Top News

02-11-2024 NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: India’s central bank is well-equipped to deal with a potential sudden outflow of foreign funds and any steep fall in the rupee if Republican candidate Donald Trump wins next week’s US presidential election, two sources familiar with the bank’s thinking said. The Reserve Bank of India …

02-11-2024 MAPUTO: Rights activist Cidia Chissungo has spent the last few days poring over images she never thought she’d see in Mozambique: Young men with bloodied bodies pockmarked with bullet wounds; teenagers with eyes swollen shut from being hit with tear gas canisters by the Mozambican police. Chissungo, 28, who …

02-11-2024 WASHINGTON: In the US Electoral College, a candidate needs at least 270 out of 538 electoral votes to win the election. Each state is allocated a certain number of electoral votes based on its population. Some states consistently favor one party, while “battleground” or “swing states” can shift, making …

02-11-2024 PYONGYANG: North Korea has fired an intercontinental ballistic missile, which flew for 86 minutes – the longest flight recorded yet before falling into waters off its east, South Korea and Japan said. The ICBM was fired at a sharply-raised angle and reached as high as 7,000km (4,350 miles). This …

02-11-2024 BEIRUT/ JERUSALEM: Senior American officials have returned to the Middle East to try to reach a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the negotiators had made “good progress” on Thursday on a potential deal. Brett McGurk, President Biden’s Middle East coordinator, …

02-11-2024 MADRID: At least 158 people have died in Spain’s worst flooding disaster in generations as rescuers battle odds to find survivors. On Thursday more than 1,200 workers, aided by drones, were deployed to the rescue mission as rains continued to threaten parts of the country. “Right now the most …

01-11-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India and China have completed pulling back their troops from two face-off points on their disputed Himalayan frontier as planned, an Indian defence official said on Wednesday. The nuclear-armed neighbors reached a deal last week on patrolling the frontier in the Indian territory …

01-11-2024 LONDON: Britain’s new finance minister Rachel Reeves announced the biggest tax increases in three decades in her first budget on Wednesday, saying she had to repair the country’s broken public services with heavy spending. Businesses and the wealthy faced the brunt of the tax hikes and Reeves also paved …

01-11-2024 OTTAWA/ NEW DELHI: Canada’s deepening dispute with India over its alleged campaign of violence against Sikhs in Canada could intensify Indian-based cyber espionage and hold back immigration, but analysts and experts see no immediate impact on trade. Concern about a widening rift between the two countries comes after a …

01-11-2024 WASHINGTON: Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump’s end-of-campaign arguments to voters choosing between him and Democrat Kamala Harris have focused on an old standby in US politics: Asking voters whether they are better off now than they were four years ago. He may want to check his …