January 2020

Shivaji’s Raj Mudra & Total Saffron: On Balasaheb’s Birthday, Raj Thackeray Unveils MNS’s New Flag Mumbai: Maharashtra Navanirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Thursday unveiled the new flag of his party, which is saffron in colour and has a Rajmudra in centre. The colour was changed from saffron, blue and green to just saffron, while the Raj mudra in the flag was used during Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj rule. Thackeray began his mega rally by garlanding the picture of Savarkar along with B R Ambedkar, Probodhankar Thackeray and Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. The flag launch came on a day when Shiv Sainiks...

Adani Group aims to become world’s largest solar power player by 2025: Gautam Adani Billionaire Gautam Adani on Wednesday said his group is aiming to become the world’s largest solar power company by 2025 and the biggest renewable energy firm? by 2030. In a Linkedin post, the Adani Group chairman said the age of renewable energy has dawned upon the world faster than most could have anticipated. “Our vision is to become the world’s largest solar power company by 2025 and the largest renewable power company by 2030,” he wrote. In 2019, the Adani Group was ranked as the sixth...

‘Pariksha Pe Charcha’: Anil Kumble reacts after PM Modi uses ‘broken jaw’ example to motivate students Former India captain Anil Kumble thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the latter used his example to motivate students ahead of exams. During the ‘Pariksha Pe Charcha’ event for students getting ready for exams, the Prime Minister asked them to remember Kumble bowling with a broken jaw and also the epic partnership between VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid in the historic Kolkata Test. Taking note of PM Modi’s motivational speech, Kumble thanked the Indian Prime Minister and wrote: “Honoured to have been mentioned in...

The Curious Case of BJP’s Tajinder Singh Bagga, Twitter ‘Troll’ Who Could be Future Neta The Bharatiya Janata Party surprised all — including analysts with its midnight announcement of fielding popular Twitter “troll” and BJP’s Delhi spokesperson Tajinder Singh Bagga as a candidate in the upcoming Delhi elections. Bagga, the 34-year-old Twitter “star” started his career by founding an ultra-nationalist fringe outfit called Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena, an outfit that physically attacks political and ideological opponents such as Prashant Bhushan and Arundhati Roy and participated in disruptions of public events. But why did BJP choose Bagga, whose antics and often problematic...

5G: India will no longer be behind technology curve, says Trai Chief India will no longer be behind the technology curve following the timely launch of fifth-generation or 5G networks, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) chairman Ram Sewak Sharma said on Tuesday. “Now, we have come to a stage where technology develops in India first. With 5G, we will no longer remain behind the technology curve,” Sharma said at the Telecom Summit 2020 organised by the PHD Chamber of Commerce & Industry and the Telecom Equipment Manufacturers Association (TEMA). But he pointed to challenges like funds scarcity and...

Focus On The Compass And Not The Speedometer, Says Uday Kotak Asia’s richest banker Uday Kotak has warned against pushing loan growth “for the sake of loan growth”, at a time when growth in the economy is slow and asset quality worries have not abated. Kotak, speaking to analysts on Monday, struck a cautionary note after Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. reported loan growth at a multi-quarter low of 10 percent in the October-December 2019 period. The bank’s net profit for the third quarter rose 28 percent year-on-year. While the slower-than-expected loan growth spooked markets, Kotak’s commentary suggests the lender is...

ISRO Chief K Sivan has updated the media on the upcoming Gaganyaan mission. He also talked about the much-anticipated Chandrayaan-3 mission, which is likely later this year. ISRO Chief K Sivan on Wednesday said that four astronauts short-listed for the Gaganyaan mission would go to Russia for training by month-end. Updating media on the development of the mission, Sivan added that the four Indian astronauts would fly in a module that will be from India. “In 1984, Rakesh Sharma flew in a Russian module, but this time the Indian astronauts will fly in an Indian module from India,” K Sivan...

TCS set to launch its first software platform for Indian market With software products and platforms driving growth for Tata Consultancy Services, India is turning into a new frontier for the company. “We are going to be launching a platform specifically for India very soon,” TCS Chief Operating Officer NG Subramaniam, told BusinessLine. Launching an India-specific software platform will allow the company to accelerate growth here. The Indian market is growing much faster than the company’s largest market, North America. For the quarter ended 31st of December, North America market revenues grew only 4.1 percent for TCS, while India revenues continued...

Jeff Bezos’ WhatsApp hack is a stark reminder of how anyone can be hacked Last night, The Guardian and Financial Times published reports citing it’s “highly probable” that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman (aka MBS), played a key role in hacking Amazon co-founder Jeff Bezos’ phone in 2018. The hack shows how easy it is to get control of a top executive’s data. But we’ll get to that later, let’s first look at the history and methodology behind the hack. An encrypted video file sent by the prince to Bezos on WhatsApp allowed the phone to be hacked. Experts at FTI Consulting, a business advisory firm that led...

‘We cannot sustain the debt load today, so we have to transform that load’, says economic minister Martin Guzman. Buenos Aires – Argentina’s economy minister is sending a bill to Congress aimed at creating a legal basis for Latin America‘s third-largest economy to improve the terms of billions of dollars in loans. On Tuesday, he asked lenders to exhibit good faith as the new government seeks to fix a “profound” crisis. “The situation today in Argentina is critical. We cannot sustain the debt load today, so we have to transform that [debt agreement] into something that is sustainable,” said Minister of Economy Martin Guzman at a...