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Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have been making headlines due to their ongoing rivalry, but amidst the tension, a surprising turn of events occurred on social media. An AI-generated picture collage depicting a harmonious encounter between the two tech titans has gone viral, capturing the attention and amusement of netizens. Shared by a Twitter user known as Sir Doge of the Coin, the images depict Musk and Zuckerberg in a casual setting, reminiscent of a couple on a beach holiday.

India's G20 presidency intends to preserve the grouping's identity and ethos as a forum for growth that brings together developed and emerging economies on a common platform. This is stated in an official statement released on Sunday at the end of a three-day Sherpas' meeting that was chaired by India's G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant in the historic city of Hampi.

(This July 15 story has been refiled to fix typographical errors in paragraphs 3 and 7)

Lenovo Tab M10 5G, the tablet comes with a 10.61-inch LCD screen and houses a 7,700mAh battery. The all-new Lenovo tablet comes with a starting price of ₹22,999. It is offered in two models- 4GB RAM with 128GB internal storage, and 6GB RAM with 128GB storage.

More than 80 per cent of the broadcast viewers for the ABC’s marquee news program, the 7pm bulletin, are over 55 years old – with a staggering two-thirds of viewers older than 65, internal data circulated to managers shows.

Lotteries, just like everything else, are getting more expensive. In May, the price of a Powerball entry went up for the first time since 2018.

Arun Singh Tanwar, founder, CEO, Get Together Finance (GTF), shares his views on opportunities and challenges of the Indian education system with FE Education Online.

Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal to Britain, Commerce Secretary Sunil Barthwal is visiting London this week to take stock of the negotiations for a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) with the UK, an official said. During the visit (July 17-18), the secretary will hold discussions with senior officials of the UK about the proposed trade agreement, which both the countries are negotiating. The negotiating team of India is already there in London for the eleventh round of talks.

What if animals had their own money, and they could pay us to serve them? You may assume at first glance that this is just another way of saying, “world wildlife fund." But what if there is no human proxy involved? What if a wild elephant had his own digital money, irreversibly assigned to him, from which he pays humans to eliminate poachers or make reparations for running amok in a village? Also, what if he is able to replenish his bank account by being a star, or an extra, in an immersive virtual reality game? What if the digital currency is backed by real money and the most cash-rich human virtue, our obligation to nature, and hence has intrinsic value for humans? What surprised me more than the concept of “interspecies money" is the fact that the Indian government has agreed to listen to the Scotsman who has proposed it. I try to imagine his initial probing emails to the outer edges of Indian bureaucracy: “‘Interspecies Money’ would be a new currency that will be held by animals…" Yet, I gather that he will be heard at substantive levels of the Indian government later this month.

India for negotiating bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) to boost economic ties, the commerce ministry is looking at ways to increase its bandwidth for undertaking these time and human resource consuming talks, a senior official said. The commerce ministry officials at present are negotiating several FTAs with countries including the UK, Canada and European Union. «Negotiations are really time consuming and energy consuming and human resource consuming.

Though the military won’t comment on specific operations, officials say that it now uses an AI recommendation system that can crunch huge amounts of data to select targets for air strikes. Ensuing raids can then be rapidly assembled with another AI model called Fire Factory, which uses data about military-approved targets to calculate munition loads, prioritize and assign thousands of targets to aircraft and drones, and propose a schedule.

GANDHINAGAR : The US and its allies are building on actions to crack down on efforts by Russia to evade sanctions, US treasury secretary Janet Yellen said on Sunday. "One of our core goals this year is to combat Russia’s efforts to evade our sanctions. Our coalition is building on the actions we have taken in recent months to crack down on these efforts," Yellen said during a press conference at the sidelines of the third G20 Finance and Central Bank Deputies (FCBD) meeting.

India will push its Group of 20 partners at a meeting it is hosting to support its proposal to raise the share of taxes multinational companies pay to countries where they earn «excess profits», government officials said. India's proposal, which has not been previously reported, could temper optimism among G20 members such as Australia and Japan that the meeting of finance ministers and central bankers in Gujarat would make progress on a long-awaited overhaul of global corporate taxation. More than 140 countries were supposed to start implementing next year a 2021 deal overhauling decades-old rules on how governments tax multinationals.

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African Union in the grouping and will work closely with the Indian presidency on a joint communique at the leaders' summit, its G20 sherpa Mike Pyle said. The third sherpa meeting discussed the first revised draft declaration in Hampi, a world heritage site famous for the temple ruins of Vijayanagara kingdom. «Absolutely! President (Joe) Biden was one of the first ones to support the idea of the African Union joining the G20 formally,» Pyle said on the sidelines of the sherpa meeting.

multinationals in India have ramped up their talent search this fiscal year even as recessionary pressures and macroeconomic headwinds keep hiring muted in the West, said top industry officials. The in-house units of global companies in India across sectors such as banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI), pharmaceuticals, retail, energy, automotive and telecom are set to clock half a million gross hires, including attrition refills, this fiscal year, according to data from specialist staffing firm Xpheno.

Narendra Modi came to power in 2014. While interacting with the Indian community, Jaishankar said, "We engage with the countries of the ASEAN. So, for us, this is not just a relationship.

In recent times, the progress in developing physical and digital infrastructure in the country has been much written about and discussed.

semiconductor chips continues to impact the issue of chip-baseddriver’s licences and automobile registration cards, to the frustration of new vehicle owners. During most of 2022 and the beginning of 2023, disruption in the supply chain and the Russia-Ukraine war caused a shortage of chips that meant that smart drivers’ license were not issued, said Pethi Sarguru, CEO of Versatile Card Technology( VCT) one of the largest manufacturers of smart cards used for PAN cards and voter IDs. Tenders for manufacture of these smart documents are yet to be floated in multiple states, said several persons aware of the situation.

Ripple Labs achieved a partial victory in its case with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on July 13, 2023.

G20 countries have engaged constructively with India's draft and have strong praise for India's ambition for delivering strong and action-oriented outcomes, Amitabh Kant, India's G20 sherpa, told ET's Deepshikha Sikarwar on the sidelines of the third sherpa meeting in Hampi, Karnataka. Edited excerpts:This is the third sherpa meeting and the drafting exercise for the declaration has begun. What are the key items on the table for India that you are hopeful of pushing through in the leaders' declaration? PM Modi was clear that India's G20 presidency must be inclusive, ambitious, decisive and action-oriented.