FM Sitharaman With Trump tariffs looming large, many expected that the Budget would seek to address American complaints about Indian trade levies. But the FM has not made any explicit moves, only taken minor steps to aid American exporters.Almonds and walnuts are among items on which import duties have been lowered, with the US being […]
A Georgia police officer was killed and another seriously injured Sunday while responding to a fraud-related call at a hotel near Stone Mountain, authorities said.The officer who died was 25-year-old Pradeep Tamang, who was born in Nepal and moved to the United States about ten years ago. He had joined the Gwinnett County Police Department […]
Archaeologists uncover tunnels inside 6000-year-old Neolithic site in Germany (Image Source – Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt, Ulf Petzschmann) Archaeologists in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt have uncovered an unusual underground tunnel inside a much older prehistoric burial site near the village of Reinstedt. The discovery was made during routine excavations carried out before […]
One of the federal agents identified in the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis was described by his ex-wife as a long-time gun enthusiast, according to records obtained by ProPublica.Jesus Ochoa, a 43-year-old Border Patrol agent, was named alongside Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez as the two federal officers who fatally shot […]
Removal Of Basic Customs Duty Of 5-11% To Lower Prices Of 17 Expensive Treatments Prices of 17 expensive cancer medicines, including Ribociclib and Venetoclax, and of seven rare disease drugs, like primary hyperoxaluria and cystinosis, are expected to dip after removal of basic customs duty in the Budget. This would lead to lowering of landed […]
Police in Canada have charged a 20-year-old man accused of carrying out dozens of vehicle break-ins across Mississauga, Canada as investigators continue searching for other suspects believed to be involved.Peel Regional Police said Basil Ass’ad has no fixed address and was arrested on January 26 following an investigation into a wave of vehicle break-and-enters reported […]
Two federal immigration agents who fatally shot Alex Pretti during a tense encounter in Minneapolis, Minnesota, have been identified as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa (43) and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez (35).37-year-old Pretti was a US citizen and an intensive care nurse who was shot and killed by federal immigration officers on […]
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman(left) with MoS for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary. (PTI) NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman not only chose to retain the Centre’s focus on capital expenditure, but also announced that at 4.4% of GDP it had hit the highest level in at least a decade. In her ninth consecutive budget speech, she proposed […]
Drunk passenger who jumped 100 feet off cruise ship recounts ‘cement-like’ impact in shark-infested waters/ Imaage: Youtube In 2019, Nick Naydev, then 27, jumped from the 11th deck of a Royal Caribbean cruise ship while it was docked in Nassau in the Bahamas. The ship was the Symphony of the Seas, one of the largest […]
Snoop Dogg’s daughter, Cori Broadus, broke the sad news that her three months premature baby girl, Codi, has passed away. Codi had spent most of her life in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Cori posted a very emotional message on Instagram with a black and white picture of her holding Codi with a very […]
