At least 208 people in Iran have been killed amid protests over sharply rising gasoline prices and a subsequent crackdown by security forces, Amnesty International has said, as one government official acknowledged telling police to shoot demonstrators. Iran has yet to release any nationwide statistics over the unrest that gripped the Islamic Republic beginning 15 November with minimum prices for government-subsidized gasoline rising by 50 per cent.
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“The accusation of bias couldn’t be further from the truth. We have covered Donald Trump fairly and in an unbiased way since he became a candidate in 2015 and will continue to do so despite the restrictions imposed by the Trump campaign”
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today said the government is open to further reforms for making India a more attractive investment destination.
Senior Congress leader and former Finance Minister P Chidambarm today took a dig at the BJP over its MP Nishikant Dubey’s remarks that the GDP has no relevance, saying “God save India’s economy”.
NASA’s Moon-orbiting spacecraft has found the debris of Chandrayaan 2’s lander Vikram on the surface of the Moon, the US space agency confirmed on Tuesday, nearly three months after India’s ambitious mission made a hard landing near the uncharted lunar south pole.
US President Donald Trump’s attorney has said that the White House will not participate in congressional hearings set for Wednesday that will consider passing impeachment articles against the president.
The Philippines was braced for powerful Typhoon Kammuri as the storm churned closer, forcing evacuations and threatening plans for the Southeast Asian Games events near the capital Manila. Kammuri is expected to make landfall late today or early Tuesday in the nation’s east with heavy rains and wind gusts of up to 185 kilometres (115 miles) per hour, forecasters said.
‘What sells here in the US need not necessarily be a big thing in India. You would have services which are localised for India. India will find its own mobility solution, will find its own service solutions for various things that are actually happening and that is what is going to happen’
Police probing the gang-rape and murder of a young woman veterinarian in Telangana today said they have been asked to complete the investigation in a time-bound manner and would seek maximum punishment for the four accused.