Google quarterly profit edges up on revenue surge

New York, Apr 24: Google has said first-quarter profit edged higher from a year ago as the Internet giant reported a healthy rise in advertising revenues. Net profit rose four per cent from a year earlier to USD 3.59 billion, while revenue surged 12 per cent to USD 17.3 billion, led by gains from online […]

Al Qaeda’s Indian branch leader killed by United States

Washington, April 24: Ahmed Farouq, an American who died in a US counter terrorism airstrike in January, was the deputy emir of Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, or AQIS, a new branch of the terror group, according to a media report. Two Al Qaeda hostages, Warren Weinstein of the US and Giovanni Lo Porto […]