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George Soros, one of the backers of the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), has been vocal against both Gautam Adani and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The man who has been critical of the Adani Group has linked Modi as a close ally of the Ahmedabad-based business following the Hindenburg report in January this year. «Modi and Adani are close allies...their faith is intertwined.

Adarsh Gourav has joined the cast of «Alien» prequel series, to be produced by veteran Hollywood filmmaker Ridley Scott. In a press note issued on Tuesday, the actor's spokesperson said the series marks a significant milestone as the «Alien» franchise ventures into episodic storytelling for the first time. Gourav shot to fame after his BAFTA-nominated performance in the 2021 film "The White Tiger''.

Treasury is considering banning “screen scraping” of financial data from bank accounts, a move that could force data sharing across the financial services sector into the alternative open banking regime.

Australian Banking Association chief executive Anna Bligh says over-regulation of the financial sector is strangling smaller lenders with compliance costs and making it tougher for them to compete with the big four banks.

Kwasi Kwarteng, the United Kingdom’s former chancellor, has been barred from advising his potential new employer, mining magnate Andrew Forrest, about UK energy affairs and lobbying the British government.

The FCA argued it is the more appropriate body to remedy the issues of the wholesale data market

consumer spending and business investment," the Mint report said. Read more: US Q2 GDP growth revised down to 2.1% annual rate from 2.4% India remains one of the fastest-growing large economies in the world and is expected to witness healthy growth in the current financial year. Experts say while the latest growth prints of major economies of the world show some signs of pressure, the Indian economy is shining.

Yogi Adityanath extended his greetings on World Sanskrit Day. Also Read: World Sanskrit Day 2023: 10 English words derived from Sanskrit.

New Delhi: IVM Podcasts has announced a new audio fiction show, in collaboration with SBI Life Insurance, titled Chitthiyaan voiced by actor Gajraj Rao. Conceived and directed by Safura Ubaid, Chitthiyaan marks IVM Podcasts’ first ever audio fiction anthology. “As audience preferences continue to evolve, we aim to captivate and fulfill their information and entertainment needs through storytelling with a difference.

It is more than two years since high inflation returned to the rich world, and hopes that it will quietly fade are themselves fading. True, prices are rising more slowly than in 2022, when the pace hit 9.1% in America, 10.6% in the euro area and 10.4% globally. But the view that this was just a passing lurch looks ever less plausible.

Also Read: Chandrayaan 3: A glossary of words you need to know This year, the Sanskrit Diwas falls on Thursday, August 31. The purpose of this day's celebration is to raise awareness and advocate for Sanskrit, one of India's oldest and ancient languages. Here are 10 English words derived from Sanskrit.

Also Read: Google Doodle celebrates the 148th birthday of educator and feminist Isabelle Gatti de Gamond; all you need to know Meanwhile, the public holiday falls on the 31st of August, but Merdeka celebrations are seen throughout the whole month and extend to Malaysia Day on September 16th. The Google Doodle's description highlighted that the festivities commence at Merdeka Square, where participants of the parade assemble in ornately adorned vehicles and traditional attire.

China is readying a fresh digital yuan adoption push ahead of next month’s Asian Games, with the nation ready to show off its CBDC to a large international audience for the first time.

The sector will tap into a revenue pool of around $70 billion, out of the overall financial services revenue pool of $620 billion by FY2030, according to The Bottomline: Elevation Fintech Report 2023. With over 9,000 fintech startups, India now has the world’s third largest fintech ecosystem after the US and UK, it added. The report, published by Elevation Capital and consultancy major McKinsey India on Wednesday, was compiled after interviews with over 20 industry leaders and a survey of more than 70 fintech founders and industry experts. Elevation Capital, earlier known as Saif Partners, has invested in startups like payment major Paytm, insurtech unicorn Acko, lending startup Axio (previously Capital Float), neobank Fampay, buy now pay later player Uni and others. Around $70 billion to $80 billion each have been pumped into retail lending and digital payments. SME lending as a sector has attracted around $55 billion while wealth management has brought in $40 billion to $45 billion, the report said. Between 2018 and 2022, equity infusion has gone up to $6 billion from around $2 billion, the report found.

Facets.cloud, a self-serve infrastructure management platform, has raised $4 million in a seed funding round led by 3one4 Capital. The platform helps improve developer productivity by streamlining cloud deployment workflows. Other investors who participated in the round were Neon, formerly 100x Entrepreneurs and angel investors including Postman founder and CEO Abhinav Asthana, FusionCharts founder and CEO Pallav Nadhani, Capillary Technologies founder and CEO Aneesh Reddy, Meta director of engineering Krishna Mehra and GTM Buddy founder and CEO Sreedhar Pedinneni. The startup was cofounded in 2021 by three former senior executives from Capillary Technologies – Anshul Sao, Pravanjan Choudhury and Rohit Raveendran – also three alumni of the IIT Kharagpur.

Google in India is rolling out its Search Generative Experience (SGE), which offers generative AI-powered responses to search-engine queries, for users to experiment with and share feedback under the company’s Search Labs programme. SGE is available in English and Hindi, and includes India-focused features such as language toggle, text-to-speech and voice input in a conversational mode. Puneesh Kumar, general manager — Google Search, India, said the feature will help users understand a topic faster, uncover new viewpoints and insights, and get things done more easily. «The Search Generative Experience is the first step we’re taking in this journey, and part of our vision to make Search radically more helpful,” he said. Google has also introduced features that are unique to SGE in India. A person can switch from an English result to Hindi by tapping the language toggle button, and also listen to the response with text-to-speech by selecting the ‘Listen’ button. Google is also looking to roll out a feature that will allow people to tap the microphone icon in conversational mode to ask follow-up questions instead of typing them. The company said it is bringing SGE as an experiment in Search Labs.

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NEW DELHI : Google on Thursday announced an India-tuned version of its generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered version of its primary product, Search. The platform, which will be available as a pilot to select users, will offer a chatbot-like experience—instead of the typical search bar that has been synonymous with the search engine so far. The India-specific version of Google’s AI-powered Search, called Search Generative Experience (SGE), will offer users the ability to search in English and Hindi, and also offer both voice readouts of search results, and voice inputs for search queries.

₹100 crore for the Miss World event scheduled to be held in India in November. The Dubai-headquartered company’s chairperson Jamil Saidi said it is in the process of creating a separate entity for backing the beauty pageant competition in India. PME approached the Miss World Organization, which holds the global rights to the competition, to secure a long-term contract for hosting the event.

Vodafone Idea is exploring both OpenRAN (ORAN) and virtualised RAN (vRAN) technologies to reduce the cost of deployment for its upcoming 5G network. The cash-strapped telco has already begun proof-of-concept (PoC) projects with Korea's Samsung for vRAN and US-based Mavenir Systems for OpenRAN-based 5G network. People familiar with the matter said Samsung is doing PoCs in 20 sites with Vodafone Idea in Tamil Nadu, while Mavenir is doing a similar project in the Punjab circle. «Vi is doing 5G trials in various circles with vendors such as Mavenir and Samsung using vRAN and ORAN deployment.

Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said that INDIA partners will nominate a few people from the group to discuss seat sharing in states to take on BJP. He also said that while parties within INDIA have different ideologies, a common minimum programme will be devised for the bloc. «Seat-sharing talks have not yet begun.