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Mark Zuckerberg sells $95 mn in Facebook stock
22 Nov 2016
Mining baron Janardhan Reddy’s offices raided after wedding
22 Nov 2016
Within days of mining baron G Janardhan Reddy's daughter's lavish wedding that reportedly cost over Rs500 crore, the Income Tax Department has raided his offices in Bellari
Economist Larry Summers, colleague blast demonetisation
22 Nov 2016
In a blog written jointly with a PhD student, the former US treasury secretary and World Bank chief economist Lawrence Summers says most free societies would rather let several criminals go free than convict an innocent man, but India has done the opposite
Donald Trump to pay $25 mn to settle ‘fake varsity’ case
19 Nov 2016
The US president-elect has agreed to pay $25 million to settle fraud lawsuits over his Trump University real estate seminars, where students claimed they were lured by false promises to learn Trump's real estate investing "secrets"
Pioneering heart surgeon Denton Cooley dies at 96
19 Nov 2016
Dr Denton Cooley’s contributions to heart surgery are beyond question, but he got into controversy when he used an artificial heart developed by a former colleague without permission and before it had been approved for use in humans
Nikki Haley in running for top post in Trump administration
17 Nov 2016
The governor of South Carolina, Indian-American Nikki Haley, is one of the contenders for Secretary of State or other cabinet position in the Donald Trump administration
Ex-Twitter India head Rishi Jaitly joins Times Global Partners as CEO
16 Nov 2016
Rishi Jaitly, an alumnus of Princeton University, will be responsible for managing various strategic partnerships of Times Internet, including Uber, Airbnb, Coursera, Vice, Huffington Post, apart from Willow TV
Ex-Twitter India head Rishi Jaitly joins Times Global Partners as CEO
16 Nov 2016
Rishi Jaitly, an alumnus of Princeton University, will be responsible for managing various strategic partnerships of Times Internet, including Uber, Airbnb, Coursera, Vice, Huffington Post, apart from Willow TV
Israel President Reuven Rivlin lands in Mumbai for six-day India visit
14 Nov 2016
Indian and Israeli universities are expected to sign around 15 MoUs in the field of research besides promoting exchange of faculty between the two countries during President Reuven Rivlin’s visit
Trump will be impeached, says US professor who predicted his win
By By Jagdeep Worah | 14 Nov 2016
Professor Allan Lichtman claims to have called every US election right since 1984 based on his system of ‘keys’, and he got it right again – but it’s just his “gut” that tells him Trump will be impeached because his party can’t control him. By Jagdeep Worah
Facebook goofs badly, declares founder Zuckerberg ‘dead’
12 Nov 2016
In what it acknowledged was a ‘terrible error’, Facebook posted a message meant for ‘memorialised profiles’ to other accounts, declaring its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and many other users ‘dead’
ED seizes Rs1,600-cr worth of Vijay Mallya’s assets in PMLA case
12 Nov 2016
These seizures will be over and above the two earlier attachments worth around 8,000 crore under anti-money laundering laws
Ishaat Hussain to replace Cyrus Mistry as chairman of TCS
10 Nov 2016
Tata Sons called a special shareholders meeting to seek approval for removing Mistry from chairmanship of its hospitality firm Indian Hotels Ltd where Tata Sons holds 28.01 per cent
Trump triumphs. Hillary concedes defeat
09 Nov 2016
Donald Trump, who trumped the favoured Democrat rival Hillary Clinton to win the election, will be sworn in as the 45th US president
FBI finally gives Hillary Clinton clean chit in emails case
07 Nov 2016
The FBI has determined that the Democratic presidential candidate should face no criminal charges for her email practices, putting a lid on the controversy that has dogged the Clinton campaign almost from the start
Mallya served two non-bailable warrants in one day
05 Nov 2016
A Delhi court on Friday issued a fresh non-bailable warrant (NBW), the second one in a day, against beleaguered liquor baron and chairman of grounded Kingfisher Airlines, Vijay Mallya, over refusal to present himself in a 2012 cheque bounce case
Ratan Tata assures early board revamp; S Ramadorai tipped to join Tata Sons board
02 Nov 2016
Tata veteran S Ramadorai is reported to have resigned from the government’s skill development bodies amidst Ratan Tata’s promise of an early revamp of the group’s board