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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

Trump as President may pose problems for Indian IT professionals

22 Nov 2016

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

Humans doomed if they don’t find another liveable planet: Hawking

18 Nov 2016

Humans doomed if they don’t find another liveable planet: Hawking

18 Nov 2016

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

Diamond trader surrenders Rs6,000-cr of hoarded cash: report

15 Nov 2016

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

Billiards ex-champ Michael Ferreira held in ‘QNET scam’

14 Nov 2016

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

Anand Mahindra becomes executive chairman, M&M; goenka becomes MD

12 Nov 2016

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

Indian origin Kamala Harris elected California’s new US senator

09 Nov 2016

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

VW chief Potsch faces German probe in emissions scam

07 Nov 2016

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