- Pakistan
Pakistan’s forex reserves barely enough to provide import cover for 18.5 days
Islamabad: The foreign exchange reserves held by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) have plunged to precarious levels as the cash-strapped nation desperately seeks to revive the stalled bailout programme of the…
- Delhi
Delhi excise policy case: Govt’s loss of Rs 581 cr was diverted as profit to accused, says ED
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has claimed in its supplementary chargesheet filed in connection with the excise policy case that the Delhi government lost revenues of about Rs 581 crore by providing…
- Andhra Pradesh
Chandrababu urges PM Modi to order probe into phone tapping
Amaravati: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) national president N. Chandrababu Naidu has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to order an enquiry into the alleged tapping of phones of leaders of opposition parties,…
- India
Teachers’ scam: Judge agrees that Partha Chatterjee is ‘privileged’
Kolkata: A judge of the special court of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday, during a hearing on the multi-crore teachers’ recruitment scam in West Bengal, observed that former West Bengal…
- India
Cong calls protest on Feb 6 over Hindenburg report on Adani
New Delhi: The Congress party has decided to hold nationwide district level protests on Monday, February 6, in front of the Life Insurance Corporation office and the State Bank of India office…
- Technology
Microsoft Teams Premium gets new features powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5
San Francisco: Tech giant Microsoft has introduced new features powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5, to its Teams Premium, to make meeting artificial intelligence (AI)-powered. The new features aim to make meetings more intelligent,…
- Technology
Meta purged over 34 mn bad pieces of content on FB, Instagram in India in Dec
New Delhi: Meta has said that it took down over 22.54 million pieces of content across 13 policies for Facebook and over 12.03 million pieces of content across 12 policies for Instagram…
- Technology
After layoffs, Zuckerberg now wants 2023 to be ‘year of efficiency’
San Francisco: After laying off 11,000 employees, Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg now wants 2023 to be the “year of efficiency”. In his quarterly earnings call with analysts late on Wednesday,…
- India
Dalit outfits demand CBI probe into human excreta in TN water tank
Chennai: The Vengaivayal incident in which human excreta was found in an overhead water tank supplying drinking water to a Dalit colony in Vengaivayal, Pudukottai district has become a blot on the…
- Delhi
LG should not stop teachers from going abroad by misusing powers: Sisodia
New Delhi: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Thursday said that Lieutenant Governor V.K. Saxena should not stop Delhi government school teachers from going to Finland on a training programme by…
- India
Adani imbroglio: MVA, locals worry over fate of mega Dharavi revamp project
Mumbai: As the Adani Group battles its current crisis on multiple fronts, the Maharashtra Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT) and residents of Dharavi on Thursday raised questions over the fate of the ambitious…
- India
SC allows adoption of child of student who sought abortion of 29-week pregnancy
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday invoked its extraordinary power under Article 142 to allow the adoption of a child after the delivery of a 20-year-old student who was carrying a…
- Bollywood
Suniel Shetty-hosted MMA reality show ‘Kumite 1 Warrior Hunt’ to drop on MX studios on Feb 12
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Suniel Shetty-hosted Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) reality show ‘Kumite 1 Warrior Hunt’ is all set to air on MX studios from February 12. Suniel said, “MMA is truly an…
- India
Share market crash almost led to the fall of Union govt: Mamata
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday claimed that on the day of the Union Budget on Wednesday, the Union government virtually was on the verge of collapse because of…
- Business
BYJU’s slashes around 15% roles, mostly in engineering, as phased layoffs on
New Delhi: Edtech major BYJU has laid off a further 15 percent of its employees from its engineering teams, as the company continues phased layoffs to remain growth-oriented in a global economic…
