MAY 5, 2018
US President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks at the National Rifle Association annual convention in Dallas, Friday, May 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
DALLAS, TEXAS - President Donald Trump compared an unnamed London hospital to a "war zone" on Friday, saying despite tough gun laws in the UK, it has blood all over the floors...
MAY 5, 2018
Brief Scorecard: Chennai Super Kings 128 for 4 (Rayudu 32, Umesh 2-15) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore 127 for 9 (Parthiv 53, Jadeja 3-18) by six wickets
May 5, 2018: Chennai Super Kings v Royal Challengers Bangalore, IPL 2018, Pune Parthiv Patel kicked off his IPL season with a half-century - BCCI
PUNE - Ravindra Jadeja took out Virat Kohli...
MAY 4, 2018
President Trump had denied in April that he knew of a $130,000 hush payment made to a pornographic film actress who claimed to have had an affair with him. - Al Drago for The NY Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump knew about a six-figure payment that Michael D. Cohen, his personal lawyer, made to a pornographic film...
MAY 4, 2018
Brief Scorecard: Mumbai Indians 176 for 4 (Suryakumar 51, Krunal 31*, Rohit 24*) beat Kings XI Punjab 174 for 6 (Gayle 50, Stoinis 29*, Bumrah 1-19) by six wickets
May 4, 2018: Kings Xi Punjab v Mumba Indians, IPL 2018, Pune - Gayle reached his fourth fifty in five games and brought out the cradle celebration - BCCI
INDORE...
MAY 4, 2018
President Trump spoke to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Md. - Tom Brenner/NY Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump undercut his attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani on Friday, and said the former New York mayor will eventually get the facts right regarding a payment to a pornographic actress who said she had an affair...
MAY 4, 2018
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is a thorn in India-Pakistan relations
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is China’s ambitious project for increasing connectivity and economic cooperation within Eurasia. Since its announcement in 2013, the BRI has been positively received by many countries covered within its ambit. However, notwithstanding the recent meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese...
MAY 4, 2018
The Swedish Academy announced on Friday that it would postpone this year’s Nobel Literature Prize and that it would be awarded in 2019.
What led them to come to such a decision?
The scandal
In the wake of the #MeToo movement last year, 18 women levelled allegations against Jean-Claude Arnault, an acclaimed French photographer. He was running a cultural project...
MAY 3, 2018
Ali Akbar Velayati, aide to Ayatollah Khamenei. | Photo Credit: Mohamed Azakir
Trump has almost decided to withdraw from the pact, say White House officials
TEHRAN/WASHINGTON, D.C. - Iran warned on Thursday that it will quit a landmark nuclear deal with world powers if President Donald Trump pulls the U.S. out of the accord.
“If the United States withdraws from...
MAY 3, 2018
Tea Picking and Production at the Korangani Tea Estate Ahead Of Second-Quarter GDP Figures - Photographer: Sanjit Das/Bloomberg
India’s multiple revisions of gross domestic product growth estimates are “confusing,” much less provide a true state of the economy, according to researchers at the Reserve Bank of India.
The first readings of GDP tend to underestimate growth more often than...
MAY 3, 2018
In what comes as a major relief for consumers who are struggling to get a mobile phone SIM without an Aadhaar card, the government has issued clear instructions to operators asking them to accept alternate documents such as driving license, passport, and voter ID card for providing new connections. The government has asked the mobile companies to...
