February 11, 2016
MUMBAI, INDIA – The Sensex posted its fourth straight triple-digit loss on Thursday, crashing below the key 23,000 levels. The Nifty blue-chip index ended at a 21-month low below 7,000.
February 11, 2016
SYDNEY – Australia on Thursday appointed veteran woman career diplomat Harinder Sidhu as its next high commissioner to India, the second Indian-origin official to serve as the country’s envoy to India in less than five years.
February 10, 2016
WASHINGTON – Here’s a fascinating nugget from the New Hampshire exit polls that sheds some light on how Hillary Clinton’s campaign is likely to proceed in the big, diverse primary battles to come in late February and March (click to enlarge):
February 10, 2016
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – Taxi drivers brought central London to a standstill to highlight the threats to their trade from Uber and changing regulation.
February 10, 2016
NASA on Wednesday said it was unlikely a meteorite was responsible for killing a man at a college campus in India last week, as local scientists continued to examine the mysterious object recovered from the scene.
February 10, 2016
The coldest air of the winter will plunge southward across much of the eastern United States and will feature single-digit and sub-zero temperatures in the Northeast during the Valentine's Day weekend.
February 10, 2016
Congress lawmaker and former UPA minister Shashi Tharoor today said he is against the Sabarimala temple's ban on women even though his party believes that the tradition should continue.
February 10, 2016
WASHINGTON: Late mob boss Iqbal Mirchi, once ranked among the world’s top 50 drug lords, has been removed from the US treasury Department’s list of “Specially Designated Nationals”, effectively ending a freeze on his assets.
February 9, 2016
NEW HAMPSHIRE – The Iowa caucuses kicked off the 2016 presidential primary season eight days ago. But there are inarguably more candidates with more at stake in today’s New Hampshire primary than there were at the caucuses last week.
February 9, 2015
New York: Google Inc.’s Sundar Pichai is poised to become one of the highest-paid executives of a publicly traded company this year after parent Alphabet Inc. awarded him restricted stock worth about $199 million.
