Bengaluru, Dec 20 (IANS) Leading food ordering and delivery start-up Swiggy has raised $1 billion (Rs 7,000 crore) venture funds from existing investors led by Naspers, to strengthen its technology and hire talent, it said…
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) Jackie Chan’s 2012 action movie “CZ12” will open the India-China Film Festival here. In order to strengthen and deepen cultural understanding between the two countries, the film festival is being…
Raipur, Dec 20 (IANS) Days after Congress took charge in Chhattisgarh, 1986-batch IPS officer D.M. Awasthi was appointed as the new Director General of Police (DGP), replacing A.N. Upadhyay. Upadhyay, a 1985-batch IPS officer, has…
London, Dec 20 (IANS) Tens of thousands of passengers were stranded at Gatwick Airport, one of the UK’s busiest, as flights to and from the airport were suspended on Thursday due to reports of two…
Patna, Dec 20 (IANS) A businessman, Gunjan Khemja, was shot dead on Thursday in Hajipur in Bihar, police said. Khemja, son of Patna’s well-known businessman Gopal Khemka, was targeted on way to his factory in…
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) Microsoft on Thursday announced a three-year “Intelligent Cloud Hub” collaborative programme in India to empower institutes to skill students in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cloud technologies. The dedicated AI infrastructure…
Agra, Dec 20 (IANS) A Class 10 Dalit student, set ablaze by two men in Uttar Pradesh’s Agra district on Tuesday, succumbed to her burn injuries in a Delhi hospital on Thursday, police said. Sanjali…
Los Angeles, Dec 20 (IANS) Joanne Lipmans 2018 book “Thats What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) about Working Together” is coming to the small screen in a…
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) The government on Thursday presented in the Lok Sabha the second Supplementary Demands for Grants for 2018-19 for gross additional expenditure of Rs 85,948.86 crore which includes Rs 41,000 crore…
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) Divided into contemporary installations and sculptures, “iSculpt2” is an ongoing exhibition by 11 noted artists that seamlessly occupies India International Centres Gandhi Plaza to create a diverse ecosystem in its…
Bhubaneswar, Dec 20 (IANS) Odisha government’s Single Window for Investor Facilitation and Tracking (GO-SWIFT) has received 500 investment proposals so far, said an official on Thursday. Launched in November 2017, the portal has received the…
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) As India accelerates in its journey towards digital transformation, there will inevitably be a data deluge and the country needs to devise a solid strategy to succeed in the data…
Beed (Maharashtra), Dec 20 (IANS) Furious over their love marriage, a man killed his sister’s husband near a busy road in this Maharashtra town, shocking bystanders, police said on Thursday. An official from Beed Police,…
Pune, Dec 20 (IANS) The National Film Archive of India (NFAI) and the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for transfer of three acres of land for…
Mumbai, Dec 20 (IANS) In line with weakness in global markets, the BSE Sensex and Nifty50 ended lower on Thursday after the US Federal Reserve raised its short-term interest rate. Despite a strong recovery in…