Beijing: The Chinese government has approved a project to build the first underwater bullet train route in the country, a media report said on Thursday. The line will connect Ningbo, a port city south of Shanghai, to Zhoushan, an archipelago off the east coast, CNN reported. The proposed underwater tunnel will[Read More…]
San Francisco, US-based Forrester Research has struck a deal to buy SiriusDecisions, a leading business-to-business research and advisory firm, for $245 million in cash. Forrester works with business and technology leaders to build customer-obsessed strategies, while SiriusDecisions focuses on optimising marketing, sales, and product operations. “The combined value of Forrester’s[Read More…]
Sydney: Over 500 Australians called for emergency assistance in just two hours after storms lashed Sydney and nearby regions, equalling rainfall of its monthly average in that time, causing floods, power cuts and flight delays on Wednesday, Met said. Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology said it was the region’s wettest November[Read More…]
Las Vegas, Amazon Web Services (AWS), the Cloud arm of retail giant Amazon, has launched cost-effective server chips using the energy-efficient processing architecture from SoftBank-owned Arm. To help Cloud customers who currently rely on Intel and AMD server chips, AWS Group Vice President of infrastructure Peter DeSantis introduced the “AWS[Read More…]
Colombo, Sri Lanka’s political crisis entered its second month on Tuesday with legislators loyal to former President Mahinda Rajapaksa boycotting parliamentary sessions for a second time, against Speaker Karu Jayasuriya’s decision to not recognize them as the legitimate government. Several MPs including Rajapakse, who was appointed as the Prime Minister[Read More…]
Washington, American consumers were on track to spend $7.8 billion in online shopping on Cyber Monday, up 18.3 per cent from last year, according to Adobe Analytics, which tracks 80 per cent of online transactions at 100 of the largest retailers in the US. Cyber Monday, which falls on the[Read More…]
Canberra: A small plane overshot its destination in Australia by almost 50 km after its pilot fell asleep in the cockpit, air safety officials said on Tuesday. The pilot was the only person on board the Piper PA-31 aircraft from Devonport to King Island in Tasmania on November 8, the[Read More…]
Islamabad, The Pakistan government would provide land to Sikh organisations for hotels in Kartarpur, Nankana Sahib and Narowal, and a railway station in Kartarpur to provide state-of-the-art board and lodging facilities, a Minister announced. Federal Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmed made the remarks on Monday after seeing off Indian[Read More…]
Yangon, India has extended a $5 million aid to Myanmar in the second round of funding under the Myanmar-India Friendship Project, authorities said on Tuesday. The cash assistance was handed over by Indian Ambassador Vikram Misri to Myanmar Minister of Border Affairs Lt-Gen Ye Aung on Monday, reports Xinhua news agency.[Read More…]
Kathmandu, Nov 27 (IANS) Nepal imported 86 per cent of the country’s total mobile sets from China as of the first quarter of the current fiscal year 2018-19 that began in mid-July, the Department of Customs (DoC) said. According to DoC data, Nepal imported a total of 1,173,107 mobile sets[Read More…]
Washington, The US has “slammed the brakes” on a UN Security Council resolution calling for a limited ceasefire and increased humanitarian aid in Yemen over concerns about angering Saudi Arabia. An informed source told CNN on Monday night that the US “has slammed the brakes on”, saying that “we can’t[Read More…]
Washington, US President Donald Trump has said that it was “highly unlikely” he would accept an offer by his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping aimed at averting Trump’s plan to raise tariffs on over $200 billion of Chinese goods to 25 per cent in January 2019. Trump in a Wall Street[Read More…]
Islamabad, The Pakistan Navy has seized about 1,500 kgs of hashish near the coastal town of Ormara. In a statement, the navy said it seized the hashish — worth millions of US dollars — during an intelligence-based operation near Ormara, located some 360 km west of the port city of[Read More…]
New York, A Pakistani-American woman has admitted in a federal court to using Bitcoin to finance the Islamic State terror outfit through fronts in China, Pakistan and Turkey. Zoobia Shahnaz, 27, made the admission before Judge Joanna Seybert in the Central Islip federal court in New York state on Monday.[Read More…]
Mexico City, Mexican authorities have established a fence around the main shelter for migrants who arrived in the border city of Tijuana, after Sunday’s clash in which hundreds of Central Americans broke a police barrier trying to enter the US. The police officers on Monday arrived in at least a[Read More…]
Washington, Paul Manafort, US President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, has “breached” his plea agreement with the Justice Department by lying to the FBI and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office two months after he started to cooperate in the Russia probe, prosecutors have alleged. Manafort lied “on a variety of[Read More…]
London: British parliament vote on Brexit deal will be held on Dec 11, British Prime Minister Theresa May confirmed on Monday. “I’m looking ahead to December 11 and to when this House will be faced with the decision as to whether or not it wishes to deliver on the vote[Read More…]
Washington: US President Donald Trump has said migrants seeking asylum in the US via the southern border will wait in Mexico while their claims are moving through legal procedures. “Migrants at the Southern Border will not be allowed into the US until their claims are individually approved in court,” he[Read More…]
Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Hardeep Puri will represent India in Kartarpur corridor groundbreaking ceremony in Pakistan, Sushma Swaraj says in reply to an invitation from Pakistan Mahmood Qureshi. Responding to an invitation from Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi for the ceremony on November 28, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj[Read More…]
Seven people died in a shootout between two groups after a dispute erupted over a cricket match in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The exchange of fire took place after the two parties reached to a police post in Abbottabad for registering a case against each other. A quarrel had[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry on Thursday said American tourist John Allen Chau, who was reportedly killed by an isolated Sentinelese tribe in the Andamans, is being dealt with as “missing and presumed dead” as his body has not been recovered yet. A Home Ministry official said Chau, 27,[Read More…]
Beijing, At least five people were killed and 18 injured on Thursday as a car rammed into a group of school children who were crossing a road in China’s Liaoning province. The incident occurred at around 2.30 p.m. in Jianchang county, Xinhua news agency said. The driver has been arrested.[Read More…]
While the nation of the United States will be drowned in celebrating Thanksgiving Day on the 22nd November(the fourth Thursday of November), in another parallel United States, Native Americans will be holding mourn, a protest organized since 1970. In 1637, which is regarded as the first instance of a Thanksgiving[Read More…]
Dubai, An Indo-Canadian female dermatologist, found guilty of forging and using a fake diploma as well as other documents to practice medicine in Dubai, has lost her appeal against a six-month jail term. Public prosecution records showed that the 38-year-old woman managed to have the licence to work as a[Read More…]
Los Angeles, Singer Ariana Grande has slammed journalist Piers Morgan for passing offensive remarks against her and the Little Mix musical band. The feud started a few days ago when Morgan criticised the band members and said that they use nudity to sell their albums, reports variety.com. Morgan’s comments offended[Read More…]
