UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has backed "new forms of self-policing by social media platforms" and action by volunteer groups to fight hate speech spreading at "lightning speed" through digital media.

The super sleuth who interrogated India's most wanted fugitive Dawood Ibrahim has finally penned a book revealing the don was an ordinary looking coward person, who confessed that he was involved in (organised) crime.

Australias Attorney General (AG) on Wednesday declared that he would be reluctant to authorise the prosecution of journalists after federal police raids earlier in June.

Former Indian all-rounder Yuvraj Singh has sought the Board of Control for Cricket in India's (BCCI) permission to play in foreign T20 leagues, following his retirement from international cricket last week.

Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen repeatedly said that for the development of the country, primary necessity is primary health and education services. If health is not given importance then a country or a nation cannot prosper. The backbone of a country is the development of these two.

Following the embarrassing defeat against India in the ongoing World Cup, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Ehsan Mani has told captain Sarfaraz Ahmed that they should focus on the remaining four matches of the tournament.

Peru came from behind to clinch a 3-1 win over Bolivia and keep alive their hopes of progressing to the Copa America knockout stage.

The Republican Sena has approached the Delhi Police complaining that some people tried to spread rumours that its party President Anandraj Ambedkar, grandson of B.R. Ambedkar, joined the Congress ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.

Adding to the plethora of outages that apps from major tech giants have been suffering lately, Google's Calendar refused to work for over nearly three hours for users around the world.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, in an op-ed published in an official North Korean newspaper on Wednesday, said his upcoming visit to Pyongyang will help achieve progress in the negotiations on the Korean Peninsula's denuclearization issue.

All analysts are optimistic on the stock, which hasn't seen any downgrade so far

As regional language media consumption soars during the lockdown, social media app ShareChat goes full throttle with brand integrations

With customers caught in a swirl of panic and fear, life insurance companies are looking at confidence building measures for a post Covid-19 world

Experts say while the decision is positive, it may not make any significant contribution

Provisioning costs higher than expected; FY21 EPS estimated to decline by 2-4 per cent

Among the 247 actively traded scrips, 17 have shed more than 50 per cent this calendar year. About 40 per cent have slid more than the Sensex, which is down 23 per cent year-to-date

According to an Edelweiss report, Rs 1 trillion non-convertible dentures (NCDs) and Rs 1.2 trillion commercial papers (CPs) are due for maturity in May and June

Iron ore extraction in a falling demand scenario due to cutbacks in steel production is weighing on its prices

New services, new offers, new alliances and with a little help from technology, brands reimagine their relationship with consumers

How can governments and health agencies drive lasting lifestyle changes to combat Covid-19?

Equity funds account for 42 per cent and 52 per cent of AUMs for HDFC AMC and Nippon AMC, respectively

The industry is at the cusp of a transformation, according to an EY report that came out in the early weeks of the Covid-19 onslaught

Oil traded at a negative price on a one-month West Texas Intermediate futures contract, but it didn't for successive months' futures contracts

The earnings were better than what most of the analysts had expected. Kotak Securities, for instance, estimated the private lender to log net loss at Rs 4,404.4 crore in the quarter under review

Organic volumes for the company got severely impacted in the last 10 days of March due to the spread of Covid-19 and the subsequent lockdown restrictions, the company said.

The first day impact has been more on the pharma especially in the wake of 26 workers at Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd.'s facility in Ahmedabad testing positive for COVID-19

HCL has provided 7,000 PPE kits complying to the SITRA and HLL specifications, 20,000 three-ply masks, 55 liters of sanitizer and two hands-free wash basins to the district administration.

Beauty products segment witnesses 0.8% decline in March, says Nielsen

GSK leads the charge with staggered return-to-work, others plans yoga sessions and health care webinars for salesperson's family

The banks together claimed over Rs 230 crore from the company, along with interest and other charges

CM Uddhav Thackeray on Friday shunted out BMC commissioner Praveen Pardeshi (in pic) for ‘inept’ handling of the Covid-19 crisis, replacing him with IAS officer Iqbal Singh Chahal (56) who has been secretary with the state urban development department.

In a bid to tackle the spread of coronavirus in a more effective manner, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has put additional commissioners in charge of seven zones in the city. As per the order, seven additional commissioners will work towards improving the double rate of positive cases from 10 days to 20 days by May 17.

Some lockdown images and words get seared to your consciousness. That of a migrant woman carrying a big bag on her head, a child on her right hip, walking from Mumbai to Karnataka to go home under a scorching May sun. A smiling migrant worker saying philosophically that they are trying to cover long distances on foot 'Ram-bharose' (at the mercy of God).

(This story originally appeared in MumbaiMirror on May 9, 2020)

Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from your city.

The Mughals had expanded their rule over much of the subcontinent, while the Dutch arrived to set up the Dutch East India Company

Hair, Joseph F., author

Sadler, A.J., author

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, author

PME Conference (40th : 2016 : Szeged, Hungary)

Rosen, Kenneth H., author

Hayt, William Hart, 1920- author

Baliga, B. Jayant, 1948- author

Smith, J. M. (Joseph Mauk), 1916- author

Çengel, Yunus A., author