France will deliver hundreds of old armoured vehicles and new surface-to-air missiles to Ukraine in its war against Russia, French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Sunday. The announcement came as a Russian cruise missile strike on infrastructure in Ukraine’s western Lviv region killed one man, while another man died in an attack in Ukraine’s […]

New Delhi [India], March 30 (ANI): Indian stock market indices closed the financial year 2023-24 on a firm note, with Sensex and Nifty rising in the range of 0.8-0.9 per cent on Thursday, backed by firm economic growth forecasts by various global watchdogs and political stability at the federal level. Sensex settled 0.88 per cent […]

New Delhi [India], March 29 (ANI): Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) have become net buyers for the second month in March in Indian stock markets. They had aggressively sold Indian stocks and turned net sellers in the Indian equity market in January 2024. The latest data available from the National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) showed that […]

Panama City – Starting next month, the U.S. Coast Guard and Argentine Navy will begin conducting joint exercises aimed at combating illegal Chinese fishing in the Atlantic Ocean. Argentina, Chile and Peru have criticized Chinese-operated craft for large-scale invasive fishing in their territorial waters without regulation, which the South American countries say is depleting fish […]

TEHRAN, Iran: As Iranians celebrated the Persian New Year on March 25, the country’s currency, the rial, fell to a record low of 613,500 to the U.S. dollar. At Tehran’s main hub of currency exchange shops in Ferdowsi Street, people were trying to exchange rials for foreign currencies, but businesses were closed due to the […]

New Delhi [India], March 26 (ANI): Indian stock market indices settled in the red on Tuesday, kicking off a holiday-truncated week in line with Asian peers, with investors now focusing on US inflation data due later this week. The to-be-released inflation data could shed more light on the timing of the Federal Reserve’s first interest […]

TOKYO, March 25 (Xinhua) — Tokyo stocks closed significantly lower on Monday, ending the winning streak for days, over losses on Wall Street amid overheating concerns among investors. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei stock index, the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average, ended down 474.31 points, or 1.16 percent, from Friday to close the day at 40,414.12. The broader […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.: The National Retail Federation, the largest retail trade group in the U.S., predicts retail sales to increase from 2.5 percent to 3.5 percent in 2024, slower than the 3.6 percent in 2023. This week, the federation said it expects retail sales to reach between US$5.23 trillion and $5.28 trillion this year, in line […]

New Delhi [India], March 23 (ANI): Food safety regulator Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has asked its senior officials to exercise strict food safety vigilance on the manufacturing and sale of food items meant to be consumed during the ongoing festival season, particularly “kuttu atta, singhada atta, bhagar/samak ke chawal (barnyard millet)” […]

New Delhi [India], March 22 (ANI): There has been a reduction in the share of coal import in the total coal consumption in the country. The share of coal import declined to 21% during April 2023 to January 2024, which was 22.48% during the corresponding period of previous year. There has been a reduction of […]