John Thompson

On his first day as Microsoft CEO in 2014, Satya Nadella sent a company-wide email that could have been forgettable. It wasn't. In it, he told 100,000 employees that tradition alone wouldn't save them — only innovation would. Coming from a man who described himself as a perpetual learner rather than a corporate fixer, the message carried weight. And the decade that followed proved he meant every word.

John Thompson, who made history as the first black coach to win a US national college basketball championship when he led Georgetown to the title in 1984, has died, his family said Monday. He was 78.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella earned $42.9 million in total pay during the company's fiscal year 2019. This is 249 times more than that of the median employee at the company and up by almost 65% from the year before. Microsoft chairman John Thompson justified Nadella's package by pointing at the stellar performance of the company's stock under India-born CEO.

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Vijender Singh will square off against rising British pugilist Sonny Whiting in his eagerly-anticipated professional debut scheduled on October 10.

Bhiwani boy Vijender Singh will make his debut as a professional boxer in the Manchester Arena on October 10.

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Lord Carrington will deliver the13th Sir Dorab Tata Memorial Lecture on `International Relations in the New Century'' at the Tata theatre (NCPA), on Monday, April 3 at 6.00 pm. Ratan Tata, chairman of Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, will preside. The Sir Dorab Tata Memorial Lecture series was instituted in 1960 by the trustees of the trust to commemorate the birth centenary of Sir Dorabji Tata, the elder son of Jamsetji Tata, founder of the Tata group. The lecture is delivered every two years, by internationally eminent persons in public life drawn from across the globe.

Star Indian boxer Vijender Singh will make his much-awaited professional debut on October 10 even though his opponent for the bout is yet to be decided.

Last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar wrote poetry in Punjabi, too, and had his works published at Royal Press situated inside Red Fort in 1855.

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