NEW DELHI: IIT Guwahati Professor D Udaya Kumar, who designed the “₹” symbol for Indian currency, distanced himself from the ongoing tussle between Centre and DMK-led Tamil Nadu government over three-language policyThe controversy escalated after the DMK government replaced the Devanagari rupee symbol with a Tamil letter in its logo for the budget.Udaya said that … Read more
Magnus Carlsen (Photo Credit: @FIDE_chess on X) NEW DELHI: World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen recently expressed criticism towards the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in response to an open letter from Jan Henric Beuttner, co-founder of Freestyle Chess, to FIDE CEO Emil Sutovsky. Carlsen supported Beuttner’s stance with a brief message encouraging greatness, directly tagging FIDE … Read more
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar is carrying a personal letter from Prime Minister Narendra Modi for US President-elect Donald Trump, news agencies reported quoting sources. Jaishankar is representing PM Modi as his special envoy at Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony in Washington DC.Trump will be sworn in as the 47th President of the United … Read more