Bengaluru, The global shipments of smartphone accessories -- wearable bands and TWS devices -- are expected to reach half a billion units in 2021 as the Covid-19 pandemic deepened globally, consumers turned their attention to smart wearable and smart hearable accessories, a new report said on Monday.

The wearable

New Delhi, Crisis-hit IL&FS has finalised the InvIT structure for its road assets with a view to resolve debt of about Rs 15,000 crore.

In the process the company has formed a sponsor company, appointed investment manager, infused fresh equity to meet Rs 100 crore net worth and is likely to shortly approach SE

New Delhi,  The proceedings against Future Retail Limited (FRL) are not maintainable as FRL is not a party/signatory to the arbitration agreement invoked by Amazon, the company has said.

In a regulatory filing, the company said that FRL's jurisdictional objections are pending determination with the S

Mumbai,  The key Indian equity indices pared their initial gains on Monday morning to trade in the negative zone.

Selling pressure was witnessed in oil and gas, IT and energy stocks. However, healthy buying took place in banking and finance stocks.

Around 10.25 a.m., the Sensex was trading

Manila, At least 10 people were killed and more than 390,000 others were displaced after typhoon Goni, the strongest to hit the Philippines this year so far, slammed the country's main island of Luzon, authorities said on Monday.

The Office of Civil Defence (OCD) in Bicol, one of the hardest-hit southernmost r

Bangkok, Amid continued anti-government protests in Thailand and calls to reform the monarchy, King Maha Vajiralongkorn, in his first public statement on the pro-democracy demonstrations, called his country "the land of compromise".

The King made the statement in an exclusive joint interview with CNN and

Geneva, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), announced that he was self-quarantining after he was "identified as a contact of someone who has tested positive for Covid-19".

Taking to Twitter on Monday morning, he said: "I have been identified as a cont

New York, Set your reminders for 7 p.m. EST on November 3 - that's 5.30 a.m. IST on November 4 - for the first US election results from any state to drop. In six of 50 states, the last polls close at 7 p.m. EST and among those, watch for Georgia trends, because Donald Trump and Joe Biden are running close. The winner takes h

London,  The UK's Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove has said that the month-long lockdown, which will be imposed in England on Thursday, could be extended if the rate of Covid-19 cases do not fall sufficiently.

Gove's remarks on Sunday came a day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced th

Colombo, Sri Lankan authorities said that a weekend curfew in the Western Province including the capital Colombo, would be extended till November 9 due to a continued surge in the number of new coronavirus cases.

The ongoing weekend curfew was supposed to be lifted on Monday, reports Xinhua news agency.