More than 93 per cent shareholders of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) voted to oust Cyrus Mistry as the Director of the company. According to a regulatory filing with the stock exchanges, 93.11 per cent of TCS’ shareholders voted Mistry out of its board of directors in an extra-ordinary general meeting (EGM) held on Tuesday. However, […]
The Syrian Army is in full control over Aleppo and the operation to re-take the eastern part of the city from rebels is over, Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations said on Tuesday. “The latest information that we have received during the past hour or so is that military operations in eastern Aleppo have concluded,” […]
India will contribute $500,000 to the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), Indian diplomat Anjani Kumar has announced at the high level pledging conference here. Kumar, a counsellor at India’s UN Mission, said on Tuesday that this contribution for the year 2016-17 and New Delhi’s cumulative contribution since the fund was launched in 2006 stood […]
Key Indian equity market indices opened flat on Wednesday as investors await Federal Reserve’s decision on interest rates. The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) was trading 7.36 points or 0.03 per cent higher during the early session. The wider 51-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was, however, trading 7.65 points or 0.09 per cent […]
In a clear message to US President-elect Donald Trump, the famed National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden has said that government surveillance programmes will create “vulnerabilities” for social media users. “The same technologies that are being used to connect us, to tie us together, to let you listen to this right now, are also […]
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday regretted the crash-landing of a US Marine aircraft in its waters. The US Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey aircraft crash landed in the sea off Okinawa Prefecture, south of Japan, on Tuesday night, Efe news reported. “It is regrettable that an accident of this seriousness occurred. It is essential […]
Australia is in danger of losing its position as an Antarctic leader, as well as its claim over the frozen continent, unless it maintains funding for its scientific research program, experts said. Countries including China and Russia were seeking to broaden their share and exert more power, ABC news reported on Tuesday. The Australian program […]
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has ordered the closure of Venezuelan border with Colombia for 72 hours till Thursday to deal with the “mafias” operating and smuggling out Venezuelan currency. The measure came on the heels of his decision to withdraw the 100-bolivar bill from circulation, Efe news reported on Tuesday. “We’re intercepting about $95,000 that […]
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Assam Police has recovered over Rs 1.5 crore in new Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 bills from a businessman’s house here, police said on Tuesday. The CID official said that the amount was recovered during a raid at the house of Harjeet Singh Bedi on late Monday evening. “We […]
Jammu city on Tuesday recorded the coldest night of the season so far as the minimum temperature was 7.4 degrees Celsius. Leh town in Ladakh region, which recorded minus 10.6 degrees Celsius as the minimum temperature, was the coldest town in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday. “The temperature dropped to 7.4 degrees Celsius during the […]