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telecom gear contract for upgrading Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) network to 5G, people familiar with the matter said. While a final decision is yet to be taken, this still marks a major shift in the government's thinking as it had till now backed only indigenous technology for the state-run carrier's 4G services, and also for 5G upgradation. The change in the government's stance comes amid growing recognition of the need to accelerate upgradation of BSNL's countrywide 5G mobile broadband rollout to boost its market competitiveness.

Disney Entertainment Networks as well as ABC News units. Richard Horrmann, senior vice president of strategic communications for Disney Entertainment Television, told USA Today on Wednesday that this will directly affect less than 200 employees of the company, which represent under 6 percent of the total workers at ABC News Group and Disney Entertainment Networks.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has a piece of advice that he believes could benefit nearly everyone: Get an AI tutor. Nvidia co-founder recently revealed he always has an AI personal tutor with him and has also advised others to opt for it to be able to use AI tools more effectively. “I have a personal [artificial intelligence] tutor with me all of the time. And I think that feeling should be universal,” Huang said in an interview on journalist Cleo Abram’s YouTube show, Huge Conversations, in an episode that aired last month. «That AI tutor can just teach you things, anything you like, help you program, help you write, help you analyze, help you think, help you reason,» he said.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to visit London later this month to deliver a lecture at the University of Oxford, a well-placed official said on Wednesday. Banerjee is likely to leave for London on March 21, he said. She was invited to deliver the lecture by the Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University Jonathan Michie, during the Bengal Global Business Summit in November 2023. «The CM has accepted the invitation of the University of Oxford, where she is scheduled to deliver a lecture. Her flight to London is scheduled on March 21 via Dubai,» the official said, adding that the lecture is scheduled on March 27.

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digital ecosystem, said Unique Identification Authority of India Director S M D Jeelani here on Wednesday. Jeelani inaugurated Bengaluru-based forensics-driven cybersecurity company SISA's Cybersecurity Centre of Excellence Lab at Dayananda Sagar University (DSU). «The lab is a step in the right direction-a critical step in shaping a new generation of cyber leaders who can play a key role and offer out-of-the-box thinking and expertise to protect our digital ecosystem,» said Jeelani.

President Claudia Sheinbaum said that Mexico could shift trade alliances «if necessary,» referring to the possible continuation of the tariffs. Trump's new 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada took effect on Tuesday, along with fresh duties on Chinese goods, standing to seriously alter supply chains and long-standing trade partnerships.

female workforce participation by 2047 as it is pivotal for building a Viksit Bharat and will help unlock immense economic potential and foster growth, labour and employment secretary Sumita Dawra said. Speaking at the Women in Services Sector — the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Dialogue 2025 on Wednesday, Dawra said over the past six years, the labour force participation rate for women has risen from 23% in 2017-18 to approximately 42% in 2023-24. “This uptick is evident across various sectors, including agriculture, manufacturing and services, with a notable increase in educated women joining the workforce,” she said.

Donald Trump's Congress address, tech billionaire and one of his closest aides Elon Musk provided insight into his job security. The Tesla CEO was in attendance at Trump's address to Congress at Capitol Hill in Washington DC on Tuesday. In his speech, Trump heaped praises on Musk and lauded him for or his leadership of the newly established Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). He remarked that even Democrats appreciate Musk's efforts but are unwilling to admit it. «Everybody here — even this side — appreciates it, I believe,» Trump said about Elon as he referred to Democrats in the room. Democrats have been calling for Elon to be fired.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. President Trump wants to build a federal cryptocurrency reserve. His subordinates are starting by counting up crypto the government already holds.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Non-fiction content, which had reached saturation on linear television, is bringing returns for streaming platforms with titles like Bigg Boss, Shark Tank India and The Great Indian Kapil Show topping viewership charts in India. Experts said the interactive nature of some of the latest non-fiction shows is paying off for streaming services.

Darwinbox, which specialises in human resource (HR) services, has closed a $140 million funding round co-led by global private equity firms Partners Group and KKR. The round—largely secondary with a small primary component—also saw participation by Gravity Holdings. Sources said the blended valuation of the round was around $950 million. The company was last valued at $1 billion in 2022, following a $72 million funding round led by Netflix-backer TCV.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI : A $15 billion withdrawal by foreign portfolio investors (FPIs)—2025's largest outflow among emerging economies—has sent Indian markets into a tizzy. Dalal Street is on the edge, with the Nifty 50 down by 7% since January.

DRDO) has successfully conducted high-altitude trials of an indigenous life support system for pilots onboard Tejas light combat aircraft. The defence ministry said cutting-edge life support systems have been designed to generate and regulate breathable oxygen for pilots during flight, eliminating dependence on traditional cylinder-based oxygen. The trials were conducted on Tuesday. With appropriate modifications, the system can also be adapted for use in MiG-29K and other aircraft, the ministry said.

Indian Railway Finance Corporation (IRFC), a key financial institution under the Ministry of Railways, becomes India's third-largest government NBFC. Earlier this week IRFC has been awarded the prestigious Navratna status by the Government of India. IRFC has played a key role in funding nearly 80 per cent of Indian Railways' rolling stock and was the first CPSE to issue a 30-year tenor bond in overseas markets.

«Also, if you looked at the number of stocks that were trading above the 500-day average that had dropped to single digits, almost 9% on Friday, and that was the lowest reading since COVID,» says Rohit Srivastava, Founder, Strike Money Analytics & Indiacharts. Give us a sense of the market move today, help us put this move in perspective because we have been beaten down for ten long consecutive sessions, the longest streak since the inception of Nifty and today that has reversed and how we are trading with gains of more than a percent and you believe that this was the bottom that we have reached and now it is all looking good for the markets going ahead. Rohit Srivastava: The probability of the Nifty having made a final low is very-very high and the reason for that is the very extremely oversold reading setup that we really were looking at in the market, multiple data points not just the positioning in the futures and options market from domestic institutions having built up the largest long positions since March of 2023 along with the highest short positioning that we saw from FIIs.

A recent report by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has sounded the alarm on the rapid rise in bank fraud cases. 

Donald Trump has set April 2 as the date for implementing reciprocal tariffs on a range of imports from several major trading partners. The tariffs, he said, are a response to what he considers unfair trade practices by countries like Canada, Mexico, China, the European Union, and India. This move is part of Trump’s broader agenda to reshape U.S. trade policies and create a more balanced global trading environment.

With a history of underperformance in major ICC events, both nations are eager to shed that label and make a significant impact in the tournament. The South African team, captained by Temba Bavuma, boasts a lineup filled with explosive talent. Key players to watch include the in-form Ryan Rickelton, who recently scored a century, and the experienced batters Rassie van der Dussen and David Miller. Their bowling attack features the pace of Kagiso Rabada and Lungi Ngidi, complemented by the spin of Keshav Maharaj, giving them a slight edge in terms of variety.

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva. Many nations are facing weaker growth prospects and are saddled with high debt while supply chains have come under pressure due to the Covid-19 pandemic and geopolitical developments, Georgieva said remotely from the US at an IMF event in Tokyo. “We also know trade is no longer the engine of global growth it used to be,” she said. “The new US administration is rapidly reshaping its policies on trade, taxation, public spending, deregulation and digital assets, and other governments are also recalibrating their approaches and adjusting their policies.”

Trump said in an address to the U.S. Congress that the pipeline would be one of the largest in the world. «Japan, South Korea and other nations want to be our partner, with investments of trillions of dollars each,» he said.