Geneva: Swiss banking group UBS plans to cut 35,000 jobs at Credit Suisse — more than half its workforce — as part of the emergency rescue takeover of its rival in March, according to a report by Bloomberg News on Tuesday. Credit Suisse had a staff of around 45,000 before it nearly collapsed on investor fears...
A “potentially hazardous” asteroid, roughly the same length as the London Eye, is set to skim past Earth on Wednesday, according to a report by The Independent. NASA is tracking the movement of the huge rock, named 2013 WV44, which measures 160 metres in diameter. The US space agency’s Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies said that...
Malaika Arora was the life of the party at Arjun Kapoor’s birthday celebration on Sunday. The yoga expert and reality TV personality danced her heart out to her hit song Chaiyya Chaiyya at the bash. Looking glamorous in a white gown with side slits, Malaika performed all her hooksteps while dancing in a circle of friends and stopped...
The International Cricket Council (ICC) today announced the schedule for the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 at a ‘Countdown to the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023’ event in Mumbai. Ten teams feature in what will be the biggest Cricket World Cup ever, to be played across 10 venues from 5 October to 19...
Ahead of next month’s SCO summit to be held for the first time under India’s Presidency, India on Tuesday inaugurated an exquisitely designed ‘New Delhi Hall’ here at the headquarters of the eight-member grouping, which External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said depicted a “mini-India”. The Secretariat of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) comprising China, Russia,...
The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday arrested RK Arora, the chairperson of real estate developer Supertech from his Delhi office. He had been summoned by the central agency for the past three days. He was arrested late evening in a money laundering case, Hindustan Times sister website Live Hindustan reported. The ED officials informed his family...
The Delhi BJP on Wednesday welcomed the CAG audit into alleged irregularities in the renovation of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s official residence, saying it will expose the “corruption” of the AAP government. The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) is country’s topmost audit body of high repute and its inquiry will soon reveal under whose “pressure”...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday flagged off five Vande Bharat trains in Madhya Pradesh. He gave a go ahead to these trains from Rani Kamalapati railway station in Bhopal at around 11 am. The five Vande Bharat trains that Modi flagged off are — Rani Kamalapati-Jabalpur Vande Bharat Express, Khajuraho-Bhopal-Indore Vande Bharat Express, Madgaon (Goa)-Mumbai...
Both gold and silver prices have recorded a hike on the MultiCommodity Exchange (MCX) on Monday, June 26.Gold futures, maturing on August 4, 2023, stood at Rs 58,481 per 10 grams on the MCX, afterrecording a marginal hike of Rs 174 or 0.30 percent.Similarly, silver futures, maturing on July 5, 2023, also witnessed a jump...
By India Today News Desk: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday reacted sharply to remarks made by former US President Barack Obama on the state of ethnic minorities in India. The remarks were made when PM Narendra Modi was on a 3-day visit to the US. Hitting back, Sitharaman said 6 Muslim-dominated countries were bombed...