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Former militants to make sanitary pads in Assam

The hands that once trained to fire guns are now learning to make sanitary pads in Assam's Udalguri district. Image used only for representation. Photograph: Baz Ratner/Reuters Former women......

Bomb hoax at Google office in Pune; caller held

Google company's office in Maharashtra's Pune city was briefly put on alert after a call was received about a bomb in the premises which later turned out to be a hoax, police said on Monday. Image......

Test Your Big Cat IQ

The homecoming of the cheetah to India leads one to wonder what exactly are the differences between it and leopards that, often visibly, prowl India's jungles and countryside? Do you know the......

Dalit rights body in US accuses Google of being casteist, a hostile workplace

A US-based Dalit civil rights organisation on Thursday accused Google of having a casteist and hostile workplace practices. Photograph: Baz Ratner/Reuters However, Google has denied the......

How the US Lost the Opium War in Afghanistan

The US spent $1.5 million a day since 2001 fighting the opium war in Afghanistan.After hundreds of airstrikes failed to curtail the Taliban's $200-million-a-year opium trade, the US military......

Google to axe 12,000 workers; CEO Pichai says 'sorry'

Google will lay off 12,000 jobs across the globe, its CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Friday, becoming the latest tech giant after Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon to retrench staff en mass amid the......

Google gets notices for non-payment of penalties

The Competition Commission is understood to have issued demand notices to Google for its failure to pay within the stipulated time the penalties imposed on the internet major for anti-competitive......

In layoff season, Google may fire 10,000 'low performing' employees

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is likely to join the list of Big Tech companies going for large-scale layoffs. Photograph: Baz Ratner/Reuters With this, almost the entire universe of......

India's CV sales volume to reach close to 1-mn units by FY24: Fitch

Domestic commercial-vehicle (CV) sales volume will witness significant growth over the next few years and the overall CV volume is likely to reach close to 1-million units by FY24, a report said on......

Google pauses in-house billing system in India on antitrust directive

Google has said that it is pausing enforcement of Google Play billing system (GPBS) for developers in India. Photograph: Baz Ratner/Reuters This comes after the Competition Commission of India......

In Kenyan prison as in Moscow: Russia beat Saudi Arabia 5-0

IMAGE: Players jump for the ball during a mock World Cup soccer match between Russia and Saudi Arabia, as part of a month-long soccer tournament involving eight prison teams at the Kamiti Maximum......

Why this Kenyan runner is going the distance for Israel...

IMAGE: Lonah Chemtai, a Kenyan-born runner who will represent Israel in the women's marathon at the 2016 Rio Olympics, and her husband and coach, Israeli Dan Salpeter, speak before training near......

Chelsea agree to sign midfielder Van Ginkel

Chelsea have agreed to sign midfielder Marco van Ginkel from Vitesse Arnhem, the English Premier League club said on Thursday.The 20-year-old, who came up through the youth ranks at Vitesse before......

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