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National mourning for Jayalalithaa, PM, Prez pay last respects

06 Dec 2016

The centre today announced a state mourning throughout the country on the demise of chief minister Jayalalithaa Jayaram, one of the most powerful women in Indian politics

Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa passes away, state in mourning

06 Dec 2016

Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa Jayaraman was declared dead close to midnight on Monday by Apollo Hospitals, after a tense final 24 hours amidst rumours that she had died hours earlier

Tamil Nadu CM on 'critical' life support, Tamil Nadu on edge

05 Dec 2016

Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa continues to be “very critical” after she suffered a cardiac arrest on Sunday evening

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

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

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

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

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

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

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