Bangkok: China's exports jumped 12.4 per cent in March from a year earlier as companies rushed to beat increases in US tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump, the government said Monday. Imports fell 4.3 per cent, the customs administration reported. It said exports from...
Washington: President Donald Trump bitterly attacked “60 Minutes” shortly after the CBS news magazine broadcast stories on Ukraine and Greenland Sunday, saying the network was out of control and should “pay a big price” for going after him. “Almost every week, 60 Minutes ... mentions...
Hanoi: China's leader, Xi Jinping, started a week of diplomacy in Southeast Asia with a visit to Vietnam Monday, signaling China's commitment to global trade just after US President Donald Trump upended the global economy with his latest tariff moves. Although Trump has paused some...
Dubai: Suspected US airstrikes around Yemen's rebel-held capital killed at least six people and wounded 30 overnight, the Houthis said Monday. Since its start nearly a month ago, the intense campaign of US airstrikes under President Donald Trump targeting the rebels over their attacks on...
Nashville: Tariff exemptions announced Friday on electronics like smartphones and laptops are only a temporary reprieve until the Trump administration develops a new tariff approach specific to the semiconductor industry, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday. “They're exempt from the reciprocal tariffs, but they're...
Oxford: “Ironclad” and “nonnegotiable” is how UK prime minister Keir Starmer recently described the country's fiscal rules. The government has been coming under pressure to relax the rules and cut itself some financial slack. But according to the PM, these self-imposed restrictions are vital for...
New Delhi: Absconding diamantaire Mehul Choksi has been arrested in Belgium following an extradition request by Indian probe agencies for his involvement in the Rs 13,000 crore PNB bank loan "fraud" case, confirmed the Belgian Federal Public Service (FPS) of Justice Monday. The action against...
Washington: A day after the US exempted electronics imports, including semiconductors, from reciprocal tariffs, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Sunday said that the country is set to launch "separate tariffs" for imports of smartphones, computers, semiconductors, and other components in the next one to two months....
Kyiv: More than 20 people were killed in a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Sumy Sunday, officials said. Two ballistic missiles struck the heart of the city at around 10:15 am as people gathered to celebrate Palm Sunday, according to officials. Videos...
Dhaka: A severe water crisis gripped parts of Bangladesh, leaving tens of thousands of residents without access to safe drinking water. The crisis posed serious public health risks and threatened agricultural output in the Feni district of the South Asian country. More than 1.67 lakh...
The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
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More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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The BJP appears to be clueless as to how to handle the people’s fury and the Opposition’s mega rally at...
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By Aakar Patel My thesis is that the Indian state under Hindutva is incompletely communal. I have written about this...
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