Day: October 12, 2020

Will run our offices from outside Delhi CM's residence from Monday: Mayors

Kejriwal joins anti-farm laws protest at Jantar Mantar, demands rollback; AAP MP, workers detained

10:14 pm October 12, 2020

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Monday demanded a complete rollback of the three contentious central farm laws as he attended a protest by the Punjab unit of Aam Aadmi Party at the historic Jantar Mantar here. The Delhi Police later said they briefly detained AAP MP Bhagwant Mann and over a hundred protesting workers after “they started getting agitated”. […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

German ministries spar over draft law with feminine nouns

10:03 pm October 12, 2020

Berlin: Germany’s Interior Ministry has objected to draft legislation drawn up by the Justice Ministry that uses the feminine form for every reference to people, arguing Monday that it likely would be unconstitutional. In German, linguistic convention has long called for the masculine form of a word to be used as the default when referring to […]

Infosys completes acquisition of Kaleidoscope Innovation

9:53 pm October 12, 2020

New Delhi: IT services major Infosys on Monday said it has completed the acquisition of US-based product design and development firm Kaleidoscope Innovation. On September 3, Infosys had announced that it will acquire Kaleidoscope Innovation for up to USD 42 million (about Rs 308 crore). Kaleidoscope Innovation is a full-spectrum product design, development and insights […]

Gmail, other Google services face outage

Global watchdog proposes tax overhaul for Big Tech

9:43 pm October 12, 2020

London: A global economic watchdog on Monday proposed an overhaul of international tax rules to make sure big tech companies pay their dues, and warned that failure to adopt it would make the economic recovery from COVID-19 harder. The Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, which advises the world’s top economies, said its global […]

English villages wake up to find they’re Brexit’s new border

9:24 pm October 12, 2020

Sevington: Four years after Britain voted to leave the European Union, Brexit can still seem abstract. But in the county known as the Garden of England, it is literally taking concrete form. Just beyond the ancient oaks and yews that surround medieval St. Mary’s Church in the village of Sevington, bulldozers, dump trucks and cement mixers swarm […]