Uber to expand engineering team in Hyderabad
BENGALURU: Uber Technologies Inc. will expand its engineering team in Hyderabad to develop tools that will help the company determine fares and driver incentives, as well as support its food and hyperlocal delivery service businesses around the world. Uber did not give details of the number of people it wants to hire. The Hyderabad team, […]
Jyoti Bansal: Meet the IIT-Delhi alumnus who sold his start-up for $3.7 billion
NEW DELHI: Indian-American entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal has agreed to sell his application intelligence venture AppDynamics to Cisco Systems for a $3.7 billion (Rs 25,150 crore approx) deal. The announcement has come a day before AppDynamics was to launch its initial public offer (IPO), which valued the company at $2 billion. Click here to read more.. […]
Google CEO Sundar Pichai criticises Trump’s immigration order
SAN FRANCISCO: Google’s India-born Chief Executive Sundar Pichai on Saturday critcised US President Donald Trump’s executive order suspending the entry of people from Muslim-majority countries to the United States and stressed its negative influence on US attractiveness for foreign talent. Pichai suggested that the ban could affect at least 187 Google employees as the Internet […]
Trump’s immigration order sends shock waves across Indian IT industry
Following U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration order, the Indian technology industry is gripped with fear as shock waves spread across India’s silicon city. While the U.S. doesn’t hire on a large scale from the seven Muslim-majority countries set to be affected by Trump’s order – the Indian tech industry, that sends hundreds of employees to […]
Trump appoints Indian-American attorney to key White House post
WASHINGTON: US PresidentDonald Trump has appointed prominent Indian-American attorney Uttam Dhillon to a key White House position to assist him on ethics and compliance matters. Dhillon, who served as chief oversight counsel for the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee, has been appointed as special assistant to the President. Click here to read more… Credit: […]
Evicted by son in US, woman seeks PM Narendra Modi’s nod to spend her last years in India
AHMEDABAD: In what may be called the mother of all ironies, a nonagenarian, who is a US citizen, is resisting her deportation to America citing she wants to spend her last years in her motherland. Ailing Kantaben Shah (90), who remains mostly confined to her bed in her elder son Jayesh Shah’s house in Paldi […]
I hope Trump bans Pakistani visas: Imran Khan
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday, while condemning the plight of Muslims prevented from entering the United States (US) under US President Donald Trump’s immigration ban, expressed hope that the ban is extended to Pakistanis. “I want to tell all Pakistanis today, I pray that Trump bans Pakistani visas so that we can […]
How ‘Garden City’ Bengaluru has degenerated into a garbage city
BANGALORE: The stench of rubbish hanging over swathes of Bangalore is so powerful it rouses residents in the middle of the night, the fetid result of a trash crisis that threatens its reputation as one of India’s nicest places to live. Hailed first as the country’s Garden City and then its Silicon Valley, drawing in […]
A school for grannies is making dreams come true in Maharashtra
Aajibaichi Shala is a school for grandmothers in Thane district, Maharashtra. Dressed in bright pink saris, the grannies all sit together in a single classroom and learn to write, read and multiply, all in Marathi. Click here to read more… Credit: hindustantimes.com
Goodwill hunting: Can SP-Cong alliance capitalise Akhilesh’s vote base in the UP election
UP 2017 is a difficult election to read because there is no ‘hawa’, a uniquely Indian political term that does not lend itself to an easy translation. At the end of December and the first three weeks of January, it appeared that Akhilesh Yadav was extraordinarily popular and would be able to generate a hawa […]
Miss Universe: Contestants represent the best of their countries on ramp
Miss Universe candidate from Nicaragua Marina Jacoby competes during a national costume preliminary competition in Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines. (REUTERS) Click here to read more… Credit: hindustantimes.com
Sania Mirza-Ivan Dodig duo enters Australian Open mixed doubles final in style
Sania Mirza and her Croatian partner Ivan Dodig sailed into the final of the mixed doubles at the Australian Open 2017on Friday as they edged past the Australian pair of Samantha Stosur and Sam Groth 6-4, 2-6, (10-5). Sania Mirza and Ivan Dodig will now face American-Colombian duo Abigail Spears and Juan Sebastian Cabal in […]
Rahul Dev in Star Plus’ Dil Boley Oberoi
The handsome and dynamic Rahul Dev will stun one and all with his antagonistic role in Star Plus’ new show, Dil Boley Oberoi (4 Lions Films), which will be a spin-off of Ishqbaaaz. News is already out of Sushmita Mukherjee entering the show as Dadi’s sister. Click here to read more… Credit: tellychakkar.com
Sohail Khan to join Neha Dhupia as judge of Colors’ Chhote Miyan
Talented actor, producer and director, Sohail Khan will soon return to TV as the judge of a comedy reality show!! Sohail, who has earlier been the judge on reality show Comedy Circus, will soon be joining elegant actress Neha Dhupia as the judge of Colors’ stand-up comedy reality show Chhote Miyan. Click here to read […]
Kaabil is Hrithik Roshan’s best performance: Karan Johar
Director Karan Johar cannot stop raving about Hrithik Roshan’s performance in the recently-released film, Kaabil. The 44-year-old director took to Twitter to congratulate Hrithik for his act as a blind man driven to avenge the murder of his wife in the Sanjay Gupta-directed movie. Click here to read more… Credit: hindustantimes.com
Sanjay Leela Bhansali roughed up, set vandalised during Padmavati shoot
Members of the Karni Sena allegedly attacked on Friday filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali and vandalised the sets of his upcoming movie Padmavati at Jaigarh Fort in Jaipur. The members accused the makers of the film for ‘distorting history.’ “We have learnt that the filmmakers are portraying the film as a love story between Alauddin Khilji […]