Shares of Japanese video games giant Nintendo soared on Thursday by 16 per cent at the Tokyo Stock Exchange due to the stupendous success of its new smartphone augmented reality game, ‘Pokemon Go’. The shares of the Kyoto-based company reached $244 during the first half of the trading day at the Tokyo exchange where investors […]
Theresa May devoted most of her first hours as Britain’s Prime Minister on Wednesday to naming the key members of the team that will have the task of implementing voters’ decision to leave the European Union. She appointed Former Mayor of London Boris Johnson as the country’s new Foreign Secretary. Until now a back-bencher, the […]
Minister of State for External Affairs V.K. Singh on Thursday left for South Sudan leading the government’s ‘Operation Sankat Mochan’ to evacuate Indians from the African country which has been hit by violence that has claimed hundreds of lives. “#OperationSankatMochan begins at crack of dawn. Two C 17 aircraft leave for Juba with @Gen_VKSingh on […]
The micro-blogging website Twitter and Bloomberg Media have signed a deal to live stream several media company’s TV news shows on Twitter platform. The partnership includes streaming rights shows like “Bloomberg West”, “What’d You Miss?” and “With All Due Respect”, along with the network’s daily stock market coverage. Although the amount of the deal was […]
Incumbent Jeremy Corbyn is entitled to be on the ballot in the Labour Party leadership election, the National Executive Committee of Britain’s main opposition formation decided on Tuesday. Corbyn’s opponents insisted that to be included on the ballot, he would need backing from at least 51 Labour Party members of the British Parliament or the […]
The US Capitol complex was briefly placed on lockdown on Tuesday after reports of a possible active shooter around the complex. According to police, the Capitol Hill and all buildings in the Capitol complex were placed on lockdown around 4:20 p.m. local time while police were checking reports that a suspect with a gun appeared […]
Curfew continued for the fifth day in most parts of the Valley on Wednesday as 34 people died during this period in the vicious cycle of violence that has plagued Kashmir after the killing of Hizbul commander, Burhan Wani. Despite relative calm in the Valley on Tuesday, clashes occurred between the security forces and unruly […]
The victims of the Paris attacks last year, intended to file charges against the French government, their lawyer has said. Maitre Samia Maktouf, a lawyer defending 17 victims of Paris terror attacks on November 13 last year that left about 130 people dead and over 250 injured, on Tuesday said her clients intended to file […]
The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) on Wednesday opened on a positive note during the morning session of the trade. The Sensex of the BSE after opening at 27,912.14 points, touched a high of 27,928.76 points and a low of 27,829.51 points. On Tuesday the Sensex closed at 27,808.14 points. The Sensex is trading at 27,850.52 […]
China’s new generation of space tracking ship, the Yuanwang-7, which will perform maritime tracking of manned spaceflight Shenzhou-11, was formally launched on Tuesday after a 60-day trial period. The vessel, designed by China, marks a new high for China’s space tracking technology, said an official statement. The construction of the ship started on October 10, […]