Day: November 20, 2019

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe today resigned from office, paving way for newly-elected President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to appoint a new Cabinet.

Microsoft’s India-born Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella has occupied the top spot in Fortune’s Businessperson of the Year 2019 list, an annual compilation that also includes Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga and Arista head Jayshree Ullal.

It is said a lot can happen over a cup of coffee. This seems right. A ‘Coffee Club’ in Velacheri has been doing a lot of social service in the locality.

US President Donald Trump has claimed victory as the Democratic Party-controlled House of Representatives concluded its third public hearing on the impeachment proceedings against him for allegedly abusing his office for political gain in the run up to the 2020 presidential election.

India has called for a zero-tolerance approach, without any ‘double standards’, to combat the existential global threat of the terror-crime nexus, under which UN-sanctioned terror groups such as the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Jaish-e-Mohammed continue to ‘destabilise regions through their cross-border financing’ and propaganda.

The Supreme Court today asked the Kerala government to come out with an exclusive legislation regarding the administration of the historic Sabarimala temple.

Three persons including a woman who were riding on a two-wheeler were killed after a mini van rammed against their vehicle on East Coast Road this morning.

A Chennai-bound IndiGo airlines flight from Coimbatore, with 169 passengers and five crew members, made an emergency landing at the airport here after the pilot noticed a smoke in the tail portion of the aircraft.

The city woke up to showers this morning and an official communique from the Regional Meteorological Centre has predicted the likely occurrence of heavy rains at isolated places over Tamilnadu and Puducherry for three days from today.

Ahmedabad police have reportedly arrested two women disciples of self-styled controversial godman Nithyananda, based on a complaint by a Bengaluru-based couple that their two daughters have been illegally confined at an ashram in Hathijan area of Ahmedabad.