Washington, 11/7: US President Donald Trump said on Thursday the United States would impose a 35% tariff on imports from Canada next month and planned to impose blanket tariffs of 15% or 20% on most other trade partners. In a letter released on his social media platform, Trump told Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney the…
New Delhi, 10/7: Arvind Kejriwal, the former Chief Minister of Delhi and a leader of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), has been facing flak from the Bharitiya Janata Party (BJP) for a comment he made during a book launch of The Kejriwal Model in Chandigarh, where he asserted that he deserved a Nobel Prize for…
New Delhi, 10/7: The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Election Commission of India to continue with its Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar calling it a “constitutional mandate”. A bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Joymalya Bagchi, however, questioned the timing of the exercise besides offering its prima facie view that…
Lords, 10/7: England skipper Ben Stokes won the toss and opted to bat first in the third match of the Tendulkar-Anderson Trophy at the Lord’s Cricket Ground. The five-match series is level at 1-1 after England won the first match at Headingley before India won a Test for the first time at Edgbaston. As expected…
Vadodara, 10/7: In a sad piece of development, the death toll in the collapse of a bridge over the Mahisagar river in Gujarat’s Vadodara district has gone up to 15 with the recovery of four more bodies,according to the official. Several vehicles plunged into the Mahisagar river after a portion of the four-decade-old bridge, connecting…
Hyderabad: The Enforcement Directorate has filed a money laundering case to look into the role of more than two dozen celebrities, including actors like Vijay Deverakonda, Rana Daggubati and Prakash Raj, apart from some social media influencers and YouTubers in Telengana. These outlets are alleged to have generated “illicit” funds worth crores of rupees through…
New Delhi,10/7: An earthquake of magnitude 4.4 struck near Jhajjar in Haryana on Thursday morning, sending tremors across the Delhi-NCR region. The epicentre was 3 km northeast of Jhajjar and 51 km west of Delhi. The earthquake struck at a depth of 10 km at 9:04 am, the National Centre for Seismology said.
Washington, 10/7: President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the US would impose a 50 per cent tariff on all imports from Brazil after a public spat this week with his Brazilian counterpart who called him an unwanted “emperor.” In a letter, Trump linked the tariffs to Brazil’s treatment of former President Jair Bolsonaro who…
Bengaluru: Royal Challengers Sports Private Limited (RCSPL), which owns the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) IPC team, has moved the Karnataka High Court, challenging certain observations made in a Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) order. On July 1, the CAT’s Bengaluru bench, while quashing the suspension order of senior IPS officer Vikash Kumar Vikash, had held that…
Windhoek: Namibia will roll out the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) later this year, it was announced on Wednesday following talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Namibian President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah that focused on imparting a new momentum to the bilateral series. The Modi-Ndaitwah meeting primarily focused on bolstering bilateral cooperation in areas such as digital…
