Juneteenth federal holiday in US: How is it celebrated and what is this year's plan? All FAQs answeredJuneteenth, commemorating the end of slavery in the US, is observed with festivals and events, though the current political climate raises ...
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CrowdStrike says widespread outage were not the result of security incident or cyberattackCrowdStrike's update defect caused global disruptions, impacting IndiGo, Zurich, Berlin airports, NHS practices, Sky News, South Africa ban...
19 Jul, 2024, 04.08 PM IST
Countries pledge to raise $12 billion to fund coral reef protectionAn alliance of nations called the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) has pledged to raise $12 billion to protect coral reefs from t...
04 Oct, 2023, 12.55 AM IST
Queen Elizabeth II, Lata Mangeshkar, Bob Saget & Betty Davis: Remembering influential people who we lost in 2022Here is a roll call of some influential figures who died in 2022.
27 Dec, 2022, 09.57 AM IST
An emboldened Biden now faces a tough choice about his own futureThe president’s fellow Democrats are flocking to cameras to give him credit. “This victory belongs to Joe Biden,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-...
14 Nov, 2022, 03.52 PM IST
From one ‘colossal mistake’ to backing Hillary Clinton in election, Monica Lewinsky is (reluctantly) revisiting ‘that woman’Lewinsky was 22 when her relationship with then US President Bill Clinton began.
12 Sep, 2021, 11.54 AM IST
Banana taped to Basel show wall an idea; $120K fruit art was replaced minutes after 'hungry' performance artist ate itDavid Datuna's stunt sent temperatures soaring on social media.
09 Dec, 2019, 11.09 AM IST
Rajan signals Brexit politics deterred him from seeking BOE jobRajan said central banking “has become much more political in recent times” as an explanation for why not.
20 Jul, 2019, 06.56 PM IST
WeWork to raise up to $4 billion in debt ahead of IPO, WSJ reportsWeWork said in April it had filed paperwork confidentially with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an IPO.
08 Jul, 2019, 09.29 AM IST
Number of Indian students in UK rises 40%Indians now are among the fastest growing nationalities of foreign students in the UK along with Chinese, Americans and Saudis.
04 Jul, 2019, 02.26 PM IST
How will a constantly wired cohort define itself and the world?This generation on the contrary is to the palm-internet born. In some cases, even their birth was broadcast live on Facebook by enthusiasti...
30 Dec, 2017, 11.30 PM IST
UK's historic EU referendum on knife-edge as millions voteThe Prime Minister voted with wife Samantha at a polling booth in Westminster, just yards from his Downing Street office from where he will...
23 Jun, 2016, 07.18 PM IST
'Brexit' vote: Britain divided on eve of key EU referendumTheir warning came on the last day of the four-month-long campaigning before polling booths open at 7 am local time tomorrow with the final...
23 Jun, 2016, 11.51 AM IST
Hours before Brexit vote, polls show it's all evenly poised nowInvestors are piling money into bets on a victory for the “Remain” campaign, led by Prime Minister David Cameron, in Thursday’s plebiscite.
22 Jun, 2016, 02.54 PM IST
The 20 best business books of 2015From a biography of Elon Musk to a look inside Google's management structure, we've picked our favorite business books of 2015.
22 Dec, 2015, 06.40 PM IST
Geoffrey Howe, Thatcher's first finance minister, dies at age 88Geoffrey Howe, the UK Conservative minister who imposed controversial austerity measures in 1981 and provided the trigger for Thatcher's po...
10 Oct, 2015, 09.45 PM IST
- Yahoo opens its doors to hackers
Hackers armed with laptops, camping tents and dreams of software glory invaded Yahoo during the weekend. Protecting Wi-Fi connection | Seas...
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