Consequences of China's efforts to stabilise its equity markets after three weeks of declines, which wiped out some 30 per cent of the value is far more importance to the world, says Clyde Russell.
In a commercial scheme that attempts to rectify some of the inequalities inflicted by the beginnings of climate change, water from a lake in Alaska will be sent to a new, yet-to-be-built water hub in Mumbai and then exported to arid cities in the Middle East.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said it had terminated, with immediate effect, its contracts with the Stanford group following a meeting of the executive committee on Friday. The Texas billionaire is accused of being involved in an $8 billion (5.5 billion pounds) fraud.
A doctor from Sierra Leone, who was being treated at a US hospital for Ebola, died on Monday. This is the second death in the country due to the deadly virus which has killed thousands of people in West Africa.
Both countries have seen huge increases in their economies, which mean more large factories and power plants to sustain such growth.
ONGC, Sesa Sterlite, Tata Steel, RIL and HDFC emerged as the biggest losers
Texas billionaire Allen Stanford has given West Indies cricket US$100 million over three years in a bid to bring the game into the 21st century.
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Researchers have developed a quick-acting Ebola vaccine that is both safe and effective with a single dose
Biden alleged that Trump has used everything as a "dog whistle" to try to generate racist hatred and division.
Traders have all but given up attempting to predict where the new-year rout will end
The task of Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to keep inflation under check, even when the country reeled under severe drought for two years in a row, and reduce the current account deficit, was made easier by low crude oil prices.
BSE Realty index zoomed by almost 7% followed by counters like Metal, Oil & Gas, Auto, Banks, Auto, Healthcare and Power, all surging between 1-5%.
Asia has opened largely in the green ahead of a raft of Chinese data due during the day.
Index heavyweights Reliance Industries, HDFC and Infosys were the top Sensex gainers.
Why are students being forced to go abroad to study?
Lt Col Raja "Grinder" Chari, 39 is in the batch of 2017.
Ril's shale gas may be impacted due to fracking ban
Trump was good for world peace. He didn't start a war anywhere, which is not something that can be said for most of his predecessors, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Why must Indians adjust their time-tested system because of what the West needs, asks Sanjeev Nayyar.
This is the Centre's highest-ever budgeted capital outlay.
West Africa is in the midst of the worst Ebola outbreak in history. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that some 9,000 people have contracted the disease so far. Heath officials put the death toll at around 4,500, meaning that one in two people who get Ebola in this outbreak die. The odds are not good.
A health care worker from the United States of America has been diagnosed with Ebola after treating a patient who died of the deadly disease last week, sending officials scrambling to find the "breach in protocol" that resulted in her infection - the first case contracted on American soil.
Here's a view of the unbelievable destruction the fire has brought on.
The PBD this year functions as a political stage for the BJP government at the Centre and in Uttar Pradesh. Both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi have been wooing the Indian diaspora through widely publicised events across the country. At the PBD, the mood was either largely pro-Modi, and when not, apolitical.
These and many more stunning photographs are encapsulated in this weekly, striking photo feature put together by Rediiff.com.
From the political maelstrom in Washington to the humanitarian disaster in Yemen to the deadly unrest along the Israel-Gaza border, photographers captured a world in turbulent transition.
The 2019 Formula One world championship starts on March 17 with 21 races in a season that ends later than any since 1963.
The Lone Ranger does provide more than a handful laughs but takes too long to get to the point, making you wish you'd left it alone.
Republican Donald Trump has been elected as 45th President of the United States after winning 276 electoral votes.
The billionaire businessman beat his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton to become the 45th president of the United States.
Sitharaman has completed just 19 days as defence minister and is also pre-occupied with the Gujarat assembly election, notes Ajai Shukla.
Lockheed Martin's offer involves transferring the world's only F-16 production line from Fort Worth, Texas, to India. Thereafter, every F-16 built, and a large share of the spare parts and sub-systems for every F-16 flying across the globe would come from India.
A woman TV news reporter and a cameraman conducting a live on-air interview were killed on the spot when a "disgruntled station employee" opened fire at a mall in US state of Virginia and fled, shocking viewers who saw the grisly drama on their TVs.
Wheeling round, a look of utter shock on its face, a marmot jumps in fright after a young fox sneaks up behind it. The split-second encounter between prey and predator -- called the Moment -- has won the man who captured it the title of Wildlife Photographer of the Year. He was chosen from a longlist of various category winners, all of whom managed to record the oddities, rivalries and beauty of the natural world. Scroll down for some of the winners.
Indian-American actor Vivek Shah, 26, of West Hollywood, California, was sentenced to 7 years and 3 months in federal prison for orchestrating a multimillion-dollar extortion scheme.
Three deaths have been reported and there are fears of more fatalities.
India is the world's fourth-largest importer of natural gas, accounting for six per cent of the global market.
We present some of the best photographs clicked across the globe in the month of May.
The Union Health ministry put the number of positive cases at 82, eight more since Thursday night, which includes the woman and a 76-year-old man from Karnataka who became the country's first coronavirus fatality besides 17 foreign nationals, Health Ministry officials said.
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