Buoyed by positive global cues, the key Indian equity indices opened at fresh high levels on Tuesday with healthy buying in metals, auto and healthcare stocks. However, minutes into trading, the key indices pared some gains to trade on a flat note. The wider Nifty50 of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) opened above the 10,600-level […]
It was a cold and foggy morning here on Tuesday with the minimum temperature recorded at 4.2 degrees Celsius, three notches below the season’s average, the weather office said. The Met has predicted a misty day ahead. Visibility stood at 400 metres and humidity was recorded at 100 per cent at 8.30 a.m. Operations at […]
Former Google employee James Damore who was fired last year for criticising the tech giant for its diversity policy, has filed a class-action lawsuit against the company claiming that it discriminates against white men. According to a report in ReCode, Damore, in his lawsuit filed in a California court on Monday, said that Google “ostracised, […]
The Coal India board on Tuesday approved non-coking coal price hike for both power and non-power consumers. The price increase is expected to push the miner’s revenue up by Rs 1,956 crore for the remaining period of the current fiscal. The price revision is effective from Tuesday and the projected incremental annual revenue would be […]
US President Donald Trump walked onto the field and stood with members of the military for the National Anthem at a college football national championship game in Atlanta, the media reported. On Monday night, the President stood with his hand over his heart, singing along to parts of the anthem ahead of the game between […]
South Korea and North Korea began their first high-level formal talks after more than two years on Tuesday to discuss Pyongyang’s potential participation in next month’s Winter Olympics and ways to improve their long-stalled bilateral ties. The talks started at 10 a.m. at the truce village of Panmunjom, a heavily fortified border area in South […]
Hackers are targeting the upcoming Winter Olympics in South Korea with a phishing and malware campaign, cyber security firm McAfee researchers have found. In a blog post, McAfee Advanced Threat Research analysts Ryan Sherstobitoff and Jessica Saavedra-Morales discovered a campaign targeting organisations involved with the Pyeongchang Olympics scheduled from February 9-25. “Attached in an email […]
From an all-black dress code to the presentation of the awards to acceptance speeches, the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards was all about taking forward the issue of sexual misconduct in Hollywood, pitching for gender balance and expressing solidarity to the Times Up movement. Golden Globes was the first award gala held after the wave […]
Scores of journalists held demonstrations in Punjab and Chandigarh on Monday to protest against the UIDAI’s move to register a case against The Tribune newspaper and one of its reporters for exposing illegal data leak of Aadhaar details. The protests were organised on behalf of the Chandigarh Press Club, the Punjab Press Club in Jalandhar, […]
The transgression incident in Arunachal Pradesh, where Chinese workers entered Indian territory constructing a track, has been resolved, Army Chief General Bipin Rawat said on Monday. He also said that there was a major reduction in the number of Chinese troops in the Doklam area. Speaking on the sidelines of an event here, the Army […]