World economy

12 Nov 2018

Not only is the US absent from the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) – where India might play a key role - but President Trump is skipping the summit in Singapore, leaving the space open for China

09 Nov 2018

Trump had been critical of  Attorney General Jeff  for appointing Robert Mueller as the special counsel into the Russia probe, which the president was keen on stopping

08 Nov 2018

The US mid-term elections, widely seen as a referendum on ‘Trumpism’, proved a mixed bag as the GOP increased its majority in the Senate from 51-49 to 54-46, but lost control of the House of Representatives to the Democrats

08 Nov 2018

05 Nov 2018

Trump said the penalties were aimed at the Tehran government, “not at the long suffering Iranian people,” adding, the Iranian regime has abandon its destructive behaviour

02 Nov 2018

For Saudi Arabia, which hosts the holiest sites in Islam and bans the practice of other religions, the hosting of evangelist Christians and Israeli supporters is a rare act, forced by circumstances

29 Oct 2018

If everyone on the planet wanted to eat a healthy diet, there wouldn't be enough fruit and vegetables to go around, according to a new University of Guelph study

29 Oct 2018

In the Trump age, a Green Card is not a guarantee  any morethat an immigrant will not be exiled from the country. By Ajay Sharma, President, Abhinav Outsourcings Pvt. Ltd

29 Oct 2018

23 Oct 2018

The neighbours plan to pull out all firearms from a Joint Security Area at Panmunjom and cut the number of personnel stationed there to 35 each and share information on surveillance equipment and are looking to withdraw 11 guard posts by the end of the year

22 Oct 2018

The 55-km Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau sea link that connects Hong Kong with Mainland China is part of a broader contentious plan to integrate the special administrative regions into China

19 Oct 2018

16 Oct 2018

15 Oct 2018

Pakistan's finance minister Asad Umar who met MF managing director Christine Lagarde at the IMF summit in Bali, said Pakistan’s current year debt repayments are about $9 billion and that Pakistan is ready to share details of CPEC debt with the IMF

04 Oct 2018

03 Oct 2018

01 Oct 2018

01 Oct 2018

Election authorities say they had been pressured to delay the final announcement of strongman Abdulla Yameen's decisive loss

27 Sep 2018

The US central bank foresees another rate hike in December, three more next year, and one in 2020, which would take the benchmark overnight lending rate to 3.4 per cent, roughly half a percentage point above the Fed's estimated “neutral” rate of interest

26 Sep 2018

Investment-based immigration has gained steam especially after the 2008 financial meltdown, as a host of countries has come up with attractive programmes to attract foreign funds, says Ajay Sharma, president of immigration and visa consultancy Abhinav Outsourcings

25 Sep 2018

24 Sep 2018

Saturday's assault, one of the worst against the elite force of the Islamic Republic, comes at a time when the United States and its Gulf allies are working to isolate Tehran and could act as a trigger for a US war on Iran

24 Sep 2018

Results released by the electoral commission showed Yameen on 41.7 per cent of the vote, well behind Solih on 58.3 per cent — the only other candidate

21 Sep 2018

An extension of the project to Saudi Arabia will both achieve China’s need to push into new areas of influence and Pakistan’s need to find source of finance for the Chinese projects

19 Sep 2018