World economy

World's 'better' countries have higher rates of cancer

12 Oct 2017

The world's "better" countries, with greater access to healthcare, experience much higher rates of cancer incidence than the world's "worse off" countries, according to new research

World's 'better' countries have higher rates of cancer

12 Oct 2017

The world's "better" countries, with greater access to healthcare, experience much higher rates of cancer incidence than the world's "worse off" countries, according to new research

UK Farm incomes could halve after Brexit: Report

12 Oct 2017

Global economic recovery gaining pace: IMF

11 Oct 2017

Proof of Russian meddling in US poll grows; Google, Microsoft to probe

11 Oct 2017

The revelations add to the evidence that the Russian disinformation campaign had not only multiple targets among US technology companies but also multiple centres of operations

US budget face-off may open window of hope for ‘Dreamers’

10 Oct 2017

WTO: India to push food security issue

09 Oct 2017

India, particularly, will insist that a permanent solution on public stock holding be one of the deliverables in Buenos Aires as was promised at the Ministerial meets in Nairobi and Bali

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to anti-Nuke campaign group ICAN

06 Oct 2017

The Nobel Committee cited a rising risk of nuclear war and the spread of weapons in the light of the North Korean threat to bestow the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize on the campaign group seeking a global ban on nuclear arms

Russia in $3-bn missile defence deal with Saudi Arabia

06 Oct 2017

Saudi Aramco and Russian oil companies also signed several agreements on oil technology amidst new developments on the energy front that tend to put a squeeze on oil demand

Another bump for Trump: court rejects bid to delay methane emission cuts

05 Oct 2017

Equifax mass ID theft leads US to rethink on Social Security number

05 Oct 2017

White House cybersecurity coordinator Rob Joyce says the US should end Social Security numbers as an identification method and move on to something more modern – though experts say India’s Aadhaar is not secure enough to be the answer

India extends $4.5-bn third line of credit to Bangladesh

05 Oct 2017

India extends $4.5-bn third line of credit to Bangladesh

05 Oct 2017

India extends $4.5-bn third line of credit to Bangladesh

05 Oct 2017

UN to seek $430 mn in aid for up to 1.2 mn Rohingya refugees

04 Oct 2017

US gives Pakistan “one more" chance to stop hurting India, others

04 Oct 2017

Vegas shooting: IS claim doubted; killer’s dad was escaped felon

03 Oct 2017

Myanmar takes global diplomats on tour of troubled Rakhine

03 Oct 2017

Rohingya crisis: number of refugees now tops half million

30 Sep 2017

Five weeks after the mass exodus of Rohingyas from Myanmar began on 25 August, the UN says the total number of arrivals in Bangladesh has now topped 501,000

New Cuban crisis: US pulls staff from Havana after mystery sonic attacks

30 Sep 2017

More than half the American staff has been pulled out from its embassy in Havana following mysterious sonic attacks that have caused several health problems to over 21 diplomats

IS chief al-Baghdadi emerges from shadows, orders hits on media

30 Sep 2017

Vietnam sentences former banker, petro boss to death for graft

29 Sep 2017

S Korea to offer tax and loan concessions to firms hit by China's trade sanctions

28 Sep 2017

Pakistani court indicts finance minister on graft charges

27 Sep 2017

World economies ill-prepared for automation, robotisation: WEF

27 Sep 2017

With a range of new technologies fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, WEF has urged governments to adopt more flexible labour policies