JANUARY 30, 2019
NEW DELHI, INDIA - ICICI Bank Wednesday said an independent enquiry found former CEO Chanda Kochhar had violated the bank’s Code of Conduct in the Videocon fraud case. The enquiry report submitted by Justice (Retd) B N Srikrishna Wednesday concluded that there was lack of diligence with respect to annual disclosures and violation of code of conduct,...
JANUARY 29, 2019
President Trump speaks about tariffs at the White House last week. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
WASHINGTON, D.C. - It has not been a good couple of weeks for President Trump’s poll numbers. While they’ve been relatively steady throughout his two years in the White House, the government shutdown has pushed his approval rating as low as it’s been...
JANUARY 28, 2019
Brief Scorecard: India 245 for 3 (Rohit 62, Kohli 60, Boult 2-40) beat New Zealand 243 (Taylor 93, Latham 51, Shami 3-41, Pandya 2-45) by 7 wickets
Mount Maunganui, NEW ZEALAND – For the first time in the series, New Zealand managed to dig in for long enough through their first century stand of this one-sided contest to...
JANUARY 26, 2019
CALIFORNIA, USA - The US Department of Labour found technology giant Oracle guilty of underpaying some of its employees. Those affected include Americans including women and people of African American and Hispanic origin. Indians were among those who were in part beneficiaries of the discrimination.
“...Oracle recruited, selected, and hired Asian applicants, particularly Asian Indians, for PTI roles...
JANUARY 26, 2019
The Kremlin is shown in Moscow on July 9, 2018. - MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP/Getty Images
WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Donald Trump and at least 17 of his campaign officials and advisers had as many as 100 contacts with Russian nationals and WikiLeaks or their intermediaries before the U.S. leader was sworn into office, a new analysis from The New...
JANUARY 26, 2019
Brief Scorecard: India 324 for 4 (Rohit 87, Dhawan 66, Dhoni 48*) beat New Zealand 234 (Bracewell 57, Kuldeep 4-45) by 90 runs
Mount Maunganui, NEW ZEALAND - In a league game in Champions Trophy 2017, India failed to truly capitalise on their score of 178 for 2 in 33 overs and failed to defend the underwhelming 321...
JANUARY 25, 2019
The Queen has urged people to seek “common ground” and to “never lose sight of the bigger picture” in what is likely to be interpreted as a reference to the often vitriolic debate over Brexit.
In a speech to the mark the centenary of the Sandringham Women’s Institute (WI) the Queen echoed the message from her Christmas Day...
JANUARY 25, 2019
MELBOURNE, Australia — Scorching heat knocked out power to homes and businesses, raised wildfire risks and sent tennis fans looking for water and shade Friday in Australia's second-largest city, which recorded its hottest day in five years.
Melbourne reached 42 .8 C (109 F) by early afternoon before a sudden cooldown, though the outskirts of the city remained...
JANUARY 25, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressional leaders and President Trump have reached a tentative deal to temporarily reopen the government and continue talks on Trump’s demand for border wall money, Capitol Hill officials said Friday.
With Trump’s approval, the pact would reopen shuttered government departments for the three weeks while leaving the issue of $5.7 billion for the U.S.-Mexico border...
JANUARY 24, 2019
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) leaves the Senate floor and walks back to his office after the failure of both competing Republican and Democratic proposals to end the partial government shutdown in back to back votes on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 24, 2019. REUTERS/Leah Millis
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. senators made a new...
