Washington DC, 18/5:Amid the ongoing slugfest between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Parag Agrawal, more Twitter executives have moved on, apparently sensing what may come their way at the micro-blogging platform in the near future.     Ilya Brown, a VP of product management for health, conversation and growth; Katrina Lane, a VP of Twitter…

Moscow, 18/5: Russia said on Wednesday nearly 700 more Ukrainian fighters had surrendered in Mariupol, but Kyiv was silent about their fate, while a pro-Russian separatist leader said commanders were still holed up in tunnels beneath the giant Azovstal steelworks.     More than a day after Kyiv announced it had ordered its garrison in…

Kolkata, 18/5: The West Bengal government on Wednesday received two jolts — one after the other at the Calcutta High Court, pertaining to the recruitment irregularities in the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC).     On the one hand, a division bench of Justice Subrata Talukdar and Justice Ananda Kumar Mukherjee upheld the earlier…

New Delhi, 18/5: Anil Baijal, who shared a rocky relationship with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, has resigned as Delhi Lieutenant Governor citing personal reasons after having served a long tenure of five years and four months.     Sources said 75-year-old Baijal, a former Union Home Secretary who was linked to influential right-wing think-tank Vivekananda…

New Delhi, 18/5:The rupee fell 16 paise to close at a record low of 77.60 against the US dollar on Wednesday, It had opened 6 paise lower as a surging American currency in the overseas markets and persistent foreign fund outflows weighed on investor sentiment.

New Delhi, 18/5:The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered release of A G Perarivalan, a life term convict in the 1991 Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, after noting inordinate delay on remission and his poor medical conditions.   A bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao and B R Gavai used its extra ordinary power under Article 142…

Ahmedabad, 18/5: In a major blow to the Congress, the party’s Gujarat working president Hardik Patel has resigned from the grant old party months before Assembly elections.     This comes days after he complained about being sidelined and ignored by senior party leaders.

Moscow, 18/5:  The Russia-Ukraine conflict has cast a shadow over India’s plan to procure KA-31 helicopters from the former Soviet Union nation for deployment on the Indian Navy’s new indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant.     Though New Delhi was in discussion with Moscow for procuring 10 KA-31 Airborne Early Warning helicopters developed by Kamov…

New Delhi, 17/5: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday directed security forces to conduct coordinated counter-terrorism operations pro-actively in Jammu and Kashmir.   He also said that to fulfil Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of a prosperous and peaceful Jammu and Kashmir, the security forces should ensure zero cross-border infiltration to wipe out terrorism…