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Oil prices struggle to hold five-month high amid pandemic worries. (AFP Photo)

Oil prices struggle to hold five-month high amid growing demand fears

Investors remained wary of rising refined product inventories at a time when US bankers said rise in cases was slowing...

6 Aug 2020 9:01 AM IST

Trump said Monday to reporters that the US should get a very large percentage of that price because were making it possible, adding that we want and we think we deserve to have a big percentage of that price coming to America, coming to the Treasury. Theres no legal precedent in antitrust law for such a payment, said Gene Kimmelman, a senior adviser at the advocacy group Public Knowledge and a former antitrust official at the Department of Justice. (Photo | AP)

Trump's talk of government getting a cut of TikTok deal not legally...

The President sometimes floats ideas or actions that get set aside without follow-through.

5 Aug 2020 11:31 PM IST

SpaceX plans to launch reusable Starships atop still-in-the-works rockets, carrying cargo or crew not only to low-Earth orbit but also the Moon and Elon Musks most desirable destination, Mars. The latest test model of the rocket is relatively plain: It stands a full-scale 100 feet (30 meters) tall and resembles a steel siloor stretched-out canwith a cap on top. (Photo | AP)

SpaceX's Mars rocket prototype has successful brief flight and landing

Mars is looking real, SpaceX founder and chief executive Elon Musk tweeted after the short hop. Progress is...

5 Aug 2020 10:08 PM IST

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AA Edit | IPL must drop Chinese ops

The IPL has to behave responsibly and always in the larger national interest. Sacrificing a little money is the least it...

5 Aug 2020 9:06 PM IST

Samsung in the second quarter saw smartphone sales slip 29 percent compared with a year ago, according to research firm IDC, as the South Korean firm lost the top position to Huawei in a slumping global market, and is hoping to make big gains with todays launch of multiple devices. Featured here is the Samsung Galaxy Note20 and the Note20 Ultra. (Photo | Samsung.in)

Samsung Galaxy Note20, Note 20 Ultra among devices launched today

The Galaxy Z Fold2, Tab S7 and Tab S7+, Galaxy Watch3 and Galaxy Buds Live earbuds were also unveiled at the event.

5 Aug 2020 8:59 PM IST

Top ten books of the week

Top ten books of the week

Here's the top ten books of the week across fiction and non-fiction

5 Aug 2020 8:45 PM IST

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Aakar Patel | How the media, like politics, has become bigoted and...

The media space in India is funded primarily by advertising, The reader or viewer pays very little by way of...

5 Aug 2020 8:42 PM IST

The actor-musician has added a new feather to his cap No.1 on the Kworb.com list

Diljit Dosanjh is on top of the charts

After the lockdown eases, the Good Newzz actor will start work on Abhishek Sharma's ensemble comedy Suraj Pe Mangal...

5 Aug 2020 8:31 PM IST

PM Narendra Modi in the Bhoomi Pujan (ANI)

Parsa Venkateshwar | Puja at Ayodhya: Modi's bid to seal BJP's future?

He was careful enough to avoid mentioning the other part of the Ayodhya settlement as directed by the SC in its November...

5 Aug 2020 8:26 PM IST

File image of Swapna Suresh, the key accused.

ED secures custody of Kerala gold smuggling case key accused Swapna...

The seized gold is stated to be worth nearly Rs 15 crore.

5 Aug 2020 7:54 PM IST

Evidence produced in court showed how unsuspecting officers had been giving out information on their postings and the whereabouts of other colleagues on social media, putting national security at risk, despite earlier advisories on conduct of military personnel on social media. (Photo | Pixabay - PixelKult)

Ban on social media use by defence personnel remains, Delhi High Court...

The court said that if the government had assessed that social media enables espionage by enemy countries, it would not...

5 Aug 2020 7:42 PM IST

Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria (2nd L) and Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Air Command, Air Marshal B Suresh (R) along with the IAF pilots of the first five Rafale combat aircraft after arriving from France at the Air Force Station, in Ambala. PTI Photo

Rafales to boost India's bargain power with China, Pakistan

This is the time to rally behind Modi and his efforts to keep India safe

5 Aug 2020 7:07 PM IST