New Delhi: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Monday that CRED founder Kunal Shah will join Meta as WhatsApp’s next global CEO. Meta is also investing around $900 million (nearly Rs 8,550 crore) in the fintech company CRED. As part of the investment, Cred’s founder, Kunal...
New Delhi: Four cargo ships carrying vital shipments of urea, di-ammonium phosphate (DAP), and sulphur from the Persian Gulf are headed for Indian ports after successfully crossing the Strait of Hormuz last week, according to an official statement issued Monday. Navigating through ongoing global trade...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has set aside an Allahabad High Court judgment and a Labour Court award directing the reinstatement of a worker with back wages, holding that an employee who remained absent without authorisation and failed to substantiate his claims could not be...
New Delhi: Fintech platform CRED on Monday said it will raise Rs 8,550 crore in a funding round led by Meta, a mega deal that will see its founder Kunal Shah step down as Chief Executive Officer and lead the global tech giant's messaging platform...
Mumbai: An adverse south-west monsoon may pose headwinds for the domestic growth and inflation outlook, even as the global economic landscape remains fragile, the Reserve Bank Bulletin said Monday. Geopolitical tensions and trade disruptions persisted despite the recent interim peace deal in West Asia, said...
New Delhi: The Central Drugs Laboratories found 46 drug samples manufactured by various firms to be "not of standard quality (NSQ)" in its monthly drug alert for May, health ministry officials said Monday. Further, the State Drugs Testing Laboratories have identified 113 drug samples as...
New Delhi: Production growth of eight core infrastructure sectors slowed to a seven-month low of 0.5 per cent in May due to a fall in output of coal, crude oil and refinery products. The core sector growth was 1.8 per cent in April 2026 and...
New Delhi: The government has approved the installation of its indigenous train protection system -- Kavach -- on 631 route kilometres (RKm) of the East Coast Railway network at an estimated cost of Rs 270 crore, the Ministry of Railways said Monday. The project will...
Mumbai: Stock markets rebounded Monday with the benchmark Sensex gaining 291 points following a decline in crude oil prices and supportive global cues amid hopes of diplomatic progress in US-Iran talks. The 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 291.17 points, or 0.38 per cent, to settle at...
New Delhi: US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal will hold two-day talks this week on the first phase of the bilateral trade agreement. "For the US trade deal talks, tomorrow my counterpart is coming to Delhi," Goyal told reporters...
By Dilip Cherian The death of Rakesh Mehta, former Chief Secretary of Delhi, is deeply saddening. But beyond the shock...
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The judiciary is one of the three pillars of Indian democracy that the people traditionally trust, most for the redress...
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Research and Development (R&D) is always considered the most expensive or cost intensive part of any new product. Deep pockets...
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