Vijayawada native Yellepeddi Padmasree, now Padmasree Warrior, is in the race for the post of Twitter CEO, according to a report by Bloomberg Business. The news agency said Twitter’s search firm Spencer Stuart has reached out to three or four senior business executives, including Ms. Warrior, to lead the company. Twitter is entering the fourth month of its CEO search […]
» Read moreWashington: Indian-American Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri has been selected for the prestigious 2014 National Humanities Medal which would be presented to her by US President Barack Obama next week. Jhumpa, 48, has been selected for the award for enlarging the human story, the White House said yesterday. “In her works of fiction, Lahiri has illuminated the Indian-American experience in […]
» Read moreMadurai: At least 35 passengers were injured when three coaches of No 16859 Chennai – Mangalore Express train derailed near Puvanur station, a few kilometres from Vriddhachalam, in Tamil Nadu in the early hours of Friday. The accident happened around 2 am. Railway officials and fire and rescue services personnel rushed to the spot and rescue operations were carried out. […]
» Read moreNEW DELHI: Sharpening focus on infrastructure development to boost growth, government will invest Rs 8.5 lakh crore in Indian Railways to change the face of the sector, minister of state for finance Jayant Sinha said on Thursday. He also appealed to the opposition parties to help pass the GST bill that will usher in a new indirect taxes regime in […]
» Read moreNEW DELHI: The Centre would soon build a major port at Colachel in the southernmost tip of Tamil Nadu at an estimated cost of Rs 21,000 crore, envisaged to emerge as a southern gateway of transshipment in the country. Coming close on the heels of the Vizhinjam International Deepwater Multipurpose Seaport in Kerala to be developed by the Adani Group, […]
» Read moreJakarta, Indonesia is set to launch a locally made satellite from India on September 27, a media report said on Thursday. The LAPAN A2/Orari satellite was produced entirely in Indonesia by the National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN) in 2012. It is a successor to LAPAN A1/Tubsat, which was launched in India in 2007, The Jakarta Post reported. “Today, […]
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