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India has been a crucible for some of YouTube’s global product successes, including that of its short video format, Neal Mohan, CEO of the Google-owned platform, told ET. A new app, YouTube Create, and some AI-led language tools are being currently tested in India before their global rollout, he added. Mohan, 51, who grew up in Lucknow, is on his first visit to the country after being appointed CEO of YouTube in February last year. Edited excerpts: What are YouTube’s priority areas and expectations from India? I've been on the ground here for a few days now. It's wonderful to see how dynamic the environment here is. The creator economy on YouTube has generated Rs 16,000 crore of economic activity along with 7,50,000 jobs. We're very proud of it and are investing heavily into it. And I think it's just a small example of where this can go.

₹5.9 trillion, a record high. The previous such record was ₹5.49 trillion on 4 June, when the Bharatiya Janata Party's failure to win a simple majority in the Lok Sabha elections spooked investors. Bond yields plunged and stocks rose across markets after Wednesday's soothing words from the Bank of Japan, with the Nifty gaining 1.27% to close above the 24,000 mark at 24297.5, while the Sensex rallied 1.11% to 79,468.01.

Kamala Harris choose Minnesota Governor Tim Walz over Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and other contenders as her running mate? Was it because the Democrat presumptive candidate found him as radical as Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance? According to 'The Telegraph', like Team Trump, the Harris campaign wanted to placate its radical wing. Donald Trump's running mate is more religiously devout than him and more passionate about conservative issues like marriage and family. So, the Democrats too wanted to select someone who could be portrayed as religious and conservative.

Destiny 2's Solstice 2024 event has begun, offering players new weapons, armor sets, and rewards. The event will run for three weeks, giving players ample time to collect exclusive items and complete triumphs.

My Hero Academia" Chapter 430 was released on August 4. With the release of the latest chapter, «My Hero Academia» manga has ended its journey. Now fans are curious about the future of «My Hero Academia», as per a report on ScreenRant. It must be noted that «My Hero Academia» anime is not culminating. «My Hero Academia» season 7 is being streamed. There are reports about «My Hero Academia» season 8 which is likely to be released in 2025. Another «My Hero Academia» movie titled «You're Next» has been released in Japan. In US, the premier date is likely to be in October.

Xpheno. The employment market in the first three months of the calendar year touched a 2-year high of 340,000 open positions at end March, shows the data curated from LinkedIn, Naukri.com, Indeed, Shine.com, among others. The number of active openings in July is a 4% degrowth over July 2023 and a 10% degrowth over July 2021, according to the data of white collar vacancies for professionals with one year of experience and above.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Wednesday he still believes that the odds of a «soft landing» for the U.S. economy are around 35% to 40%, making recession the most likely scenario in his mind.

Trump was on an unstoppable march, about to return to power, taking over from incumbent Joe Biden, who looked weak and hesitant. Then, a deranged individual shot at Trump, offering hundreds of memes, including one that said, 'Man shoots, misses Trump, wounds Biden'. For that's what happened. With a halo around him, Trump's return seemed inevitable. In Milwaukee, he spoke of unity and then reinforced divisive tones at the Republican convention. He paraded his vice-presidential nominee James D Vance, with his 'exotic' Indian wife, the Yale-educated Usha Chilkuri. Like her husband, she once hated everything Trump stood for, but was now going to support him.

Eric Trump, son of former U.S. President Donald Trump, has hinted at a significant announcement related to cryptocurrency.

Honda has reported an 8.7% increase in its fiscal first quarter profit as strong sales of hybrid vehicles in Japan and the U.S., and motorcycles in India and Brazil, boosted the Japanese automaker’s earnings

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus has been chosen to head Bangladesh’s interim government after student protests sparked an uprising that toppled the former leader

Bolivia’s socialist President Luis Arce says national referenda will be held soon on the removal of politically combustible fuel subsidies and on the constitutionality of presidential reelections

rising unemployment, among other issues. Sheikh Hasina, the daughter of Bangladesh's founding leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, has been in power consistently since 2009: a period that also marked the country’s economic transformation and political stability. However, Bangladesh’s economic turnaround met with mass political unrest as Hasina’s governance began appearing dictatorial and elections were seen internationally as a mere formality.

Amit Singh Negi has been appointed additional secretary in the PMO as part of a major top-level reshuffle effected by the Centre. A 1999-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Uttarakhand cadre, Negi is currently joint secretary in the Department of Expenditure under the Union Ministry of Finance. He has been appointed as additional secretary in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), according to an order issued by the personnel ministry. Samir Ashwin Vakil, a 1998-batch Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax) officer, has been appointed director in the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) under the Union Ministry of Corporate Affairs for a tenure of five years, it said.

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her newly selected vice presidential running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, campaigned for the first time together on Tuesday in Philadelphia, kicking off a multi-day tour of battleground states aimed at introducing Walz to the national stage. In his remarks to a raucous crowd of more than 10,000 at Temple University, Walz described his upbringing in a small Nebraska town, his 24 years serving in the Army National Guard and his prior career as a high school social studies teacher and football coach. «It was my students who encouraged me to run for office,» he said. «They saw in me what I was hoping to instill in them: a commitment of common good, a belief that one person can make a difference.»

Trump in Exile," Meredith McGraw's latest book, reveals the disarray in Donald Trump's political operations following his defeat in the 2020 election and the Capitol riot on January 6. Trump's urgent March 2022 call to conservative consultant Susie Wiles is detailed in the book, which was reviewed in Vanity Fair. To sort out his chaotic campaign, he turned to her. Trump acknowledged that he didn't know who was in control, how much money he had, or if anyone on his team was stealing, as per the reports of MSN.

The US stock market faced a severe test yesterday, with key benchmarks plunging as investors digested a perfect storm of bearish economic and market headlines.

Donald Trump right to say that his political rival Kamala Harris was not a Black woman? This was not the first time that the daughter of a Jamaican father and an Indian mother had faced such a racial question. But a White Republican candidate must raise this question about the presumptive Democrat candidate just before the US Presidential Election 2024. However, the question of Black identity took a new twist when some Black male voters in Pennsylvania said that they didn’t consider the vice president to be Black before Trump's comments.

Ramdas Athawale on Tuesday asked Maharashtra Navnirman Sena president Raj Thackeray to withdraw his «anti-reservation» remarks or else Dalits and backward classes will boycott MNS candidates in the upcoming Maharashtra assembly elections. Athawale said Thackeray's remarks on reservations were uncalled for. Speaking to reporters in Pandharpur town, Thackeray on Monday said local people should be given priority in job opportunities. «My stance is that locals should be given priority in job opportunities. Why should caste be a factor in this? If the private sector continues to create jobs, we should think about how many people will benefit from reservation in government jobs,» the MNS chief had said.

Five United States Senators and three House representatives have called for a ban on betting activities linked to the upcoming 2024 presidential election.

Bangladesh is currently hogging headlines everywhere for all the wrong reasons. Its long-time leader Sheikh Hasina has just been overthrown, causing her to flee the country. The nation is not new to such violent political events. It has seen it all — assassinations, army rule, copious political bloodletting — at various points in its short history. Here follows a recap: