MUMBAI: Stocks of companies with large exposure to the US market are being sold aggressively by investors as market players fears about a recession in the world’s largest economy and slowdown in businesses globally grows. Economists and market strategists believe that the high import tariffs by the US could prompt other countries to retaliate with…
US President Donald Trump (ANI photo) The US Supreme Court has given the Trump administration temporary permission to use an 18th-century wartime law to deport Venezuelan migrants accused of gang involvement. In a 5–4 decision, the court allowed the government to enforce the Alien Enemies Act, originally passed in 1798, but insisted that those affected…
US President Donald Trump reiterated his controversial proposal for the United States to assume control over the Gaza Strip. Seated alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump described the Palestinian enclave as “an incredible piece of important real estate” and suggested that US governance could bring stability to the region. Trump elaborated on his vision,…
NEW DELHI: A botched investigation by police, which also “planted” evidence, and lopsided proceedings by the trial court sent a man to the gallows in a rape-cum murder case of a child in Uttarakhand. After a decade in jail under the shadow of death, Supreme Court not only quashed his sentence but also acquitted him.A…
KOLKATA: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said on Monday that she was willing to risk jail to throw a lifeline to all “eligible” teaching and non-teaching employees of state-run schools whose jobs were on the line after Supreme Court’s verdict last week on the SSC recruitment scam.She pledged to regularise these jobs within two months, assuring…
Gurpatwant Singh Pannun (File photo) NEW DELHI: Indian national Nikhil Gupta, indicted by US authorities for plotting to kill Sikh separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, will go on trial on Nov 3 and not in June or July as was earlier proposed.A US district judge of the southern district of New York finalised the date for…
MUMBAI: There was bloodbath in stock markets around the world – from Japan to the US – as Donald Trump’s decision to impose high import tariffs on almost all its major trading partners raised fears of a global recession combined with higher inflation, a double whammy for economies that policymakers call ‘stagflation’. The CBOE Vix…
KOLKATA: A film and television director, allegedly driving in an inebriated state, crashed into a crowded area in Kolkata’s Thakurpukur on Sunday morning, killing one person and critically injuring at least eight others.Enraged locals vandalised the car, dragged out the accused, Siddhant Das (35), and thrashed him till police arrived. He was arrested and later…
NEW DELHI: Grazing goats on a sizzling summer day of 2009, a thirsty 10-year-old Dalit girl Shanti (name changed) rushed to a tubewell to quench her thirst. That was the last anyone saw her alive. Later, a tubewell operator was accused of raping & murdering her. Her father found her body from a haystack and…
NEW DELHI: India is working on a “military space doctrine” that will be brought out in two to three months, Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan said on Monday, amid China continuing to develop weapons – direct ascent anti-satellite missiles, co-orbital satellites and electronic warfare – to contest or deny nations access to space.“India…
