Moscow Zirka’s courageous approach has reaped rewards: the coach’s team, Zirka10, lead the McDonald’s FIFA World Cup™ Fantasy. Zirka used their Bench Boost and Maximum Captain in Rounds 1 and 2 respectively, with the former snatching ten extra points and the latter ensuring they had hat-trick hero Harry Kanein his armband. Zirka also had Aleksandar Kolarov, a left-back, […]
China’s official factory gauge fell more than expected in June, just as the world’s two biggest economies head toward a trade war. The manufacturing purchasing managers index stood at 51.5 in June, versus 51.9 in May, and the forecast of 51.6 in a Bloomberg survey of economists. The non-manufacturing PMI, covering services and construction, rose to […]
Ottawa Canada hit back at the United States on Friday with retaliatory tariffs on American summertime essentials including Florida orange juice, ketchup and Kentucky bourbon in its opening salvo in a trade war with President Donald Trump. As temperatures and tensions increase, the measures targeting Can$16.6 billion (US$12.6 billion) in US steel, aluminum and consumer […]
Agartala Three separate lynching cases in a day in Tripura triggered a blame game between the ruling BJP and the opposition CPI(M) and Congress on Friday. Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb and Law Minister Ratan Lal Nath blamed the CPI(M) for the lynching incidents, while the left party and the Congress held Nath responsible for the cases. […]
Mumbai This year commenced with persistent rumours of Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone getting engaged and plans for their wedding. The rumours caught fire when the couple flew down to Sri Lanka with their respective families. It was being assumed that the couple has gone to exchange rings. However, in a recent interview to Evening Standards the […]
Kuala Lumpur India’s top shuttlers PV Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth went down fighting in their respective women’s and men’s singles semifinals to draw the curtains on the team’s campaign at the USD 700,000 Malaysia Open Super World Tour 750 tournament on Saturday. First, Srikanth failed to match the overall superior game of former world no 2 Japanese Kento […]
Srinagar A flood alert has been sounded in south and central Kashmir, with water levels in the Jhelum river rising after heavy rains over the last two days. Authorities have warned of fresh rainfall and set up a round-the-clock monitoring system in various parts of the state. Water level rose above the danger mark at Sangam […]
New Delhi Liquor baron Vijay Mallya has been summoned by a special anti-money laundering court on August 27 under the Fugitive Economic Offenders Ordinance, an official said. The May 27 ordinance gives the law enforcing agencies powers to attach and confiscate the proceeds of crime and properties of economic offenders like bank defaulters or bank […]
San Francisco: Facebook-owned Instagram has introduced a new feature on “Stories” that would allow users to add a soundtrack to their content from a library of thousands of songs. As part of the new feature, a new “music” icon would be visible under the record button in “Stories” that would let users “search for a […]
New Delhi: Union Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said that there has been an “ill-informed” campaign regarding money parked by Indians in Swiss banks. Jaitley’s reaction was on a news report on Thursday that said money parked by Indians in Swiss banks rose over 50 percent to CHF 1.01 billion (Rs 7,000 crore) in 2017, […]