August 3, 2017
Indian rupee hit a two-year high of 63.58 against the US dollar today, extending its recent gains. This is the highest level of the rupee against the dollar since July 2015.
August 2, 2017
A Republican senator said Tuesday that US President Donald Trump has told him he would go to war to destroy North Korea rather than allow it to develop a long-range nuclear-armed missile.
August 2, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Trump on Wednesday endorsed a new bill in the Senate aimed at slashing legal immigration levels over a decade, a goal Trump endorsed on the campaign trail that would represent a profound change to U.S. immigration policies that have been in place for half a century.
August 2, 2017
President Trump has signed a new package of sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea that the Senate approved last week, according to a senior administration official.
Trump will also issue a signing statement questioning whether the legislation interferes with the president's right to conduct foreign policy, said the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly.
August 1, 2017
At an interaction with students at a university near Delhi, in the winter of 2015, I asked the audience what the year 1991 meant to them. A young man replied without hesitation, and to laughter all around, “I was born that year!”
I suggested that something else may also have happened that year. Few hazarded a reply.
August 1, 2017
Pakistan is “indebted” to its all-weather ally China for its “unflinching support” to it on the Kashmir issue, the expansion of the Nuclear Suppliers Group and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa said.
July 31, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. — John F. Kelly, President Trump’s new chief of staff, firmly asserted his authority on his first day in the White House on Monday, telling aides he will impose military discipline on a free-for-all West Wing, and he underscored his intent by firing Anthony Scaramucci, the bombastic communications director, 10 days after he was hired.
July 31, 2017
Saudi Arabia's foreign minister called Qatar's demands for an internationalization of the Muslim hajj pilgrimage a declaration of war against the kingdom, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television said on Sunday, although it was unclear whether Qatar had actually made any such demand.
FILE PHOTO: General view of the Kaaba at the Grand Mosque in Mecca
July 30, 2017
In wake of a major drug bust earlier this month in Hyderabad, actor Rana Daggubati said it worries him and its really dangerous to know that school children have been involved in this racket.
July 30, 2017
President Vladimir Putin said Russia will expel 755 U.S. diplomatic staff and could consider imposing additional measures against the United States as a response to new U.S. sanctions, although not for now.
