defence sectors.
India is the 37th country to be designated the STA-1 status...
AUGUST 4, 2018
North Korea's Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho is handed U.S. President Donald Trump's reply to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's letter, by a member of the U.S. delegation at the ASEAN meeting in Singapore on August 4, 2018. | Photo Credit: Reuters
Roller-coaster nuclear diplomacy between the United States and North Korea hit highs and lows on Saturday...
AUGUST 4, 2018
Ringing in change: T. Marichamy doing puja at the Ayyappan temple in Madurai.
Marichamy, a first non-Brahmin to come out of a state-run archaka training centre, is a happy man.
It is 12 noon and the small Ayyappan temple in Tallakulam is closing. The bell tolls softly to signal the end of the annadhanam (free) lunch and people slowly...
AUGUST 4, 2018
When @NASA_Orion ventures into deep space, both distance & duration will demand the spacecraft reliably operate far from home, keep astronauts alive and be light enough for @NASA_SLS rocket to launch - NASA
Scientists have identified a whole set of planets where life could have begun just like it did on Earth.
The researchers found that the chances...
AUGUST 4, 2018
India's ambitious mission to the moon piggybacking a lunar rover is postponed once again with a possible lift-off only in 2019. The Chandrayan-2 mission was earlier slated for October 2018 and is now rescheduled because of technical glitches. This delay may now give Israel an opportunity to edge past India with its moon landing.
Israel through a non-profit company...
