David Kelly

Most markets fell Wednesday as a jump in oil prices to 10-month highs rekindled worries of another US Federal Reserve interest rate hike. Traders were keeping tabs on Tokyo after the dollar jumped to a 10-month peak against the yen on increased rate hike expectations, and above the levels that led officials to step in with support last year.

WASHINGTON: US President George W Bush, in the run-up to the war in Iraq, did not seek CIA approval before charging that Saddam Hussein could launch a biological or chemical attack, officials said.

Crude oil and copper prices also advanced on China's pledge deliver economic growth of 7.5% this year in the world's second largest economy.

Osama's name does not officially figure in September 11, 2001 terror attacks.

AHMEDABAD: Good news for hypertension patients who have their blood pressure soaring at the thought of an impending cardiac arrest. Nifedipine, an anti-hypertensive drug used for the last quarter of a century, has been found to lessen the risk of cardio-vascular complications.

AHMEDABAD: Good news for hypertension patients who have their blood pressure soaring at the thought of an impending cardiac arrest. Nifedipine, an anti-hypertensive drug used for the last quarter of a century, has been found to lessen the risk of cardio-vascular complications.

He may be a household name in the US and on the FBI's 'Ten Most Wanted List', but his name does not officially figure in the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, for legal reasons.

LONDON: British Prime Minister Tony Blair's difficulties over weapons of mass destruction have further deepened with the US government admitting that the Iraq war has been fought on the basis of "murky intelligence", a media report said on Monday.

A report has flagged that not all lab-grown diamonds are sustainable and that they need tremendous amounts of energy—requiring a temperature close to 20% of that of the sun’s surface—for production.

Were you surprised by the rosy holiday sales of diamond jewellery and its seemingly unshakable emotional connection with consumers even during a pandemic?

“We think hopes for rapid market-based reforms under President Xi were always likely to be disappointed,” an expert told TOI, adding, “Xi has shown little appetite for market-based reforms that would weaken the state sector, which he sees as being politically important.”

“All countries should respect each other’s sovereignty, dignity and territorial integrity... and each other’s core interests and major concerns,” Xi said at the inauguration of the OBOR initiative.

The American occupation of Iraq is going badly, 22 Americans have been killed in two helicopter ambushes, and no end is in sight to guerrilla warfare and its human toll.

The core consumer price index (CPI), which excludes volatile food and energy costs, rose by 0.4% in March from February and showed a year-on-year increase of 3.8%, maintaining the rate from the previous month, according to recent government data. This measure is considered by economists to provide a clearer picture of underlying inflation trends compared to the overall CPI.

The number of Americans filing claims for unemployment benefits shot to a record high of more than 6 million last week as more jurisdictions enforced stay-at-home measures to curb the coronavirus pandemic, which economists say has pushed the economy into recession.

In the past five years, production of man-made or laboratory-grown diamonds using chemical vapour deposition technology has shot up