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MP govt doomed as 20 ministers resign; Jyotiraditya Scindia quits Cong
11 Mar 2020
The Congress party, meanwhile, declared failure in wooing Scindia back to its fold to save the party, saying Scindia has been dismissed from the party

Former GE chief and management icon Jack Welch dies at 84
03 Mar 2020
Welch followed a results-driven, hands-on style of management that helped GE turn around, although at the expense of thousands of employees who lost their jobs as Welch went on cutting costs and getting rid of unprofitable businesses

Former GE chief and management icon Jack Welch dies at 84
03 Mar 2020
Welch followed a results-driven, hands-on style of management that helped GE turn around, although at the expense of thousands of employees who lost their jobs as Welch went on cutting costs and getting rid of unprofitable businesses

Buffett set to hand over reins of Berkshire Hathaway
24 Feb 2020
Warren Buffett, one of the world's richest men, said Berkshire Hathaway is 100 per cent ready for his departure and that of his longtime partner Charlie Munger, but did not go into detail or name a successor

JeM chief Azhar `missing’ from Pak Army custody ahead of FATF meeting
17 Feb 2020
While another terror head and Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed has been jailed in two terror financing cases, Islamabad has failed to prosecute LeT operations commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and JeM chief Masood Azhar and is banking on support from China, Malaysia and Turkey

Rishi Sunak replaces Sajid Javid as UK finance minister
14 Feb 2020
The 39-year-old Rishi Sunak, son-in-lay of Infosys founder Narayana Murthi, is set to move into No 11 Downing Street, next door to the Prime Minister’s Office as he takes charge of the second most important government position as the finance minister

WEF: Investor Soros flays Trump, Modi and Xi for nationalist fervor
24 Jan 2020
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Soros said the rise of nationalism across the globe was the great enemy of open society and he blamed leaders like US President Donald Trump, China's Xi Jinping and India’s Narendra Modi for narrowing options for businesses
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman allegedly hacked Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s phone
22 Jan 2020

SC stays NCLAT order reinstating Cyrus Mistry as Tata Group chairman
10 Jan 2020
Observing that there were "lacunae" in the orders passed by the tribunal, the apex court bench also noted that there was no prayer in Cyrus Mistry’s petition for reinstatement but the tribunal went ahead with it and ordered his reinstatement

Sethuraman Panchanathan to head USA’s National Science Foundation
20 Dec 2019
Panchanathan would assume the position of NSF director, a senate-confirmed position, after France Córdova ends her six-year term as NSF director in 2020
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