In an interview for TIME, Trump said Xi Jinping called him. The interview was taken on Tuesday and was published today. President Donald Trump said Chinese President Xi Jinping called him and he doesn’t think it was a sign of weakness on his behalf. Trump said this in an interview given on Tuesday to TIME …
NEW DELHI: India’s foreign exchange reserves increased by $8.31 billion to $686.145 billion for the week ended April 18, the Reserve Bank of India said on Friday.The forex kitty have shown positive growth for seven straight weeks, with the previous week ended April 11 recording an increase of $1.567 billion to $677.835 billion.The overall forex …
Hundreds of tourists who got stuck in Chungthang on Thursday after landslides in the Himalayan state of Sikkim are on their way back to Gangtok, officials said on Friday. The stranded tourists started travelling towards Mangan on Friday with the assistance of the administration, they said. Around 200 tourists vehicles had been stranded at Chungthang …
As the Pakistani leadership sweats over India’s next move and its host of punitive actions after the Pahalgam terror attack, Pakistanis wasted no time trolling themselves by launching a flood of memes that flowed faster than the Indus. From water shortages to a complete blackout, Pakistanis imagined a host of repercussions they might have to …
A famous anecdote about Mahatma Gandhi claims he was once asked by a reporter what he thought of Western civilisation. He ostensibly replied: “It sounds like a good idea,” a tongue-in-cheek remark critiquing the moral decay that surrounds any society built on the edifice of slavery and the opium trade. The same could be said …
MS Dhoni, the charismatic captain of Chennai Super Kings (CSK), will play his 400th T20 match when 10th-placed CSK host 9th-placed Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in Chennai on Friday. Let’s break down Dhoni’s T20 career. 25th player to reach milestone MS Dhoni will be the 25th player to play 400 T20s and the fourth Indian to …
Karin Keller-Sutter, Swiss President (AP) GENEVA: The Swiss president says Switzerland is among 15 countries with which the United States plans to conduct “privileged” negotiations to help reach a deal in the wake of sweeping US tariffs on dozens of countries that have shaken global markets.Karin Keller-Sutter, in an interview with broadcaster SRF published Friday, …
Image used for representative purposes South Korea-based Samsung Electronics will invest Rs 1,000 crore in its facility in southern India, Tamil Nadu’s industries minister announced on Friday. The move follows recent worker protests at the plant near Chennai, where employees demonstrated against suspensions, according to a Reuters report.The facility had previously faced labour unrest, with …
The Vatican was making final preparations on Friday for Pope Francis’s funeral as the last of the huge crowds of mourners passed through St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their respects to his open coffin. The pontiff died on April 21, Monday after suffering a stroke. He was in the hospital for five weeks earlier this …
An Indian national, Hardik Jayantilal Patel, was sentenced to 46 months in jail for defrauding US citizens, mostly the elderly, of $3.2 million (approximately Rs 26 crore). Patel, 37, who was illegally staying in the US, orchestrated a network of domestic money mules, known as “runners”, who laundered millions of dollars through telemarketing scam calls. …