Month: February 2020

In 2015, Heather Terenzio was giving a talk at a vocational school. After she provided an overview of the Boulder-based software development company she founded Techtonic Group a young man who helped cater the event came up to her. He told Terenzio that he’d been teaching himself to code for 10 years. He liked what Techtonic was doing, and said that if she were to hire him, she wouldn’t regret it.   Techtonic had been struggling to find qualified developers, and outsourcing the work offshore just wasn’t cutting it. So…

A huge fire broke out in Burhi Dihing river in Assam after a crude oil pipeline in the area exploded. The river is on fire since 2 days.   With a hellish red hue and huge plumes of smoke, the small rivulet of the Burhi Dihing River in Dibrugarh district’s Naharkatia town, erupted in flames on Saturday.   Oil India authorities said that the leakage took place because of a “rare instrumentation error” in the central tank pump where the crude oil from all Oil India fields in upper Assam region…

Airbus, Europe’s biggest aerospace multinational, bribed public officials to land contracts in at least 20 countries, prosecutors from a British court said on Friday.   The European planemaker is bracing for a rocky period with airlines and foreign governments, some of which have complained they were not forewarned about the charges and said they had little knowledge of the sums of money swirling around their fleet purchases.   French and British authorities have been investigating Airbus for alleged corruption over jet sales for more than a decade while the US…

A man in Delhi dragged a traffic policeman, over his car bonnet, upto 2 km. The latter tried to stop him, when the man in the car came from another side. The police man asked the man to slow down and show him the papers.   Instead of stopping the vehicle, the accused rushed and dragged the cop for a distance of about two kilometres.   Meanwhile, the co-passenger shot the incident on his phone, in which the cop was seen hanging onto the bonnet of the vehicle. After continuous…

The shooting in a rented apartment in Canada’s Airbnb has claimed three lives and injuring 2 people, said the police on Saturday.   Three people were shot dead late Friday and a fourth injured, tweeted the police in Canada’s biggest city. A fifth person was stabbed but the victim’s life was not in danger, as per police report.   Police by Saturday still had not given any information on the victims’ identities or a possible motive, only saying that the violence happened in an Airbnb online rental downtown.   A…

57-year-old Arvind Krishna will take over charge from Ginni Rometty in April. Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra celebrated his appointment as IBM CEO on Twitter. Calling it as the stunning endorsement of the managerial capabilities, Mahindra tweeted, “What a stunning endorsement of the managerial capabilities of Indian-origin managers. Satya, Sundar, Shantanu & Arvind running four US tech giants.”   Anand Mahindra said that now there is a responsibility on Indian managers to demonstrate that they can take companies to the top as well. He has written these places a responsibility on Indian managers to…

Introduction of  FASTag sales, transactions and toll collections of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is primarily to  push the government for digital toll collection, this initiatives is under the Road Minister Nitin Gadkari . It has hoped the difficulties faced by the road users’ during transition will soon be sorted out. However, recently, an instance of FASTag fraud was reported by an Axis Bank FASTag user.   FASTags are prepaid rechargeable tags for toll collection that allow automatic payment deduction from the FASTag, they are normally affixed on the windscreen of your…

Opposition parties are likely to meet after the budget presentation on February 1 to evolve a joint strategy for the upcoming Parliament session starting on Friday. Various parties have already held their individual strategy meets for the budget session of Parliament and would soon get together to evolve a joint strategy to corner the government on key issues concerning the common people, according to sources. These include the protests and opposition over the citizenship amendment act, price hike and inflation besides the poor state of the economy and rising unemployment.

More than a dozen Chinese provinces announced an extension of the current Lunar New Year holiday by more than a week as the nation attempts to halt the spread of the novel coronavirus that has killed hundreds of people and sickened thousands.   Fourteen provinces and cities have said businesses need not start operations until at least the second week of February. They accounted for almost 69% of China’s gross domestic product in 2019, according to Bloomberg calculations.   All the key eastern manufacturing provinces have extended the holidays. They…

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced an increased allocation for the Special Protection Group (SPG), the special force tasked with giving protection to the prime minister in her budget, presented in the Lok Sabha on Saturday. The allocation was increased to Rs 600 crore from last year’s Rs 540 crore.   At present, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the only person in the country to be protected by the SPG.   In November last year, the government withdrew the SPG cover of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her children Rahul Gandhi…