Mumbai, 25/3: Reliance Industries Ltd has appointed Srikanth Venkatachari as chief financial officer effective June 1, according a late evening release by the company. He takes over from Alok Agarwal, who has been CFO since 2005, and will now assume the role of senior advisor to Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani. Venkatachari…
Ahmedabad, 25/3: Gujarat police are conducting raids across 17 jails in the state to check if any illegal activities are taking place there and also to ensure that the inmates are getting facilities they are entitled to as per the law, a top official said. As many as 1,700 police personnel, including officers,…
Chandigarh, 24/3: Papalpreet Singh, the brain behind radical preacher and pro-Khalistan supporter Amritpal Singh, has been served a notice by the Income Tax department to explain the source of Rs 4.48 lakh credited into his account, officials said here on Friday. Papalpreet, who has been on the run along with Amritpal since the…
Kyiv, 24/3: Russian long-range strikes killed at least 10 civilians and wounded 20 others in several areas of Ukraine on Friday, Ukraine’s presidential office said, as a senior Moscow official warned that the Kremlin’s forces were prepared for an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive in the coming weeks. Five people died in Kostiantynivka, a town in eastern…
Mumbai, 24/3: Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty buckled under selling pressure for the second straight session to settle nearly 1 per cent lower on Friday as investors pared exposure to the metal, energy and realty stocks amid a bearish trend in Asian and European markets. Besides, a depreciating rupee against the US…
New Delhi, 24/3: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been disqualified as a member of the Lok Sabha from the date of his conviction by a Surat court in the criminal defamation case on March 23 over his ‘Modi surname’ remark. Rahul Gandhi… stands disqualified from the member of Lok Sabha from the date of his…
Mumbai, 24/3: Ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 that begins from March 31, Ashneer Grover’s new venture Third Unicorn has launched a fantasy sports app called CrickPe that aims to take on Dream11 and Mobile Premier League (MPL). “Biggest revolution in Cricket since IPL – only fantasy game paying cricketers for…
Thiruvananthapuram, 24/3: The Kerala High Court has stayed the capturing of a wild elephant in Idukki district of Kerala. Considering the petitions filed by animal rights forums, the court held a special session on Thursday evening and stayed till next Wednesday the forest department’s plans to capture the wild elephant. The…
Washington DC, 24/3: Block Inc. co-founder Jack Dorsey’s net worth was hammered after Hindenburg Research’s latest report, which alleged the payments company ignored widespread fraud. Dorsey’s fortune plunged by $526 million on Thursday, his worst single-day decline since May. He’s now worth $4.4 billion after the 11% drop, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires…
Mumbai, 24/3: Well-known filmmaker Pradeep Sarkar – who directed the musical romance film Parineeta – with Vidya Balan, Saif Ali Khan and Sanjay Dutt in lead roles in a the film adapted from the work of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay and Rani Mukherji-starrer Mardani – passed away in Mumbai on Thursday. He was 67. …
