Xiaomi is hosting a high-profile launch event in Beijing on July 27 where it will most likely launch the fourth-generation Redmi Note budget phablet. Also in line could be the Mi Note 2, successor to the popular mid-level Mi Note. The company will start selling tickets for the launch event from Monday, July 18, it has come to light. According to a Weibo post , a ticket to the event will cost 199 yuan (roughly $30 or around Rs 2,000). Xiaomi is hosting... 

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton secured the Democratic Party’s 2016 nomination. PHILADELPHIA: Hillary Clinton on Tuesday became the first woman to be nominated for president by a major political party on a historic night on which her campaign also sought to reintroduce her to skeptical voters and calm continuing tensions here. The former secretary of state formally secured the nomination during the roll call of states at the Democratic... 

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi had asked John Kerry to lend his support for bilateral talks to restart between Manila and Beijing. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday he supported the resumption of talks between China and the Philippines over the South China Sea, following an international court ruling against Beijing over the dispute earlier this month. China did not participate in and has... 

Gionee M6 and M6 Plus are packed with 5,000mAh and 6,020mAh battery respectively. Gionee claims, M6 is the world’s first fully-secure smartphone. Gionee M6 and M6 Plus are expected to hit the Indian market in August. Gionee unveiled two new flagship smartphones – M6 and M6 plus – in Beijing today. The smartphones are addition to Gionee’s Marathon ‘M’ series with focus on long battery life. Gionee M6 and M6 Plus are packed with 5,000mAh... 

President Barack Obama downplayed the notion that violence is increasing in the US, though he conceded that there has been an uptick in violence in some major cities. US President Barack Obama. Violent crime is on the rise so far this year in major cities across the US compared to the number of homicides, rapes, robberies, assaults and shootings that occurred in the same cities by this point in 2015, according to a new report. The midyear violent... 

Union Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley’s meeting today (Monday), with state finance ministers on the passage of Goods and Services Tax (GST) is crucial for the BJP to iron out the remaining differences with the Congress party, but doesn’t seem to be the last hurdle in the race. This is because, over the weekend, the political course in the capital has seemingly taken a turn and bad politics yet again seem to trample good economics. The reference... 

Yahoo!‘s pain is finally coming to an end. If media reports are to be believed, the company will be taken over by Verizon for about $4.8 billion. Yahoo!, a pioneer in the internet space, has been in dire straits for the least few years. In April-June, Yahoo’s loss widened to $440 million and amounted to 46 cents a share, compared with a loss of $22 million, or 2 cents a share, a year ago. A report in Associated Press said the fall in... 

Opening ceremony of the 49th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Vientiane, Laos. Staunch Beijing ally Cambodia has been accused of scuppering efforts by the bloc to issue a joint statement calling on Beijing to adhere to the UN tribunal’s decision. Vietnam has warned that the inability of Southeast Asian nations to forge a unified front against Beijing’s militarisation of the South China Sea is a... 

New York: Political correctness is a national security threat for Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for president and his supporters. Banning Muslims? “Not politically correct, but I don’t care,” said Trump while weighing in on a spate of recent Islamic State-inspired terror attacks. File image of Donald Trump. Trump told reporters last week that he’d seek to restrict immigrants from “terrorist countries” entering America. It marked... 

New York: Donald Trump is no ordinary man. He is a master negotiator. The 70-year-old businessman can be ruthless with rivals and plays hardball, these traits were forged during the businessman’s ‘terrible, horrible’ stretch of personal and financial troubles more than two decades ago and have now propelled him to the Republican nomination. A file photo of Donald Trump. It’s the Art of the Spin In 1990, Trump was near-bankrupt but shrewdly...