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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
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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
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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
Indian-Americans hail Nikki Haley as UN envoy
24 Nov 2016
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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
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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
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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
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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"
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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’
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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
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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
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Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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