Snap shares rise 44 percent on first trading day

All eyes were on Los Angeles-based Snap on Thursday as the parent company for social media sensation Snapchat made its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange. A drone could go a long way toward Snap’s endeavors as a camera company, as it could allow users to take overhead photos and videos and Snap would greatly extend its visual data trove.

Kansas shooting: ‘Won’t let his brother return to US’

Emotional scenes were witnessed at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here as the body of Srinivas Kuchibotla, the 32-year-old software engineer who was shot dead in Olathe of Kansas in the U.S. last Wednesday, reached here on an Air India flight around 9.45 p.m. on Monday. As the funeral pyre was lit, some of those present at the crematorium raised slogans in memory of Kuchibhotla and against the U.S. administration.

Here’s an early, easy GOP win for reform: Republicans should scrap the CFPB

If Republicans want a quick jump-start on government reform with their new electoral mandate in January, a top agenda item would be scrapping the Orwellian-named Consumer Financial Protection Bureau . The CFPB, part of the Dodd-Frank regulatory regime adopted by Democrats in 2010, is an agency meant to stop racism and anti-woman bias, President-elect Donald Trump has promised to dismantle the Dodd-Frank Act and, thankfully, this could very well mean the CFPB also.