Taipei, Taiwan and China will this week resume talks on a goods free trade agreement after negotiations were delayed due to vocal opposition by locals suspicious of closer ties with Beijing, officials said on Sunday. The three-day talks will reopen Wednesday after being delayed about five months, but an economicsRead More

Tehran: President Hassan Rouhani re-entered Iran’s feverish debate on Internet censorship and gender segregation on Sunday, saying neither policy was in the country’s interest. Rouhani was elected last year having pledged to be more moderate on social issues after his conservative predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s eight-year tenure, but he has encounteredRead More

London: Queen Elizabeth II is very concerned that Scotland will vote for independence from the UK this month and is receiving daily updates on the situation, a media report said on Sunday. Buckingham Palace aides and ministers close to the 88-year-old British monarch told ‘The Sunday Times’ that the prospectRead More

Baghdad/Tbilisi: U.S. warplanes carried out four strikes on Islamic State insurgents menacing Iraq`s Haditha Dam on Sunday, witnesses and officials said, widening what President Barack Obama called a campaign to curb and ultimately defeat the jihadist movement. Obama has branded Islamic State an acute threat to the West as wellRead More

Washington: US President Barack Obama now admits that his decision to play a vacation round of golf immediately after addressing the murder of US journalist James Foley by Islamic State, was a mistake. “I should have anticipated the optics,” Obama said in an interview with NBC`s “Meet the Press” onRead More

New Delhi: As new permutations and combinations are building up to form government in the nation’s capital, the BJP is set to hold a Central Election Committee meet on September 9 which may likely to put an end to political deadlock in Delhi, as per reports on Sunday. The BJPRead More

New Delhi,Putting to rest the debate on printing of one rupee notes, the Law Ministry has opined that the Government of India has all the powers to print currency notes of this denomination. While the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has the authority to issue bank notes of denominational valuesRead More

New Delhi : In a major move, the government has amended service rules to ensure that IAS, IPS and IFoS officers maintain “high ethics” and “political neutrality” while discharging their duty. Officers needs to be responsive to the public, particularly to the weaker section, ensure courtesy and good behaviour withRead More

New Delhi: A day after the Aam Aadmi Party sought President Pranab Mukherjee’s intervention in not allowing Lt Governor Najeeb Jung to invite BJP to form a government in Delhi, Congress, too, said that they will protest against the BJP on the issue of government formation in Delhi. Delhi PradeshRead More

New Delhi: Yoga guru Ramdev`s close aide and senior journalist Ved Pratap Vaidik on Sunday set off a fresh controversy by calling the MPs, who criticised his meeting with 26/11 attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed in Pakistan, ‘insane’ , adding that he feels like “spitting on their faces”. However, Vaidik later retraced from hisRead More