Abu Dhabi, Nov 19: With tensions running high between the United Arab Emirates and its petroleum allies, Saudi Arabia and Russia, Abu Dhabi considers the idea of leaving OPEC plus, the Bloomberg news agency reported on Thursday, citing its sources.
New Delhi, Nov 19: Hafiz Saeed, the alleged mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail in two terror cases by a court in Pakistan, news agency PTI reported.
Mangaluru, Nov 19: The Dakshina Kannada District Youth Congress and the Mulki-Moodbidri unit of the party took out a torch light parade from the Circuit House to Kenjar near Bajpe on Wednesday night in protest against handing over of the Mangalore International Airport to the Adani Group.
Abu Dhabi, Nov 19: The Abu Dhabi Government has issued new housing policies for its employees, in a bid to strengthen family ties.
Oakland, Nov 19: Apple Inc will pay $113 million to settle allegations from 33 US states and the District of Columbia that it slowed down iPhones to mask battery issues and get users to purchase new devices, state officials announced on Wednesday.
Mysore, Nov 19: A 58-year-old man was trampled to death while his wife sustained injuries when a wild elephant attacked them at Nettakallahundu village in H D Kote taluk in the district on Thursday morning.
Bengaluru, Nov 19: The Karnataka government said on Thursday it is aiming to mould the state into a $300 billion digital economy in the next five years.
Mumbai, Nov 19: The Indian equity benchmark indices was trading in the red on Thursday afternoon.
The 30-scrip BSE Sensex opened at 43,902.24 and was trading at 44,109.29 (at 1:15 pm), down by 70.76 points or 0.16 per cent.
BSE Sensex was trading at a high of 44,230 points and low of 43,821.39 points so far in the trading session.
Similarly, 50-scrip NSE Nifty was trading at 12,921.25 points (at 1:16 pm), down by 17 points or 0.13 per cent.
Mumbai, Nov 19: Poet-activist Varavara Rao, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, has been shifted from Taloja jail in Raigad district to Mumbai's Nanavati Hospital following a directive by the Bombay High Court, a jail official said on Thursday.
New Delhi, Nov 19: From helping in optimising the yield of therapeutics to training staff for setting up large-scale manufacturing sites, cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR) can be used to fast track COVID-19 vaccine development worldwide, experts say.