6th International Day of Yoga – Live from Bangkok, Thailand
Embassy of India, Bangkok has been organising the International Day of Yoga (IDY) in Bangkok since 2015. This follows the proclamation of June 21 as the International Day of Yoga by the United Nations in September 2014. During the last five years, IDY was successfully organised at the Chulalongkorn University grounds with participation of thousands […]
Google promotes Prabhakar Raghavan to lead Search, replacing Ben Gomes
Jerry Dischler becomes the new head of Google Ads, Gomes takes over Google Education, while Google veteran Jen Fitzpatrick takes on engineering. Google announced several major personnel changes Thursday. They involve search, engineering and ads and the internal promotion of some Google veterans to new roles: Prabhakar Raghavan, Jerry Dischler, Jen Fitzpatrick and Ben Gomes. […]
Special Flight to evacuate stranded Indian nationals from Thailand
A special flight of Air India arranged by the Government of India departred for Delhi from Suvarnabhumi International Airport, Bangkok in the afternoon of 20 May 2020 carrying 236 Indian nationals who were stranded in Thailand due to the closure of international air travel in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic. This is the first special […]
Why a digital dollar isn’t coming anytime soon (or so the Fed says)
While central bank digital currencies may address problems in other countries, the US doesn’t have those problems, according to Fed chair Jerome Powell. by Mike Orcutt A digital dollar is a solution in search of a problem. Well, at least in the US, according to Jerome Powell, chair of the US Federal Reserve. While central-bank […]