The decision comes months after it was reported that Virat Kohli ended his long-term association with Cornerstone, a reputed celebrity management company, which involved Bunty Sajdeh, his long-time manager.

Kajal Aggarwal has become the first South Indian actress to get her wax statue at the Madame Tussauds in Singapore.

Here are the photos of Kajal Aggarwal in two-piece bikini from her trip to Maldives.

Actor Prabhas, whose movie 'Kalki 2898 AD' registered a solid success at the box-office, is moving up to the top of Maslow's hierarchy. The actor has launched The Script Craft, a platform dedicated to promoting and encouraging writers.

Even though the festivities are coming to an end, Raashi Khanna is making sure she keeps the festive cheer alive with her choice of outfits

Actress Riddhi Dogra, who will be soon seen in the upcoming movie 'The Sabarmati Report', has said that her character of a journalist in the film represents a system.

Ekta R Kapoor said she wasn't scared of taking her film - The Sabarmati Report - to CBFC.

India's festive season online sales surge 49% driven by Tier-II, Tier-III cities, accounting for over 60% sales

A grassfire was ignited next to a runway at Sydney Airport following a reported engine explosion on a Qantas flight upon takeoff

With the arrest of three terrorists, J&K Police claimed to have solved the Sunday Market grenade attack case in which twelve civilians were injured.

India leads Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption with 30 per cent of companies in the country having maximised AI's value potential -- surpassing the global average of 26 per cent, according to a report.

As Indian stock markets continue to outperform compared to a global market, the number of total demat accounts increased to 179 million in October, from 175 million in September.

The 12th Fail actor is being heavily criticised for his recent stance on the safety of Muslims in the country. He also referred to India as the most livable country in present times.

There has been a 60 per cent rise in the average FMCG basket size among India's rural consumers in the last two years, driven by a growing preference for convenience products, according to the latest Group M and Kantar report released on Monday.

Ahead of the release of his upcoming film "The Sabarmati Report," actor Vikrant Massey made a surprise visit at Godhra Station, which inspired the movie.

Karnataka Lokayukta sleuths are conducting multiple raids across the state on residences and offices of government officers.

Sooni Taraporevala, who has done the scriptwriting for "Mississippi Masala", "The Namesake" and Oscar-nominated "Salaam Bombay!", next directorial "Waack Girls" is all set to premiere on November 22.

Karnataka government's alleged Muslim reservation proposal sparks controversy ahead of bypolls, but Chief Minister's Office denies the reports entirely.

The world's first high-altitude para sports centre dedicated to training and nurturing para-athletes in the country will be established in Leh, Ladakh and will focus on training for international competitions, including the larger goal of preparing para-athletes for the 2028 Paralympics.

India's retail price inflation, based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI), rose to 6.21 per cent in October as higher prices of food items such as vegetables spiked during the month, figures released by the Ministry of Statistics on Tuesday showed.

There has been an explosion in the usage of mobile phones and smartphones to access travel related websites and portals in India. More and more users are turning to their mobile phones to book tickets for local, national and...

The tech world took a major double take this year when a security startup called Wiz founded out of Israel just four years earlier became the subject of a record-breaking, $23 billion acquisition attempt by Google — an offer the startup boldly proceeded … to refuse. Really? Yes, really. We will be talking to Assaf Rappaport, […]

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The decline of X (formerly Twitter) under Elon Musk has boosted engagement with alternative social networks like Bluesky, Threads, and Mastodon, but it has also challenged early adopters who now have too many places to post. Naturally, some entrepreneurs are working to solve this problem with apps that let you cross-post to multiple platforms at […]

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The pandemic hasn’t been easy for anyone, but the food service industry has been hit particularly hard. More than 90,000 restaurants and bars have closed, leaving workers unemployed in an already precarious industry. And those who kept their jobs faced the stressful demands of customer-facing work in a pandemic. In response to the changed industry […]

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The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) decreased its forecast for U.S. coal exports following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge and the resulting closure of the Port of Baltimore. In its April Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), EIA reduced its forecasts for U.S. coal exports for April by 33% and for May by 20% from previous forecasts.

U.S. exports of ethane and ethane-based petrochemicals reached an all-time high of 21.6 million metric tons (MMmt) in 2023, up 135% since the United States began exporting ethane in 2014 and 17% more than in 2022, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The rapid expansion of U.S. ethane and ethane-based petrochemical exports has been fueled by the growth in domestic ethane production, which has increased with the country's natural gas production and the buildout of export and production infrastructure.

U.S. fuel ethanol exporters are on track to export a record amount of the fuel in 2024. The increase in exports this year has largely been driven by demand in countries with biofuel blending mandates and cheaper-than-usual U.S. fuel ethanol prices.

The hackers who reportedly hit more than 130 organizations last year and stole the credentials of almost 10,000 employees are still targeting several tech and video game companies, according to a report obtained by TechCrunch. The report, prepared by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, calls the hackers “Scattered Spider.” In a previous publicly available report, the company […]

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Mira Murati, the OpenAI CTO who announced her departure last month, is raising VC funding for a new AI startup, according to Reuters. This startup will reportedly focus on building AI products based on proprietary models and could raise more than $100 million in this round. When she left, Murati wrote on X that OpenAI […]

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AI search engine Perplexity is in fundraising talks and hopes to raise around $500 million at an $8 billion valuation, according to The Wall Street Journal. If a deal happens with those terms, it would more than double Perplexity’s valuation from its $3 billion valuation when it raised from SoftBank over the summer. The WSJ […]

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OpenAI’s next flagship model might not represent as big a leap forward as its predecessors, according to a new report in The Information. Employees who tested the new model, code-named Orion, reportedly found that even though its performance exceeds OpenAI’s existing models, there was less improvement than they’d seen in the jump from GPT-3 to […]

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After a chip manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) was found inside a Huawei processor, the U.S. Department of Commerce has ordered the company to halt shipments of advanced chips to Chinese customers, according to a report in Reuters. Huawei faces significant trade restrictions from the U.S., so the pause on shipments is supposed […]

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Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, now supports Apple’s Tap to Pay for iPhone feature for merchants. Existing Square users or new businesses wanting to use Square can now use their iPhones to receive payments while using the fintech company’s financial management software. The Jack Dorsey-led company said that merchants can open the […]

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Yahoo today announced that it has acquired Wagr, a three-year-old social sports betting startup based out of Nashville. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. TechCrunch, whose parent company happens to be the now Apollo-owned Yahoo, covered Wagr way back at its inception in 2020 at one of its early investor’s demo days. We noted […]

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After three years in development, the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) has released a set of standards that are game-changing for shareholders and the profession, says PwC.

For members of Australia's start up community, Adelaide is fast growing the reputation of a national entrepreneurial hub.

PwC has appointed the former CEO of Transdev Australasia, Jonathan Metcalfe, to lead the public transport practice.

The key to Japan's economic future lies in growing it's engagement with the countries on its doorstep, according to a PwC report released today.

Australian small businesses can unlock an additional $49.2 billion in output over the next ten years by making better use of existing technology, PwC analysis commissioned by Google released today shows.

PwC’s asset management leader, Ken Woo, said Japan’s commitment to creating a regional market for managed funds represents a ‘tipping point’ in terms of momentum for the initiative.

A new PwC survey has found that 70 per cent of major Australian companies are planning to enter new joint ventures or strategic alliances to drive growth from the Chinese market.

The number of detected cyber security incidents in Australia was the highest worldwide in the last 12 months with an increase of 109 percent, compared to a 38.5 percent increase globally.

An enhanced Singapore-Australia free trade agreement (SAFTA) represents the biggest step-forward in over a decade in our economic relationship with Singapore.

GitHub today announced that it will now allow developers to switch between a number of large language models when they use Copilot Chat, its code-centric ChatGPT-like service. Until now, Copilot Chat was powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4. Going forward, developers can choose between Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s GPT-4o, o1-preview, and […]

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Fixing the climate crisis is a vast, world-sized puzzle. But one particularly large piece of this ginormous conundrum is construction and real estate — which collectively amount for around 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Enter Munich-based data startup Emidat, which has built a software platform for automating the generation of validated Environmental Product Declaration […]

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The European Union will spend €1.4 billion (about $1.5 billion) next year to bolster deep tech research and support scale-ups in strategic areas like AI, low-carbon technologies, agritech and biotech, the European Commission said on Tuesday. The budget for the 2025 Work Program of the European Innovation Council (EIC), part of the bloc’s flagship Horizon Europe […]

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The European Union’s flagship market contestability regulation has been in force on a handful of tech giants for months. Since March, the bloc has had open investigations on several gatekeepers. But it’s Apple that will face the first Digital Markets Act (DMA) fine, Bloomberg reports, citing people familiar with the case. Apple’s App Store rules […]

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1. Delhi reports record high chikungunya, malaria cases in 5 years  DNA India
2. Delhi Reports 5-Year Record High In Chikungunya, Malaria Cases  NDTV
3. Delhi sees 472 more dengue cases, total count at 4,533  Hindustan Times
4. 4,533 cases, 3 deaths due to Dengue reported in Delhi in 2024  ETHealthWorld
5. Delhi witnesses surge in Dengue cases: 472 cases in last week, 3 deaths this year so far  India TV News

1. Ricky Ponting Fires Back At Gautam Gambhir After India Coach's Press Conference Remarks  NDTV Sports
2. A fired-up Virat Kohli is Australia's worry after Ricky Ponting's 'bad move'  The Times of India
3. I was not taking a dig at Kohli, Gambhir is a prickly character: Ponting | Border-Gavaskar Trophy to begin on November 22 | Inshorts  Inshorts
4. ‘Hunger’ key for coach Gautam Gambhir, not form as India prepares for Australia Test series  Telegraph India
5. ‘That’s a bad move, Ricky. What are you doing?': Ponting's Virat Kohli jibe questioned amid 'spicy' ball-tampering claim  Hindustan Times

1. "Combining Indian Hospitality With Swiss Quality": CEO On New Noida Airport  NDTV
2. First Flight To Land At Noida International Airport In 72 Hours, Full Ops Expected By April 2025  News18
3. Noida International Airport: Preparations for test flights done, operations to begin from THIS date | Details  India TV News
4. Noida or Delhi airport? What’s better for Delhi-NCR residents – Here’s how New Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will shape the choices  The Financial Express
5. Who should opt for Noida or Delhi Airport? How will it cut short travel time? Here’s a breakdown  The Indian Express