ISLAMABAD: The United States and Iran began face-to-face negotiations Saturday in Pakistan, days after a fragile, two-week ceasefire was announced, as the war that has killed thousands of people and shaken global markets entered its seventh week. The White House confirmed the direct nature of the talks, a rare instance of high-level US govt engagement […]
Trump’s latest rejection of intelligence assessments reflects long distrust of spy agencies (Image: AP) WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump‘s fights with the intelligence community were a running theme of his first term, as he raged against an investigation into his campaign’s alleged links to Russia. Now, a sequel is playing out as Trump battles to shape […]
It’s not as if Madhabi Puri Buch has not faced challenges before: a three-and-a-half-decade career in the rapidly evolving world of finance would guarantee that enough came her way. In the late ’90s, while working at ICICI Bank, her manager admonished her for being technologically illiterate. “I was told that unless I made friends with […]
