Year: 2015

KATHMANDU: The customs office collected Rs73.9 million during the period lasting mid-October to mid-November, or 1 percent of the targeted ...

LONDON: HTC has finally announced the much-awaited HTC One A9 smartphone for the Indian market. The smartphone was announced alongside ...

KOLKATA: It is raining smartphones in India. Another company to launch its flagship phone in India is InFocus. Yes, the ...

PERTH: The Senate has sunk government plans to open up Australia's port-to-port shipping industry to more foreign-flagged vessels – many ...

NEW DELHI: To stimulate vegetable oil and oilseeds sector, an industry body has come up with a number of suggestions, ...

BEIJING: Airbus has been coming up with a lot of ideas lately to make air travel more efficient. First there ...

DHAKA: Bangladesh authorities insisted an almost week-long ban on Facebook and mobile messaging services would remain until security in the ...

MOSCOW: Russia said on Thursday that it would reinforce control over Turkish food imports citing frequent violations of safety standards, ...

HONG KONG: On the Bayonne Bridge, high above the water that connects New York harbour with New Jersey’s Newark bay, ...

LONDON: Apple's first keyboard for an iPad and the new Pencil was backordered when the iPad Pro was released and ...

CANADA: Using semi-conductive polymers, both analog and digital electronic circuits can be created inside living flowers, bushes and trees, as ...

MEXICO: Although some states have already experienced snowfall, with Chicago breaking a 120-year-old November record last week for getting more ...

NEW DELHI: The powerful Tata Safari Storme Varicor 400 has finally been launched for Rs 13.52 Lakh (Ex-showroom, Delhi). Cosmetically, ...

KARACHI: The Karachi Stock Exchange Thursday started with positive note but went to negative as benchmark KSE-100 index shed 133 ...

HANOI: Vietnamese customs authorities have confiscated 860kg of elephant tusks hidden among more than a thousand boxes of frozen fish ...

MUMBAI: Utility vehicle major Mahindra & Mahindra launched its premium sports utility vehicle XUV500 with automatic transmission at a starting ...

WASHINGTON: Foreign direct investment has fallen during the first seven months of this financial year to US$3.7 billion from $3.9 ...

LONDON: LG, one of the top smartphone makers in the world, just announced a mid-range Android smartphone. It’s called LG ...

TAIPEI: Taiwan stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Auto, Textile and Biotech & Medical ...

HANOI: Vietnamese shares yesterday rose slightly on both local exchanges as retailers made gains after the latest statistics from ANZ ...