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India, UK battle it out for vacant world court seat

14 Nov 2017

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor accused the UK of trying to use its Security Council muscle to silence the will of the UN General Assembly, which voted for India overwhelmingly in all five rounds

Debjani Ghosh set to become Nasscom's first woman president

11 Nov 2017

Debjani Ghosh, who has been a member of Nasscom’s executive council and a trustee of Nasscom Foundation, will succeed Nasscom president R Chandrashekhar, whose term ends in March 2018

Department of Bio-technology’s Renu Swarup wins top award for entrepreneur mentoring

11 Nov 2017

Chandy, UDF leaders aided solar scam accused: panel

09 Nov 2017

Gujarat CM Rupani’s HUF among 22 fined for manipulative trades

09 Nov 2017

UK minister Priti Patel resigns over bloated Israel trip

09 Nov 2017

Priti Patel, the 45-year-old Gujarati-origin MP, often touted as a potential future leader of the Conservative party and prime ministerial material, had a meteoric rise and an abrupt fall

The curious case of US Commerce Secretary Ross’s missing billions

08 Nov 2017

Forbes has published a report claiming that Ross, described as a billionaire on its list of the 400 wealthiest people since 2004, has “lied” to the magazine about his net worth, which is actually no more than $700 million

Infosys’ Kris Gopalakrishnan invests in big data startup Crayon Data

07 Nov 2017

Modi’s demonetisation man Hasmukh Adhia is finance secretary

07 Nov 2017

Hasmukh Adhia was associated with Prime Minister Narendra Modi from his days as Gujarat chief minister and was key to the successful implementation of the 8 November 2016 demonetisation of high value bank notes

Stephen Hawking again warns against AI, says it could replace humans

04 Nov 2017

Rahul Gandhi has been an angel to us, says gang rape victim’s father

03 Nov 2017

Jinnah’s daughter, Nusli Wadia’s mother Dina Wadia passes away

03 Nov 2017

Dina Wadia, the estranged daughter of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, and mother of Nusli Wadia, passed away at her home in New York on Thursday. She was 98

Zakir Naik finds a home in Malaysia: report

02 Nov 2017

Jeff Bezos ousts Bill Gates as world’s richest man

28 Oct 2017

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Friday replaced Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates as the richest person in the world, a development directly attributed to the rise in Amazon shares registered on Wall Street

Indian-origin couple gets top US award for groundbreaking Aids research

26 Oct 2017

A South African Indian-origin researcher couple has been honoured with a prestigious award for exceptional contribution in the field of HIV/Aids

Xi Jinping gets fresh 5-year term, name added to Chinese constitution

24 Oct 2017

President Xi Jinping has emerged stronger than ever as an amendment to the constitution made his ideology a new component of the Communist Party of China’s guide for action, while Premier Li Keqiang also won a fresh term

No bail for Unitech’s Sanjay Chandra sans Rs1,000 cr deposit: SC

24 Oct 2017

Abe’s big election win bolsters Japanese markets

23 Oct 2017

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who assumed office in December 2012, now looks set to secure a third three-year term as LDP leader next September and go on to become Japan’s longest-serving premier

Seventh-grader Gitanjali Rao is America's `Top Young Scientist’

20 Oct 2017

Gitanjali Rao has been honoured for inventing a quick, low-cost test to detect lead-contaminated water, a problem that was haunting authorities since the water contamination scandal in Flint, Michigan in 2014-15

Steve Wozniak announces launch of Woz U tech education platform

14 Oct 2017

Pranab Mukherjee feels he was PM stuff, Manmohan Singh agrees

14 Oct 2017

While Mukherjee felt Sonia Gandhi did injustice to him, the former president, in the second part of his memoirs, had heaped praise on late Congress leader Sanjay Gandhi whom the Congress had made a villain

Anupam Kher appointed FTII chairman

11 Oct 2017

An alumnus of the National School of Drama, Anupam Kher had earlier served as chairman of the Central Board of Film Certification and was the director of National School of Drama from 2001 to 2004

Economics Nobel for American economist Richard H Thaler

09 Oct 2017

Richard Thaler had taken the field of behavioural economics from the fringe to the mainstream of academic research and had shown that it had important implications for economic policy, according to the Nobel Committee

Amit Shah’s son Jay threatens Rs100 cr suit over article alleging undue profits

09 Oct 2017

Jay Shah has threatened The Wire's owners, its editor, and the author of the article, with civil and criminal defamation and sue them for Rs100 crore in damages

NCLT dismisses Mistry firms' transfer plea, fines his firms Rs10 lakh

06 Oct 2017