World economy

28 Jun 2018

28 Jun 2018

US President Donald Trump has finally received the Supreme Court’s approval for his travel ban on select Muslim countries, with the apex court upholding the Trump White House's travel ban

27 Jun 2018

The US has told all countries, including India and China, to stop all their imports of Iranian crude oil by 4 November, but the two countries are unlikely to comply considering their dependence on Iranian oil

27 Jun 2018

27 Jun 2018

26 Jun 2018

26 Jun 2018

25 Jun 2018

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the longest-surviving Turkish President, will enjoy enhanced powers under a new constitution agreed to in an April 2017 referendum

23 Jun 2018

Opec members agreed to a deal on Friday to increase oil supplies by about 1 million barrels of oil per day, equivalent to an increase of 1 per cent of global supplies

23 Jun 2018

22 Jun 2018

21 Jun 2018

21 Jun 2018

A fresh trove of 1.2 million documents linked to the defunct Panamanian firm Mossack Fonseca reveal fresh details that appear to implicate Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan, footballer Lionel Messi, and the family of Argentina’s president, among others

21 Jun 2018

The move follows withering criticism for the heavy-handed and cold-hearted response to an immigration crisis after the implementation of the zero-tolerance policy, resulting in children being forcibly separated from parents who illegally cross the border

21 Jun 2018

A greater representation of women in the government is bad news for corruption, finds a cross-country analysis of over 125 countries

20 Jun 2018

Rights groups have criticised the Trump administration for weakening America’s human rights record while critics slammed it for being selective in deciding human rights abuses within and in some parts of the world

19 Jun 2018

Azure Government is a cloud computing software that Microsoft sells to various government agencies, but the contract with US Immigration and Customs has come in for criticism over the agency's detention centres and family separation policies

16 Jun 2018

16 Jun 2018

The US EB-5 Investor programme or ‘million-dollar green card programme’ requires you to tie up around $575,000 of funds for a long period with no guarantee of success; similar programmes in Canada, the UK or Europe have much less burdensome requirements and may make more sense, says  Ajay Sharma, president of Abhinav Oursourcings

16 Jun 2018

With US annual trade deficit of more than $370 billion per annum with China, the US expects the measure to serve as an initial step toward bringing balance to bilateral trade relationship

15 Jun 2018

Reports quoting European Commission sources said the EU countries endorsed a plan to impose import duties on 2.8 billion euros ($3.3 billion) worth of goods, including whisky, motorcycles and blue jeans

14 Jun 2018

14 Jun 2018

While the two countries compete in the acquisition of oil assets overseas, India and China have a common interest in keeping oil import prices low, considering its impact on domestic economies

14 Jun 2018

While raising its benchmark overnight lending rate a quarter of a percentage point to a range of between 1.75 per cent and 2 per cent, the Fed said its monetary policy would remain accommodative

12 Jun 2018

While there is no formal agreement between the two Koreas and their backers to end the 65-year-long conflict, the two sides have agreed to recover the remains of prisoners of war and those missing in action and repatriate them