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A $69 mn India quant fund returns over 19%, trounces BSE in pandemic year

The DSP fund's strong showing comes in a year that has seen unpredictable market reversals whipsaw quant investors globally, with profound changes wrought by the pandemic

CEO Delaporte turning around Wipro as stock rally 70% since appointment

Delaporte slashed the top ranks of leadership from 25 people to four. He stepped up acquisitions, with more on the way

Amid standoff, India accuses China of helping rebels on Myanmar border

Armed groups in Myanmar -- including the United Wa State Army and the Arakan Army, which was designated a terrorist organization this year -- are acting as Beijing's proxies

Go big or bow out: Tata at crossroads as airline biz reaches critical point

India has been trying unsuccessfully to sell its unprofitable national airline for years

Zuckerberg should know a Facebook without hate makes business sense

Facebook already has the necessary tools to stop accentuating partisanship and to cut down on misinformation.

SBI to boost retail loan book, sees earnings improving

SBI's bad loan ratio fell to 5.28 per cent at the end of September from 5.44 per cent three months earlier

Franklin warns investors may lose for voting against $4 bn wind up plan

Electronic voting will take place Dec. 26 to 28 on the asset manager's plan, according to a statement from the company Monday

Heathrow to resume paying small dividend to shareholders from 2022

Heathrow said it would not pay dividends this year or next in return for leniency from its shareholders in a submission to the Civil Aviation Authority

Hong Kong ex-lawmaker Ted Hui says his bank accounts have been frozen

Five accounts belonging to Hui, his wife and parents have been inaccessible since Saturday, he said in an interview with the newspaper

Kuwaiti voters replace more than half the Parliament, elect all men

The incoming legislature will have 31 new members, including 22 who have never served in parliament

OPEC+ needed a Swat team for swift action, instead it mobilises an Army

Monday's virtual gathering of the 13 OPEC ministers broke up without agreement, the bigger OPEC+ meeting was delayed by two days and then by another two hours as the start time approached

Mastercard reviews ties with Pornhub after NYT columnist's complaints

Nicholas Kristof's column in the Times describing recordings of assaults and a naked video of a 14-year-old girl sparked outrage on social media

India hopes for resuming Iran oil imports as Biden presidency nears

India halted its imports from Iran, previously its third-largest oil supplier, in mid-2019 after the expiration of US exemptions.

Now that Covid-19 vaccines are coming, what about poor countries?

If all countries cooperate, the world can achieve an optimal outcome and defeat the pandemic soon and decisively or Covid-19 will drag on and claim more lives

'Ready to die': Angry farmers camp outside Delhi in showdown with Modi govt

Farmers want govt to repeal three laws passed in September that allow them to sell crops directly to private firms instead of licensed middlemen at state-controlled markets

Africa needs to follow Singapore, Japan to become manufacturing hotspot

While Africa might have to wait, that shouldn't prevent individual African countries from trying hard to industrialize on their own

Biden clinches electoral college win as California certifies election

Secretary of State Alex Padilla approved the results of Biden's victory

Will take vaccine, ensure it's available and free for Americans: Joe Biden

Trump and former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton have all said previously that they'll also take the vaccine

Vaccine supply chains bend but don't break as firms rise to challenges

Supply chains have been tested in ways they never have been before and, yes, there have been pileups, shortages and other snafus

China claims quantum supremacy with computer faster than Google's prototype

Xi Jinping's government is building a $10 billion National Laboratory for Quantum Information Sciences as part of a big push in the field