Day: October 21, 2020

Sugar Cosmetics raises USD 2 mn in Series C funding round led by Stride Ventures

2:31 pm October 21, 2020

New Delhi: Mumbai-based cosmetics start-up Sugar has raised USD 2 million (approx Rs 14.68 crore) in a Series C funding round led by Stride Ventures. Series C financing (also known as Series C round) is one of the stages in the capital-raising process by a start-up. “Stride Ventures… led a debt round of USD 2 million in Sugar Cosmetics … The fund has partnered with […]

Gmail, other Google services face outage

Australian watchdog considers its own Google antitrust case

12:52 pm October 21, 2020

Canberra: Australia’s competition watchdog will consider its own antitrust case against Google, the commission chairman said Wednesday after the U.S. Justice Department sued the company for abusing its dominance in online search and advertising. Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Rod Sims described the U.S. case filed Tuesday as one of the world’s biggest antitrust cases […]

Biden admin rolls back Trump-era citizenship test, reverts to 2008 version

Trump tends to his electoral map, Biden prepping for debate

12:47 pm October 21, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump is hopping from one must-win stop on the electoral map to the next in the leadup to a final presidential debate that may be his last, best chance to alter the trajectory of the 2020 campaign. Democrat Joe Biden has been taking the opposite approach, holing up for debate prep in […]

PM Modi to interact with CMs on Thursday over COVID situation, vaccination drive

Why is Modi still so popular even as India ‘fails’ to fight coronavirus

12:40 pm October 21, 2020

New Delhi: India is battling one of the world’s highest coronavirus caseloads, its worst-ever economic slump, shuttered factories, farmer protests and the deadliest border fighting with China in decades. Yet Prime Minister Narendra Modi appears to remain as popular as ever. Opinion polls in Bihar, where from Oct. 28 to Nov. 7 he faces his […]

Pak PM Imran pitches for border markets with Afghanistan, Iran

Pakistan unlikely to exit FATF’s grey list: Report

12:35 pm October 21, 2020

Islamabad Pakistan might remain on the grey list of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) as it has been unable to comply with six of the 27 points in the global watchdog’s action plan, a media report said on Wednesday. The Paris-based global watchdog for curbing terror financing and money laundering will hold its virtual […]

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