JUNE 22, 2018
BJP national president Amit Shah - Getty
MUMBAI: A district cooperative bank, which has Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah as a director, netted the highest deposits among such banks of old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes that were abruptly demonetised on November 8, 2016, according to RTI replies received by a Mumbai activist.
The Ahmedabad District...
JUNE 22, 2018
Vishal Sikka CEO & MD of Infosys addressing the Press conference on Infosys Q4 at Infosys headquarter on April 15, 2016 in Bengaluru, India. - Getty
Teradata, a cloud-based data firm, has alleged that key SAP employees, including its then former CTO Vishal Sikka, were involved in misappropriation of Teradata's trade secrets. A complaint has been filed by...
JUNE 22, 2018
FILE - In this May 24, 2018 file photo, a guard stands at the entrance of the north tunnel at North Korea's nuclear test site shortly before it was to be blown up in a media tour of dismantling the test site, at Punggye-ri, North Hamgyong Province, North Korea. Ahead of a planned summit Tuesday, June 12,...
JUNE 21, 2018
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi participates in a mass yoga session along with other practitioners to mark International Yoga Day at the Forest Research Institute (FRI) in Dehradun on June 21, 2018.
NEW DELHI, INDIA - Indian Prime Minister and longtime yoga practitioner Narendra Modi led an estimated 50,000 volunteers through a series of yoga asanas Thursday to...
JUNE 21, 2018
The highly-competitive and constantly-evolving Indian e-commerce space has e-tailers on edge. Moreover, with the push from Walmart, competition between two of the biggest e-commerce sites, home-grown Flipkart and Amazon India is at its peak. In an attempt to lure in more sellers, Amazon India has slashed seller fees by a significant margin across categories. Categories like furniture...
JUNE 21, 2018
Classy Croatia handed Argentina a 3-0 drubbing to claim a place in the World Cup knockout stage thanks to goals by Ante Rebic, Luka Modric and Ivan Rakitic in their Group D match on Thursday.
Rebic seized on a gaffe by keeper Willy Caballero to open the way to victory for the Balkan side before a superb strike...
JUNE 21, 2018
In this Wednesday, June 20, 2018, photo provided on Thursday, June 21, 2018, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, followed by his wife Ri sol Ju, in red, arrive at North Korean Embassy in Beijing. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for...
JUNE 21, 2018
U.S. Supreme Court is seen in Washington, U.S. - REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
States have broad authority to force online retailers to collect potentially billions of dollars worth of sales taxes, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, siding against e-commerce companies in their high-profile fight with South Dakota.
The justices, in a 5-4 ruling against Wayfair Inc, Overstock.com Inc and...
JUNE 21, 2018
TIME Inc. John Moore—Getty Images
John Moore, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for Getty Images, has been photographing immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border for years. This week one of his pictures became the most visible symbol of the immigration debate in America.
“This one was tough for me. As soon as it was over, they were put into a...
JUNE 20, 2018
Chinese acquisitions and investments in the U.S. fell 92 percent to just $1.8 billion in the first five months of this year, consulting and research firm Rhodium Group said Tuesday.
Counting divestitures, net Chinese deal flow to the U.S. during that time was a negative $7.8 billion, the report said.
The decline follows a sharp drop in the second...
