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As we had pointed out yesterday, the $299 which approximately worked out to around Rs 22,000 was the price before Microsoft added the local taxes, custom duties etc. before selling the new Xbox consoles in India—in case some of you had missed it.

The number of confirmed coronavirus deaths in Latin America passed 300,000 on Wednesday, according to a Reuters tally, with the virus showing no signs of abating in the world's worst hit region.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden accused President Donald Trump on Wednesday of betraying the American people, saying he knowingly lied about the deadliness of the novel coronavirus in what amounted to a "dereliction" of duty.

LVMH's plans to end its $16 billion acquisition of U.S. jeweler Tiffany & Co follows roughly 1,900 deals that have been cancelled, renegotiated or disputed around the world since the start of the COVID19 pandemic, according to S&P Global Market Intelligen...

Portland on Wednesday voted in favor of the firstever ban in the United States on private entities, such as restaurants and retail stores, from using facial recognition technology in public places in the city.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday unveiled a list of potential nominees including three sitting U.S. senators to fill any future Supreme Court vacancies in a move aimed at bolstering support among conservative voters ahead of the Nov. 3 election.

The pause of AstraZeneca Plc's coronavirus vaccine trials due to an unexplained illness in a study participant shows that safety of vaccines will not be compromised, the head of the National Institutes of Health told a U.S. Congress panel on Wednesday.

Tesco, Britain's biggest retailer, said on Wednesday it would next month trial grocery home deliveries with drones as it experiments with different ways to reach more customers.

Xbox Series X will be Microsoft’s flagship gaming console for the next few years to come, and eventually launches at a rather premium but expected price point.

I May Destroy You is a show created, written and directed by Michaela Coel, who also stars as Arabella Esseidu, a young writer whose life changes after she is sexually assaulted.

The processions that were taken out at different places in Sanver Assembly constituency had violated preventive orders issued by the district administration in view of the COVID-19 outbreak, police said.

The portal for applying for the test would be open to aspiring candidates from September 10 to October 15.

Two Lebanese political parties allied to Hezbollah said on Wednesday they would not be swayed by U.S. sanctions imposed on its members, with the Shi'ite Muslim Amal group saying Washington's move was like targeting the whole nation.

WhatsApp has been prey to these ‘crash codes’ that explore a bug in the code to crash the app, and the latest one has reportedly been quite widespread.

A day after Rhea Chakraborty's arrest by the Narcotics Central Bureau (NCB), the actress has claimed that she was coerced into making self-incriminatory confessions during custody.

The international passengers arrived in India between August 8 and September 5 and were able to get an exemption from the seven-day institutional quarantine.