Monday, 23 December 2024
Monday, 23 December 2024
"The bird is freed," billionaire Elon Musk tweeted on Friday after completing the whopping USD 44 billion takeover of Twitter and firing the social media giant's four top executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal and legal executive Vijaya Gadde. The New York Times said that Musk, the world's richest man, closed the deal to buy Twitter on Thursday. "The bird is freed," Musk, 51, tweeted after closing the deal.
Citing people with knowledge of the situation, the report said that Musk "has started cleaning house at Twitter with the firings of at least four top executives". The Twitter executives who were fired include Agrawal, Gadde, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal and General Counsel Sean Edgett.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday mooted the idea of "One Nation, One Uniform" for police, saying it is just a suggestion for consideration and he is not trying to impose it on the states. Addressing a "Chintan Shivir" of state home ministers, Modi also advocated close cooperation among the states to tackle crimes and criminals. He said cooperative federalism was not only the feeling of the Constitution but also the responsibility of the states and the Centre.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday said the key conspirators and planners of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks continue to remain protected and unpunished, and stressed that India understands the cost of terrorism more than others.
He said that when it comes to proscribing some terrorists, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has "regrettably" been unable to act in some cases because of "political considerations", an apparent reference to China which has blocked the UNSC sanction of Pakistan-based terrorists on several occasions.
Russia has special ties with India and they have always supported each other and will remain so in the future, President Vladimir Putin has said, as he praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for pursuing an "independent foreign policy" in the interest of his country.
Putin's remarks came at a plenary session of the Valdai International Discussion Club, a Moscow-based think-tank on Thursday. He said Russia and India continue to cooperate in the military and technical areas.
The National Commission for Women on Friday formed a two-member fact-finding team to look into allegations of auctioning off of girls for loan repayment in Rajasthan's Bhilwara district, it said in a release.
The women's panel said it had come across several media reports about girls being auctioned off to settle disputes over loan repayments in Bhilwara. "It has been reported that in many settlements, girls are sold into prostitution on stamp paper.
In some cases, their mothers are raped on the diktat of 'khap' (caste) panchayats for the settlement of disputes," it said.
At least 84 shops were gutted in a blaze at a market complex in the Meghalaya capital on Friday, officials said. However, no casualties were reported in the inferno that broke out around 4 AM. Three fire tenders doused the blaze after several hours of firefight.
A vendor at the market complex told PTI that goods worth lakhs of rupees have been damaged. Officials of the Fire Department and the Shillong Municipal Board suspected that a short circuit might have caused the incident.
Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena declared on Wednesday Chhath Puja to be a Dry Day in the national capital on October 30 for the first time, according to several media reports.
The L-G, in his capacity as ‘government’ as per Section 2(35) of the Delhi Excise Act, 2009, has done the same. He also gave his assent to holding Chhath Puja at designated ghats on the Yamuna. The Delhi government is building 1,100 ghats for Chhath Puja this year.
North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward the sea on Friday, Seoul officials said, as its rival South Korea was wrapping up an annual military drill that the North views as an invasion rehearsal.
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement the missile flew toward North Korea's eastern waters but gave no further details including how far the weapon flew.
The launch, the latest in a series of weapons tests by North Korea in recent weeks, came on the final day of South Korea's annual 12-day "Hoguk" field exercises, which also involved an unspecified number of US troops this year.
He is inching closer to the '60s club, but rest assured the zeal isn't gone. At a time, when most would contemplate retirement, Salman Khan leaves no stone unturned to show those abs that draw a million bouquets.
And guess what, the Bajrangi Bhaijaan star greeted his fans with yet another shirtless picture that is winning hearts on the web. On the occasion of Bhai Dooj, Salman posted this picture which instantly created a rage. "Happy bhai dooj..," he captioned it.
Former BCCI President Sourav Ganguly who recently paved way for Roger Binny for the coveted post, has hailed the board's decision to implement a pay parity between men and women's teams.
Dada took to Twitter to laud the move, "Just saw it in the papers this morning .. congratulations to jay ,Roger, rajivbhai, ashishji, debojit and all the apex council members for this wonderful gesture .so much effort has gone in women's cricket and it is showing in their performance," wrote Ganguly on Twitter.
BCCI secretary Jay Shah on Thursday in a landmark announcement said that the board's contracted players, both men and women, will be paid equal match salaries, according to media reports.
