SEOUL: North Korea conducted a cruise missile warhead test and test launch of its new anti-aircraft missile in the West Sea of Korea on Friday, the North’s KCNA news agency said on Saturday. North Korea had conducted a power test of a super-large warhead designed for “Hwasal-1 Ra-3” strategic cruise missile and a test launch…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi told an election rally in MP’s Damoh on Friday that with “clouds of war” spreading across the world, “India needs a govt that can work on a war footing and protect the country under all circumstances, and this work can be done by a BJP govt which returns to office…
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NEW DELHI: Ekagrah Rohan Murty, N R Narayana Murthy’s five-month-old grandson who was gifted 15 lakh shares by the Infosys founder recently, is set to earn Rs 4.2 crore, thanks to the Bengaluru-IT company declaring a bumper final and special dividend totalling Rs 28 per share.Murthy had gifted 15 lakh shares to Ekagrah valued at…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has ruled that Article 48A of the Constitution, envisaging protection of environment and safeguarding of forests and wildlife, has a direct nexus with citizens’ right to life and asked govts to protect forests to save the country and the world from ill-effects of climate change.A bench of Justices M M Sundresh…
HONG KONG: Apple said it had removed Meta‘s WhatsApp messaging app and its Threads social media app from App Store in China to comply with orders from Chinese authorities. The apps were removed Friday after Chinese officials cited unspecified national security concerns. Their removal comes amid elevated tensions between the US and China over trade,…
BENGALURU: For more than two decades, they’ve been the biggest hirers of engineering and technology talent. But in the financial year that ended this March, the combined headcount of TCS, Infosys and Wipro dropped by nearly 64,000. And the early indications for the ongoing financial year aren’t good either. Infosys expects revenue growth between 1%…
MUMBAI: A month after raising over Rs 9,000 crore from TCS stake sale, Tata Sons has approached RBI seeking an exemption from a mandatory IPO. The holding company of the $150-billion salt-to-software Tata Group has informed RBI, in the fresh proposal, that it has reduced its debt significantly. Tata Sons needs to cut its debt…
NEW DELHI: A disruption in oil and gas shipments from West Asia looks improbable at this point of hostility between Israel and Iran, but it could lead to inflationary pressure as speculators play on risk premia to keep prices on the boil.Benchmark Brent had surged past $90 per barrel in the wake of Iran’s April…
DUBAI/JERUSALEM: Explosions echoed over an Iranian city on Friday in what sources described as an Israeli attack, but Tehran played down the incident and indicated it had no plans for retaliation – a response that appeared gauged towards averting region-wide war.The limited scale of the attack and Iran‘s muted response appeared to signal a successful…
