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08 Mar 2016

A day after a case of money laundering was filed against him and a freeze on his Rs515-crore severance package from United Spirits, a consortium of 17 banks today moved the Supreme Court seeking to prevent Vijay Mallya from leaving the country

08 Mar 2016

Inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2012 for his invention of modern email, Ray Tomlinson made the historic choice to separate the name of his message's recipient from the name of the host computer using the "@" symbol, creating one of the most universally recognized digital icons on the planet

08 Mar 2016

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07 Mar 2016

Dr Thomas Herald Rea, a dermatologist and a pioneer of leprosy treatment, died at the age of 86 in his home in California's San Gabriel Mountains

05 Mar 2016

The action marks the highest profile development in a two-year-old graft probe related to the state oil company Petrobras, and an anti-climax to Lulla’s rise to power 13 years ago as the champion of the poor

05 Mar 2016

DRT judge Benakanahalli took up the case on priority basis in order to secure the first right on the $75 million severance package that Mallya will be getting for quitting Diageo-owned United Spirits (USL) as its chairman

05 Mar 2016

DRT judge Benakanahalli took up the case on priority basis in order to secure the first right on the $75 million severance package that Mallya will be getting for quitting Diageo-owned United Spirits (USL) as its chairman

04 Mar 2016

Former Meghalaya chief minister P A Sangma was elected to the Lok Sabha eight times since his first entry in 1977, and was its Speaker between 1996 and 1998

04 Mar 2016

04 Mar 2016

04 Mar 2016

Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union leader Kanhaiya Kumar emerged from Tihar Jail in Delhi late on Thursday as feisty as ever

03 Mar 2016

Describing himself as an ‘Apple freak’, Fiat Chrysler chief executive Sergio Marchionne says it makes more sense for Apple to partner an existing automobile manufacturer than make cars on its own, and his firm is well suited for this

03 Mar 2016

Describing himself as an ‘Apple freak’, Fiat Chrysler chief executive Sergio Marchionne says it makes more sense for Apple to partner an existing automobile manufacturer than make cars on its own, and his firm is well suited for this

03 Mar 2016

Describing himself as an ‘Apple freak’, Fiat Chrysler chief executive Sergio Marchionne says it makes more sense for Apple to partner an existing automobile manufacturer than make cars on its own, and his firm is well suited for this

03 Mar 2016

Describing himself as an ‘Apple freak’, Fiat Chrysler chief executive Sergio Marchionne says it makes more sense for Apple to partner an existing automobile manufacturer than make cars on its own, and his firm is well suited for this

03 Mar 2016

03 Mar 2016

Finance minister Arun Jaitley said that the Enforcement Directorate and the investigative wing of the Income Tax Department, during recent searches in connection with the Aircel-Maxis deal, have recovered several “incriminating” documents which are being scrutinised

03 Mar 2016

03 Mar 2016

Mumbai-based writer Jerry Pinto is among the nine recipients of the Yale University's Windham-Campbell Prize this year, awarded to English-language writers "for their literary achievements or their potential"

03 Mar 2016

Astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth on Wednesday after an unprecedented year in space for NASA, landing in barren Kazakhstan with Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko who shared his whole space station journey   

02 Mar 2016

02 Mar 2016

Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton won seven of eleven states each on ‘super Tuesday’ to put themselves well ahead of their rivals and head for a presidential showdown

01 Mar 2016

Former chief justice of India H L Dattu on Monday took charge as the chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission