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Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya on Wednesday met with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar with traditional Mysore Pak sweets and expressed gratitude to the government for facilitating the consulate in Bengaluru. Bengaluru had been demanding a US Consulate for long with the state giver and the BJP MP following up on the demand. During Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the US in June 2023, it was announced that the US will open two new consulates in Bengaluru and Ahmedabad, and India would establish a mission in Seattle.

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Trump made the pledge in a post on his Truth Social account in June after meeting at Mar-a-Lago with a group of executives from crypto miners, the companies whose massive, high-tech data centers do the work that facilitates transactions on the blockchain in exchange for compensation paid in Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies. The gathering was a key juncture in Trump's transformation from a crypto skeptic to one of the industry's strongest allies. «It is a Trump-like comment but it is definitely not in reality,» said Ethan Vera, chief operating officer at Seattle-based Luxor Technology, which provides software and services to miners.

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In the thick of holiday travel, another unticketed passenger attempted to stow away on a Delta Air Lines flight

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol says the company's app needs to be more transparent on pricing.

A five-day strike by Starbucks baristas had closed at least 59 stores as of Monday afternoon, according to the union organizing the workers

Rickey Henderson, a 10-time All-Star and the all-time stolen base leader, died on Friday after a bout with pneumonia, multiple outlets reported. He was 65.

Workers at Starbucks stores plan to go on a five-day strike starting Friday to protest lack of progress in contract negotiations with the company

DoorDash will require its drivers to verify their identity more often as part of a larger effort to crack down on unauthorized account sharing

A lawyer and investor who managed money for one of the richest families in Texas, helped create one of the giants of the private-equity business and pushed to bring professional hockey to Seattle has died

Kroger and Albertsons’ plan for the largest U.S. supermarket merger in history has crumbled

The proposed $24.6 billion merger between supermarket giants Kroger and Albertsons floundered on Tuesday after judges overseeing two separate cases both halted the deal

Alaska Airlines says it will launch service from Seattle to Tokyo and Seoul next year as part of a plan to boost international flying in the next several years

Boeing has laid off hundreds of additional employees in Washington state and California as part of planned cuts that will eventually reduce the company’s workforce by about 17,000

Mahatma Gandhi was unveiled in the State Capitol building in Nebraska as December 6 was proclaimed as a day of remembrance for Gandhi in the US state, honouring the principles of non-violence, tolerance and justice championed by the iconic Indian leader. Governor Jim Pillen of Nebraska unveiled the bust of Mahatma Gandhi on Friday at the Governor's Office in the iconic Nebraska State Capitol premises in Lincoln. This marks the first installation of Gandhi's bust in any State Capitol premises in the nine states that come under the consular jurisdiction of the Indian Consulate in Seattle.

The District of Columbia is alleging in a lawsuit that Amazon secretly stopped providing its fastest delivery service to residents who live in two predominantly Black neighborhoods in the city

Amazon, saying the company secretly stopped providing its fastest delivery service to residents who live in two predominantly Black Washington neighborhoods but is still charging residents millions of dollars for a service that provides speedy deliveries. The complaint, filed Wednesday in District of Columbia Superior Court, revolves around Amazon's Prime membership service, which charges consumers $139 per year or $14.99 per month for fast deliveries — including one-day, two-day and same-day shipments — as well as other benefits. In mid-2022, the lawsuit says, the Seattle-based online retailer imposed what it called a delivery «exclusion» on two zip codes in the district — 20019 and 20020 — and began relying exclusively on third-party delivery services such as UPS and the US Postal Service, rather than its own delivery systems.

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Alaska Airlines says an unspecified technology issue caused the temporary grounding of flights in Seattle and continuing problems with booking flights online

Amazon staff in India have joined strike action calling for better wages