NEW DELHI Miehet Adidas Tennis HU Holi Festival Bright Vihreä valkoinen , Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- The CEO and managing director of India's second largest software exporter Infosys, Vishal Sikka, resigned Friday.

The Board of Directors has accepted the resignation of Sikka "effective immediately," the company said in a statement.

He was appointed to the top post in June 2014.

In the statement, the company also said that its chief operating officer U.B. Pravin Rao has been appointed as the interim-managing director and chief executive.

However Adidas Yeezy Boost 350 V2 musta Oranssi , Sikka will continue his association with the company as executive vice chairman till a new full-time CEO is appointed, Infosys said in a notice to the country's stock exchanges.

Shares of the company tumbled nearly 7 percent, following Sikka's resignation.

This is the second time in the past four years that Infosys has plunged into a leadership crisis ever since the founder members retired from the top management.

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CANBERRA, June 13 (Xinhua) -- The Australian government has on Tuesday confirmed it has backed a national bid for Australia to host the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup Miehet Pharrell x Adidas NMD Human Race valkoinen musta , on the back of recent strong performances by the national side, nicknamed the Matildas.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said the government would work with football's peak body, Football Federation Australia (FFA), which will lodge the bid for the tournament sometime next year.

Turnbull told News Corp that Melbourne, Sydney Adidas Originals NMD City Sock 2 PK valkoinen , Canberra, Brisbane Adelaide and Perth would be the likely cities to host, with the government to provide 1 million Australian dollars (750,000 U.S. dollars) to back the bid initially, followed by an additional 4 million Australian dollars (3 million U.S dollars) if the bid looks like being successful.

"I am delighted we are supporting a bid for the 2023 Women's World Cup Adidas Originals NMD City Sock 2 PK musta ," Turnbull said on Tuesday.

"The Matildas are wonderful role models for young women and girls right across Australia and it would be fantastic to have (them) playing to win the Women's World Cup on home soil."

The Prime Minister said Australia is well-known as a "sporting nation" which is "recognized internationally for our sporting achievements", saying that Australia has successfully hosted a number of major sporting events including the Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games.

He added that Australia wanted to be at the forefront of showcasing and growing women's sport.

"Women's sport in Australia has moved forward in leaps and bounds. Staging the 2023 Women's World Cup will continue this momentum," Turnbull said.

Meanwhile chairman of FFA, Steven Lowy said with the growing interest in the Matildas and strong results in recent tournaments means Australia has a chance at hosting the "prestigious" event.

"This is the largest, most prestigious and most competitive contest in a women's sport globally Naiset Adidas NMD R2 Vaaleanpunainen valkoinen ," Lowy told News Corp.

"We want to win the right to host it and then win the tournament itself."

Submissions for the right to host the tournament are due sometime in 2018.

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GUIYANG, June 11 (Xinhua) -- The deaths of four children from one family have once again exposed the plight of a vast number of poor children without parental care in China.

Four siblings aged between 5 and 13 were hospitalized and later died after swallowing pesticide in the southwestern province of Guizhou on Tuesday, a police investigation confirmed.

Local authorities were unable to get in touch with the children's parents and it remains unclear whether they intended to kill themselves.

"The children did not lack food and clothes, but lacked the love and care of parents," said Xiao Wenying Adidas Men NMD CS2 Primeknit musta Kengät , a distant relative of the family. "The parents failed to fulfill their parental responsibilities."

The deaths have triggered widespread sympathy and anger.

Their mother, Ren Xifen, left home in March 2014 after a long and bitter dispute with her husband Zhang Fangqi who left the village in March this year, according to Gao Huacheng, the village Communist Party chief.

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Zhang's eldest son received money on a bank card his father gave him, police found. The local government has provided the family with minimum living allowance since 2012, and more than 3,500 yuan (about 560 U.S. dollars) was left on the bank card.

Pan Ling, another relative Miehet Adidas NMD XR1 Primeknit Triple Black musta , said the family were socially withdrawn and often skipped class. The siblings' grandparents had all passed away.

The government of Bijie City's Qixingguan District, which administers the village, has started a survey of "left-behind" children and asked education officials, school principals and village heads to keep a close eye on the children to prevent similar tragedies.

China has more than 60 million children in rura.