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CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Air traffic is down, gun seizures up at US airports

11:13 pm August 10, 2020

Washington: With air traffic nearing a five-month high, airport security is finding guns in passenger carry-on bags at three times the rate recorded before the pandemic. And 80 per cent of the guns are loaded. Officers found 15.3 guns for every million people screened in July, compared with 5.1 per million people in July of […]

Trump signs executive orders banning Chinese apps TikTok & Wechat

8:07 pm August 7, 2020

Washington: US President Donald Trump has signed executive orders banning TikTok and WeChat, terming the popular Chinese apps a threat to the country’s national security and economy. The ban comes into effect in 45 days, Trump said in two separate executive orders signed on Thursday. India was the first country to ban TikTok and WeChat, […]

Chinese are on march to prove their importance, are taking up vacuum that US created: Albright

US agents enter Chinese consulate compound in Houston; Beijing lodges protest

10:35 pm July 25, 2020

Houston: US federal agents and law enforcement officers have entered the Chinese consulate compound here along with locksmiths after the mission was shut down, amidst spiralling tensions between Washington and Beijing. The Trump administration ramped up its confrontation with China this week, ordering Beijing’s consulate in Houston to close over concerns about economic espionage. The Chinese consulate located in Houston’s busy Montrose Boulevard for 40 […]

Russia denies US, UK accusations of weapon test in space

11:14 pm July 24, 2020

Moscow: Russia dismissed US and British claims that it tested an anti-satellite weapon in space and declared Friday that the accusations served to justify Washington’s own plans to deploy weapons in orbit. US and British officials claimed Thursday that the July 15 test of an anti-satellite weapon signaled a continuing Russian effort to develop technologies that could threaten space […]

Rupee settles 8 paise lower at 74.83 against US dollar

6:57 pm July 24, 2020

Mumbai : The rupee slid 8 paise to close at 74.83 to the US dollar on Friday, tracking lacklustre equities amid worries that the US-China friction will further dent global economic recovery. The rupee opened on a weak note at 74.94 at the interbank forex market and moved in the range of 74.80 to 74.98 […]