New York, The US dollar weakened slightly amid lingering worries about a global slowdown. In late New York trading on Monday, the euro was unchanged at close to $1.1369 from $1.1369 in the previous session, and the British pound rose to $1.2888 from $1.2871 in the previous session, Xinhua news agency reported. The Australian dollar fell […]
Tumakuru Karnataka’s 111-year-old revered seer, Shivakumara Swami of Siddaganga Mutt here, the most influential leader of the Lingayat community, died on Monday following protracted illness. As a mark of respect to the socio-religious icon, the state government has declared a three-day mourning till Wednesday and holiday for schools, colleges and its offices on Tuesday across the […]
Mumbai, Actors Kartik Aaryan, Bhumi Pednekar and Ananya Panday will star in “Pati Patni Aur Woh”, an adaptation of B.R. Chopra’s 1978 film with the same title. Production houses, T-Series and BR Studios, had recently shared that they will be coming together for a multiple film deal. First out of the association is “Pati Patni […]
Srinagar, Heavy snowfall occurred in the Kashmir Valley on Saturday, with the weather office forecasting more in store for the next three days. “A western disturbance (WD) is presently active over the state under whose influence moderate to heavy snowfall is likely to occur in the valley till January 23 after which the intensity of […]
Facebook is facing a “record-setting” fine from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over its handling of user data and privacy violations. According to a report in The New York Times citing sources late Friday, the FTC “is in the advanced stages of its investigation into whether Facebook violated privacy rules and is expected to […]
Social networking giant Facebook on Thursday killed over 300 fake Pages and accounts linked to Russia that it said was “engaging in coordinated inauthentic behaviour”, almost two years after the US presidential election. The social media giant removed 364 Pages and accounts as part of a network that originated in Russia and operated in the […]
New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Thursday said Maharashtra cannot ban dance bars by taking recourse to regulating them and trying to achieve indirectly what it can’t by a clamp-down. Noting that “Since 2005, no licence has been issued”, the court said: “There may be a regulation, but that does not amount to total prohibition.” […]
New Delhi, Taiwan on Thursday strongly condemned Beijing’s demand made on multinational companies to refer to the East Asian island nation as a part of China. In a statement, the Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said that Taiwan “strongly condemns the Chinese authorities for their recent outrageous demand on 66 multinational companies to change […]
Mumbai, Calling chieftains of rival political parties as “Nawabs of Negativity”, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said the grand alliance of opposition parties has multiple claimants and that NDA’s chemistry will succeed over their arithmetic. “The Nawabs of Negativity may come together but they are not going to hold together and carry much credibility […]
Mumbai, Reliance Industries (RIL) on Thursday reported 8.82 per cent rise in consolidated net profit for the third quarter ending December at Rs 10,251 crore on the back of higher realisations from petrochemicals and marketing segments. The Mukesh Ambani-led RIL said in a statement that it had posted a net profit of Rs 9,420 crore […]