Bangkok: China again vowed to "fight to the end" Wednesday in an escalating trade war with the US as it announced it would raise tariffs on American goods to 84 per cent from Thursday. Beijing also added an array of countermeasures after US President Donald Trump...
India has withdrawn a key trade transit facility for Bangladesh, days after a senior Bangladeshi official suggested that China could play a larger economic role in India’s Northeast. Transit facility suspended In a circular dated April 8, India’s Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs...
Beijing: China's State Council Information Office Wednesday released a white paper titled “China's Position on Some Issues Concerning China-U.S. Economic and Trade Relations.” The Chinese government issued the document to clarify the facts about China-US economic and trade relations, and elaborate the position of the...
Moscow: Russia has invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend the May 9 celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Germany in World War II, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko has said. Moscow is expecting the Indian Prime Minister at the May 9 parade....
Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping Wednesday pledged to strengthen the strategic relationships with neighbouring countries by “appropriately” managing differences and enhancing supply chain ties as China's tariff war with the US escalated. In his first public speech after US President Donald Trump's steep global hike...
Washington: President Donald Trump's sweeping new tariffs went into full effect just after midnight Wednesday. When Trump announced the latest round of tariffs April 2, he declared that the US would now tax nearly all of America's trading partners at a minimum of 10 per...
Jerusalem: Israel's High Court of Justice issued an interim order, ruling that Ronen Bar, chief of the internal security service Shin Bet, would remain in his position until another court decision. The order followed an over 10-hour hearing on petitions filed by opposition factions and...
New York: President Donald Trump has launched tariff wars with nearly all of America's trading partners. And there's no end in sight. A number of sweeping new taxes on goods from other countries are already here, with more set to take effect as soon as...
Sanaa: At least six people were killed and 15 others injured in multiple US airstrikes across Yemen Tuesday, according to Houthi-run al-Masirah TV and local health authorities. Of the casualties, six deaths and 13 injuries took place in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah...
Singapore: Ten cyborg cockroaches developed in Singapore have been deployed to Myanmar to assist in search-and-rescue operations following a deadly 7.7-magnitude earthquake March 28 that has claimed more than 3,000 lives. The insect-hybrid robots, a first in global humanitarian operations, were sent alongside the Singapore...
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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