India’s Ranbaxy hit by new ban from US drug regulator
AFP, Mumbai :Shares in one of India’s biggest drugmakers, Ranbaxy Laboratories, dropped 17 percent Friday after the US Food and Drug Administration suspended imports from...
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Microsoft soars to record revenues
AFP, San Francisco :Microsoft soared to record revenues in the last quarter the company said Thursday, confounding Wall Street forecasts on the back of strong...
Global steel output rallies, dominated by China
AFP, Paris :Global production of steel rose by 3.5 percent in 2013 and China’s share of the total grew further to 48.5 percent, trade data...
46 vehicle pile-up on icy Indiana highway: 3 killed
Reuters, Chicago :At least three people were killed and more than 20 injured in multiple crashes involving nearly four dozen vehicles on Thursday afternoon along...
Deadly fire at elderly home in Canada: 5 killed
BBC Online :As many as 31 elderly Canadians are unaccounted for and five are confirmed dead after a fire destroyed an old people’s home in...
UN calls for Rohingya death investigation
AP, Myanmar :At least 48 Muslims were killed when Buddhist mobs attacked a village in an isolated corner of western Myanmar earlier this month, the...
Shame for West Bengal
TNN, Chowhatta :A broken wooden cot sits in the middle of the gloomy shack. A table fan stands next to it. And in one corner,...
S Sudan govt, rebels sign ceasefire deal
Reuters, Addis Ababa :South Sudan’s government and rebels signed a ceasefire on Thursday to end more than five weeks of fighting that divided Africa’s newest...
China warns foreign planes entering defense zone
AP, Beijing :China says it has begun issuing warnings to foreign military planes entering its self-declared air defense zone over the East China Sea that...