With India needing about a trillion dollars for infrastructure development, India’s Minister of Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Nitin Gadkari has highlighted investment opportunities in India for US investors. With Prime Minister Narendra Modi making the country’s infrastructure development the top-most priority of the government, “This is a golden opportunity to invest in India,” he […]
A police officer in US’ Kansas city was fired after he threatened an African-American woman’s five-year-old daughter on Facebook. Rodney Lee Wilson worked with Overland Park Police Department in Kansas, Buzzfeed reported on Monday. “We’ll see how much her life matters soon. Better be careful leaving your info open where she can be found :). […]
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday ordered authorities to launch a thorough probe into the killing of a prominent political analyst. Kem Ley, 46, director of the Organisation for Social Development, was shot dead on Sunday near a gas station in capital Phnom Penh, Xinhua news agency reported. “I order the authorities to find […]
John Prescott, who was British Deputy Prime Minister during Britain’s participation in Iraq war, said on Sunday that it was an illegal war and violated international laws. Prescott said he changed his mind about the legality of the action four days after the publication of the Chilcot Report, which said that London ordered the military […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday left South Africa for Tanzania on the third leg of his four-nation tour of Africa. “A busy and fruitful South Africa visit ends. PM @narendramodi leaves for Tanzania,” the Prime Minister’s Office tweeted. On Sunday, Modi will hold bilateral discussions with Tanzanian President John Magufuli in Dar-es-Salaam which will […]
Amid warnings from the European Council that the British exit from the European Union will have serious geopolitical consequences, US President Barack Obama on Friday urged that Brexit be a smooth transition. Speaking prior to a NATO Summit scheduled for July 8-9, Obama spoke of the strength and importance of the US-EU relationship, describing the […]
South African President Jacob Zuma on Friday pledged to promote bilateral ties with India in various fields. Speaking in Pretoria after meeting visiting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Zuma said the visit “has certainly further strengthened the already warm historical relations between the two countries, and has taken cooperation to a higher level”. Modi arrived from […]
It is time to say goodbye to tactile keys. Canadian mobile maker BlackBerry has parted ways with its most successful device of its times — BlackBerry Classic. According to Ralph Pini, chief operating officer and general manager for devices at BlackBerry, the company will no longer manufacture BlackBerry Classic. “For many years, Classic (and its […]
In a bid to regain footing in the social media landscape, Micro-blogging site Twitter has appointed Bret Taylor — former chief technology officer at Facebook and an ex-Google employee who helped build Google Maps — to its board. Bret Taylor co-founded a social networking startup called Friendfeed, Re/Code reported on Wednesday. “Bret brings to our […]
As NASA’s Juno probe entered the orbit of our solar system’s largest planetary inhabitant after a five-year journey, Google celebrated the scientific milestone with a doodle that says “Juno reaches Jupiter”. “A NASA satellite built like a tank is settling into polar orbit around Jupiter, the mysterious gas giant two doors down from Earth,” Google […]