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Washington: President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signed a critical-minerals deal at the White House on Monday as the US eyes the continent's rich rare-earth resources when China is imposing tougher rules on exporting its own critical minerals abroad. The two leaders...

London: Amazon says a massive outage of its cloud computing service has been resolved as of Monday evening, after a problem disrupted internet use around the world, taking down a broad range of online services, including social media, gaming, food delivery, streaming and financial platforms....

Washington: In a major relief for foreign workers on H-1B visas, the US Department of Homeland Security has issued new guidance on the $100,000 application fee, providing a series of exemptions and carveouts. According to the new guidelines, workers who switch to H-1B visa status...

New Delhi: The Indian economy continues to exhibit resilience amid an uncertain external environment, and remains poised to register high growth, The RBI’s October Bulletin said Monday. Indicators of capacity utilisation and domestic demand signalled improvement. Lead indicators of manufacturing and services continued to show...

Mumbai: Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty ended higher Monday, taking their winning run to the fourth day in a row, driven by buying in blue-chip Reliance Industries and sustained foreign fund inflows. A sharp rally in global markets also added to the markets' optimism....

New Delhi: The Bengaluru police have registered a case of abetment to suic*de against Ola founder and CEO Bhavish Aggarwal and senior executive Subrath Kumar Das after an employee allegedly took his own life. The deceased, 38-year-old K Aravind, is said to have left behind...

Washington: US President Donald Trump said India will continue to pay “massive tariffs” if it keeps buying oil from Russia, while reiterating that he received assurance from Prime Minister Narendra Modi that New Delhi would halt its oil purchases from Moscow. Speaking to reporters onboard...

Hong Kong: China's economy expanded at the slowest annual pace in a year in July- September, growing 4.8 per cent, weighed down by trade tensions with the United States and slack domestic demand. The July-September data was the weakest pace of growth since the third...

New Delhi: Equity market investors would track global trends, foreign fund movement and quarterly earnings in a holiday-shortened week ahead, analysts said. Stock exchanges BSE and NSE will conduct a special Muhurat trading session Tuesday, October 21. The symbolic trading session will be held between...

New Delhi: Reflecting a clear trend of market diversification, Indian exporters registered positive growth in 24 countries during the first half of the current fiscal year, even as shipments to the US declined due to high tariffs in September, official data showed. These 24 countries...