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recruitment of artificial intelligence (AI) talent in India, at least for 132 companies looking to hire such talent from the technology, finance and manufacturing sectors, according to a senior executive at Deel. The San Francisco-based payroll and compliance provider offers hiring and payments services to companies enrolling international employees and contractors. Mark Samlal, general manager for Asia-Pacific at Deel told ET in an interview that demand for AI expertise is on the rise but finding candidates proficient in skills can be very tough.

₹4.26 trillion over the last two financial years and rolled out 5G networks in record speed require some return on capital. “In 21 months, 5G has been rolled out, 450,000 base stations have been set up. Telcos have spent close to ₹4.26 trillion in the last two fiscals.

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South Korea’s Constitutional Court has ordered the government to back its climate goals with more concrete plans for action through 2049

Penny Lancaster. Stewart met Lancaster in 1999 and they got married in 2007. 79-year-old Stewart shared two sons — Alastair and Aiden — with 53-year-old wife Lancaster. «We wanted to put the record straight. There is absolutely no rift between Penny and I and no disagreement over where we should reside, in fact it’s the opposite,» Stewart wrote on Instagram. «We moved permanently back to our beloved Britain a year ago but are fortunate to also have homes in different countries, which we love to visit. Originally, we did think it made sense to sell our house in L.A., but having spent a wonderful time there this summer with family and friends during my Vegas residency, we realized that it makes sense to keep our house there,» veteran British rock and pop singer's statement reads.

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Nagaland deputy CM Y Patton on Thursday told the state assembly that there is no report of influx of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants following the political crisis in the neighbouring country. Patton said this while responding to NPF MLA Achumbemo Kikon raising concern in the zero hour of state assembly on possible influx following the political crisis in Bangladesh.

Russia conducted a heavy aerial attack on Ukraine for the third time in four days Thursday, again launching missiles and scores of drones that mostly were intercepted, Ukraine's air force said. Russian forces fired five missiles and 74 Shahed drones at Ukrainian targets, an air force statement said. Air defenses stopped two missiles and 60 drones, and 14 other drones presumably fell before reaching their target, it said. Authorities in the capital, Kyiv, said debris of destroyed drones fell in three districts of the city, causing minor damage to civilian infrastructure but no injuries. Russia's relentless and unnerving long-range strikes on civilian areas have been a feature of the war since it invaded its neighbor in February 2022.

heavy rains and strong winds this week, raising the risk of floods and threatening the crops that are just weeks away from harvesting. Saurashtra and Kachchh regions of the western state of Gujarat will receive heavy precipitation for three days through Saturday, according to the India Meteorological Department. A deep depression in the coastal parts may intensify into a cyclone on Friday, causing the wind speed to surge to as high as 85 kilometers (53 miles) per hour, it said in a bulletin Thursday. Any severe damage to cotton plants could put pressure on the South Asian nation to increase overseas purchases, potentially underpinning global prices of cotton that have slumped almost 15% this year. A likely drop in production of peanuts could tighten supplies of the commodity in the country that imports about 60% of its vegetable oil needs.

lead, refined nickel, zinc, and tin ingots in the country. These norms have been formulated by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), and the ministry has proposed mandating them through a Quality Control Order (QCO).

Telegram could face stricter EU digital rules as Brussels probes whether the popular messaging app — whose founder faces criminal charges in France — has more users in the bloc than claimed. The platform was thrust into the spotlight after its chief Pavel Durov was arrested in France on Saturday. He has since been released on bail but cannot leave the country. Durov is accused of failing to curb extremist and illegal content on the increasingly controversial platform, which has over 900 million followers.

mpox infection. Fear and stigma make it difficult for patients to seek medical attention soon after symptoms arise, which include a painful rash, fever, muscle aches and sore throat. Misinformation is spreading rapidly.

SEOUL—Dozens of South Korean children sued their government over inadequate policies targeting climate change, arguing their rights to live in a clean environment had been violated. On Thursday, they earned a major legal victory. South Korea, home to major semiconductor, battery and electric-vehicle makers, has pledged by the end of this decade to reduce carbon emissions by 40% from a 2018 benchmark.

Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries held its 47th Annual General Meeting (AGM) today. The company leaders made several big announcements at this event including the new Jio Phonecall AI. Powered by artificial intelligence, new Jio Phonecall AI offers a suite of features designed to enhance phone calls. It comes with a range of benefits, from automatic recording and transcription to real-time translation and secure storage.

French President Emmanuel Macron starts a two-day state visit to Serbia, with the focus on the possible sale of 12 Rafale multi-purpose fighter jets to the country, which has maintained close ties to Russia despite its invasion of Ukraine

Transport ministers from Turkey, Iraq, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates are meeting in Istanbul to discuss a multibillion-dollar regional transportation project designed to ease the movement of goods from Asia to Europe through Iraq

The Fountain, produced by Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel, about a man searching for everlasting youth, had this chilling dialogue: “Death is a disease, it’s like any other. And there’s a cure. A cure—and I will find it." No other words are more apt than this film dialogue to describe this moment in human endeavour when Death is the unparalleled villain.

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said credible media is important for the qualitative transformation of democracy and socio-economic development of the country. Addressing an event here, Gadkari said every politician expects media support, but the media should support what is good for democracy and the country. He noted that once upon a time, people were only dependent on print media and electronic media, now they are dependent on social media. «In media, what we need is credibility, goodwill...people are expecting information from the media by which they can make the qualitative transformation of our democracy,» the minister said.

Sri Lanka's Debt Sustainability Agreement, Foreign Minister Ali Sabry has said resuming negotiations with the IMF could jeopardise its next tranche due in December and subsequent disbursements from the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. The conditions for the Debt Sustainability Agreement (DSA) have now become part of the law and cannot be easily altered, Sabry said. He emphasised that renegotiating the deal could lead to further economic instability in the island nation, which is recovering from the worst-ever economic turmoil it suffered in 2022. Sri Lanka declared its first-ever sovereign default in mid-April 2022, having run out of its foreign exchange reserves. The halt to the debt services meant that the multilateral creditor nations and commercial lenders could not extend fresh financing to the country.

United States is pushing China to break a longstanding resistance to nuclear arms talks, seeing a «limited opportunity» for early two-way conversations on the superpowers' approach to the issue, a senior Biden administration official said. The renewed U.S. push for nuclear talks comes as U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan met top Chinese officials in Beijing to try and resolve gaping differences on a broad range of issues. «We saw some limited opportunity to open, at least the beginnings of conversation on the subject in the last months, but it's been fits and starts, and I think it will continue to be fits and starts,» said the official, who sought anonymity because the matter is a sensitive one.

₹10,000 per month in 2022-23 (at constant 2011-12 prices). Casual wage labour, the worst form of employment, fetched only ₹4,500 per month.