San Francisco, Aug 11 (IANS) After reportedly cancelling a town hall meeting to allay fears over an anti-diversity manifesto, Google’s Indian-born CEO Sundar Pichai finally addressed a coding event for girls on the sprawling campus…
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) A delegation of National M.Sc. Medical Teachers’ Association (NMMTA) on Friday met Health Minister J.P. Nadda and sought his intervention in getting the medical M.Sc. teachers authorisation to sign diagnostic…
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) A publishing company on Friday said a court has restrained it from selling a book on yoga guru Baba Ramdev. Juggernaut Books said in a statement that a district court…
Washington, Aug 11 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has defended his decision to ban transgenders from serving in the country’s military, saying he is doing the armed forces a “great favour” on the issue he…
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) A court here has restrained Juggernaut Books from the publication and sale of “Godman to Tycoon: The Untold Story of Baba Ramdev” but the publisher says an appeal would be…
London, Aug 11 (IANS) A London-based Muslim man has sued the Virgin Atlantic airlines following his being ordered off a flight by police after “innocently” mentioning the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, the media reported….
Washington, Aug 11 (IANS) An Indian origin man in the US has been indicted on charges of soliciting and accepting bribes while serving as a government employee. The charges against Anuj Sud, a former Prince…
Washington, Aug 11 (IANS) An Indian American businessman in New Hampshire state has been sentenced to three years of probation and fined $40,000 for filing false visa applications under the H-1B visa programme, federal officials…
New York, Aug 11 (IANS) Chelsea Manning, the transgender US soldier convicted of espionage for leaking national security secrets, graces the pages of the Vogue magazines September issue, the media reported on Friday. Manning was…
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) The Centre is considering a proposal to give admission to girl students in Sainik Schools and the National Defence Academy (NDA), Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre said on…
Beijing, Aug 11 (IANS) Apple is facing regulatory problems in China after a group of 28 app developers filed a complaint against the Cupertino-based American multinational technology giant, accusing the company for “abuse of market…
Beijing, Aug 11 (IANS) China’s largest social media platforms — Weibo, WeChat and Baidu Tieba — are under investigation for alleged violations of cyber security laws, the country’s internet watchdog announced on Friday. The Office…
Mumbai, Aug 11 (IANS) Financial services major Reliance Capital Ltd on Friday said the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has approved the demerger of its home finance business. In a statement issued here, Reliance Capital…
Los Angeles, Aug 11 (IANS) Alt-right protesters are planning a “March On Google” next week, following the US tech giant’s firing of an employee over his internal company memo discussing gender differences in the workforce,…
Brasilia, Aug 11 (IANS) An investigation into former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been reopened by prosecutors. The investigation was first launched in 2013, after a publicist Marcos Valerio confessed that he…
Chicago, Aug 11 (IANS) Numbers of the immigrants arrested in Chicago surged in the first six months of the Trump administration, compared to the same period last year, a new data revealed on Thursday. Data…
Washington, Aug 11 (IANS) An Indian-born federal judge in the US has ordered the State Department to search more emails which Hillary Clinton sent or received about 2012 Benghazi attack. Federal Judge Amit Mehta, nominated…
London, Aug 11 (IANS) Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) revealed on Thursday it is currently working on 300 live policing operations targeting modern slavery. Modern slavery and human trafficking Britain is far more prevalent than…
New Delhi, Aug 10 (IANS) To avoid emotional attachment between a child born of surrogacy and the surrogate mother, the Rajya Sabha’s Standing Committee on Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill has observed that provision of breast milk…
Panaji, Aug 10 (IANS) Even as the Centre extended the term of Mhadei Water Disputes Tribunal by a year, Goa Water Resources Minister Vinod Palienkar said on Thursday that the development was a bad omen…