The seasoned Anand beat Russian GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in just 17 moves in a fifth round match. But India were held to a 2-2 draw by Russia in the ongoing Online Nations Cup.

India played out a 2-2 draw against Europe in Online Nations Cup chess tournament in the eighth round, a setback after their first win in the event notched up against the Rest of the World. Vidith Gujrathi ended his barren spell with a win over Levon Aronian of Europe with white pieces while Jan-Krystozf Duda beat P Harikrishna to level the scores in the match on Friday.

The 63-year-old former Kingfisher Airlines boss, an avid cricket fan, is wanted in India on fraud and money laundering charges amounting to an alleged Rs 9,000 crores.

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Fan dressed up as Queen Elizabeth was spotted with a replica trophy on Day 2 of the first Ashes Test

Security projects 'violate' green laws as they start work in Karnataka

Karnataka put on notice for conversion of grasslands

Retrieve land from research bodies

Panel to study shrinking Amrit Mahal kaval lands

Actress Tamannaah Bhatia who has always been in awe of Hrithik, recently shared she was moved and inspired by his phenomenal acting in Super 30.

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German luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz on Wednesday launched an upgraded version of its seven-seater sports utility vehicle GLS 350d in India, priced at Rs 80.4 lakh (ex-showroom Pune).

Marking a growth of over 24 per cent in passengers number, domestic airlines flew 74.76 lakh people in February with majority of the carriers recording over 80 per cent seat occupancy. In February last year, the carriers had ferried 60.16 lakh passengers.

India offices of MNCs like DHL, Google and Marriott ranked among the top workplaces in Asia. 10 Indian companies including Lupin, M&M and InterGlobe Enterprises also made it to the list under the '25 Best Large Places to Work' category.

Sebi has come out with a consultation paper on how comexes should deal with warehouses registered with them. It has specified minimum standards for warehouses which want to be part of the commodity derivatives space in the country.

Hindustan Unilever has re-organized its foods and refreshments business into two separate portfolios. This follows both foods (Knorr, Kissan and Annapurna) and refreshments (Bru, Lipton, Magnum, Cornetto and Kwality Walls) attaining scale following a growth momentum.

Market benchmark Sensex tumbled to a three-week low of 24,685.42 as investors pursed asset-light strategy on muted expectation of fourth quarter results amid bearish overseas cues on Federal Reserve highlighting the risks facing the global economy. The NSE Nifty also cracked below the 7,600-mark.

The benchmark BSE Sensex lost 133 points to 25,571.97 in early trade on Thursday on sustained fund outflows amid weak trend at other Asian markets.

RBI on May 26 ordered all operators to ensure that their existing machines can process “EMV chip and PIN cards by September 30, 2017” while “all new ATMs shall necessarily be enabled for EMV chip and PIN processing from inception.”

With increasing research that bubble top containers, used to store drinking water, may contain bisphenol A (BPA), corporates are increasing looking at safer, more eco-friendly options and hence, the switch to PET.

With banks tying up with as many as two to five software vendors, credit rating agency Experian expects the launch of CrossCore to ease workflow at banks and help integrate third-party solutions for fraud management.

The storage and data management company said the response to its startup accelerator programme in India has been so overwhelming and the rewards so good that it is launching a new programme to engage with startups on an ongoing basis

Billionaire investor Ajay Piramal has pumped in an undisclosed sum to pick up a minority stake in serial entrepreneur C Sivasankaran’s comeback business Utoo Cabs, a cab aggregator.

He’s set up two charitable trusts — the Naik Charitable Trust for education and skill training and the Nirali Memorial Medical Trust, named after his grand daughter.

Reliance Group Chairman Anil Ambani has been inducted into the international advisory board of global think-tank The Atlantic Council.

AWS exec Olivier Klein says the company offers fully managed services in areas like machine learning/AI. He says users don’t need to understand how to build the machine learning model, or train it

Indian IT cos take less than 12% of H-1B visas. The biggest takers of H-1B are the top US giants. And they are also the top-spenders on R&D. And that tells you why they are coming to India to take the people – because they need the talent, say Nasscom president Debjani Ghosh

Hockey is struggling to survive in the country because of lack of sponsors owing to the national team's poor show at the international stage.

The funds will be used to provide basic necessities for patients at various locations, migrant workers and slum dwellers.

Viren Rasquinha, who is the CEO of Olympic Gold Quest, stressed on the importance of sports psychologists for athletes in the run-up to the Tokyo Olympics, which has been postponed to next year.

Last month, Diwan had sought help to return from the USA, where he has been stuck because of the travel restrictions in place following the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Congress was scheduled to begin in New Delhi on October 28, later this year. The decision to postpone the Congress was taken at an online meeting of the FIH Executive Board.

Chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday refuted rumours that the army would be called out in Mumbai as Covid-19 cases showed no signs of abating, and said if required, the state may seek additional forces from the Centre to afford rest to the stretched state police force in a phased manner. “If you violate the lockdown, you are extending the crisis,” he said.

At the end of March, Raja Shanmugam was worried. Either export shipments were getting delayed or payments were not coming through from European buyers. But, when he reopened his factory on Wednesday

The biggest bane of the lockdown is the total lack of entertainment which is making people restless and tensed. But welcome to Sanjanasar, a village located 18km from the temple town Palitana in Bhavnagar district, which is keeping its population of 2,000 not only happy, but productive too. Here’s how.

Two women – one who runs a rice and fish curry pice hotel on the pavement opposite to Science College in Ballygunge and the other who owns multiple Chinese cuisine restaurants in the city - have emerged as Kolkata’s standout Covid heroes through their acts of compassion.

Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh on Saturday expressed gratitude to policemen in the frontline in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak by keeping the state police logo as the display picture or DP of his social media accounts.

Stopped by police from proceeding further, hundreds of migrant workers going home on foot created a ruckus at a Ganga bridge on the National Highway-24 in Uttar Pradesh's Amroha district, officials said on Saturday.

Two months after Karnataka registered its first COVID-19 positive case, the state completed one lakh-test milestone on Friday, Medical Education Minister K. Sudhakar said on Saturday.

The move came after state government allowed inter-state travel of migrant workers, pilgrims, tourist, students and other persons stranded in different states due to lockdown to travel through notified entry and exit points of Karnataka.

Even as the Bihar government is working to bring back its migrant labourers stranded across the country due to the extended lockdown, a group of 225 workers from that state landed in Telangana on Friday.

Dharavi area of Mumbai reported 25 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday which included one death. The total coronavirus cases in the locality now stands at 833 which includes 27 deaths.

The number of active cases of coronavirus in Uttar Pradesh went up to 1,800 on Saturday, while nearly 1,400 people have been discharged so far, a senior official said. Principal Secretary, Health, Amit Mohan Prasad said the national recovery percentage was 30 per cent but the figure was 43 per cent in Uttar Pradesh.

Livid over the chaos at liquor shops across the state, the Madras high court on Friday indicted authorities for blatant violation of conditions laid down by it to resume liquor sale on May 7, and ordered immediate closure of all shops till end of the lockdown.

The Karnataka government on Friday allowed takeaway sales of alcoholic beverages from clubs, hotels, bars and restaurants till May 17. The government has considered the demands of the owners of hotels, bars and restaurants and clubs to help them clear the old stocks by allowing them to sell beer and Indian-made liquor (IML) for a week between 9 am and 7 pm.