MAY 3, 2018
Tea Picking and Production at the Korangani Tea Estate Ahead Of Second-Quarter GDP Figures - Photographer: Sanjit Das/Bloomberg
India’s multiple revisions of gross domestic product growth estimates are “confusing,” much less provide a true state of the economy, according to researchers at the Reserve Bank of India.
The first readings of GDP tend to underestimate growth more often than...
MAY 3, 2018
In what comes as a major relief for consumers who are struggling to get a mobile phone SIM without an Aadhaar card, the government has issued clear instructions to operators asking them to accept alternate documents such as driving license, passport, and voter ID card for providing new connections. The government has asked the mobile companies to...
MAY 3, 2018
Refusing to stay its recent judgment on the SC/ST Act, the Supreme Court on Thursday told the Centre it is "100 per cent" in favour of protecting the rights of people belonging to those communities and those guilty of atrocities against them shall be punished.
This comes after the Centre submitted that the apex court's order stopping automatic...
MAY 3, 2018
Brief Scorecard: Kolkata Knight Riders 180 for 4 (Gill 57*, Karthik 45*) beat Chennai Super Kings 177 for 5 (Dhoni 43*, Watson 36, Narine 2-20) by six wickets
May 3, 2018: Kolkata Knight Riders v Chennai Super Kings, IPL 2018, Kolkata Gill scored a match-winning half-century in the company of Dinesh Karthik to seal KKR's win at Eden...
MAY 3, 2018
The Malaysia Airlines plane disappeared in March 2014 with 239 people, mostly from China, on board
Two shipwrecks found during the hunt for missing flight MH370 in the remote Southern Ocean were identified Thursday as 19th century merchant vessels carrying coal, each crewed by up to 30 people.
The Malaysia Airlines plane disappeared in March 2014 with...
MAY 3, 2018
In this April 10, 2018, file photo, China's President Xi Jinping prepares to deliver his opening speech at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference in Boao in south China's Hainan province.
Chinese and American officials will be trying to defuse tensions pushing the world's two largest economies toward trade war in meetings beginning Thursday where analysts say...
MAY 2, 2018
Cambridge Analytica, a data firm that worked for President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, is shutting down following disclosures about its use of Facebook data and the campaign tactics it pitched to clients.
In March, the company suspended its chief executive, Alexander Nix, and said it was launching an independent investigation to determine if the company engaged in any...
MAY 2, 2018
New Delhi: The personal and professional details of about 2.7 crore members registered with the retirement fund body Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) have been exposed to data theft.
In a letter to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, the Central Provident Fund Commissioner has written that hackers have stolen data from the Aadhaar seeding portal of...
MAY 2, 2018
U.S. President Donald Trump has underlined his desire to militarize space and introduce an American “space force.”
Speaking at the White House while receiving the West Point football team, Trump said he wants America’s five military branches to become six, CNN reported.
Trump told the cadets, “You will be part of the five proud branches of the United States...
MAY 2, 2018
Despite media reports claiming that the Flipkart-Walmart deal is in its last leg, arch rival-turned-suitor Amazon is showing no signs of exiting the stage. In fact, sources told CNBC TV18 that the global e-commerce giant has now made a formal offer to Flipkart to buy a 60 per cent stake.
The report added that the deal offered by...
