Davos: US President Donald Trump reassured the world's political and financial leaders on Friday that his "America First" agenda was not a rejection of international cooperation while insisting that cross-border trade had to be made fairer and vowing action against predatory practices.

State-owned, loss-making telecom firm BSNL’s move to monetise its real estate assets in order to shore up its revenues has run into trouble as the department of telecommunications (DoT) has said since the ownership of the properties do not vest with the firm, its proposal cannot be processed. The telecom firm had recently moved a proposal before the DoT that it be allowed to sell part of its land banks and buildings to bring about a financial restructuring of the organisation.

Rajagopalan Vasudevan, the 73-year old professor from Madurai, is changing the way plastic wastes are treated in the country, using a method in which the no-biodegradable waste becomes useful rather than an environmental hazard.

Known as the 'Plastic Man', Vasudevan has come out with a patented method to reuse plastic waste to construct roads and the technology has been provided to the Government of India for free.

A proposed plan of the State Bank of India (SBI) to invoke personal and corporate guarantees of defaulting companies is unlikely to pass legal scrutiny, having been barred from doing so in previous cases. The country’s largest bank is likely to issue about 200 notices invoking personal guarantees, even in cases where insolvency proceedings were underway.

As India celebrates its 69th Republic Day, Microsoft on Thursday announced to bring Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deep Neural Networks to improve real-time language translation for Hindi, Bengali and Tamil.

With Deep Neural Networks-powered language translation, the results are more accurate and the sound more natural.

L&T Finance Holdings Ltd’s (L&TFH) consolidated net profit for the third quarter ended December 2017 rose by 42 per to Rs 3.84 billion on sharp rise in fee income and control over expenses. It had posted a net profit of Rs 2.7 billion in third quarter of 2016-17 (FY17).

Total Income rose by 25 per cent to Rs 27 billion in Q3Fy18. The fee income saw 93 per cent jump at Rs 3.55 billion.

Priyanka Chopra’s second Hollywood movie, the comedy-drama A Kid Like Jake, premiered at the ongoing Sundance Film Festival to warm reception, with critics and audiences singling out the movie’s delicate tone, Claire Danes’ leading performance, and Priyanka’s supporting turn.

The film focuses on the lives of a young couple and their son, Jake, who doesn’t conform to a specific gender.

NEW DELHI: Equity markets slipped into red after opening with slight gains in Thursday's early trade as with analysts suggesting profit booking as the raeson.

30-share BSE Sensex went up by 46.75 points to open on 36,208.39 while the broader 50-share NSE Nifty started trading on all-time high of 11,095.60, up by 9 points. However, both the indices saw some profit booking soon after and by 9.42 am, Sensex had slipped almost 100 points.

NEW DELHI: Normally a field of lush green wheat stalks would lift Kishan Singh's spirits. Yet weak prices mean even a good crop this year may not stop debt collectors from kicking him off his land in northern India.

More than 60 people in Dhamaka, a village of about 230 families some 80 kilometers (50 miles) from India's capital New Delhi, have received notices threatening to auction their fields.

Mumbai: Bank of Baroda (BoB) has drawn a road map to be among the top three credit card issuers in the country. The state-owned lender — which last year hired Manoj Piplani, head of Barclay's UK card business — has now repositioned its cards division as a non-banking finance company (NBFC) that will also extend retail loans.

On Wednesday, the bank launched its three cards — Easy, Select and Premier — for different segments with five times rewards.

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