LIVE: Whirlpool India's MD Vishal Bhola resigns, CEO Eswar to take charge

Whirlpool of India on Friday said its Managing Director Vishal Bhola has resigned from the post.

The company has appointed Narasimhan Eswar as Managing Director (MD) and Additional Director. Eswar joins Whirlpool of India from Ki Mobility Solutions, where he is currently holding the position of CEO and President, according to a regulatory filing.


The district administration on Friday imposed prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the CrPC with an on security ahead of Republic Day.

Flying drones, microlight aircraft, gliders, hot-air balloons, kites and Chinese microlights will be prohibited till January 26, according to an order issued by District Magistrate and Deputy Commissioner Nishant Kumar Yadav.

A New York judge on Friday fined Donald Trump's family business the maximum penalty available of $1.6 million for committing tax fraud.

The sum, paltry to the billionaire real estate developer, is symbolically significant as the ex-president eyes the White House again amid a host of legal woes, reports NDTV.

Abhinav Prakash, A trainee ticketing agent of British Airways arrested for making a hoax bomb call to the SpiceJet call center at IGI Airport in Delhi yesterday. The accused disclosed that his friends Rakesh and Kunal went on a road trip to Manali and became friends with 2 girls. Both girls were departing to Pune via the SpiceJet flight. 

His friends told him to find out a plan to somehow delay their departure from Delhi. In pursuance of the instigation, all three formulated a malicious plan of making a hoax bomb call at the call center of Spicejet Airlines, with an ulterior motive of getting the flight canceled. Kunal and Rakesh are presently absconding, said Ravi Kumar Singh, DCP IGI Airport.

Shankar Mishra, accused of urinating on an elderly woman on an Air India flight last November, on Friday denied the allegation before a Delhi court, saying he never urinated on the complainant.

“I did not urinate on the complainant,” Mishra told the court, reports Indian Express

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off the MV Ganga Vilas luxury cruise on the world's longest river voyage from Varanasi to Dibrugarh on Friday. He will also lay the foundation and inaugurate several projects of inland waterways in Bihar, West Bengal and Assam on this occasion. 

The National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has released satellite images of Joshimath and a preliminary report on land subsidence which shows that the entire town may sink. The pictures are taken from the Cartosat-2S satellite. Hyderabad-based NRSC has released satellite images of areas that are sinking. In images, the entire town, including the Army's helipad and the Narasimha temple, has been marked as sensitive zone.

Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Thursday chaired a meeting with all stakeholders on the Joshimath land subsidence issue. During the meeting, the chief minister interacted with the Army, ITBP, NDRF and scientists from various establishments engaged in landslide investigation, district administration, police and district-level officers associated with essential services at Sunil ITBP camp.

After the meeting to elect the Mayor of Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) proved futile due to the tussle between AAP and BJP councillors on January 6, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government on Thursday proposed four dates for holding the polls to Lieutenant Governor V.K. Saxena.