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CHENNAI: With WhatsApp facing heat over breach of user privacy, there is renewed focus on alternatives like Telegram that are gaining users in India. Though still a long way from WhatsApp’s 40 crore monthly users here, serial entrepreneur Pavel Durov-founded Telegram is giving the Facebook-owned messenger app a tough fight with an over 60% rise in monthly active users in the past nine months.

BENGALURU: Mindtree senior vice-president and CFO Pradip Menon has resigned from the firm after spending about 13 months with the firm. Menon joined Mindtree from AkzoNobel India. Prior to that he worked for over 20 years with Unilever in multiple roles in India, Singapore, Dubai and Switzerland.Menon joined Mindtree after his predecessor Jagannathan Chakravarthi quit.

NEW DELHI: A day after opting out of the China-backed RCEP + (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership), the government said on Tuesday it was exploring an agreement with the US, a move many see as a strategic shift. "At present, India is exploring trade agreements with the USA and the European Union, where Indian industry and services will be competitive and benefit from access to large developed markets," commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said.