The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the disqualification proceedings against three rebel AIADMK MLAs in Tamil Nadu.


Disqualification move against 3 AIADMK MLAs stayed


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China on Monday said that its trade delegation is still readying to go Washington after US President Donald Trump abruptly announced to crank up tariffs from 10 per cent to 25 per cent on Chinese imports worth $200 billion.


China sending trade team to US despite Trump's threat


Weak demand conditions eased the growth of India's service sector output during April, according to the Nikkei India Services Business Activity Index.


Polls, weak demand dent India's April services output


The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Monday urged the central government to be pro-active in providing assistance to cyclone-battered Odisha which it said had reportedly killed over 50 people in Odisha.


Centre must be pro-active after Fani: CPI-M


Amid political unrest in Venezuela, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that embattled President Nicolas Maduro is "ruling for the moment", but cannot be part of the country's future.


Maduro can't be part of Venezuela's future: Pompeo


Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the central government over what he called were their "failed policies".


Sidhu attacks central schemes, calls them failure


Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of neither receiving nor returning his calls regarding cyclone Fani.


Mamata refused my calls regarding cyclone twice: Modi


Pakistan's Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry was mercilessly trolled by Twitterati after he claimed that the Hubble Space Telescope was sent into space by the country's aeronautics and aerospace research agency Suparco, instead of its US counterpart NASA.


Minister says Pakistan sent Hubble to space, gets trolled


The West Bengal government got no intimation that Prime Minister Narendra Modi wanted to hold a meeting with Chief Secretary Malay Kumar De in the wake of the cyclone Fani, government sources said on Monday.


No intimation about PM's meeting on Fani: Bengal


China is still preparing to send a delegation to Washington for trade talks despite US President Donald Trump latest threat to impose fresh trade tariffs worth $200 billion on Chinese goods, Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said here on Monday.


China preparing US team despite Trump's tariff threat


Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday praised Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for effectively handling cyclone Fani, which hit the coastal districts on May 3.


Modi praises Naveen for cyclone handling


At least 41 people, including two children, on board a Russian Aeroflot plane were killed after it burst into flames while making an emergency landing at a Moscow airport.


41 killed as Russian plane crash lands in Moscow (2nd Lead)



SC stays disqualification of rebel AIADMK MLAs


Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday announced an additional Rs 1,000 crore assistance for Odisha which has been ravaged by cyclone Fani.


Modi announces Rs 1,000 cr for cyclone hit Odisha


A probe ordered by Kerala Police chief Loknath Behra suspects foul play in the postal ballots of police officials who were deployed outside their home districts.


Foul play suspected in Kerala Police postal ballot


Asian stock markets on Monday plunging after US President Donald Trump threatened to impose fresh trade tariffs worth $200 billion on Chinese goods in an attempt to force additional concessions ahead of final negotiations between Beijing and Washington to end a tit-for-tat trade war.


Trump renews China tariff threat, Asia stocks dip


Catchy jingles and video clips highlighting achievements and failures of different political parties have flooded television channels and radio broadcasts in the battleground Bengal this election season, where 42 crucial Lok Sabha seats are up for grabs.


Political songs, music videos flood e-media in Bengal


If Indira Gandhi had won the 1977 general elections, it would have been a popular endorsement of her Emergency regime.


Congress and BJP: How different are their attitudes towards Muslims? (Comment)


DMK President M.K. Stalin on Monday accused the BJP-led Central government of leasing out all central government jobs in Tamil Nadu to North Indians, thereby aggrevating the employment situation in the state.


'Central government jobs in TN leased out to north Indians'


Brunei will not impose the death penalty on those convicted of having gay sex, in an apparent bid to temper international condemnation following its roll out of strict new Islamic laws last month.


Brunei backs down on gay sex death penalty


It is not just Goa's infamous taxi drivers who have been accused of overcharging passengers, fresh trouble is brewing among private hearse van operators, who state Health Minister Vishwajit Rane has banned from the premises of the largest government-run hospital the Goa Medical College because of overcharging deceased's kin.

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