India’s first grandmaster Viswanathan Anand When Viswanathan Anand became India’s first grandmaster in 1988, chess wasn’t really a thing in India. Cut to 2024, and India now has 85 grandmasters, has won two gold medals in the recently-concluded Chess Olympiad, and teenager D Gukesh is all set to fight grandmaster Ding Liren for the World … Read more
India’s central bank watchers are getting anxious about who will decide interest rates. Image: Bloomberg 5 min read Last Updated : Sep 27 2024 | 10:15 AM IST By Anup Roy India’s central bank watchers are getting anxious about who will decide interest rates in two week’s time, a crucial meeting as a wave of … Read more
Beirut: Israel rejected a push by allies for a 21-day ceasefire in Lebanon and vowed to keep fighting Hezbollah militants “until victory”, ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s expected address to the UN General Assembly on Friday. Israeli bombing of Iran-backed Hezbollah strongholds around Lebanon has killed hundreds of people this week, while the militant … Read more
Stock Market LIVE Updates, Friday, September 27, 2024: Indian equity benchmark indices were poised for a higher open on Friday, tracking overnight gains in the US and a positive trend in Asian markets, as indicated by GIFT Nifty futures. At 7:45 AM, GIFT Nifty futures were trading at 26,343, around 30 points … Read more
Air India has already placed mammoth orders to upgrade its fleet. (Photo: Shutterstock) 5 min read Last Updated : Sep 27 2024 | 8:07 AM IST Two years after Tata Group took control of Air India in a $2.4 billion deal, re-kitting an ageing fleet amid parts shortages and persistent flight delays stand in … Read more
[Editor’s Note: This is part 1 of 2. Part 2 will appear tomorrow.] Lost amidst talk of all the amazing technologies used in healthcare today is a subject very important to Robert Slepin: change management. Slepin knows a thing or two about change management. In his role as emeritus CIO advisor at electronic health record … Read more
Unlike the state of almost permanent, congenital hostility which marks India’s relations with the People’s Republic of China, ties between New Delhi and Washington, who are sometimes described as “natural allies”, being fellow democracies, are often plagued by a series of unexpected irritants, creating clear-air turbulence. While it is true that Prime Minister Narendra Modi … Read more
HYDERABAD: The Telangana High Court will hear an appeal on the powers vested with the manager of residential apartments with regard to disconnection of essential services for non-payment of dues. It pertains to the inaction of TSSPDCL to disconnect power to residents of Pride Residency at Hanuman Tekidi for alleged failure to pay contribution for … Read more
5 min read Last Updated : Sep 26 2024 | 11:15 PM IST By Henry Meyer and Ethan Bronner Israel ordered the military to maintain its bombardment of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon and denied interest in a truce, a setback for efforts by the US and allies to de-escalate hostilities. “There … Read more
In testimony before the United States House of Representatives on Tuesday, Adam Meyers, senior VP of counter adversary operations at CrowdStrike, apologized for the worldwide technology outage this past summer that disabled millions of Microsoft Windows machines across healthcare and other industries. In his appearance before the House Homeland Security Committee’s subcommittee on cybersecurity and infrastructure protection, … Read more