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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. After two consecutive quarters of sluggish economic growth, policymakers and economists are banking on a turnaround in the second half of the fiscal year, driven by increased government spending, a boost from the ongoing festive season, and resilient rural consumption.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India's housing finance sector saw a tenfold jump in primary fundraising in 2024, as venture capital and private equity firms sought to diversify their portfolios with assets perceived as relatively less risky. Rising housing demand, as well as the ability of mortgage lenders to contain costs at crunch times and generate sustained returns have attracted investments, investors and industry experts said.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Veterans at Wipro Ltd are steadily rising to the top in Srinivas Pallia's eight months in the corner office, at a time when India's fourth largest technology services firm is working to recover from a full-year revenue decline. Chief marketing officer Laura Langdon resigned earlier this week and will be succeeded by Asia business CMO Ranjita Ghosh.

OpenAI was well ahead of its time in the last couple of years, but it looks like other companies are slowly catching up with their own set of language models, products and other AI-enabled services. For starters, Meta Platforms is posing the toughest contest to OpenAI as of now, with Google following closely behind with their own AI engine.

It's time to prepare meals, go shopping for presents, and watch some Christmas classics with your loved ones now that the holiday season has returned. In an attempt to start a new yearly tradition, dozens of new Christmas-themed films and TV shows are released each year. While there will always be some dregs, there are also plenty of masterpieces and many that people have declared are necessary to get into the holiday spirit. For some holiday nostalgia, it's time to sip hot chocolate and watch these films.

top AI stocks at Wall Street, including the likes of Nvidia, Google, Meta and others. Even though the overall stock market is not doing so great in the recent weeks, as per reports, the AI-backed stocks are helping the market stay at an upward trend, and keeping the S&P 500 at a neutral level.

Panama Canal has suddenly become the viral topic around the world after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump threatened to reimpose US control over the Panama Canal, a key global shipping route located in the Central American nation.

Black Myth: Wukong' has landed into their store, and has been viewed by thousands of users before its upcoming launch.

US Stock Market's main indexes — S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average, and Nasdaq Composite — all ended higher on Monday aided by gains by many of the so-called Magnificent Seven tech stocks in the Wall Street.

Blake Lively has eventually filed a lawsuit against Justin Baldoni who was her co-star and director in ‘It Ends with Us’ while alleging sexual harassment and a coordinated smear campaign eventually aimed at damaging her reputation, reported People.

engagement rumours between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have been sparked by pictures of Swift that Brittany Mahomes posted from her Eras Tour wrap party this past weekend.

Donald Trump's repeated support for TikTok has sparked speculation about potential solutions to prevent the app's impending ban in the United States, though the path forward remains unclear.

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Last Christmas, the song almost as much a part of Christmas as mince pies, turkey, and pigs in blankets became the number one song for the second consecutive year, according to Andrew Ridgeley of the duo.

Trump tariffs are coming. What sort of cataclysmic damage they will inflict on the world economy is on everyone's mind. Will there be trade wars? Will these tariffs stoke inflation? Will they severely restructure global supply chains? Would they shrink global trade and, consequently, the world economy?

Air India flight last Friday saw a 'record' intake of in-flight alcohol by passengers from the 'dry state', it is this: repressed supply heightens demand. While the value of liquor sold has not been shared by Air India, the fact was that enthusiasm for purchasing 50 ml miniature bottles of a whisky brand for ₹600 and 330 ml of a beer brand for ₹300 was undoubtedly higher than in usual international flights that couldn't be simply explained by Christmas cheer. That Gujarat has a thriving black market for alcohol is well known. While the loss of tax revenue has been estimated to be over ₹16k cr (about $2 bn), the real worm in the bottle has been the hazard posed for many in the form of illicit liquor. By dint of being contraband, no quality control applies to these non-branded concoctions. So, the virtue-signalling in 'dry states' like Gujarat and Bihar is actually viceful. The 'hooch tragedy' claiming 136 lives in Ahmedabad in 2009 still hangs as a warning — not for the dangers of drinking but of prohibition. At a wider level, a 'mai-baap' state treating its citizens as children creates a split-personality citizenry that is moral and amoral at the same time. Whether it be consumption of alcohol or pornography, or gambling, 'sins' have a human tendency of finding dark avenues when prohibited. Instead of 'Gandhian virtue-signalling', efforts should be made to provide safe alcoholic beverages for those who choose to partake in such an adult leisure. To club everyone who imbibes in drink to be a menace — socially or morally, or both — is a recipe for the kind of exaggerated behaviour witnessed on the way to Bangkok.

news reports, it was just one more foreign name to worry about, like so many others. And like so many others, it graduated in due time to the level of potential crisis. But before it had gone any further than that, suddenly all the rules had been changed when we weren't looking, and if he said 'he' without an obvious antecedent you were talking about Arslan.