Facebook aims to block private gun sales
SAN FRANCISCO:Â Facebook on Friday set out to block people from using the leading social network and its Instagram photo-sharing ...
Sri Lanka and the UN Human Rights Council resolution
 Sri Lanka’s recent history has been dominated by civil wars. In 1983, ethnic tensions between the majority Sinhalese (mainly ...
Lanka : UN for international participation in rights probe
 Colombo : UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has reiterated the need for international participation in accountability probes into ...
Negative interest rate policy in practice
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) cut its benchmark interest rate below zero for the first time. The benchmark rate now stands at -0.1 per ...
Bank of Japan introduces negative interest rates
The Bank of Japan today introduced negative interest rate regime at its first policy review for the year.
The Japanese central bank ...
Fiscal deficit at 88% by Dec
New Delhi : The Centre’s fiscal deficit touched Rs 4.9 lakh crore by the end of December 2015, constituting 87.9 per cent of the ...
BlackBerry may fully switch to Android
NEW DELHI: BlackBerry is likely to abandon its BlackBerry 10 (BB10) operating system and switch to Google’s Android for its ...
GDP growth for 2014-15 revised to 7.2%
New Delhi : Government of India has marginally revised downward the economic growth for 2014-15 to 7.2 per cent from the earlier ...
Centre plans network of modern hospitals: Naqvi
Thiruvananthapuram :Â The Centre plans to set up a network of modern hospitals in different places to boost healthcare facilities in ...
Some secrets may remain as secrets : Pranab
In the second volume of his memoir, , President Pranab Mukherjee shares an insider’s account of several significant events during ...