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France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Spain shared the second place, granting their citizens visa-free access to 192 countries, as per the latest rankings. The United States ranked 8th, giving its citizens visa-free entry to 186 countries.

data centre boom globally, in addition to rapid 5G rollouts, is silently propelling the growth of another ancillary industry: Optic fibre cables (OFCs). With top dollar expected to flow into the segment in the next decade, service providers and fibre manufacturers are looking to simultaneously strengthen deployment locally and double down on building capacities and boosting exports. Investment banking firm Avendus Capital expects around $2 billion capital expenditure towards data centre fibre alone over the next decade, with global private equity funds eyeing the India opportunity. Deloitte estimates that overall fibre deployment in India will be 4 million kilometres in 2024, expected to expand at 12- 15% over the next two years. Manufacturers are also looking to harness India’s already established credentials. According to data from the Ministry of Commerce, India’s OFC exports to more than 100 countries in FY24 totalled Rs 39,600 crore. Nearly half of the shipments were to major European nations, including Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy, and the Czech Republic.

The Dutch junior minister for finance has quit following criticism of his refusal to publish details of his personal investments

Harold and the Purple Crayon, which is based on the beloved book by Crocket Johnson, will soon be available for streaming on Netflix. The film follows Harold, a young boy who creates magical adventures with his purple crayon.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. One class of Indians that hasn't copped enough of the criticism it deserves for its role in selling out the country to imperialists through the 17th and 18th centuries, is bankers of that time.

 The Claman Countdown panelists Jeff Sica and Dutch Masters predict Fed Chair Powells next moves.

CG Power and Industrial Solutions on Monday reported a nearly 10 per cent decline in its consolidated profit after tax to Rs 220 crore for three months ended September 2024. Its profit after tax (PAT) was Rs 244 crore in the year-ago quarter. Aggregate sales for the quarter increased 21 per cent to Rs 2,413 crore during the July-September quarter of the current fiscal from Rs 2,002 crore in the same quarter of 2023-24, the company said in a stock exchange filing.

Former U.S. national team captain Becky Sauerbrunn and Netherlands forward Vivianne Miedema are among more than 100 women’s soccer players who have signed an open letter protesting FIFA’s sponsorship deal with Saudi Arabian state oil giant Aramco

U.S. stocks rose following better-than-expected profit reports from Morgan Stanley, United Airlines and other big companies

The U.S. retirement system doesn't get high marks relative to other nations.

Markets on Wall Street were largely unchanged early Wednesday after pulling back from record lows a day earlier as investors shed technology and energy sector shares

Widely shared on social media, the atmospheric black and white shots — a mother and her child starving in the Great Depression; an exhausted soldier in the Vietnam war — may look at first like real historic documents. But they were created by artificial intelligence, and researchers fear they are muddying the waters of real history.

BEIJING — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's international arm on Wednesday launched an updated version of its artificial intelligence-powered translation tool that, it says, is better than products offered by Google, DeepL and ChatGPT.

Equity benchmarks in Sydney, Tokyo and Seoul all fell, while contracts pointed to declines in Hong Kong. S&P 500 futures were little changed after the benchmark slid 0.8% on Tuesday. Treasuries were steady while oil clawed back some gains in early trading after plunging Tuesday.

Samidoun, a pro-Palestinian group behind a rally where people chanted “death to Canada” and burned the Canadian flag in Vancouver earlier this month, as a terrorist entity.Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc made the announcement on Tuesday and noted that the listing was made alongside the U.S. Treasury Department’s own decision to list the group as a specially designated global terrorist entity.“Violent extremism, acts of terrorism or terrorist financing have no place in Canadian society or abroad,” LeBlanc said in a statement.“The listing of Samidoun as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code sends a strong message that Canada will not tolerate this type of activity, and will do everything in its power to counter the ongoing threat to Canada’s national security and all people in Canada.”Samidoun has been previously listed as a terrorist entity by Germany and the Netherlands and, in a release, Public Safety Canada, said the group has “close links with and advances the interests of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).That group is also listed as a terrorist entity by Canada, the U.S.

Udita Duhan emerged as the costliest buy at the Hockey India League women's auction after she was acquired by Shrachi Rarh Bengal Tigers for Rs 32 lakh here on Tuesday. Dutch star drag-flicker Yibbi Janssen was the second most expensive player and was bought by Odisha Warriors for Rs 29 lakh, followed by young Indian forward Sunelita Toppo, who was picked up by Delhi SG Pipers for Rs 24.00 lakh. Indian players Lalremsiami (for Rs 25 lakh to Shrachi Rarh Bengal Tigers), Sunelita Toppo (for Rs 24 lakh to Delhi SG Pipers), and Sangita Kumari (for Rs 22 lakh to Delhi SG Pipers) attracted significant attention in the first half of the auction. Several overseas players, including Belgium's Charlotte Englebert (for Rs 16 lakh to Soorma Hockey Club), Germany's Charlotte Stapenhorst (for Rs 16 lakh to Soorma Hockey Club), and Australia's Jocelyn Bartram (for Rs 15 lakh to Odisha Warriors) were the notable buys.

The Dutch government on Tuesday said it will reduce its stake in lender ABN Amro by a quarter to 30% through a trading plan.

RBI) has granted a white-label ATM licence to Electronic Payment and Services (EPS), creating a pitch for faster expansion of the ATM network to support the cash economy. The award of the licence comes after a gap of a decade.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The career of Andrea Orcel vividly encapsulates the recent history of European banking. At Merrill Lynch, now part of Bank of America, Mr Orcel advised on deals that formed part of the wave of mergers that crested in 2007, when a pan-European troika bought ABN AMRO, a Dutch lender.

car sunroofs is pushing the world’s leading makers of the feature to join local partners in ramping up investments to tap this burgeoning market. Netherlands-based Inalfa Roof Systems along with its partner Gabriel India is looking to double capacity for manufacturing sunroofs in the next one year. The duo, which opened their first plant in Chennai in the first quarter of 2024, can currently produce up to 200,000 sunroofs annually. Germany’s Webasto—a global leader in openable sunroofs—has started work to nearly double production capacity in the Indian market to 950,000 units per year by 2027, from the current 500,000 units. Auto parts maker Uno Minda inked a technical licence agreement this August with Japan’s Aisin Corp., among the world’s top 10 Tier I component suppliers, to locally manufacture and sell vehicle sunroofs. “The Indian automotive market is witnessing a remarkable shift, with sunroofs rapidly becoming a sought-after feature,” said NK Minda, chairman and managing director, Uno Minda. “Sunroofs have seen multifold growth in recent years. This trend is only set to accelerate as sunroofs, once limited to larger SUVs and MUVs, are now increasingly finding their way into hatchbacks.”

defence collaboration, the defence equipment manufacturers are expecting manifold increase in the collaboration and are bullish on Make in India initiative. MBDA, Europe’s leading missile manufacturer is looking to set up unit in India. Head of Naval systems in MBDA missile Systems, Stefano Bertuzzi told ET, " We are planning to have a unit in India in next three to four years. " Naval Group India is the first subsidiary of any Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) platform designer to establish it physical presence at Karwar.