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Oil could top USD 100 as Strait of Hormuz closure halts flows
New Delhi: Oil prices could exceed USD 100 per barrel if tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is not swiftly restored, as the waterway’s closure threatens to disrupt 15 per cent…
- Business
Shares of aviation firms, tour operators dive amid Middle East crisis
New Delhi: Shares of airline companies, tour and travel related services providers tumbled on Monday, March 2, trade amid escalating tensions in the Middle East. The stock of InterGlobe Aviation tanked 7.50…
- Kashmir
Mobile internet speeds restricted in Kashmir amid protests over Khamenei killing
Srinagar: Mobile internet speeds were throttled across Kashmir on Monday, March 2, in the wake of spontaneous protests against the killing of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, officials said. They said…
- Middle East
Iranian strikes in UAE leave 3 dead, 58 injured, including Indian national
Dubai: Iranian strikes across the UAE in the past two days have resulted in three fatalities and 58 injuries, including an Indian national, officials confirmed on Sunday, March 1. The Indian Embassy…
- Middle East
‘Free yourself from the shackles of tyranny’ Israel urges Iranians
Jerusalem: Israel urged Iranians to take to the streets and topple the government as Iran vowed revenge for the killing of the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calling it “an open…
- Middle East
Lebanon urges Hezbollah to stay out of US-Iran conflict
The Lebanese government has urged the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah not to get involved if any fighting erupts between the United States and Iran, the Lebanese foreign minister said on Tuesday, expressing…
- Business
India’s forex reserves drop USD 2.119 bn to USD 723.608 bn
Mumbai: India’s forex reserves dropped by USD 2.119 billion to USD 723.608 billion during the week ended February 20, the RBI said on Friday, February 27. In the previous reporting week, the…
- Business
Stock market crash wipes out Rs 4.98 lakh cr from investors’ wealth
New Delhi: Investors’ wealth was eroded by Rs 4.98 lakh crore on Friday, February 27, as markets faced heavy drubbing, with the Sensex falling over 1 per cent, due to fresh foreign…
- World
Trump uses longest-ever State of Union to convince voters that US is winning
Washington: President Donald Trump declared during Tuesday’s marathon State of the Union that “we’re winning so much,” saying he’d sparked a jobs and manufacturing boom at home while imposing a new world…
- India
Pakistan PM told me millions would have died without my intervention: Trump
New York/Washington: US President Donald Trump has said that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told him that 35 million people would have died if it were not for his intervention in stopping…
- World
SC ruling against Trump’s tariffs is unlikely to mean end to trade policy chaos
Washington: The Supreme Court’s stunning rebuke of President Donald Trump’s most sweeping tariffs means he can’t conjure up new import taxes on a whim anymore. But the justices’ ruling on Friday is…
- India
86 nations sign AI Impact Summit declaration: Union Minister
New Delhi: As many as 86 countries and two international organisations have signed the AI Impact Summit declaration, IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Saturday, February 21, said, adding that the US, UK,…
- Business
India-US interim trade pact likely to be operationalised in April: Goyal
New Delhi: An interim trade agreement between India and the US is likely to be signed in March and operationalised in April, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday, February…
- Middle East
US and Iran to hold a second round of nuclear talks in Geneva
Geneva: The US and Iran are expected to hold their second round of talks about Iran’s nuclear program Tuesday, February 17, in Geneva as the United States ramps up its military presence…
- World
US: Family of Andhra student killed by officer to get Rs 262 cr settlement
Seattle: The city of Seattle has reached a USD 29 million (Rs 262 crore) settlement with the family of a 23-year-old graduate student from India who was struck by a speeding police…
