India has increased its annual contribution to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) from $1.5 million to $5 million from 2018-19 for a period of three years, the External Affairs Ministry said on Wednesday. According to a ministry statement India made the announcement of this substantive increase i...
The US and South Korea have agreed in principle on revisions to a free trade agreement which first entered into force in 2012. Senior White House officials on Tuesday said Washington will exempt Seoul from its steel tariffs and maintain the 10 per cent tariffs on imports of South Korean aluminium, the New York Times reported. According to the officia...
Despite pressures of a competitive job economy, one in 10 Indians feel optimistic about achieving success within one year, which is double the global average of 5 per cent, according to a LinkedIn survey on Wednesday. "The growing optimism in India's macroeconomic environment shines through in the confidence Indian professionals feel t...
Three Messenger users have sued Facebook in a class action suit alleging that the social media giant has violated their privacy by scraping data of their phone calls and text messages. The development comes at a time when Facebook is facing heat from all quarters over the leak of personal and other data of some 50 million users to political ...
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced special measures for transaction of central and state government business by banks handling government accounts on March 31 in view of the closing of the financial year on that day. In a release late on Tuesday, the RBI also said special arrangements have been made to conduct special clearing o...
Key Indian equity indices on Tuesday provisionally closed with gains as positive ...
Revenue collection under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) fell for the second consecutive...
The negative impression about Jammu and Kashmir needs to be changed so that tourism...
Brass futures received a good response after the MCX formally launched the first alloy...
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi on Tuesday launched Mi MIX 2S in China. The device...
