NEW YORK: MasterCard's India-born CEO Ajay Banga and ICICI Bank chief Chanda Kochhar have been named by Fortune magazine among the '2012 Businesspersons of the Year', an annual ranking of 50 global leaders who are "the best in business".
The list has been topped by Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos with Apple CEO Tim Cook coming in at the...
SAN FRANCISCO: After almost 40 years at Intel, Chief Executive Paul Otellini is retiring, just as the company struggles with a momentous challenge: computing's big shift to mobile devices.
Otellini, 62, surprised the technology world by announcing that he would retire as an officer and director of the chip company in May, three years before he reaches Intel's mandatory retirement...
A computer scientist in the US has built a prototype smartphone that can distinguish between touches from the knuckle, fingertip and even fingernail.
To open up the smartphone screens to commands from other parts of the hand, Chris Harrison, from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, has built the prototype.
A modified smartphone, fitted with a small vibration sensor and running...
JAMMU: General Motors India have launched the all-new Chevrolet Sail U-VA car here.
"We have launched the Sail U-VA hatchback in Jammu and it is built on a new global small passenger car platform created especially for fast-growing emerging markets, including India", Vice President, Planning Program Management and New Business Development, General Motors India, Sastry Vempati told reporters here.
Engineers at...
YANGON: President Barack Obama has urged Myanmar to hasten its "remarkable" reforms on a historic visit during which he was feted by huge crowds and met Aung San Suu Kyi at the home where she was long locked up.
The trip, the first to Myanmar by a serving US president, came as the regime freed dozens more political prisoners to...
VIKAS PURI, NEW DELHI. Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi addressed an august gathering of more than 500 Burmese political refugees and over 50 NRIs from Burma at a function organized by them at Oxford International School in Vikas Puri.
She chose to speak in Burmese as most of the attendees were from Burma and are comfortable in their...
NEW DELHI: Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi in a first in recent times from a public forum expressed disappointment over how India drew close to the military junta after initially supporting the democracy movement there.
Even as she suggested that she was no longer impacted by expectations and disappointment, the Nobel laureate said she had been "saddened'' by...
PHNOM PENH: "India is a big part of my plans," US President Barack Obama said here as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh congratulated him in person on his re-election.
Singh, who came face-to-face with Obama on three occasions here after he was re-elected President in the November 6 polls in the US, told him: "Congratulations on your re-election."
The two leaders, who...
PHNOM PENH: China's new leadership will accord great importance to relations with India, outgoing Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh during a meeting here.
Wen said he cherished working with Singh over the last eight years during which they met for 14 times.
The new Chinese leadership will give "great importance" to relations with India, Foreign Secretary...
ALMATY/HOUSTON: Record-setting Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams along with two fellow cosmonauts has safely returned to Earth from the ISS, touching down on the steppes of Kazakhstan, after spending four months in orbit.Williams, who commanded the International Space Station's Expedition 33 mission, and two astronauts, Flight Engineers Yuri Malenchenko and Aki Hoshide, touched down in the dark, chilly expanses in...