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Had cautioned government against hasty demonetisation: Raghuram Rajan
13 Apr 2018
Former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan has reiterated his views that India’s demonetisation exercise was not a good idea and its implementation was ill-planned, adding that he had cautioned the government about it, when the idea was brought up

Harish Manwani to retire, Sanjiv Mehta to take over as CMD
13 Apr 2018
Hindustan Unilever has announced the retirement of Harish Manwani as non-executive chairman of the company and the elevation of Sanjiv Mehta, as chairman and manging director

Zuckerberg vows to fix Facebook flaws before polls in India
11 Apr 2018
Appearing before a Senate committee, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg apologised for the kind of lapses that led to the Cambridge Analytica imbroglio, and said he knows the importance of the upcoming polls in countries including India, Hungary and Brazil

Britain’s Queen may be direct descendant of Prophet Mohammed
09 Apr 2018
Queen Elizabeth II is a 43rd direct descendant of the Prophet via Muhammad's daughter Fatimah, says Burke’s Peerage – the Bible of British aristocracy – in reports that first appeared in 1986 and have now resurfaced

Ageing astronaut Aldrin now admits to have sighted UFO on moon, had dismissed it in the past
09 Apr 2018
The second man to land on the moon, Buzz Aldrin, who is now 88 years old, passed a lie-detector test and repeated his claim that he had seen a space ship while on his visit to the moon

Salman gets bail in 1998 blackbuck killing case
07 Apr 2018
Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, who spent two nights in a Rajasthan jail in the 1998 blackbuck poaching case, was granted bail by a Jodhpur district court on Saturday afternoon

Brazil’s ex-president Lula narrowly fails in bid to stay out of jail
05 Apr 2018
Brazil’s top court early today rejected former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s plea to stay out of prison while he appeals a corruption conviction, in a vote that likely ends his political career and deepens divisions in the country

Salman Khan gets 5 years in 1998 blackbuck poaching case
05 Apr 2018
Bollywood superstar Salman Khan was on Thursday sentenced to five years in jail after being found guilty by a court in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, in the 1998 blackbuck poaching case
VIP Industries Ltd elevates Sudip Ghose as CEO
04 Apr 2018
VIP Industries Ltd elevates Sudip Ghose as CEO
04 Apr 2018

Anand Mahindra calls for India’s own version of Facebook
28 Mar 2018
India needs its own social networking company “that is very widely owned, professionally managed and willingly regulated,” says automobile major Anand Mahindra

PNB could become a defaulter in 5 days, courtesy Nirav Modi
26 Mar 2018
The Rs12,700-crore fraud committed by diamantaire Nirav Modi and his associates could get PNB listed as a defaulter if the bank fails to repay Rs1,000 crore to another state-run bank, Union Bank of India (UBI), by 31 March

Musk and Mark raise the muck
24 Mar 2018
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are battling it out over SpaceX and Facebook, much to the glee of their global ‘followers’

Musk and Mark raise the muck
24 Mar 2018
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are battling it out over SpaceX and Facebook, much to the glee of their global ‘followers’

Life has become ‘hell’ for former French President Sarkozy
22 Mar 2018
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy claims life has become living hell since allegations surfaced of his having taken illegal money from Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi

Bangla SC stays Khaleda Zia's release on bail for 20 days
19 Mar 2018
The Bangladesh Supreme Court has stayed the release of former prime minister Khaleda Zia on bail in a corruption case in which she was sentenced to five years in jail

Putin basks in landslide poll victory, opposition cries foul
19 Mar 2018
Vladmir Putin’s victory in the presidential election came as his most serious challenger was banned and amid reports of ballot-stuffing, but it gives him at least another six years in power amid increasingly strained relations with the West
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Hariman Sharma lets apple travel to India’s warmer climes
10 Feb 2025
Apple, which was the preserve of the cooler Himalayan region in India, is now everywhere – in the East, the West and the South - thanks to one enterprising Himachal farmer, Hariman Sharma.

The cost of neglecting water transport
03 Feb 2025
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Crypto Currencies Trying To Undermine Global Financial System
27 Jan 2025
US President Donald Trump, it seems, is the latest to join the frenzy for personal or corporate currency, with $TRUMP, or what they call a meme coin, giving a further boost to his crypto image.

As costs of saying final goodbyes rise UK families resort to crowdfunding to pay for funerals
By Axel Miller | 16 Jan 2025
The cost of saying a final goodbye to loved ones in the UK has reached a grim new high, leaving families grappling with unexpected financial burdens.

The life and times of Manmohan Singh, former Prime Minister of India
By Cygnus | 28 Dec 2024
On 27th December 2024 India and the world lost one of their finest statespersons in a hundred years. Manmohan Singh, born on 26th September 1932, in Gah, Punjab (now in Pakistan)

The remarkable Ratan Tata
By Kiron Kasbekar | 23 Oct 2024
One newspaper report of Ratan Tata’s passing away showed an old photo of him climbing into the cockpit of a Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter.

Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!

COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

What is a Ponzi scheme?
By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
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