Missing China tech billionaire ‘cooperating’ in investigation
BEIJING: The missing billionaire chairman of investment bank China Renaissance is currently “cooperating” with an investigation by authorities, his company said, after his disappearance sparked…
Twitter employee, whose pic of sleeping in office went viral, laid off: Report
Twitter laid off at least 200 employees over the weekend as per a report by The New York Times (article beyond paywall), and it has…
‘Keep calm’: Teaching Venezuelan kids to hide from bullets
CARACAS: Children fling themselves onto the floor and cover their heads with their hands as loud bangs ring out in the classroom. In one of…
Elon Musk calls US media ‘racist’ after Dilbert row
WASHINGTON: Billionaire Elon Musk has called US media “racist” after multiple American newspapers announced they would stop publishing a popular comic strip whose creator called…
Cockfighting still a popular blood sport in southern Iraq
BASRA, Iraq: Two vicious roosters circle a filthy carpet in southern Iraq, facing off for a cockfight that has drawn dozens to a dimly lit…
Russian military aircraft blown up near Minsk: Belarusian partisans
Belarusian anti-government activists have claimed responsibility for what they said was a drone attack on a Russian A-50 surveillance aircraft at an airfield near the…
North Korea holds rare meeting on farming amid food shortage
SEOUL, South Korea: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un opened a major political conference dedicated to agricultural improvement, state media reported Monday, amid outside assessments…
Global economy: Boom, bust or a bit of both: US, global economies are a confounding mix
Dana Peterson, the chief economist at the Conference Board, sees a clear conclusion in the sharp decline of the U.S. business group’s Leading Economic Index:…
PM Kisan 13th installment released; how to check status online
Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the 13th installment of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan) initiative, worth over Rs 16,000 crore on February 27,…
Zomato: We aspire to become a $100 billion company by 2030: Deepinder Goyal
“I think I went through a phase of trying to discover whether there needs to be a new me and I went through a bad…