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In a major development in Latin American politics, defying all opinion poll projections, the candidate of the ruling centre left Peronist coalition Sergio Massa trounced the far right challenger Javier Milei in the first round of Presidential elections held on Sunday, October 22. Since no candidate out of the contesting five got more than the stipulated 45 per cent of the votes, the runoff will take place on November 19 this year to elect the President between Massa and Milei, the first and second vote getters.

The recommendation of the international proxy advisory firm, Institutional Shareholders Services (ISS), asking shareholders to vote against the proposal of 28-year-old Anant, the youngest son of Mukesh Ambani, for appointment on the board of Rs.9.75 lakh crore Reliance Industries may not look entirely unjust. Few will deny that Anant is too young and inexperienced to be one of the key drivers of RIL, India’s largest company by market value and one of the world’s top 100 firms by Fortune ranking. “A vote against this resolution is warranted as Anant Ambani’s limited leadership/board experience of around six years raises concerns on his potential contribution to the board,” ISS said in a note earlier this month, which it shared with Bloomberg.

The cryptocurrency market is going through a prolonged winter, and very few things seem to be going in its favor, especially from the point of view of dramatic rise in prices and sky-high valuations of crypto coins. However, the cryptocurrency space is witnessing developments of far-reaching significance. For example, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has received legal debacles while dealing with cryptocurrency companies in recent months. The US SEC can be compared with India’s Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).

The Hamas-Israeli war entered its seventeenth day on Monday indicating all the potential of the limited conflict engulfing the entire West Asian region if the global powers, especially the United States President Joe Biden does not persuade his friend Israeli:Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to declare ceasefire immediately to stop the killing of the Palestinians in the Gaza sector as also in occupied West Bank.

New Delhi: Bornil Aakash Changmai extended his remarkable form to win the second-ever gold medal for India in the U15 boys' singles division, while Tanvi Sharma clinched a silver at the Badminton Asia U17 and U15 Junior Championships in Chengdu, China.

With the massive ruling BJP IT Cell at the helm, notorious for daily mega doses of fake news and lies and the hard pressed mainstream captive (godi) media carrying those lead of fake news and bundle of lies in expanded form on their channels/print media and social media as their lead/hash tag, to serve the RSS Pariwar’s agenda of hate, communalism, divisive politics, religious polarization, minorities bashings/subjugation, suppressing women, Dalit, tribal, criminalization of dissents, bogus hyper nationalism, just to gain majoritarian electoral supports, coming from the corridors of power of the ruling Sangh Pariwar, the role of the Press Information Bureau (PIB) Fact Check Unit (FCU) has become very challenging. In such prevailing scenario and the authoritarian one-man rule in the RSS Pariwar union government, the job of FCU to check facts and counter fake news and stories emanating from the official side has been rendered ineffective. It simply cannot dare do that. To this extent, the FCU has become moribund as the movers and shakers in the government having taken oath of office and allegiance to the Constitution of India overshadow it.

Gurugram: Germany’s Aline Krauter (68) overcame an early challenge from fellow rookie Sara Kjellker (71) of Sweden to win the US$ 400,000 Hero Women’s Indian Open Golf on Sunday. This was Krauter's maiden Ladies European Tour title at the DLF Golf and Country Club.

New Delhi: In an incident marred clash, two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu went down to Rio 2016 champion Carolina Marin of Spain in the semi-finals of the Denmark Open badminton at the Jyske Bank Arena in Odense.

New Delhi: Former New Zealand captain Ross Taylor on Saturday declared India as favourite to win the World Cup "no matter what happens in Dharamshala tomorrow."

Gurugram: Germany's Aline Krauter fired four under 68 to stay put in the lead while Diksha Dagar salvaged her third round with a birdie-birdie finish as she carded 1-under 71 to slip to fourth place but kept her hopes alive of winning the US$ 400,000 Hero Women’s Indian Open at the DLF Golf and Country Club.