Tokyo : Japanese car giant Toyota and investment fund SoftBank Vision Fund on Friday unveiled an investment of USD 1 billion in US company Uber to drive forward the development of driverless ridesharing services. The latest cash injection, expected to close in the third quarter this year, came amid […]
Beijing : Remarks by the head of Chinese online business giant Alibaba that young people should work 12-hour days, six days a week if they want financial success have prompted a public debate over work-life balance in the country. Jack Ma is one of China’s richest men and his […]
Talcher (Odisha) : Five people, including a woman and two girls, were killed when a wild elephant strayed into human habitation in different villages of Angul district, officials said Friday. The tusker entered Sandha village near here from a forest late on Thursday night and trampled to death three […]
Jaipur : Fast running out of time, a struggling Rajasthan Royals will hope to complete the double against Mumbai Indians in a return-leg IPL fixture and revive their campaign here Saturday. With six losses and two wins, hosts Rajasthan Royals are languishing at the second last position in the […]
Washington : Fearing that his presidency was doomed, an angry Donald Trump pushed for Robert Mueller to be fired before he could deepen his probe into Russian election meddling, the special counsel’s long-awaited report said Thursday. The more than 400-page document, made public in redacted form by the Justice […]
Bamako : Mali’s prime minister and cabinet resigned Thursday following a motion of no confidence in the government over its handling of violence in the centre of the country, according to the presidency. A statement from President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita’s office said he had accepted Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga’s resignation, […]
Washington : The United States has praised orders by Sudan’s new military leader to free political prisoners and end a night curfew as it dispatched an envoy to Khartoum to encourage a transition to democracy. Makila James, the deputy assistant secretary of state who is in charge of eastern […]
New Delhi : national spokesperson and convenor of party’s media cell Priyanka Chaturvedi resigned from the party, sources said. After quitting all the posts in the party, Chaturvedi sent her resignation to the party’s top brass. She has also changed her introduction in her Twitter account where she had […]
Ahmedabad : Congress leader Hardik Patel was slapped by an unidentified man while addressing a poll rally on Friday in a village in Gujarat’s Surendranagar district. The incident was captured on cameras of news channels covering the rally in the district, around 130 km from here. As soon as […]
Bengaluru : An estimated 36.31 per centvoter turnout was reported till 1 PM Thursday in Karnataka, where 14 Lok Sabha constituencies are going to the polls in the first phase. The Congress-JD(S) alliance and BJP are in direct contest in Karnataka. The highest turnout was recorded in Dakshina Kannada […]
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