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Japan ‘s trade with Gulf countries falls 3.82% to $164.76b in 2014
TOKYO: Japan's bilateral trade with the Gulf countries fell 3.82 per cent in 2014 to $164.76 billion, compared to $171.31...
FPCCI urges govt to broaden tax net, present people-friendly budget
KARACHI: The business community has once again urged the government to broaden tax net and present a people-friendly budget for...
Australian dollar declines to 1 week low on RBA minutes
PERTH: The Australian dollar has fallen to a one-week low after the Reserve Bank left the door open to more...
New Zealand dollar falls as greenback gets boost
BENHAR: The New Zealand dollar declined as the greenback strengthened on optimism the US economy will rebound after a weak...
Rio Tinto plans to sell $1b aluminum assets
LONDON: Global miner Rio Tinto (RIO.L) (RIO.AX) plans to sell some of its aluminium assets in a potential $1 billion...
Sri Lanka keens to enhance tea oil import from Iran
TEHRAN: Sri Lanka tea exporters say they hope the United States would agree to a mechanism to settle payments for...
Indian rupee starts lower at 63.79 per dollar
MUMBAI: The Indian rupee on Tuesday was trading weaker against the dollar for a second consecutive session, tracking losses in...
Russia restarts spacecraft after embarrassing failures
LONDON: Russia on Monday managed on a second attempt to restart the engines of a Progress spacecraft attached to the...
Astronomers baffle by recent discovery of ‘fluffiest’ ever galaxies
WASHINGTON: Astronomers are baffled by a recent discovery of ‘fluffiest’ ever galaxies nearly as wide as our Milky Way galaxy...
Advanced ancient race on Earth fall victim to a comet 13,000 years ago
VERIA: New evidence suggests that an advanced ancient race on Earth fell victim to a comet 13,000 years ago. Graham...
Big shelves of Antarctic ice melting faster than scientists thought
LONDON: In 2002, two-thirds of the massive Larsen B ice shelf in Antarctica disintegrated into the ocean, spawning hundreds to...
NASA challenges public for ideas to make a Mars colony more sustainable
NEW YORK: The space agency NASA has asked public to submit designs for a Mars habitat. NASA, along with the...
How space tourism would have been sold 60 years ago: NASA
CANADA: Perhaps people within SpaceX and NASA are a little sad about the end of "Mad Men," because recently both...
Singapore stocks open stronger, STI climbs 0.12pc
SINGAPORE: The Straits Times Index (STI) rose 4.28 points or 0.12 per cent to 3,463.85 as at 9am on Tuesday. Among...
Millions of spider webs blanket Australian landscape after flood
SYDNEY: ‘Some people feel the rain, others just get wet’But the rain showers that this Australian rural town, Goulburn experienced...
South korean stocks take positive start, KOSPI advances 1.76pts
SEOUL: South Korean stocks opened a tad higher on Tuesday, tracking overnight gains on Wall Street, but their upside move...
Link between provision of financial incentives, give up on smoking, study
LONDON: In a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at...
Tokyo stocks open 0.44pc stronger, Nikkei 225 soars 86.87pts
TOKYO: Tokyo stocks have opened 0.44 per cent higher, backed by record-setting advances on Wall Street and a weaker yen...
Let’s have closer look at some of Lumia 540 Dual SIM vs Lenovo A7000 specs
NEW DELHI: These devices Lenovo A7000 and Lumia 540 are dual SIM ones, but they function on different platforms. Lumia...
