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Humanity on brink as AI to decimate jobs: Stephen Hawking

Humanity on brink as AI to decimate jobs: Stephen Hawking

03 Dec 2016

The automation of factories has already decimated jobs in traditional manufacturing, and the rise of artificial intelligence is likely to extend this job destruction deep into the middle classes, warns Stephen Hawking

Chitra Ramkrishna quits as CEO and MD of NSE

Chitra Ramkrishna quits as CEO and MD of NSE

03 Dec 2016

As CEO of NSE, Chitra Ramkrishna had ensured the bourse remained a market leader with an absolute hold on the equity market

‘El Comandante’: Firebrand orator, indomitable leader

26 Nov 2016

Revolutionary Cuban leader Fidel Castro dies at 90

Revolutionary Cuban leader Fidel Castro dies at 90

26 Nov 2016

One of the world’s best-known and most controversial leaders, the revolutionary icon survived countless US assassination attempts and saw 11 American presidents come and go, but finally succumbed to illness

Journalist Dilip Padgaonkar, ex-editor of The Times of India, passes away

25 Nov 2016

Indian-Americans hail Nikki Haley as UN envoy

24 Nov 2016

Trump chooses Indian-American Nikki Haley as UN envoy

Trump chooses Indian-American Nikki Haley as UN envoy

24 Nov 2016

US president-elect Donald Trump plans to nominate South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (born Nimrata Nikki Randhawa) as ambassador to the United Nations

Mark Zuckerberg sells $95 mn in Facebook stock

22 Nov 2016

Mining baron Janardhan Reddy’s offices raided after wedding

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

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

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

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

Nikki Haley in running for top post in Trump administration

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

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

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

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’

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

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

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

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