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markets Progressive Remark Experts Celebrity Equality After 90-hour workweek remark, L&T chief S N Subrahmanyan now announces one day paid menstrual leave for women employees

menstrual leave policy for its women employees. The announcement, made by Chairman and Managing Director S N Subrahmanyan, came during Women's Day celebrations at the company's Powai office in Mumbai. This policy, a first in the industry, is expected to benefit around 5,000 women employees, who constitute 9% of L&T’s 60,000-strong workforce. The provision, however, is limited to L&T’s core engineering and construction divisions, excluding its financial and technology subsidiaries, which already offer work-from-home and flexible arrangements. The specifics regarding its implementation, including whether it will be an additional paid leave or part of existing entitlements, remain unclear.

07.03 / 03:21

markets UPS Digital Software President country Microsoft to invest $300 million more in South Africa's AI infrastructure

Microsoft will invest an additional 5.4 billion rand ($296.81 million) by the end of 2027 to expand its cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in South Africa to meet the growing demand for the company's Azure services in the region. Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith said at an event in Johannesburg on Thursday that the world's biggest software maker would pay for technical certification exams for 50,000 individuals in high-demand digital skills. The certification will be for cloud architecture, AI and cybersecurity, he added.

07.03 / 03:21

markets Booking Man Action Refugees reports Videos Viral video: 14-year-old girl cries for help as man lifts and forcibly marries her; Police arrest 5, including her own parents

14-year-old girl and three others for forcibly marrying her to a 30-year-old relative in Krishnagiri district, as per a TOI report. The action was taken after the girl’s grandmother, who opposed the marriage, lodged a complaint.

07.03 / 03:21

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Oil prices were little changed on Friday but were set for their biggest weekly decline since October as the uncertainty around U.S. tariff policy is creating concerns about demand growth at the same time major producers are set to increase output. Brent futures rose 13 cents, or 0.19%, to $69.59 a barrel by 0217 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures rose 8 cents, or 0.08%, to $66.44 a barrel.

07.03 / 03:05

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. • Triveni Turbine Ltd: Buy above ₹536 | Stop loss ₹520 | Target ₹575-590 The strong rebound from lower levels combined with some genuine buying in this counter could now fuel some upside. Overall, there has been some steady buying at lower levels as a hammer bottom was formed in January-end highlighting a bottoming formation.

07.03 / 03:05

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Imagine a literary festival not as encounters with favourite authors or listening to fascinating debates but instead as embarrassing onstage debacles, serialised episodes of misadventures that metamorphose in the mind into a very public pillorying. With this season’s calendar of lit fests, in locations as diverse as Jaipur and Thimphu, coming to an end, my bizarre experiences at Sri Lanka’s Galle Literary Festival last month reminded me of my accident-prone run on stage.

07.03 / 03:05

Fighting Death Research War show country How do Ukrainian soldier fatalities compare with Russia’s?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Donald Trump appears determined to end the war in Ukraine—and on terms that are strongly in Russia’s favour. He and his vice-president have harangued Ukraine’s leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, in the Oval Office, warning him that he has no leverage and that he needs a ceasefire or he will have no country left.

07.03 / 03:05

UPS CEO Strategy Healthcare Trade reports Walgreens seals $10 billion take-private deal with Sycamore

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Walgreens’s almost centurylong run as a public company is coming to an end. The embattled drugstore chain has struck a deal to be taken private by Sycamore Partners in one of the biggest leveraged buyouts in recent memory.

07.03 / 03:05

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In any word association test, ‘Diego’ would cue the name of football legend Maradona. But for elderly Indians, it recalls Diego Garcia, a geopolitical bugbear of the Cold War era, when India wanted the US to withdraw its forces from an air-base on a small island by that name in the Indian Ocean.

07.03 / 02:43

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financial awareness and growing interest in digital assets among younger demographics. Women aged 25-30 accounted for 53% of Mudrex’s female investor base, followed by those aged 31-35 at 36%, according to a survey conducted ahead of International Women’s Day. Maharashtra led in female crypto participation, contributing 15% of the total, with Karnataka contributing 11%, Delhi NCR accounting for 9%, and Uttar Pradesh contributing 8%.

07.03 / 02:43

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As of 10:39 AM IST, Bitcoin was up 6% at $92,168, while Ethereum surged 5.5% to $2,294. The global crypto market cap gained 5% to $3 trillion in the past 24 hours. Altcoins also saw gains, with Cardano rising 3.3%, Solana up 4.7%, Dogecoin jumping 8%, and XRP gaining 3%.

07.03 / 02:17

Analysis wellness Trade President show cover Nasdaq confirms correction amid US trade policy uncertainty

President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that goods from Canada and Mexico covered by the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement (USMCA) will be exempted for a month from the 25% tariffs imposed earlier this week. The development comes a day after Trump exempted automotive goods from the tariffs.

07.03 / 02:17

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jobs data due later in the day. Another reprieve of levies aimed at Mexico and Canada announced by U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday offered little relief, keeping the safe-haven yen not far off its strongest against the greenback since early October.

07.03 / 02:17

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NATO allies, saying he would not do so if they are not paying enough for their own defense. «It's common sense, right,» Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. «If they don't pay, I'm not going to defend them. No, I'm not going to defend them.» Trump said he has been of this view for years and shared it with NATO allies during his 2017-2021 presidential term. Those efforts prompted more spending from other members of the 75-year-old transatlantic alliance, he said, but «even now, it's not enough.»

07.03 / 02:17

FIVE Digital Platform Analysis Trade President Bitcoin Trump signs order to establish strategic bitcoin reserve

strategic bitcoin reserve, a day before meeting with executives from the cryptocurrency industry at the White House. The reserve will be capitalized with bitcoin owned by the federal government that was forfeited as part of criminal or civil asset forfeiture proceedings, the White House crypto czar, billionaire David Sacks, said in a post on social media platform X.

07.03 / 02:17

markets Analysis Trade President show track rights Gold poised for weekly gain; US payrolls data on tap

Gold prices inched lower on Friday but were on track for a weekly rise as uncertainty around U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff plans firmed demand for bullion, while investors awaited for U.S. non-farm payrolls data later in the day.

07.03 / 02:17

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China unlocked more stimulus on Wednesday and promised greater efforts to cushion the impact of an escalating U.S. trade war. Hours earlier, Germany's likely next government agreed on the biggest overhaul to fiscal policy since the country's reunification.

07.03 / 02:17

markets Provident Platform NVIDIA President Department Investigations US Labor Department investigating Nvidia, Amazon-backed startup Scale AI

Scale AI, a data labeling startup backed by tech giants Nvidia, Amazon and Meta, for its compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act, the California-based firm said on Thursday. The investigation is looking into Scale AI's compliance with fair pay practices and working conditions and was initiated nearly an year ago under the former President Joe Biden's administration, the company said. The startup said over the last year it has worked with the department to explain its business model and the emerging artificial intelligence industry.

07.03 / 02:17

markets Target Analysis economy Trade President rights Fed's Waller, leaning against March cut, sees easings later in year

Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said on Thursday he leans strongly against a rate cut at the Fed's upcoming policy meeting this month, although he reckons cuts later in the year remain on track if inflation pressures continue to abate. In discounting an easing at March 18-19 Federal Open Market Committee, Waller indicated he simply will not have the inflation data in hand to know whether cutting what's now a 4.25% to 4.5% federal funds rate range is justified, especially amid the heavy uncertainty created by President Donald Trump's trade agenda.

07.03 / 02:17

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strategic Bitcoin reserve and a stockpile of other digital assets, according to a post on X by White House crypto czar David Sacks. Bitcoin and other tokens fell as Sacks said that taxpayer money would not be spent to acquire cryptocurrencies for either.

07.03 / 01:15

Progressive Analysis Pool wellness Experts Diversity show Where women lead: small companies outpace giants in executive roles

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s boardrooms remain stubbornly gray, although some transformative strokes are visible. As women slowly move beyond mere presence to actively claim seats at the decision-making table, it’s the smaller firms that are leading the charge.