Sunday, September 13
Thomas Dohmke, chief executive of Microsoft-owned software development platform GitHub, will step down after nearly four years in the role, according to a report by US news website Axios on Monday. Microsoft has not yet named a replacement and will not immediately fill the position.Dohmke joined GitHub in 2018 as vice president for strategic programmes. In 2021, he became chief product officer, serving in that role for just four months before taking over as CEO in November that year.GitHub, acquired by Microsoft in 2018, is a platform that enables developers to create, store, manage and share their code.India has become GitHub’s fastest-growing developer community globally. ET reported earlier this year Indians account for 12%, or 18 million, of the 150 million developers on GitHub.Despi
JM Financial on Monday reported a 166 per cent rise in consolidated net profit to Rs 454 crore for the June quarter of FY26. The financial services company had earned Rs 171 crore in the same quarter a year ago. Total income rose to Rs 1,121 crore during the June quarter 2025-26, from Rs 1,093 crore a year ago, JM Financial said in a regulatory filing. Total expenses declined to Rs 529 crore compared to Rs 849 crore in the April-June quarter of FY25. Net worth during the quarter has crossed Rs 10,000 crore. The transaction pipeline remains robust across businesses, reflecting the company's deep market engagement, Vishal Kampani, Vice Chairman and Managing Director of JM Financial Ltd, said. "In real estate loans and distressed credit, our focused recovery strategies have delivered strong r
Do you beat the populists or join them when they whip up public outrage over immigrant numbers? That’s the dilemma facing center-left and center-right parties across Europe — and Britain is no exception. Nigel Farage, leader of the populist Reform UK party, is riding high in the opinion polls this summer while campaigning on the alleged links between crime and high immigration. Labour and the Conservatives struggle to respond: They have to tread a fine line between acknowledging genuine public fears and inflaming rank prejudice.To start with the statistics: Foreign nationals comprise one-in-eight of the 87,000 prisoners in England and Wales. The numbers of foreign sexual offenders (1,700) and violent criminals (3,250) in British prisons rose by 10% and 9%, respectively, last year. Igno
The Central government will release Rs 3,200 crore installment of Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana on Monday. This is the first installment given to farmers, with Rs 8,000 crore to be released later, Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Monday.Announcing the package in a post on X, the union minister said that insurance companies that do not deposit the amount to disaster-affected farmers on time will face a 12 per cent interest penalty, which will be directly given to farmers."Today, approximately 30 lakh farmers affected by natural disasters will have ₹3200 crore deposited into their accounts under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana. This is the first installment, so farmers whose accounts do not receive funds today should not worry. Approximat
