Australian golfers have watched a 4m scrub python swallow a wallaby at a course in Far North Queensland. The incident happened on the 17th fairway at Paradise Palms Golf Course in Cairns at the weekend. The scrub python, Australia’s longest snake, often ambushes prey by hiding in trees or long ... Read More »
The six-member monetary policy committee (MPC), headed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Urjit Patel, on Wednesday unanimously decided to keep the policy rate unchanged at 6.25 per cent, considering the “heightened uncertainty” of volatility related to US rate hike and the local demonetization drive. RBI also withdrew ... Read More »
The choice of words of Manmohan Singh, former prime minister and an economist, for his column in The Hindu on demonetisation impact on India’s economy, beginning with the title, Making of a mammoth tragedy, should worry the average Indian. Even if one tends to discount the politics of Singh’s article, the former ... Read More »
Prime Minister Narendra Modi handpicked a trusted bureaucrat, little known outside India’s financial circles, to spearhead a radical move to abolish 86 percent of the country’s cash overnight and take aim at the huge shadow economy. Hasmukh Adhia, the bureaucrat, and five others privy to the plan were sworn to ... Read More »
CANBERRA – On Nov. 8, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that 500- and 1,000-rupee notes (1,000 rupees is about $15) were no longer legal tender; people were given 50 days to deposit them in bank accounts or exchange them for new notes at banks and post offices — when only ... Read More »
Outgoing Italian PM Matteo Renzi has agreed to stay in power until the Senate passes its 2017 budget in the coming days, the president says. Mr Renzi formally resigned after his heavy defeat in a constitutional referendum a day earlier, but the president requested the delay. President Sergio Mattarella will ... Read More »
Officials have said 36 people are now confirmed dead from a fire at a warehouse party in Oakland, California, and have opened a criminal inquiry. Eleven victims have already been identified, with the families of those still missing being asked to submit DNA samples to investigators. Crews have suspended body-recovery ... Read More »
Searchers have recovered 33 bodies — some of them teens 17 years old or possibly younger — from a fire-ravaged warehouse in Oakland, California, that housed artist studios and was hosting a dance party when the deadly blaze broke out, officials said today. Sgt. Ray Kelly of the Alameda County ... Read More »
Amazon has revealed plans for a grocery shop without a checkout process, where customers will instead pay for the goods they have selected via an app. The Just Walk Out shopping experience uses the same types of technologies found in self-driving cars. The system detects when items are taken or ... Read More »
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Europol has warned that militants from so-called Islamic State (IS) will aim to step up attacks on European targets, as they face defeat in the Middle East. The European police force says more foreign fighters will try to come back to Europe, and “several dozen” capable of attacks could already ... Read More »
The US unemployment rate fell to a nine-year low in November, adding to expectations that US interest rates will rise later this month. Figures from the Labor Department showed the US economy created 178,000 jobs in November, while the jobless rate fell to 4.6% from 4.9% in October. The data ... Read More »
