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25 Oct 2016

25 Oct 2016

Ratan Tata today addressed concerns that CEOs have raised regarding possible changes and assured them that long term interests of the group will get priority

24 Oct 2016

The decision comes after a series of business shocks, including the undoing of the UK steel business, the fading of Tata Motors passenger vehicle business and the Docomo debacle, all of which combined to erode the market value of India’s best known business group

22 Oct 2016

20 Oct 2016

19 Oct 2016

While Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton’s lead over Republican Donald J Trump has dropped slightly from 7 points last week to 6 points now, it is still a strong surge from the 2-point lead she had early this month

19 Oct 2016

QNet Ltd, formerly known as QuestNet, GoldQuest, and QI Limited, a Hong Kong based multi-level marketing company with direct sales on an ecommerce platform, is owned by the QI Group

19 Oct 2016

The induction of Slakhutinov as head of AI research at Apple will boost its efforts after Samsung lured away its team behind Siri

19 Oct 2016

There is speculation that WikiLeaks founder Julius Assange’s ties with Ecuador may be getting strained as his internet access at the nation’s London embassy was cut off midway through damaging disclosures about US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton

18 Oct 2016

14 Oct 2016

13 Oct 2016

The world’s longest-reigning, the world’s richest and the most adorned (at least among his own subjects), Bhumibol staved off numerous catastrophes through intelligence, fortitude and his love for the country

13 Oct 2016

"Bob Dylan writes poetry for the ear," Sara Danius, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy said, adding, "It's perfectly fine to read his works as poetry" as well

10 Oct 2016

10 Oct 2016

Oliver Hart from Harward and Bengt Holmström from MIT, have developed comprehensive theories on contract that "are valuable to the understanding of real-life contracts and institutions, as well as potential pitfalls in contract design"

08 Oct 2016

The move to shift out the incumbent ISI chief is widely seen as a fallout of the ISI's failure to detect India's plans against the terror camps within PoK and elsewhere

07 Oct 2016

President Santos initiated the negotiations that culminated in the peace accord between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrillas, and he persevered to move the peace process forward although voters rejected it in a referendum

07 Oct 2016

06 Oct 2016

Ambassador Vitaly Churkin of Russia announced the decision at a press conference in New York attended by representatives of all 15 Security Council member states, including his American counterpart Samantha Power

05 Oct 2016

05 Oct 2016

This year's winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L Feringa - have developed the world's smallest machines – molecular machines with controllable movements, which can perform a task when energy is added

04 Oct 2016

Discoveries by David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz helped illuminate how in some realms matter can exist in strange states, and in doing so helped scientists work with new forms of materials

04 Oct 2016

03 Oct 2016

03 Oct 2016

Yoshinori Ohsumi's elucidation of `autophagy’, a fundamental process for degrading and recycling cellular components, has helped in the understanding of how the cell recycles its content as also the many physiological processes, such as in the adaptation to starvation or response to infection