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Japan Inc betting on PM Shinzo Abe's pitch for US package to Donald Trump

Abe is slated to meet US President Donald Trump today

Uphaar tragedy: Supreme Court directs Gopal Ansal to serve 1-yr jail term

Verdict comes nearly 20 years after the Uphaar cinema tragedy in 1997 in which 59 people had died

Volkswagen denies reports board members got early warning of scandal

About the US probe into emissions cheating

Al-Jazeera says two abducted staff freed in Democratic Republic of Congo

They were kidnapped last Wednesday near Nyanzale in the south of the restive Nord-Kivu province

Haiti gets new democratically elected govt, Canada announces $70 mn in aid

Other funding is intended to improve access to education and justice

In pics: When Barack Obama beat Richard Branson at kitesurfing

Branson said that after spending a few days learning to kitesurf, Obama bested him in the watersport

House of Representatives vote to block Obama-era rules

Republicans called both rules examples of government overreach

Banks may not respond to RBI rate cut, if any

RBI had kept the repo rate unchanged at 6.25% in its December policy review

Donald Trump's travel ban faces biggest legal test yet

Trump said that he can't believe his administration has to fight in the courts to uphold his order

CAs, merchant bankers face fine if assessees file wrong tax info

Rs 10,000 penalty for each such reports, according to a provision in Budget

Mexico extradites drug lord "El Chapo" to US: Official

In May, the Mexican foreign ministry approved extradition bids from California

Russian political elites laud Donald Trump

Trump's promises to fix the ravaged relations with Moscow have elated Russia's political elite

Edward Snowden can stay till 2020, says Russian foreign ministry

The former NSA whistleblower has been living in exile in Russia since the summer of 2013

Obama, Merkel say strong US-Germany ties 'essential' for world order

Donald Trump had earlier called Merkel's decision to open Germany's borders 'catastrophic'

CCI imposes Rs 207-cr penalty on 7 cement firms

Penalty is for violating competition norms with regard to a 2012 tender floated by a Haryana agency

US jobless claims hit lowest level in more than 43 years

Total number of people receiving unemployment benefits was 2.05 mn, down 7.7% from a year earlier

Opec oil output to come down in January: IEA

Steeper cuts would come this month as many producers move to implement the agreed reductions

Google acquires Twitter app platform Fabric

The sale of Fabric will shift to Google the platform used by developers for mobile apps

Scuttled Ford plant has Mexico fearing more under Donald Trump

Mexicans have been nervous about Trump's tough rhetoric toward their country

Benjamin Netanyahu urges pardon for convicted Israeli soldier

Under Israeli law, the country's largely ceremonial president has the authority to issue a pardon