US elections
Senior White House role for Trump’s son-in-law, Ivanka declines
Ivanka Trump, who was also paid a significant role in Trump’s campaign will not be taking a formal White House position.
Rupee starts to dip again
This was a shock to the rupee which had strengthened between November 28 and December 8, 2016.
No one ‘except us’ believed Trump would win: Vladimir Putin
Russia and Putin has been accused by Washington of meddling in the US elections but the Kremlin leader broadly dismissed this.
Putin turned Russia election hacks in Trump's favour: US officials
A senior White House official said that Putin was likely to have been aware of the cyber attacks but he fell short of accusing him.
Donald Trump least popular US president-elect in 2 decades: poll
A Real Clear Politics poll shows that about 50 per cent of Americans hold an unfavourable opinion of Trump.
Donald Trump questions White House motive over Russian hacking probe
A day earlier the White House said Trump knew before the elections that Russia was behind the hacking.
US election, Diwali, surgical strikes were most 'talked about' in 2016: Facebook
Facebook said it measured leading topics by how frequently an issue was mentioned in posts made between January 1 and November 27.
Indian-American Nikki Haley to be US ambassador to UN
The move, which will be announced later on Wednesday, comes as Trump advisers are seeking to diversify his ranks.
Twitter suspends accounts of some alt-right figures
The alt-right movement came to the fore during the US presidential campaign.
Facebook declined to deploy tool to weed out fake news: Report
Facebook had a tool to weed out fake news circulating on the social network this year.