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POS industry wary of Aadhaar-enablement over cost, security issues

New Delhi, February 28 (IANS) The demand for point of sale (POS) devices -- which saw a spurt after demonetisation as people and merchants opted for cashless transactions -- could be dented by the mandate to ma

/ 28th February 2017
S&T in northeast plagued by poor infra, lack of good governance

(February 28 is National Science Day) Kolkata, Feb 28 (IANS) Delay in receiving lab equipment due to remoteness, corruption in fund management, dearth of jobs for returnee scientists and inadequate

/ 28th February 2017
Trump looks for reset with speech to Congress

WASHINGTON, February 28 (Reuters) - Donald Trump gets a chance to put the rocky start to his presidency behind him on Tuesday night with a speech to the U.S. Congress where he will lay out his plans for the yea

/ 28th February 2017
Myanmar army defends operation against Rohingya, denies reports of abuses

NAYPYITAW, February 28 (Reuters) - Myanmar's military defended its crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority as a lawful counterinsurgency operation at a rare news conference on Tuesday, adding it was necessary

/ 28th February 2017
Malaysia to charge women with airport murder of North Korean

KUALA LUMPUR, February 28 (Reuters) - Two women - an Indonesian and a Vietnamese - will be charged on Wednesday with murder over the killing in Malaysia of the estranged half-brother of North Korea's leader, Ma

/ 28th February 2017
Philippine president to bring police back into war on drugs

MANILA, February 28 (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Tuesday he would recall some police to fight his controversial war on drugs, nearly a month after suspending the entire force from al

/ 28th February 2017
Putin says draft U.N. resolution to sanction Syria 'inappropriate'

MOSCOW, February 28 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday a draft U.N. Security Council resolution put forward by Western powers to sanction Syria's government over the alleged use of che

/ 28th February 2017
Stateless Rohingya refugees sucked into booming Bangladesh drug trade

LEDA, Bangladesh, February 28 (Reuters) - Rohingya Muslim refugee Ali Hasan is desperately looking for a bride for his 14-year-old son, jailed last year in Bangladesh for carrying the popular drug ya ba. He hop

/ 28th February 2017
Trump seeks help of insurers to smooth Obamacare transition

NEW YORK, February 28 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump sought on Monday to bring the nation's largest insurance companies on board with his plans to overhaul Obamacare, saying their help was needed to deliver

/ 28th February 2017
Chile presidential hopeful Pinera blasts opponents' campaign as 'dirty'

SANTIAGO, February 27 (Reuters) - Former Chilean leader Sebastian Pinera, an early front-runner to win back the presidency this year, struck back on Monday at what he called a smear campaign by leftist politici

/ 28th February 2017
Haye, Bellew trade verbal blows before heavyweight clash

February 28 (Reuters) - Former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye and Saturday's opponent Tony Bellew traded verbal insults but thankfully no punches as they warmed up for their much-hyped contest.

/ 28th February 2017
U.S. appeals court will not put Trump travel ban case on hold

SAN FRANCISCO, February 28 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Monday rejected a U.S. Department of Justice request to place on hold an appeal over President Donald Trump's travel ban on people from seven ma

/ 28th February 2017
Tweeting accountant in spotlight over Oscar best picture blunder

LOS ANGELES, February 28 (Reuters) - An accountant for the Academy Awards was at the centre of a probe on Monday over how a meticulous procedure for announcing the Oscar best picture went disastrously awry, han

/ 28th February 2017
ANALYSIS - Facebook's virtual reality ambitions could be threatened by court order

February 28 (REUTERS) - Facebook Inc's big ambitions in the nascent virtual reality industry could be threatened by a court order that would prevent it from using critical software code another company claims t

/ 28th February 2017
SpaceX to send first paying tourists around moon next year

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., February 28 (Reuters) - SpaceX plans to launch two paying passengers on a tourist trip around the moon next year using a spaceship under development for NASA astronauts and a heavy-lift ro

/ 28th February 2017
Vardy hits two as Leicester stun Liverpool in first Premier League game after Ranieri

February 28 (REUTERS) - Leicester City returned to form in stunning fashion on Monday as Jamie Vardy scored twice in a 3-1 Premier League defeat of Liverpool that lifted the champions out of the relegation zone

/ 28th February 2017
China angrily reacts with threats after South Korean missile defence decision

BEIJING, February 28 (Reuters) - Chinese state media has reacted with anger and threats of boycotts after the board of an affiliate of South Korea's Lotte Group approved a land swap with the government that wil

/ 28th February 2017
Uber asks executive to resign for not disclosing sexual harassment allegation

February 28 (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc has asked a senior executive to leave the company for failing to disclose a sexual harassment allegation stemming from his tenure at Alphabet Inc's Google, an Uber

/ 28th February 2017
Trump seeks 'historic' U.S. military spending boost, domestic cuts

WASHINGTON, February 28 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is seeking what he called a "historic" increase in defence spending, but ran into immediate opposition from Republicans in Congress who must approve hi

/ 28th February 2017
Xi's "core" Party position cemented in China's ideological education

BEIJING (Reuters) - China cemented President Xi Jinping's position as the "core" of the Communist Party on Monday, making it part of ideological teaching in colleges and universities as Beijing tightens its hol

/ 28th February 2017