After buying Twitter late last year, Elon Musk laid off thousands of employees to mitigate excess expenses. Musk also revealed that Twitter employs roughly 1,500 workers, down from 8,500 employees before his takeover. However, Musk said that not all past employees got laid off, but some left voluntarily. It was due to…
Four people were shot dead in a home in Maine while three others sustained injuries on a busy highway, in the latest pair of shootings, which authorities said were linked. Four people were fatally shot at a house in Maine on Tuesday (local time) shortly before gunfire wounded three others on a busy highway, in a pair…
IPL 2023, SRH vs MI: Arjun Tendulkar kept his composure and delivered a fine final over as MI successfully defended a 192-run total. Sachin Tendulkar was proud of his son’s maiden wicket in the IPL. Sachin Tendulkar was a nervous man as he watched his son Arjun Tendulkar take the mark to bowl the final over of the…
One of the founding members of the Trinamool Congress (TMC), Mukul Roy, has expressed a desire to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah. “I am a BJP legislator. I want to be with the BJP. The party has made arrangements for my stay here. I want to meet Amit Shah and speak to…
The tale of the hare and tortoise recently came true in real life. A candidate who had taken the lead in the 24-kilometre hike for a recruitment exam in Madhya Pradesh took a nap, and woke up to see that he had lost the race. The incident took place during a forest ranger recruitment exam in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh.…
People on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are ethnically Chinese and share the same ancestor, former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou said on Tuesday at the start of a historic visit to China that Taiwan’s ruling party has criticised. Ma, in office from 2008-2016, is the first former or current Taiwanese president…
A Sikh couple from Punjab was shot to death by an unidentified assailant in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, on Saturday (March 25). According to media reports, Sukhwinder Singh (41) and his wife Kirandeep Kaur (33) were found gunned down in their home. Both hailed from Goraya in Punjab’s Jalandhar district.…
By India Today News Desk: Amid Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification as a Lok Sabha MP, an old tweet by BJP leader Khushbu Sundar from 2018 has gone viral. In the tweet, the then-Congress spokesperson said, “Har #Modi ke aage #bhrashtachaar surname laga hua hai..toh baat ko no samjho..#Modi mutlab…
Google, like many other tech giants, is firing thousands of employees. It started layoffs in the United States and now the tech giant has begun firings in India. Google India announced the first round of layoffs on February 16. With no prior communication, impacted employees directly received the layoff email, and…
The government has raised securities transaction tax (STT) on futures and options contracts after amendments to the finance bill, 2023, were passed in the Lok Sabha on Friday. The development was confirmed by a source who spoke to news agency Reuters. STT on options contracts has been hiked to 0.021 per cent from 0.017…