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India: SC holds fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya guilty of contempt, sentences him (SAI Bureau) Fugitive business tycoon Vijay Mallya, who lives in UK, has been given a four-month prison sentence by the Indian Supreme Court on Monday...
Huawei transferred huge amount of money abroad, claim income tax department sources (By Staff Reporter) In India, Chinese technology company Huawei has been accused by the Income Tax Department of transferring Rs 750 crore to its fore...
Indian-Led Team In Singapore To Send Machine Learning Software To Space The NTU team, led by Archit Gupta, got an opportunity to achieve the feat after winning a competition, earlier this month, on developing innovative wa...
NASA James Webb Space Telescope detects water on distant planet (SAI Bureau) NASA stunned everyone by releasing images taken by James Webb Space Telescope which has swung into action after its successful deployment...
Amazon's plan to buy out Cataraman in Prione violates FDI policy: Traders Domestic traders' body CAIT on Thursday claimed e-commerce major Amazon's plan to acquire Prione Business Services - its joint venture firm with Cata...
Here's what made Bitcoin the most popular cryptocurrency in 2021 The largest and oldest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin is making headlines, ranging from analyses of the digital currency's future to people focusing on its ...
Fuel prices in Sri Lanka hiked; govt says talks on with India for LoC (SAI Bureau)- Sri Lanka's state oil entity and the Indian Oil Corporation's local subsidiary have raised the prices of petrol and diesel amidst a seve...
SpaceX launches Christmas presents, supplies to International Space Station (SAI Bureau)- SpaceX launched Christmas gifts, goodies and supplies to the International Space Station on Tuesday and got a present in return: the com...
Paytm finds buyers, but no blow-out demand in India's largest IPO Paytm's $2.5 billion initial public offering (IPO), India's largest, was oversubscribed at the close of bidding on Wednesday, although investors showe...
How Corporations Keep Their Own Workers in Debt from the company, to be paid off with deductions from pay. In the end, workers toil for next to nothing, lack the autonomy of a true independent busi...
China in talks with US exporters to secure long-term LNG supply amid concerns over fuel security (News Agencies)-Major Chinese energy companies are in advanced talks with US exporters to secure long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies, as s...
Hyderabad Engineer Bags Job At Microsoft With ? 2 Crore Package Deepthi Narkuti previously worked for American investment bank JP Morgan for three years (Insider Bureau)-A Hyderabad-based software engineer has ...
As Sanjeev Gupta Rose From Trader to Tycoon, Several Banks Backed Away Four banks stopped working with British industrialist Sanjeev Gupta's commodity trading business, starting in 2016, after alleged paperwork problems i...
China can extend Hambantota port lease to 198 years, Sri Lankan minister says Sri Lanka’s foreign minister said the 99-year lease of the Hambantota port to China could be extended to 198 years, calling it a “mistake” made by the...
Australia's battle with Facebook, Google has wider implications At stake are the question of sovereignty and the risks of governments losing control over national communication and their public sphere. As of th...
Oil price in India soars, 4 states offer relief By Susmita Ghosh In order to rein in the soaring prices of petrol and diesel, four states have cut taxes in recent days. This resulted in giving some...
TikTok agrees to block users in Italy who say they are under 13 after girl dies The popular video app TikTok said on Wednesday it had agreed with Italian authorities to block all users who gave their age as under 13, among other ...
Government issues notice to Twitter to remove content on 'farmer genocide' tag The Centre on Wednesday sent a final notice to Twitter, taking a tough stand against social media handles posting contents with offensive hashtags rel...
Rupee slips 3 paise to 73.18 against US dollar in early trade At the interbank forex market, the domestic unit opened at 73.18 against the US dollar, registering a fall of 3 paise over its previous close. The...
OPPO is all geared up to launch the ultimate videography expert, Reno5 Pro 5G, on January 18, 2021, in India OPPO Reno5 Pro 5G will be power-packed with industry-first AI Highlight Video feature that delivers phenomenal video quality in every light condition,...
Amazon to spend $2 billion in affordable homes near key US offices Amazon.com Inc said on Wednesday it would spend $2 billion to create affordable homes in regions where three of its major US employment hubs are loca...
Hold big tech firms accountable Shortly after the United States (US) justice department announced it was suing Google for operating an "illegal monopoly" through its search services...
Donald Trump's H-1B Visa Order To Cost US Firms $100 Billion: Report (Insider Bureau)-President Donald Trump's executive order restricting entry of skilled foreign workers into the US, mainly on H-1B and L1 visas, has ...
Indian In UAE Returns Bag Containing $14,000, Gold; Honoured: Report (SAI Bureau) An Indian in the UAE was honoured by the police for returning a bag containing USD 14,000 and gold, a media report said on Saturday. Re...
Accused Arms Dealer Sanjay Bhandari's UK Extradition Hearing In June 2021 Sanjay Bhandari, who was arrested on an extradition warrant back in July, was due to appear at Westminster Magistrates'Court in London on Thursday ...
Rajendra Kankariya of New Jersey Guilty In USD 17-Million Bank Fraud (SAI Bureau) An Indian-American president of a now-defunct New Jersey-based marble and granite wholesaler has admitted his role in scheming to defrau...
300,000 Pounds Suspect Cash Seized From Indian-Origin Couple's UK Home (SAI Bureau)Crime prevention officials and police in the UK have recovered over 300,000 pounds in cash suspected of being the proceeds of crime from a...
$9,000 Fine For Singapore Manager For Confining 3 Indians For 40 Days The workers were first confined from May 12 to 15, and then over a five-week stretch, from May 19 to June 26, The Straits Times reported. (SAI Bure...
It can no longer be business-as-usual India needs to reset its entire relationship with China. There will be pain, but it’s time to stand up The difference between the summer of 2020 an...
Why did it take so long for Reddit and Facebook to block racist groups? Powerful tech companies have two areas of vulnerability - employees and advertisers. Now both are in open revolt By Siva Vaidhyanathan This week...
UP govt to recover Rs 900 crores from teachers using fake degrees to get jobs As many as 2823 teachers employed by government schools in Uttar Pradesh as far back as 2004-05 used fake degrees issued by the Agra University, more ...

India: SC holds fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya guilty of contempt, sentences him

(SAI Bureau) Fugitive business tycoon Vijay Mallya, who lives in UK, has been given a four-month prison sentence by the Indian Supreme Court on Monday...

Huawei transferred huge amount of money abroad, claim income tax department sources

(By Staff Reporter) In India, Chinese technology company Huawei has been accused by the Income Tax Department of transferring Rs 750 crore to its fore...

Indian-Led Team In Singapore To Send Machine Learning Software To Space

The NTU team, led by Archit Gupta, got an opportunity to achieve the feat after winning a competition, earlier this month, on developing innovative wa...

NASA James Webb Space Telescope detects water on distant planet

(SAI Bureau) NASA stunned everyone by releasing images taken by James Webb Space Telescope which has swung into action after its successful deployment...

Amazon's plan to buy out Cataraman in Prione violates FDI policy: Traders

Domestic traders' body CAIT on Thursday claimed e-commerce major Amazon's plan to acquire Prione Business Services - its joint venture firm with Cata...

Here's what made Bitcoin the most popular cryptocurrency in 2021

The largest and oldest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin is making headlines, ranging from analyses of the digital currency's future to people focusing on its ...

Fuel prices in Sri Lanka hiked; govt says talks on with India for LoC

(SAI Bureau)- Sri Lanka's state oil entity and the Indian Oil Corporation's local subsidiary have raised the prices of petrol and diesel amidst a seve...

SpaceX launches Christmas presents, supplies to International Space Station

(SAI Bureau)- SpaceX launched Christmas gifts, goodies and supplies to the International Space Station on Tuesday and got a present in return: the com...

Paytm finds buyers, but no blow-out demand in India's largest IPO

Paytm's $2.5 billion initial public offering (IPO), India's largest, was oversubscribed at the close of bidding on Wednesday, although investors showe...

How Corporations Keep Their Own Workers in Debt

from the company, to be paid off with deductions from pay. In the end, workers toil for next to nothing, lack the autonomy of a true independent busi...

China in talks with US exporters to secure long-term LNG supply amid concerns over fuel security

(News Agencies)-Major Chinese energy companies are in advanced talks with US exporters to secure long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies, as s...

Hyderabad Engineer Bags Job At Microsoft With ? 2 Crore Package

Deepthi Narkuti previously worked for American investment bank JP Morgan for three years (Insider Bureau)-A Hyderabad-based software engineer has ...

As Sanjeev Gupta Rose From Trader to Tycoon, Several Banks Backed Away

Four banks stopped working with British industrialist Sanjeev Gupta's commodity trading business, starting in 2016, after alleged paperwork problems i...

China can extend Hambantota port lease to 198 years, Sri Lankan minister says

Sri Lanka’s foreign minister said the 99-year lease of the Hambantota port to China could be extended to 198 years, calling it a “mistake” made by the...

Australia's battle with Facebook, Google has wider implications

At stake are the question of sovereignty and the risks of governments losing control over national communication and their public sphere. As of th...

Oil price in India soars, 4 states offer relief

By Susmita Ghosh In order to rein in the soaring prices of petrol and diesel, four states have cut taxes in recent days. This resulted in giving some...

TikTok agrees to block users in Italy who say they are under 13 after girl dies

The popular video app TikTok said on Wednesday it had agreed with Italian authorities to block all users who gave their age as under 13, among other ...

Government issues notice to Twitter to remove content on 'farmer genocide' tag

The Centre on Wednesday sent a final notice to Twitter, taking a tough stand against social media handles posting contents with offensive hashtags rel...

Rupee slips 3 paise to 73.18 against US dollar in early trade

At the interbank forex market, the domestic unit opened at 73.18 against the US dollar, registering a fall of 3 paise over its previous close. The...

OPPO is all geared up to launch the ultimate videography expert, Reno5 Pro 5G, on January 18, 2021, in India

OPPO Reno5 Pro 5G will be power-packed with industry-first AI Highlight Video feature that delivers phenomenal video quality in every light condition,...

Amazon to spend $2 billion in affordable homes near key US offices

Amazon.com Inc said on Wednesday it would spend $2 billion to create affordable homes in regions where three of its major US employment hubs are loca...

Hold big tech firms accountable

Shortly after the United States (US) justice department announced it was suing Google for operating an "illegal monopoly" through its search services...

Donald Trump's H-1B Visa Order To Cost US Firms $100 Billion: Report

(Insider Bureau)-President Donald Trump's executive order restricting entry of skilled foreign workers into the US, mainly on H-1B and L1 visas, has ...

Indian In UAE Returns Bag Containing $14,000, Gold; Honoured: Report

(SAI Bureau) An Indian in the UAE was honoured by the police for returning a bag containing USD 14,000 and gold, a media report said on Saturday. Re...

Accused Arms Dealer Sanjay Bhandari's UK Extradition Hearing In June 2021

Sanjay Bhandari, who was arrested on an extradition warrant back in July, was due to appear at Westminster Magistrates'Court in London on Thursday ...

Rajendra Kankariya of New Jersey Guilty In USD 17-Million Bank Fraud

(SAI Bureau) An Indian-American president of a now-defunct New Jersey-based marble and granite wholesaler has admitted his role in scheming to defrau...

300,000 Pounds Suspect Cash Seized From Indian-Origin Couple's UK Home

(SAI Bureau)Crime prevention officials and police in the UK have recovered over 300,000 pounds in cash suspected of being the proceeds of crime from a...

$9,000 Fine For Singapore Manager For Confining 3 Indians For 40 Days

The workers were first confined from May 12 to 15, and then over a five-week stretch, from May 19 to June 26, The Straits Times reported. (SAI Bure...

It can no longer be business-as-usual

India needs to reset its entire relationship with China. There will be pain, but it’s time to stand up The difference between the summer of 2020 an...

Why did it take so long for Reddit and Facebook to block racist groups?

Powerful tech companies have two areas of vulnerability - employees and advertisers. Now both are in open revolt By Siva Vaidhyanathan This week...

UP govt to recover Rs 900 crores from teachers using fake degrees to get jobs

As many as 2823 teachers employed by government schools in Uttar Pradesh as far back as 2004-05 used fake degrees issued by the Agra University, more ...

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2 Indian-Americans In Key Body That Advises White House On Cyber Risk