Taking cognizance of reports of TikTok and Helo being used for anti-national activities, the government has issued notices to the social media apps asking them to answer a set of 24 questions by July 22, failing which they could be banned in India.

The apps, which are owned by China-based firm ByteDance, have recently become popular, especially in smaller towns and cities.

In light of a spate of resignations by auditors and many not stating the reasons for such decisions, markets regulator Sebi on Thursday put out a consultation paper on policy proposals with respect to resignation of statutory auditors from listed entities, asking for suggestions on the new framework.

The Securities Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has proposed that if the auditor of a listed entity has signed the audit report for all the quarters of a financial year, except the last quarter,

Microsoft Corp on Thursday beat analysts' estimates for fourth-quarter revenue and profit, driven by continued sales increases from its cloud business and sending its shares to all-time highs.

Since Chief Executive Satya Nadella took over in 2014, Microsoft has been shifting away from its Windows operating system software and toward cloud services, in which customers move their computing work to data centers managed by Microsoft.

Son of former Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri, Anil Shastri on Thursday expressed worry over the current crisis enveloping the Congress party and opined that the grand old party needs a 'Gandhi' at the helm, otherwise it might meet the same fate as regional parties like NCP, TMC and get disintegrated.

State Bank of India (SBI) will release the SBI Clerk Prelims Result soon on their official website - sbi.co.in.

The SBI Clerk Preliminary exam was conducted online on 22 June, 23 June, 30 June.

India’s second mission to the Moon — Chandrayaan-2 — will now lift off at 2.43 pm on July 22 with scientists resolving the technical glitch in GSLV-MkIII-M1 rocket that led to the aborting of the launch three days ago, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) said on Thursday.

Ahead of Prime Minister Imran Khan's visit to the United States, a Congressional report has said the security assistance to Pakistan would remain suspended pending "decisive and irreversible" action against terrorist groups.

At the direction of President Donald Trump, the US had suspended all its security assistance to Pakistan in January 2018. This is first high-level trip by a Pakistani prime minster to the White House during the Trump administration.

The operating profit of Mukesh Ambani promoted Reliance Industries' (RIL) is expected to take a hit in the June quarter. Analysts estimate a decline in earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA). The company is also expected to see its slowest profit growth in the last 15 quarters. RIL will report its June 2019 ended quarter results on Friday.

Gold prices today remained steady in India near record highs while silver rates continued to surge. On MCX, August gold contracts were today trading higher at ₹35,094, after hitting a new high of ₹35,145 last week. The October gold contracts were near ₹35,600. The September silver contracts on MCX zoomed 0.72% to ₹40,467 per kg, reflecting a surge in global prices.

Chennai: The demand for digitally skilled workforce would rise at 35 per cent Compounded Annual Growth Rate till 2023 of the current talent base of four million, Information Technology body NASSCOM said here on Wednesday.

NASSCOM said the top priority for it was to reskill this base and has taken a number of initiatives, the first of which was proposed tie-ups with educational institutions.

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