Stockholm: The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to Indian-origin MIT professor Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer ‘for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty’, it was announced Monday. Abhijit Banerjee was born in 1961 in Mumbai. He is...
Read moreWashington: A brutal video clip depicting Donald Trump shooting and stabbing media characters and political opponents was shown at a conference for his supporters, the New York Times reported Sunday. In the internet meme -- taken from a scene in the movie "Kingsman: The Secret...
Read moreNew Delhi: Pakistan is under a lot of pressure at the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) meeting, currently under way in Paris, to rein in terror groups operating from its soil, National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval said Monday. Doval, who was addressing a meeting...
Read moreWashington: Pakistan must prevent militant groups from operating on its soil and prosecute top Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives along with its leader Hafiz Saeed, the US has said ahead of the Financial Action Task Force's crucial decision on whether to blacklist the country. Alice Wells, head of...
Read moreWashington: Russian warplanes bombed four hospitals in rebel-held territory in Syria over a period of just 12 hours earlier this year, The New York Times reported Sunday. The May strikes -- which the newspaper tied to Moscow through Russian radio recordings, plane spotter logs and...
Read moreTehran: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan visited Iran Sunday on a mission to act as a “facilitator” between Tehran and Riyadh and try to defuse rising tensions in the Gulf. Khan held talks with President Hassan Rouhani at the presidential palace and later met with...
Read moreChandigarh: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Sunday asked Pakistan to wage an honest battle against terrorism, saying India is ready to help it but Islamabad’s intentions are deceitful, and cautioned the neighbouring country that it will disintegrate if it does nor mend its ways. Addressing election...
Read moreVatican City: Indian nun Mariam Thresia and four others were declared Saints by Pope Francis at a grand ceremony at the Vatican City Sunday. Mariam Thresia, who founded the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family in Thrissur in May 1914, was raised to...
Read moreKathmandu: Chinese President Xi Jingping has said that China will provide Nepalese Rs 56 billion assistance to Kathmandu over the next two years to help Nepal's development programmes and transform the landlocked nation into a land-linked country. The announcement came during Xi's talks with his...
Read moreTokyo: Japan's military scrambled Sunday to rescue people trapped by flooding after powerful Typhoon Hagibis ripped across the country, killing at least 11 people and leaving more than a dozen missing. The storm's heavy rain triggered deadly landslides and caused rivers to burst their banks....
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The House Committee of the Rajya Sabha, headed by Om Mathur of the BJP, has proposed that MPs be allowed...
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has lowered repo rate (the rate at which the central bank lends money to...
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It requires no additional stress that India attaches great importance to its ties with Bangladesh – a nation reborn by...
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Afghanistan is again at the cross-roads. Presidential polls on Saturday was not trouble-free but, significantly, Taliban fighters could not stage...
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