Washington Post CEO Will Lewis has resigned immediately following the layoff of 300 employees, one-third of the staff. Amid financial losses and shrinking readership, CFO Jeff D'Onofrio takes over as acting CEO to stabilize the 147-year-old newspaper during its greatest internal crisis.
Pranshu Verma begged the Washington Post management to spare his position by claiming that the media house was one of the few in India that can do "accountability reporting without fear of government censure." However, his statement, which was intended to portray the Modi government as autocratic and was actually a resume, a loyalty affidavit and an ideological confession consolidated into one, appeared to have fallen on deaf ears.
Pranshu Verma’s desperate public plea to Jeff Bezos lays bare how attacking India and its institutions has become the currency of survival at The Washington Post.
A viral speech at a Jamaat-e-Islami rally in Barguna calling for Quran-based governance has triggered a political storm. While local officials monitor for legal violations, the party has distanced itself from the remarks amid reports of shifting U.S. diplomatic interest toward the movement.
In the audio recording, the unnamed US diplomat conceded that the trial against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was not free and fair. He, however, lauded her conviction by a kangaroo court of Bangladesh and dubbed the move as 'political genius' and 'impressive.'
An exclusive in Semafor has revealed that the NYT and Washington Post both had prior knowledge of the raid before it was underway, but they chose to remain silent and delayed publishing anything about it, 'upon the request' of the Trump administration.
LIC has invested heavily in several private companies. Its top holdings include Reliance Industries (₹1.38 lakh crore), ITC Ltd (₹82,342 crore), HDFC Bank, TCS, IDBI Bank, ICICI Bank, Bharti Airtel, SBI, L&T, and Infosys. As such, it is not unusual for LIC to invest in Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (APSEZ) and that too an amount of ₹5000 crores.
Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) has issued a strong rebuttal to a report by The Washington Post claiming that government officials pressured the insurer to...