India and the United States vowed to step up joint efforts to halt illicit money flows after revelations that Iranian oil export revenues had been siphoned out of an Indian bank in a suspected money- laundering scheme. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the case centering on state-controlled Continue Reading
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China’s President Xi Jinping will visit Pakistan this year in what will be the first trip by a Chinese head of state to its western neighbour in nine years, as Beijing looks to take a bigger role in South Asia.China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi made the announcement on Thursday in Pakistan’s capital, where he spoke […]Continue Reading
A treasure trove of objects that were supposed to have been left behind after the first moon landing have turned up in the closet of Neil Armstrong, the first man to step onto the lunar surface, the Smithsonian Institution has said. Armstrong died in August 2012 and his wife, Carol, found the items from the […]Continue Reading
A Seattle burglary suspect who tried to evade capture by crawling inside an apartment building’s ventilation ducts got stuck and had to be rescued by authorities, police said on Wednesday .Residents in a downtown Seattle apartment building called police on Monday evening to report hearing what sounded like a person “destroying washing machines” with a Continue Reading
Rising food prices are expected to have pushed retail inflation slightly higher last month, but weaker demand prompted factories to slow output in December, a Reuters poll showed. The uptick in inflation is unlikely to change forecasts for more interest rate cuts by the Reserve Bank of India, after it made its first cut for […]Continue Reading
Facebook has tied up with Reliance Communications to provide basic internet services on mobilephones for free, making India the first country in Asia to get Facebook’s Internet.org service. The companies will be first offering the app in seven of India’s 22 regions, or zones and will be going nationwide in the next 90 days, said […]Continue Reading
Sony Pictures and Marvel Studies have reached a deal to partner on the next installment of the $4 billion Spider-Man franchise, uniting the web-slinging superhero with Marvel’s comic book universe.Kevin Feige, president of Walt Disney Co’s Marvel Studios, will co-produce the next film set for July2017 release with Sony’s Amy Pascal, according to a Continue Reading
