US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday warned Silicon Valley not to bolster China’s ‘Orwellian’ state, two days before the world’s two largest economies sign a partial trade deal. Speaking to a tech-heavy crowd in San Francisco, Pompeo trumpeted the ‘phase one’ deal to tame a two-year trade war but told businesses that they needed to do more.
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The Kerala government has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Citizenship Amendment Act and has sought to declare it as ultra vires the Constitution.
A dummy execution of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape case was performed at the Tihar Jail here, prison officials have said. A Delhi court had on 7 January issued death warrants against all the four convicts — Mukesh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31) — and ordered they be hanged on 22 January at 7 am in Tihar jail, over seven years after the brutal crime sparked outrage and anger across
Actor Vijay Sethupathi is busy shooting for Laabam, being helmed by S P Jananathan. Produced by 7C’s Entertainment in association with Vijay Sethupathi Productions, Laabam features Sruthi Haasan as heroine while Kalaiyarasan, Ramesh Thilak, Sai Dhansika and others play important roles.
A jihadist attack on a military camp in western Niger three days ago left 89 soldiers dead, according to a new toll announced by the government on public radio Sunday.
Asian markets were mixed Monday as investor attention turned from the Middle East to the global economic outlook and this week’s planned signing of the China-US trade pact. While the optimism that characterised the end of 2019 is returning to trading floors, dealers were left a little disappointed by a below-par jobs report out of Washington, which also showed a slower pace of wage growth.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s approval ratings have nosedived as he faces widespread anger over his handling of the deadly bushfire crisis, according to a poll released Monday.
Top US Democrat Nancy Pelosi has said that she believes the impeachment hearings against Donald Trump produced ‘enough testimony to remove him from office’ when the case moves to the Senate.
The Congress accused the Modi government on Monday of failing to utilise a cess amount of over Rs 3 lakh crore since fiscal year 2015, saying it was a “shocking case of financial anarchy”.