New Delhi : Microsoft-owned professional networking platform LinkedIn on Thursday announced the appointment of Mahesh Narayanan as Country Manager for India. Narayanan will assume his new responsibilities from January 7, 2019, said LinkedIn which has over 590 million...
By Saket Suman, New Delhi : Still recovering from the surprise of being named as the winner of the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award (English) for his novel "The Blind Lady's Descendants" -- a long suicide note of a 26-year-old -- author Anees Salim has said that the...
Bengaluru : Online tutoring platform Byju's has raised $540 million (Rs 3,865.5-crore) venture funds from Naspers and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), the company said on Monday. "The new round of funding will drive Byju's to further innovate, explore and...
By Radhika Bhirani, New Delhi : Between exploring the complex labyrinth of India's criminal underbelly and narrating it to curious readers through his gritty books on dons and mafia queens, there's a lot that writer S. Hussain Zaidi still ends up not telling. A...
By Firoz Bakht Ahmed, Tears welled up my eyes, when I was told by my friend, Mohammed Wajihuddin, an eminent columnist, that not a single wreath or even a flower, was laid at the grave of Prof Mushirul Hasan by Jamia Millia Islamia, the institution that the renowned...
Mumbai: Blossom Media will host Humanity first conclave to promote interfaith harmony followed by an award program tittled ‘Mumbai Hereos’ to honour and appreciate the social activist from various religion for their work and efforts towards social welfare. The Indian...
Bengaluru : Japanese e-commerce major Rakuten on Monday said it had opened its India research and development (R&D) institute here to focus on deep learning, computer vision and robotics for warehouse logistics applications. "The Rakuten Institute of Technology...
By Kushagra Dixit, Bandha Tola (Kanha Tiger Reserve) : Dependent on the forest for their day-to-day needs, women of Bandha Tola faced an uncertain future when their whole village, along with hundreds of other such Baiga tribal villages, was moved out of their...
By Nivedita, New Delhi : Kailash Satyarthi's life has been converted into a film named "The Price of Free" directed by Derek Doneen and produced by Davis Guggenheim whose previous project includes "He Named Me Malala". The Nobel Peace Laureate says that one of the...
Paris : A Bangladeshi activist for the disabled, Vashkar Bhattacharjee, and Chinese ICT company Tencent will be awarded the Unesco/Emir Jaber al-Ahmad al Jaber al Sabah Prize for Digital Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities in a ceremony at the Unesco headquarters...