New Delhi/Mumbai: India and Russia have suspended efforts to settle bilateral trade in rupees, after months of negotiations failed to convince Moscow to keep rupees in its coffers, two Indian government officials and a source with direct knowledge of the matter said. This would be a major setback for Indian importers of cheap oil and […]
Kyiv: Ukraine has denied Kiev’s involvement in the alleged drone attack on the Kremlin, which Russia says was an attempt on President Vladimir Putin’s life. Ukrainian Presidential Advisor Mykhailo Podolyak told the government-run Ukrinform news agency that Ukraine was not involved in the alleged drone attack on the Kremlin, Xinhua news agency reported. “Ukraine did […]
Port Sudan: The UN relief chief has said his colleagues are ready to distribute aid supplies in Sudan but need firm commitments of protection from hostilities. “We have a plan for where we would deploy,” UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths told reporters in a briefing from Port Sudan, Xinhua news agency reported. “We […]
Benaulim (Goa): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday greeted his Pakistani counterpart Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, China’s Qin Gang and other foreign ministers with a namaste on their arrival at the venue of the India-hosted conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). Though the two-day SCO Council of Foreign Ministers’ meeting began at the Taj Exotica […]
New Delhi: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday said that Ukraine’s denial of its role in the alleged drone attack on the Kremlin is typical of the “ability of our Ukrainian and Western friends to lie.” “The ability of our Ukrainian and Western friends to lie is very well known and the entire situation […]
Colombo: President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday called on Sri Lankans facing “troubled times” due to the unprecedented economic crisis to unite to rebuild an affluent nation. In his message on the occasion of Vesak Poya Day, Wickremesinghe, also the cash-strapped country’s finance minister, said the timeless philosophy of the Buddha becomes a source of solace. […]
New Delhi: US-based First Republic Bank was closed on Monday (local time) by the local regulators and entered into an agreement with JP Morgan Chase Bank to purchase and assume all deposits and assets of the troubled bank in a bid to protect depositors. “To protect depositors, the FDIC is entering into a purchase and […]
Washington: If you were asked to imagine the damaging effects of climate change, the first image that pops into your head would probably be that of an ice shelf dropping into the ocean. According to a new study, glaciers around the world are shedding a shocking amount of ice every year. It is quite difficult […]
Washington: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has predicted that AI chatbots will help children learn to read and enhance their writing skills in just 18 months’ time. As CNBC reports, the billionaire philanthropist said at the ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego that AI will “be as good a tutor as any human ever could.” Ever since […]
Dubai: After already writing on the pages of history by becoming the first Arab astronaut to go on a long-term mission in space, Sultan Al Neyadi has now become the first astronaut to conduct a spacewalk. Sultan Al Neyadi and NASA astronaut Steve Bowen concluded their 7-hour-long spacewalk at 1.42 AM IST on Saturday, April […]