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19 Apr 2018

The change will end the 60-year domination of the Castros over the island nation and put a younger man at the top – but the move is unlikely to herald any major departure from Cuba’s Communist policies,

14 Apr 2018

13 Apr 2018

In his book due to be released next week, former FBI director James Comey says President Donald Trump reminded him of a mafia boss who demanded absolute loyalty, saw the entire world against him, and lied about everything 

13 Apr 2018

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who  is facing multiple charges in several cases in the accountability court, faces over 20 years in jail if convicted

13 Apr 2018

13 Apr 2018

Former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan has reiterated his views that India’s demonetisation exercise was not a good idea and its implementation was ill-planned, adding that he had cautioned the government about it, when the idea was brought up

13 Apr 2018

Hindustan Unilever has announced the retirement of Harish Manwani as non-executive chairman of the company and the elevation of Sanjiv Mehta,  as chairman and manging director

11 Apr 2018

Appearing before a Senate committee, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg apologised for the kind of lapses that led to the Cambridge Analytica imbroglio, and said he knows the importance of the upcoming polls in countries including India, Hungary and Brazil

09 Apr 2018

Queen Elizabeth II is a 43rd direct descendant of the Prophet via Muhammad's daughter Fatimah, says Burke’s Peerage – the Bible of British aristocracy – in reports that first appeared in 1986 and have now resurfaced

09 Apr 2018

The second man to land on the moon, Buzz Aldrin, who is now 88 years old, passed a lie-detector test and repeated his claim that he had seen a space ship while on his visit to the moon

07 Apr 2018

07 Apr 2018

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, who spent two nights in a Rajasthan jail in the 1998 blackbuck poaching case, was granted bail by a Jodhpur district court on Saturday afternoon

06 Apr 2018

05 Apr 2018

Brazil’s top court early today rejected former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s plea to stay out of prison while he appeals a corruption conviction, in a vote that likely ends his political career and deepens divisions in the country 

05 Apr 2018

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan was on Thursday sentenced to five years in jail after being found guilty by a court in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, in the 1998 blackbuck poaching case

04 Apr 2018

04 Apr 2018

28 Mar 2018

28 Mar 2018

India needs its own social networking company “that is very widely owned, professionally managed and willingly regulated,” says automobile major Anand Mahindra

26 Mar 2018

The Rs12,700-crore fraud committed by diamantaire Nirav Modi and his associates could get PNB listed as a defaulter if the bank fails to repay Rs1,000 crore to another state-run bank, Union Bank of India (UBI), by 31 March

24 Mar 2018

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are battling it out over SpaceX and Facebook, much to the glee of their global ‘followers’

22 Mar 2018

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy claims life has become living hell since allegations surfaced of his having taken illegal money from Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi

21 Mar 2018

19 Mar 2018

The Bangladesh Supreme Court has stayed the release of former prime minister Khaleda Zia on bail in a corruption case in which she was sentenced to five years in jail

19 Mar 2018

Vladmir Putin’s victory in the presidential election came as his most serious challenger was banned and amid reports of ballot-stuffing, but it gives him at least another six years in power amid increasingly strained relations with the West