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In a major amendment to the corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP) regulations, the committee of creditors (CoC) can now vote on all compliant resolution plans simultaneously, according to a notification by the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) on Friday.

Under CEO Satya Nadella’s leadership, Microsoft has refocused business to the Cloud and led an aggressive acquisition strategy using cash to buy both big as well as small firms.

The new policy will start with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - the U.S., U.K., Russia, China and France - whose Twitter feeds will be labeled as “government accounts.” State-backed media organizations and their top editors will also get “state-affiliated media” labels.

A platform of workers under schemes such as Anganwadi, ASHA and national health mission had given a call for a two-day nationwide strike demanding safety, insurance, risk allowance and fixed wages. ASHA workers in Bihar, Karnataka and Maharashtra have been protesting for the last few days citing delayed payment and pending dues of promised incentives.

The larger national consensus over Ayodhya can’t be missed. There were some questions, but only about ‘how’ they were done, not about ‘why’ they were done.

This grim scenario is reportedly due to the offer of low wages not in keeping with the skills of the job-seeker, the job not being of the standard of the skill possessed, and some near impossible conditionalities put up by the prospective employer.

Such an initiative would make sense if official level negotiations were on a productive track and Beijing felt that the ambassador could do a public relations exercise. If, however, these negotiations are not proceeding well and the risk of a stalemate is real, such a public intervention cannot serve China’s interests.

The Dubai-Calicut Air India Express flight with 191 passengers and crew skidded off the tabletop runway and fell into a 50 feet valley breaking into two portions while landing on Friday evening, police sources said.

In the memorandum Hoho has alleged that the Governor of Nagaland, who is also the Interlocutor to the Indo-Naga Peace Talks, R N Ravi, is functioning in an “autocratic manner” .

A new biography of Klaus Fuchs, the celebrated physicist who passed nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union, forces readers to rethink their idea of what constitutes treason

Sentiment had been steadily falling since the government imposed the world's biggest pandemic lockdown in late March and collapsed further in July to reach 53.8, the RBI said

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday condoled the death of those killed in the landslide in Kerala's Idukki district

To facilitate trade, Indian banks provide services to exporters by sending the export documents to the bank of the importer abroad and collect payment

The people of Tamil Nadu will decide who should come to power in 2021 and not DMK president M K Stalin, Chief Minister K Palaniswami said here on Friday

Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke with Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and enquired about the situation

The manufacturing sector is reimagining workspaces to infuse confidence in workers

Govt appoints four more members; norms in 30 days after recommendations

He said the Kerala police has reported 11 deaths so far in the accident.