US to withdraw nearly 12,000 troops from Germany in move that will cost billions and take years

US to withdraw nearly 12,000 troops from Germany in move that will cost billions and take years

President Donald Trump’s decision to pull thousands of troops will take years to execute and will potentially cost billions of dollars to bring about, according to US defense officials. The plan to pull US troops from the long-time NATO ally has been met with broad bipartisan opposition amid concerns that it will weaken the US … Read more

Exports incentive scheme MEIS inefficient, failed to deliver, to be wound up year end: Sources

Exports incentive scheme MEIS inefficient, failed to deliver, to be wound up year end: Sources

New Delhi: Merchandise Export from India Scheme (MEIS), a key incentive scheme for exports, will be wound up by December 31, 2020 as the government has found it to have failed to deliver and not yield the desired result of boosting exports which have hovered around $300 billion in the last five years despite its … Read more

2020 Election Live Updates: Trump Says He Didn’t Discuss Reported Russian Bounties With Putin

2020 Election Live Updates: Trump Says He Didn’t Discuss Reported Russian Bounties With Putin

Trump says phone call with Putin was to ‘discuss other things.’ President Trump said Tuesday that he had not raised concerns with President Vladimir V. Putin about intelligence suggesting that Russia covertly offered bounties for killing U.S. and coalition troops in Afghanistan in a recent phone call he had with the country’s leader. “I have … Read more

Iran targets replica US aircraft carrier during military drills in Strait of Hormuz

Iran targets replica US aircraft carrier during military drills in Strait of Hormuz

The exercises, which included long-range ballistic missiles and drones, sent two US bases in Qatar and the UAE into high alert. Iran’s long-range ballistic missiles have been a bone of contention between Tehran and its regional rivals, namely Saudi Arabia. In January, Iran responded to the US killing of general Qassem Soleimani by launching several … Read more

Invite all parties for Ayodhya bhumi pujan, dispute over after SC verdict: Salman Khurshid

Invite all parties for Ayodhya bhumi pujan, dispute over after SC verdict: Salman Khurshid

Salman Khurshid said the dispute over the Babari Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi land title issue is over after the Supreme Court delivered its verdict last year. “Everyone should perform the bhumi pujan together,” he said. Former Union minister and senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid. (File photo) Senior Congress leader and former Union minister Salman Khurshid today said … Read more

Tim Cook defends App Store: ‘If Apple is a gatekeeper, we just opened the gate wider’ | ZDNet

Tim Cook defends App Store: ‘If Apple is a gatekeeper, we just opened the gate wider’ | ZDNet

Apple CEO Tim Cook says the commissions it charges for developers to sell apps through the App Store are no different to those imposed by competitors and that the company doesn’t dominate any market it operates in.  That’s what he plans to tell the US House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee today at the ‘Online Platforms and … Read more