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When video conferencing specialist Zoom Video Communications Inc. called staff back to the office last month, it was widely interpreted as the disintegration of the remote work experiment. The pro-office message, four years after the pandemic triggered a white-collar retreat, was seized on by Elon Musk, who described it as morally wrong for “laptop classes living in la-la-land” to work from home. Amazon.com Inc. is tracking attendance and emails staff who fail to attend three days a week, while Alphabet Inc.’s Google says absence will affect staff performance reviews. In the United Kingdom, banks including Lloyds Banking Group, Citigroup Inc. and HSBC Holdings PLC, have taken the September cue to tighten their in-office mandates.

The wage gap costs women in the U.S. about $1.6 trillion a year, a new report finds.

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passenger ship service between the UAE and India could be a reality soon, media reports said. With tickets to cost around Dh442, it will offer travellers a convenient and cost-effective mode of travel. It will carry around 1,250 passengers at once and they will be allowed to take up to 200kg of luggage with them. The ship will take roughly three days to reach Kerala, according to YA Rahim, the President of the Indian Association Sharjah.

Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari is undoubtedly a man in a hurry. His go-getter attitude has undoubtedly transformed highway construction in India. Under his remit, the pace of road construction in India has leapfrogged from around 3 km per day to around 37 km per day.

₹1,770 crore. The MMLP will be spread across 400 acre at Muddelinganahalli in Bengaluru rural. The project is poised to become the first and largest MMLP ever implemented in the country under the PM GatiShakti National Master Plan.

G20 summit are yet another reminder of the growing and ever-present threat to digital security. In fact, several hackers are likely to have attacked India's digital infrastructure during the summit, claims CloudSEK, a cyber-security company. Between 2020 and 2022, India averaged 1.3 million cybersecurity incidents a year, according to data presented in Parliament based on incidents reported to or tracked by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), a government nodal agency.

Stock-market strategists who were largely wrong about this year’s rally are finally starting to come to face their mistake, raising year-end targets for the S&P 500 Index.

Evercore ISI has initiated coverage of EV battery start-up, QuantumScape Corp (NYSE:QS) with an Outperform rating and has set their 12-month price target for the stock at $10.00. The US company became public through a SPAC in 2020 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Investing.com -- U.S. stock futures point higher to begin the new trading week, with markets preparing for a parade of key central bank policy meetings around the world. Traders will be keeping a particularly close eye on the U.S. Federal Reserve's two-day gathering, where policymakers are expected to lay out how they see inflation evolving over the remaining months of 2023. Elsewhere, the potential pricing of initial public offerings from tech groups Klaviyo and Instacart are in focus after chip designer Arm 's blockbuster debut.

speaking on inflation and when it will come down, Ashima Goyal said, "For a long time now, firms' inflation expectations have been around 4 percent. That means, despite cost shocks, their price increases do not exceed 4 percent." Ashima Goyal stressed that core inflation is softening and the strategy of inflation targeting is teaching those who determine prices to disregard temporary disruptions in the supply chain.

MUNICH—Oktoberfest is usually all about the beer. This year, it is about chicken. A decision by the Paulaner festival tent to serve all-organic hens at its marquee venue is stoking a debate between advocates of a sustainable Oktoberfest against traditionalists wary of a “Woke Wiesn"—a play on the short form of the name of the Bavarian celebration.

Index-tracking funds are inching closer to free. State Street last month slashed the fee on its cheapest S&P 500 exchange-traded fund, known by ticker symbol SPLG, to 0.02%—making it less than a quarter of the cost of its popular SPY fund that tracks the same stocks. It is now the cheapest index fund in its class.

MONTREAL — BMO Financial Group plans to close its retail auto finance business in order to reroute resources, as borrowers dig deep to stay on top of recent interest rate hikes.

On the eve of recessions in 1990, 2001 and 2007, many Wall Street economists proclaimed the U.S. was on the cusp of achieving a soft landing, in which interest-rate increases corralled inflation without causing a recession. Similarly, this summer’s combination of easing inflation and a cooling labor market has fueled optimism among economists and Federal Reserve officials that this elusive goal might be in reach.

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Indian Navy has placed orders for 68 warships and vessels valued at approximately Rs 2 lakh crore. As per a TOI report, this strategic move aligns with India's overarching goal of safeguarding its extensive geostrategic interests and countering China's expanding presence in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). The Indian Navy, currently boasting 132 warships, 143 aircraft, and 130 helicopters, has received preliminary approval, known as 'acceptance of necessity' (AoN), for the construction of eight next-generation corvettes, nine submarines, five survey vessels, and two multi-purpose vessels within India in the forthcoming years. Despite grappling with the slow-paced construction in domestic shipyards, the phased decommissioning of aging vessels, and fiscal constraints, the Navy anticipates achieving a force level of approximately 155-160 warships by 2030. However, the figures remain dynamic.

Banks want telecommunication companies and social media platforms to share the surging cost of scams but warn too much focus on victim compensation will “create a honeypot for organised crime”.