Kuala Lumpur Tan Chun Seang and Zulfadli Zulkiffli do not need to settle their fines first before filing appeals against their suspensions with the Badminton World Federation (BWF). Zulfadli and Chun Seang were suspended 20 and 15 years and also fined US$25,000 (RM98,000) and US$15,000 (RM59,000) respectively by BWF recently for fixing matches. BA of Malaysia […]
Kathmandu Netizens of Nepal slammed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, currently visiting the Himalayan nation, reminding him of the 2015 border blockade and asking him to apologize. Hashtags like #BlockadeWasCrimeMrModi and #ModiNotWelcomed-InNepal were trending as the Indian leader kicked off his two-day Nepal visit on Friday. Some users reminded Modi of the border blockade enforced by India […]
Bollywood actress Neha Dhupia announced her wedding to actor Angad Bedi in an Instagram post on Friday. The actress posted a picture of the two with the caption, “Best decision of my life.. today, I married my best friend. Hello there, husband! @angadbedi”. Bedi also put up an Instagram post declaring the same with the […]
Every business conversation today to the books of decades later, Walmart`s acquisition of Flipkart for $20 billion will find a special mention. For one, large-scale VC-backed M&As of this magnitude are a rarity (The image below helps bring perspective). It puts India’s Flipkart right next to tech behemoth WhatsApp, which was acquired by Facebook for […]
NEW DELHI: Google on Tuesday appointed Nitin Bawankule as the country head for Google Cloud India, a cloud platform services to businesses in India. Bawankule has been with Google India for over six years and will report to Rick Harshman, Managing Director, Asia Pacific, Google Cloud.An IIM Bangalore and VNIT Nagpur alumnus, Bawankule has over […]
BSNL has introduced an unlimited voice calling pack priced at Rs. 39, offering customers unlimited local and STD voice calls, including national roaming to BSNL prepaid customers. The closest to this will be the Jio Rs. 52 recharge, which also offers free calls and SMSs as well as bundled data. Also, while Jio is getting ready to […]
Sydney Indian shuttlers B Sai Praneeth and Sameer Verma lived up to their seedings at the Australian Open Super 300 tournament with convincing straight-game wins in their respective second-round matches in Sydney on Thursday. Second seed Sai Praneeth took just 32 minutes to defeat Indonesia’s Panji Ahmad Maulana 21-12, 21-14. Fourth seed Sameer Verma, playing […]
Malaysia Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia’s 92-year-old former strongman, will be sworn in as the country’s new Prime Minister after leading a coalition of former political enemies to an historic and stunning election victory that has toppled from power after 61 years the party he once ruled with an iron fist. The victory, which few had predicted […]
New Delhi They are billed as smart coaches, and Indian Railways will soon roll out these modern train compartments equipped with black boxes and coach information and diagnostics systems. The black boxes, a first for the railways, will have a powerful multi-dimensional communication interface to provide all kinds of information on coach condition and also passenger-related […]