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US and South Korea agree on new cost-sharing deal for troops

Stocks edge higher on Wall Street following mixed data

9:57 pm June 25, 2020

Washington DC: Stocks edged higher on Wall Street in early trading Thursday as investors weigh a mixed batch of economic reports highlighting the damage that the coronavirus lockdowns have inflicted on the economy. The S&P 500 was up 0.2 per cent, recovering from an initial slide of 0.9 per cent. Gains in the financial, energy […]

Indore girl wants permission to study law at age 13

Indian students on course for UK universities despite lockdown disruption

9:53 pm June 25, 2020

London: Indian students remain on course to take up their courses at UK universities from later this year, according to figures released in London on Thursday which found a 32.9 per cent rise in applications from India in 2020 over the previous year. The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) analysis found that amid an overall spike in university applications for […]

Priti Patel unveils campaign to counter UK's Windrush immigration scandal

Terror threat from ‘lone actors’ growing, Priti Patel tells UK Parliament

11:25 pm June 22, 2020

London: The threat from “lone actors” is growing, British Home Secretary Priti Patel warned on Monday as she visited the scene of the terror attack in the southern English city of Reading where three people were killed in a knife attack. Addressing the MPs in the House of Commons, the senior Indian-origin minister praised the bravery of unarmed police officers who tackled […]

Cables: US falsely said British queen backed 1953 Iran coup

8:33 pm June 12, 2020

Dubai: The US ambassador to Iran mistakenly told the shah in 1953 that Britain’s newly enthroned Queen Elizabeth II backed a plan to overthrow the country’s elected prime minister and America maintained the fiction even after realizing the error, historians now say. The revelation, based on US diplomatic cables cited by the historians, shows how […]

Cholesterol levels are rising among Asians: Study

10:35 pm June 5, 2020

Hyderabad: Cholesterol levels are rising among Asians even as it is sharply declining in Western nations though it is still higher when compared to the levels in the Asian region, Avula Laxmaiah, Scientist G & Head, Division of Public Health Nutrition, ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition, said on Friday. He is one of the authors of […]