New Delhi: India’s indigenous nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)  Agni-V, which can reach targets as far as Beijing, has been stuck due to a technical snag with its battery and not because of any other considerations, DRDO Chief S Christopher said. The problem is solvable and the next test-firing of Agni-V is expected by the year-end, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) chief added. Representational... 

President Barack Obama is backtracking on his warning that Britain would go to the “back of the queue” for a US trade deal, as he tries to contain the fallout of the UK’s decision to leave the European Union. Post Brexit, Obama’s priority of locking in trade deals before leaving office now becomes a distant second. The shift in tone illustrates how Britain’s vote has abruptly scrambled Obama’s reality. Where the president had tried to... 

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will embark on a five-day visit to Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania and Kenya beginning 7 July, with an aim to further deepen India’s engagement with the resource-rich African continent where China has been expanding its influence. Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The prime minister’s visit comes within weeks after President Pranab Mukherjee and Vice-President Hamid Ansari travelled to Africa to... 

When it comes to questions of war and peace, it often seems as if there are two Barack Obamas. There’s the president who has anguished, often publicly, over the morality of killing and the costs of combat. “No matter how justified, war promises human tragedy,” Obama said just days after his 2009 decision to send 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan. Barack Obama has been uneasy with large-scale deployments of US troops. Then there’s... 

The Z10 runs on BlackBerry’s proprietary BlackBerry 10 operating system The leading marketplace for refurbished electronics, GreenDust, is offering Motorola’s popular BlackBerry Z10 phone with a flash sale. The phone will be available on GreenDust’s website at a price of INR 6,299 between 2 and 3 July. The Z10 is an immensely popular unit among techies, and runs on the latest BlackBerry 10 Operating System. The flash sale tends to be popular... 

Google Image Google is working very hard to make India a better place. The number of projects and services that they’ve offered in the last 6 months alone is staggering when you really think about it. The thing with these updates is that they seem to be very small and they come once every few weeks. Add them up together and you realize that Google has great plans for India. Google is no longer just a search engine. It’s an operating system,... 

NEW DELHI: The best-performing ministries according to a review led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi are Power, headed by Piyush Goyal, and Nitin Gadkari’s Roads and Highways Ministry. PM Narendra Modi held lengthy 5-hour review yesterday of key ministries. Yesterday, the economic affairs secretary presented an update on each ministry’s work as well as their accounts to the Prime Minister and other top members of his office. All ministries... 

Donald Trump as he told attendees that trade deals had sucked US manufacturing jobs to Mexico and elsewhere. NEW YORK:  More than 2,000 miles from Mexican airspace, Donald Trump took yet another knock at America’s neighbor to the south Thursday, quipping that a plane flying over his campaign stop could be a Mexican jet “getting ready to attack.” The billionaire Republican, campaigning to become America’s commander-in-chief,... 

Washington: Britain’s decision to leave the European Union has created ‘significant uncertainty’ that will have repercussions not only for UK and Europe, but the global economy, the International Monetary Fund has warned. Representative Image. IMF spokesperson Gerry Rice said the Brexit was likely to cause a dampening of growth in the near term, and urged policy makers to act decisively while dealing with the situation. “Brexit has... 

Prime minister Narendra Modi Delhi: Amid speculation of a Cabinet reshuffle, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday met his ministers and reviewed important projects, official sources said. After the Wednesday meeting, speculation mounted that PM Modi, who became the Prime Minister in May 2014, may carry out his first major ministerial reshuffle. The sources said the union ministers most likely made presentations on the performance of their ministries...