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An ode to the Maximum City of hopes and heartbreak

Murzban F. Shroff's new collection of Mumbai stories chronicles the decline of the city, while celebrating its resilience

From red lights to green: DPI for businesses will spur job creation

Employer Aadhaar and Digilocker will apply Digital Public Infrastructure to compliance and help create high-wage jobs

HDFC Bank NPAs rise amid Q3 agriculture loan defaults

The lender's profit growth was weighed down by asset quality issues and slow loan growth

Address India's worsening urban groundwater crisis

We require innovative solutions that use technology to prevent its depletion and contamination

Netflix surges past 300 mn subscribers

Netflix on Tuesday said it added nearly 19 million subscribers during the holiday season to finish out last year with more than 300 million subscribers.

Dixon Tech: A flurry of acquisitions, capacity expansions

Upwardly mobile

NMC seeks to tighten rules for hiring medical college faculty

India's apex medical education regulatory has proposed new eligibility qualifications for teachers to improve standards as it seeks to weed out ghost faculty and incompetent teachers.

RIL arm acquires sauces brand SIL

Reliance Consumer Products Ltd (RCPL), the consumer goods arm of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), announced on Wednesday its acquisition of SIL, a food brand known for sauces and condiments.

Shareholders nix Gokaldas Esop plan

Apparel maker Gokaldas Exports' plan to reward its top executive with a generous stock grant has been blocked by the company's institutional shareholders, more than half of whom voted against the resolution enabling its latest employee stock option plan (Esop).

Garth Hudson wove a musical spell on listeners

Hudson was the last surviving member of the influential rock group The Band

Oberoi Realty gets reality check

Shares of Oberoi Realty Ltd are on shaky ground, plummeting 13% in the past two trading sessions.

Timely succession plans are the need of the hour

Succession planning is no less important for key government positions than for corporate leadership. However, as RBI's case shows, its value is yet to be adequately acknowledged

US sanctions won't see oil price surge, shipping to be hit

Oil price is not projected to rise, may stay at $70-75 a barrel, and the situation will ease in a few months: BPCL CMD

J&J Predicts Lower Revenue & Profit Than Analysts for 2025

Johnson & Johnson said a strong dollar will cut into 2025 revenue and profit, pushing its forecast below analysts' expectations and driving its shares lower.

Meta Plans Glasses With Brand Oakley

Meta Platforms Inc., an American multinational technology conglomerate, is working on upgrades to its popular smart glasses and is exploring new wearable devices such as watches and camera-equipped earbuds, aiming to embed its artificial intelligence features into more products.

Old MAGA versus new MAGA: A cage battle looks set to start

US President Trump's base seems divided but it needn't worry him

NSE's investor registrations breach 110 mn mark

In the last five months, daily new registrations have ranged 47,000 to 73,000, adding a massive 10 million investors

Nepal Hikes Fee for Everest Climbers

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world's tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade, officials said.

Google pours $1 bn in Anthropic

Anthropic is best known for its Claude family of large language models, which compete with OpenAI's GPT

Strategies to achieve ₹1 cr with a current portfolio of ₹47.4 lakh

I'm 28 years with a ₹47.4 lakh portfolio (₹36.5 lakh in equities, rest in mutual funds). I invest ₹25,000 via monthly SIPs, increasing 10% annually. With no liabilities, I plan to invest ₹10 lakh more. How can I grow my portfolio to ₹1 crore in two years, or by 30 years?

India Uses AI to Stop Stampedes at World's Biggest Gathering

Keen to improve India's abysmal crowd management record at large-scale religious events, organisers of the world's largest human gathering are using artificial intelligence to try to prevent stampedes.

Travel unicorn OYO eyes religious hubs

Travel tech unicorn OYO on Wednesday said it is planning to add 500 hotels in religious hubs, including Ayodhya, Varanasi, Prayagraj, Puri, Haridwar, Mathura, Vrindavan, Amritsar, Ujjain, Ajmer, Nasik and Tirupati, this year.

A Liveable Planet Must Remain on the Agenda

People of over 340 districts are highly vulnerable to the health effects of climate change

Dark stores pursue workers

Quick commerce funding boom has sparked breakneck expansion across hundreds of towns

Quad FMs Meet in Washington in Sign of Trump's China Focus

US, Australia, India and Japan share concerns about China's growing power

Blue Energy Motors to invest ₹3,500 cr

NG-powered truck maker Blue Energy Motors on Wednesday said it plans to invest ₹3,500 crore for setting up an electric trucks production plant in Maharashtra to fuel the state's green energy transition.

The recovery of pandemic time learning losses: Finish this task

Many schools still need to adapt their teaching to fill the educational gaps left by covid disruption

Green hydrogen incentives likely for polluting sectors

Moving to large-scale use of hydrogen fuel could enhance India's geopolitical heft

Budget Needs to Offer a Vision to Reform India's Overburdened Justice System

Over 50 million court cases are pending, with many taking 15-20 years to resolve

UN chief Guterres calls on Iran to renounce nuclear weapons

Iran must make a first step towards improving relations with countries in the region and the United States by making it clear it does not aim to develop nuclear weapons, United Nations (UN) secretary-general Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday.