Kolkata: Mamata Banerjee had a star guest at her mega business summit that began in Kolkata on Friday. But he was not an investor. He was the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, who had a message for both the West Bengal chief minister and a missing guest, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
January 21, 2017
New Delhi/Mumbai: India pushed ahead with its decision to demonetise high-value banknotes even as the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) own board expressed concern whether the cash could be replaced quickly enough, the central bank has said in written testimony to parliament.
RBI governor Urjit Patel.
January 21, 2017
LA QUINTA, CALIFORNIA – Adam Hadwin shot a 13-under 59 on Saturday in the CareerBuilder Challenge for the ninth sub-60 round in PGA Tour history and the second in 10 days.
January 21, 2017
CHENNAI – Tamil Nadu Governor Vidyasagar Rao on Saturday promulgated the ordinance for conducting the state’s age-old bull-taming sport Jallikattu after a three-year ban. Chief Minister O Panneerselvam, in the meantime, has said the sport will be held across Tamil Nadu tomorrow.
January 21, 2017
India breaks Bangladesh's record for largest crowd singing national anthem
More than 3.5 lakh people in Gujarat’s Rajkot district set a new world record by singing the national anthem at an event.
January 21, 2017
As Donald Trump was being sworn in as the 45th President of the United States, people around the world reacted with varying degrees of emotion. There was elation and hopefulness. Defiance and despair. Here is a sample of those reactions from four cities on both sides of the Atlantic.
January 21, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Interior Department was ordered Friday to shut down its official Twitter accounts — indefinitely — after a National Park Service employee shared two tweets that noted President Trump’s relatively small inaugural crowds compared to the numbers former president Barack Obama drew in 2009.
January 20, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Donald John Trump was sworn in Friday as the 45th president of the United States, taking office on a day that has featured smaller crowds and more subdued ceremony than previous inaugurations — but still ushers in a transformative shift in the country’s leadership.
January 20, 2017
Japan is threatening to take India to the WTO over restrictions that nearly halved its steel exports to the South Asian nation over the past year, a step that could trigger more trade spats as global tensions over steel and other commodities run high.
January 19, 2017
Russia is giving Donald Trump the kind of fawning television coverage usually reserved for Vladimir Putin, with its most popular propagandist hailing the president-elect this week as “a man of his word.”
