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Former Twitter chief executive officer (CEO) Jack Dorsey on Saturday sought to placate employees who have been laid off by new boss Elon Musk, owning up the responsibility for “why everyone is in this situation”. As part of Musk’s rejig plan for Twitter, the company fired around 50 per cent of its close to 7500-strong […]

Further bolstering the fight against Covid-19, researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee have identified three anti-viral molecules that could effectively work as therapeutics against the contentious disease. The anti-viral molecules have been identified through drug repurposing, computational and antiviral experimental studies, according to the researchers. Several computational and experimental studies have taken […]

Football star Lionel Messi has been roped in by leading Indian Ed-Tech company BYJU’S as the first global brand ambassador of its social impact arm – Education for All. The PSG (Paris Saint Germain) player will be promoting the cause of equitable education for all children across the globe, BYJU’S said on Friday. In a […]

Ajit Mohan has quit as the India head of Facebook’s parent company Meta Platforms today. The company announced that it’s India head has stepped down and would be pursuing an opportunity outside the company, in a statement.  According to reports, Mohan is going to join rival social media platform Snap inc. The company developed and […]

The Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Piyush Goyal, has lauded Karnataka as a state where "wiser people look to invest".