BENGALURU (Reuters) – Shares of Tech Mahindra Ltd surged nearly 10% on Monday after the Indian information technology services firm appointed Infosys Ltd veteran Mohit Joshi as its new managing director and chief executive officer. Joshi has been with rival Infosys for 22 years, and is currently the president at the company. He will take …
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MUMBAI (Reuters) – Indians erupted in celebration on Monday after “Naatu Naatu,” the breakout hit from the action movie “RRR,” won the Academy Award for best original song, making history as the first movie from the country to win the honour. The song – a fast-paced number that has found fans all over the world, …
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By Joe Cash BEIJING (Reuters) -China unexpectedly kept its central bank governor and finance minister in their posts at the annual session of the rubber-stamp parliament on Sunday, prioritising continuity as economic challenges loom at home and abroad. President Xi Jinping, who has been installing allies in key roles in a government reshuffle as he …
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TOKYO (Reuters) -Masatoshi Ito, the founder of Japan’s Ito-Yokado retail group that became the holding company of 7-Eleven convenience stores, has died at the age of 98, Seven & i Holdings Co said on Monday. The company said Ito died of old age on Friday and funeral services were limited to immediate family. Ito served …
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By Krystal Hu, Anna Tong, Jeffrey Dastin and Greg Bensinger (Reuters) – A wave of relief swept over Silicon Valley Sunday following a tense weekend of board meetings, emergency funding plans and pleas for help after regulators stepped in to backstop the region’s embattled namesake bank. Banking regulators said Sunday evening that depositors at Silicon …
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Por Lisa Richwine LOS ÁNGELES, 12 mar (Reuters) -“Everything Everywhere All at Once” ganó el domingo el prestigioso Oscar a la mejor película en los Premios de la Academia, una historia original sobre una familia chino-estadounidense que enfrenta sus problemas en múltiples dimensiones. El filme ganó tres de los cuatro Oscar de actuación para las …
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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – Seoul will pursue a bid for the 2036 Summer Games without reviving efforts to co-host an Olympics with the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon told Reuters. Amid hopes for better relations with the nuclear-armed North, Seoul sent a proposal for co-hosting the 2032 Olympics with …
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By Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s parliament approved changes to a law on Monday that would allow it to pass emergency legislation more quickly, the official Xinhua news agency reported, a move that analysts say could further erode public debate and scrutiny. The amendment to the Legislation Law, which governs how laws are enacted, …
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(Reuters) – At least one person was wounded in the southern Russian region of Belgorod on Monday after Russian forces shot down four missiles over the region and its administrative centre Belgorod, the governor of the region bordering Ukraine said. “At this time one person is known to have been injured,” Vyacheslav Gladkov, said on …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) – A Taiwanese soldier serving on an islet close to the Chinese coast who went missing last week has been found in China, a senior Taiwan minister said on Monday, an incident that has happened amid heightened tensions. Taiwan’s defence ministry said on Thursday that the soldier had failed to report for roll-call …
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