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Satya Nadella Norway’s $2 trillion Sovereign Wealth Fund recently voted against two key proposals involving Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. At the company’s annual shareholder’s meeting on December 5, the Fund voted against Nadella’s compensation package as well as him continuing as chair of Microsoft’s board. Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund is managed by Norges Bank Investment...

NEW DELHI: Union Minister of State for finance Pankaj Chaudhary has been unanimously elected as the Uttar Pradesh BJP president, Union Minister Piyush Goyal announced on Sunday amid loud cheers at the party headquarters in Lucknow.“Today, on December 14, I am very happy to announce that Pankaj Chaudhary has been unanimously elected as the Uttar...

India’s Yashasvi Jaiswal (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.) Yashasvi Jaiswal underlined his white-ball credentials in emphatic fashion with a blistering hundred for Mumbai in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, steering his side to a four-wicket victory over Haryana at the DY Patil Academy in Ambi on Sunday. Making only his second appearance of the season for...

Image: X@/AustralianJA, DrewPavlou Australian emergency services rushed eight people to hospitals on Sunday following a shooting at Sydney’s popular Bondi Beach, officials said, as police responded to a developing incident and urged the public to avoid the area. A spokesperson for the New South Wales Ambulance Service said multiple people were treated at the scene...

Visuals from Congress rally (Credit: Delhi Congress X handle) NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday levelled serious accusations against Congress party, alleging that the “real agenda” behind its SIR, ‘vote chori’ rally was to “eliminate” Prime Minister Narendra Modi.BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla shared an IANS video on X where he claimed that the Congress...

Rising at the edge of Madurai, Thiruparankundram in Tamil Nadu‘s Madurai has served as sanctuary, landmark, battlefield, shrine and memory for centuries. First to Jain monks who chiselled beds into its stone nearly 2,300 years ago, later to poets of the Sangam age who immortalised it as Murugan Kundram, and eventually to monarchs, pilgrims and...

Ranveer Singh‘s ‘Dhurandhar’ released in cinemas on December 5 and has now completed its first week. While there were expectations attached to the film, it has surpassed all of those. The Aditya Dhar directorial also stars Akshaye Khanna, R Madhavan, Sanjay Dutt, Arjun Rampal in pivotal roles. ‘Dhurandhar’ is also made on a big scale...

Stock market outlook: The markets this week were driven by macroeconomic pressures and mixed global cues. Domestically, the rupee slid to a fresh record low of 90.56 against the US dollar, dampening risk sentiment. However, some relief came after the US Federal Reserve announced a 25-basis-point rate cut, while optimism over progress in India–US trade...

A quiet winter afternoon at Brown University turned into hours of fear and uncertainty after gunshots rang out on campus, forcing students to hide in darkened rooms as police launched a massive manhunt for the attacker.Shortly after an emergency alert warned of an active shooter, students across the Ivy League campus in Providence were ordered...

AP file photo An Indian origin man was among four people killed after a four-storey under-construction Hindu temple collapsed in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, officials said on Sunday.Two people, a construction worker and a devotee, were confirmed dead on Friday. The death toll rose to four on Saturday after rescue teams recovered additional bodies from...