JUNE 23, 2018
Nepal can be a bridge between India and China as it wants to leverage its friendship with both the countries to boost its own development, Nepalese Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said.
Oli, currently on a visit to Beijing, said in an interview with state-run Global Times tabloid that Nepal has “broad, comprehensive and multi-faceted” relations with...
JUNE 23, 2018
India defeated arch-rivals Pakistan by a comfortable margin of 4-0 in the opening match of the 2018 Men's Champions Trophy Hockey at Breda in The Netherlands on Saturday.
Ramandeep Singh opened the scoring for India after gracefully guiding Simranjeet Singh's sideways shot into the goal in the 25th minute. Dilpreet Singh scored his first goal after a meandering...
JUNE 22, 2018
St Petersburg, RUSSIA - Dramatic late strikes by Philippe Coutinho and Neymar gave Brazil their first win of the World Cup against Costa Rica in St Petersburg on Friday and broke Central American hearts by sending them out of the tournament
The result leaves the five-times world champions with four points from two games after they...
JUNE 22, 2018
President Donald Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on imports from China is a “symptom of paranoid delusions,” China’s state-run media announced Friday as the two countries ramp up their threats of a full-scale trade war.
“The woes the administration is inflicting on Chinese companies do not simply translate into boons for U.S. enterprises and the U.S. economy,” the...
JUNE 22, 2018
BJP national president Amit Shah - Getty
MUMBAI: A district cooperative bank, which has Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah as a director, netted the highest deposits among such banks of old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes that were abruptly demonetised on November 8, 2016, according to RTI replies received by a Mumbai activist.
The Ahmedabad District...
JUNE 22, 2018
Vishal Sikka CEO & MD of Infosys addressing the Press conference on Infosys Q4 at Infosys headquarter on April 15, 2016 in Bengaluru, India. - Getty
Teradata, a cloud-based data firm, has alleged that key SAP employees, including its then former CTO Vishal Sikka, were involved in misappropriation of Teradata's trade secrets. A complaint has been filed by...
JUNE 22, 2018
FILE - In this May 24, 2018 file photo, a guard stands at the entrance of the north tunnel at North Korea's nuclear test site shortly before it was to be blown up in a media tour of dismantling the test site, at Punggye-ri, North Hamgyong Province, North Korea. Ahead of a planned summit Tuesday, June 12,...
JUNE 21, 2018
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi participates in a mass yoga session along with other practitioners to mark International Yoga Day at the Forest Research Institute (FRI) in Dehradun on June 21, 2018.
NEW DELHI, INDIA - Indian Prime Minister and longtime yoga practitioner Narendra Modi led an estimated 50,000 volunteers through a series of yoga asanas Thursday to...
JUNE 21, 2018
The highly-competitive and constantly-evolving Indian e-commerce space has e-tailers on edge. Moreover, with the push from Walmart, competition between two of the biggest e-commerce sites, home-grown Flipkart and Amazon India is at its peak. In an attempt to lure in more sellers, Amazon India has slashed seller fees by a significant margin across categories. Categories like furniture...
JUNE 21, 2018
Classy Croatia handed Argentina a 3-0 drubbing to claim a place in the World Cup knockout stage thanks to goals by Ante Rebic, Luka Modric and Ivan Rakitic in their Group D match on Thursday.
Rebic seized on a gaffe by keeper Willy Caballero to open the way to victory for the Balkan side before a superb strike...
