IMF warns major transitions in global financial system
Washington: The global financial system faces several major transitions accompanied by substantial risks, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned. "The first one is the transition in the United States from a prolonged period of monetary accommodation towards a normalisation of monetary conditions," reported Xinhua citing Jose Vinals, head of the IMF's Monetary and Capital Markets Department during a press conference Wednesday t
Kate Bosworth never dreamt about wedding
Los Angeles: Girls usually dream of a fairytale wedding, but actress Kate Bosworth says she never had any such fantasies. The 33-year-old married director Michael Polish Aug 31. But she says she was never one of those girls who dreamt of marria
Dupe episode: Special screening of 'Naiyaandi' for Nazriya
Chennai: Southern actress Nazriya, who accused director A Sarkunam of using a body double to shoot intimate scenes in Tamil romantic-comedy "Naiyaandi", watched it at a private screening on Wednesday with her father and advocate to decide h
Indian mother and child plunge to death from high-rise building in Dubai
Dubai: An Indian woman in her late 20s and her child fell to their death from a high-rise building in Dubai. The woman and child fell from the 11th floor of the Manhattan Tower building in Jumeirah village on Tuesday, the Gulf News reported on Wednes
Telangana the tribalisation of India
By Dr.Cyriac Maprayil. London
One of the reasons – and a very sound one-why the government of India opposed recognition for the threatened break away of Nagaland in the early sixties was that this would encourage similar trends thr
Telangana row: Dark hours in Andhra continue as power generation remains crippled
Hyderabad: Many parts of Andhra Pradesh remained without electricity for the third day as the electricity employees continued their indefinite strike to protest the centre's decision to divide the state. The state machinery continued to be paralysed
Indian tourists robbed in Thailand
Bangkok: Two Indian tourists have been allegedly robbed in Thailand's tourist town of Pattaya and police here are looking for three suspects, including a woman. Karthikeyan Krishnan, 36, turned up at Pattaya police station yesterday with cuts a
Maldivian SC orders fresh presidential polls before Oct 20
Male: The Maldives must hold a fresh round of presidential polls before October 20, the Supreme Court has ruled while annulling the first phase as the government today appealed to all parties to support new elections. The verdict is a majo
India for lasting political solution in Sri Lankan Tamil areas: Khurshid
Jaffna: India on Tuesday said it would press for the meaningful devolution of powers in Sri Lanka’s provinces to foster a “lasting political settlement” that will ensure equality, justice and self-respect for the Tamil minority. &ld
