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Narendra Modi is set to embark on a significant three-day visit from 23rd to 25th February, covering Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, and Assam. His itinerary includes laying the foundation stone of a major medical institute, inaugurating two key investment summits, and announcing critical welfare schemes for farmers. The visit underscores the government’s focus on healthcare, infrastructure, and economic growth across multiple regions.

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Elon Musk, has implemented significant reductions in research funding for the private medical sector. Specifically, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has capped indirect cost rates at 15%, down from an average of 30%. Indirect costs, which include utilities, administrative salaries, and maintenance, are essential for research institutions to operate. This cut means private research institutions, universities, and hospitals must now cover more of these costs themselves, potentially leading to budget deficits and reduced research capabilities.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In the fierce competition to build the best artificial-intelligence systems, the most precious resource isn’t data, researchers or cash. It’s an expensive chip called a graphics processing unit.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Is that the heady scent of hubris, wafting through the winter air of Washington, D.C.? So bold has President Trump been in the first month of his second term that nervous Europeans wonder if the American republic is now unabashedly an empire. Trump renames seas.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Despite a brief period of investor doubt, money is pouring into artificial intelligence from big tech companies, national governments and venture capitalists at unprecedented levels. To understand why, it helps to appreciate the way that AI itself is changing.

Indian refiners have cancelled orders for 100,000 metric tons of crude palm oil (CPO) scheduled for delivery between March and June, because of a surge in benchmark Malaysian prices and negative refining margins in India, four trade sources said.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: India and the UK are set to restart talks for a free trade agreement (FTA) after nearly a year, with a top British delegation arriving in New Delhi on Sunday. India is likely to soften its demand on workers' mobility considering reservations in the new British government led by prime minister Keir Starmer, two people familiar with the matter said.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: A month in as the new chief of Indian Bank and Binod Kumar is looking to flip the state-run lender’s playbook albeit at a cautious but steady pace.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Dear Reader, Last Sunday, religious leaders, climate thinktanks and the government of India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, got together for a rather unique event. On the sidelines of the ongoing Mahakumbh in Prayagraj, the largest religious gathering in the world, the discussion centred on the role of faith in combating the climate crisis.

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is likely to deliver more interest rate cuts in the months ahead to help accelerate economic expansion, potentially breaking ranks with price-focused peers in key developed markets, as fostering growth seemingly begins to outweigh inflation taming as an immediate priority for the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC).

Randhir Jaiswal told reporters in response to a query during his weekly briefing.

Uday Kotak knows his business — and business. This week, he shared his concern about depleting 'animal spirits' among business families, where a new generation is more interested in managing investments rather than creating 'real-world businesses'. The idea that 'business owners should only focus on core business' is rather anachronistic, especially in the day and age of private equity, and if the business is already mature. Capital is better allocated among next-gen entrepreneurs if it's free to range wider than among family members. A higher velocity of money is broadly supportive of economic growth and employment. Cost of capital also decreases if it's not locked into sectors, particularly capital-intensive manufacturing.

Nitin Gadkari on Friday said road projects worth Rs 3 lakh crore will be completed in Kerala during his regime, including Rs 50,000 crore worth upcoming projects. Addressing Invest Kerala Global Summit (IKGS) virtually, the Road Transport and Highways Minister said the road sector is important for the state and also highlighted growth potential of tourism.

Once upon a time, mortgagors nearing the end of their term would open their bank’s renewal letter, see offers based on horrendously high posted rates and obliviously accept them.