- Technology
Indian-origin Vishal Garg’s Better.com lays off real estate team
San Francisco: The embattled online mortgage lender Better.com, run by controversial Indian-origin CEO Vishal Garg, has reportedly laid off its real estate team and has shut down this unit. The company is…
- Pakistan
Pakistan’s defence budget increased by 16%
Islamabad: The Pakistan government has proposed a roughly 16 per cent increase in the defence budget as the country continues to face internal and external security challenges, the media reported. Interestingly, all…
- India
Gurugram: Property registration in 65 illegal colonies banned
Gurugram: Department of Town and Country Planning (DTCP) has identified 65 illegal colonies on the outskirts of the city and asked the Revenue Department to stop property registrations with immediate effect. These…
- Technology
Netflix gains 100K new subscribers in 2 days as it curbs password sharing
San Francisco: Streaming giant Netflix garnered nearly 100,000 new daily sign-ups just days after it started to crack down on password sharing. According to market research firm Antenna, since alerting subscribers in…
- Technology
Twitter to soon start paying creators for ads served in replies: Musk
New Delhi: Twitter will soon start paying creators on the platform for the ads served in their replies, Elon Musk announced on Saturday. Twitter has kept aside $5 million to pay creators,…
- Hyderabad
Telangana BJP pins hopes on Amit Shah’s June 15 public meeting
Hyderabad: Rattled by the drubbing in last month’s Karnataka Assembly elections and worried over its likely impact on Telangana polls, the BJP leaders in Telangana are looking forward to Union Home Minister…
- Technology
US charges 2 Russian men with $400 mn Bitcoin hack
Washington: The US government has charged two Russian nationals in connection with the $400 million Bitcoin hack that brought down the Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange in 2014. The Department of Justice (DoJ)…
- Technology
We’re making history, says Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino
New Delhi: New Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino on Saturday said that no other platform has the power Twitter has and they are going to make history. Yaccarino, who replaced Elon Musk as…
- India
Chidambaram hits out at BJP for ‘absolute intolerance to any criticism’
New Delhi: In response to four BJP MPs slamming Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge for criticising the Railways in his letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Odisha train tragedy, former Union…
- India
Vijayan invites Pfizer to open research centre in Kerala
Thiruvananthapuram: Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who is on a trip to US, invited top multinational pharma major Pfizer to open a research centre in Kerala, according to the information provided by CM’s…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad priest sent to judicial custody for killing paramour
Hyderabad: A city court on Saturday remanded a priest of a temple in Hyderabad’s Saroornagar to judicial custody for the murder of a 30-year-old woman with whom he was having an extramarital…
- World
Russia to withdraw from European armed forces treaty on Nov 7
Moscow: Russia will officially pull out of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) on November 7 this year, the Foreign Ministry announced in a statement. As required, Russia has…
- India
BJP MLA gets relief from HC over controversial remarks against Karnataka CM
Bengaluru: BJP MLA from Belthangady constituency of Dakshina Kannada, Harish Poonja, who had stirred a controversy by claiming that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah got 24 Hindu activists killed, got relief from the Karnataka…
- Entertainment
Diljit Dosanjh dating Taylor Swift?
Mumbai: Popular Punjabi-singer Diljit Dosanjh had a hilarious reaction to a news report claiming he got “touchy” with American singer Taylor Swift at a restaurant in Vancouver. In a now deleted tweet,…
- Middle East
Iran denies report of nearing interim nuclear deal with US
Tehran: Iran has denied a media claim of it “nearing an interim nuclear deal” with the US, saying such a deal neither exists nor is on the agenda. Iran’s permanent mission to…
