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India aspires to become a knowledge economy. A new IIT-Bombay research paper, however, shows there has been a sharp decline in PhD applications across core engineering streams — mechanical, chemical and electrical engineering, and computer science across IITs since 2021.

Mint takes a closer look at the developments. A career military officer, Li Shangfu trained as an engineer and joined the People’s Liberation Army in 1982. Prior to his appointment as China’s defence minister in 2023, he served as deputy head of the Strategic Support Force, which focused on building up the country’s space and cyber capabilities.

Hanoi witnessed a massive building fire which has killed over 50 people. The fire that broke out in a nine-story apartment building in Vietnam's capital killed at least 56 people, including at least four children, while 37 more are being treated, state media reported citing the police. Of the 56 people confirmed dead, the police have identified 39 victims, the state-owned Viet Nam News said Wednesday evening.

NEW DELHI, MUMBAI : For Rahul Sharma, 40, an ardent Indian cricket fan living in Singapore, the eager excitement of watching Team India’s performance at the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 in his home country has slowly turned into frustration. Despite having booked flights to India for himself and his family months in advance, his quest to secure tickets, especially for the coveted India matches from BookMyShow, the Indian cricket board’s official ticketing partner, has been fruitless. All he has managed to pick up so far: Tickets for two non-India matches, leaving him still in pursuit of prized India match tickets.

Bitcoin (BTC) investment vehicle, the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) could erase its BTC price “discount” in 2024.

TechCrunch, Vishal said that he underwent a lot of leadership training to rebuild the trust within and outside the company. Vishal said that he has become more empathetic towards his employees and also treating them with same level of kindness that are being shown to the customers.

settled her differences with her relatives at the Murugappa Group. Arunachalam had accused the group of gender-based discrimination, as her appointment to their board of directors wasn't approved after her father, the family patriarch's, death.

Every year, a number of new vehicles are discontinued, generally due to poor sales

betting scam involving a Chinese national who collaborated with people in Gujarat to develop a football betting application. As per a TOI report, this app managed to ensnare around 1,200 victims from north Gujarat, leading to a staggering loss of approximately Rs 1,400 crore in just a span of nine days.

Hawaiian paradise. "The only thing I can say is that it hurts. It takes a toll on you emotionally," the 44-year old said.

“Barbenheimer" might be good for theaters, but it’s bringing out some bad behavior in theatergoers. Many attendees are forgetting the cardinal rule: Never take out a phone during the film. Instead, people are picking out selfies to post, scrolling during dull moments, even taking pictures of the screen—with the flash on.

Devina Mehra, Chairperson & MD, First Global, says “in March end, I had said this is the time to get in, when the index was sub 17,000. It has obviously run up from there. There might be a pause, there might be some correction here and there, but the broad trend still remains.

Manipur viral video which saw two Kuki Zo women being paraded naked by a mob of Meitei men has rocked the nation. The the sexual harassment that allegedly took place on 4 May came to limelight only in July, which then witnessed massive outrage.

The world of crypto and Web3 is fast-moving, with new trends emerging all the time. However, the industry has a bit of a problem when it comes to public perception. Figures from Pew Research Center suggest that among Americans who have heard about cryptocurrencies, 75% are either not very or not at all confident in their safety and reliability.

Actress Arthana Binu has accused her father Vijayakumar of trespassing on her property and issuing death threats to her sister and grandmother on July 4. Taking to Instagram, the actress revealed that despite having a restraining order and multiple police cases filed against him, the Malayalam actor had visited them and misbehaved each time. She also added that her father had threatened to kill her mother and grandmother and also demanded she stopped acting in movies. “He threatened me to stop acting in movies and that he would go to any extent if I don’t obey. He also said that if I wish to act I should act in the movies which he say.” The ‘Shylock’ actress said he had also created a ruckus at her workplace. “He also bad-mouthed the team of my Malayalam movie for which I have just completed shooting. Whenever I act in a Malayalam movie he filed a case to stop me from acting. Even when I acted in Shylock, he filed a legal case, and to prevent the movie from being shelved I had to sign an official legal document stating that I acted in the movie of my own will.” She also stated that although the police were informed of the incident, no one has taken action till now. In the video, the actor can be seen banging on the glass doors, shouting and swearing at the family. Vijayakumar is currently estranged from his family. He has divorced his wife and the latter stays with her daughters and 85-year-old mother at the house. The post went viral on Instagram and accumulated over 15K likes.

Wagner boss of «going off the rails» after receiving billions in public funds, as Moscow's new narrative takes shape after Wagner's brief mutiny. Last weekend the head of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, led his forces in a short-lived rebellion against Russia's top military brass, in a huge embarrassment for the Kremlin. «Prigozhin has gone off the rails because of big money,» Dmitry Kiselev, one of the main faces of the Russian propaganda machine, said on his weekly television show on Sunday.

As the hype around Bitcoin (BTC) has faded, institutional investors and portfolio managers have begun looking at the major cryptocurrency as a "serious venue" to invest in, claims Fred Pye, CEO of 3iQ, Canada's first Bitcoin fund issuer.

Big round numbers always pique the interest of investors and the $1 trillion total crypto market capitalization is no exception. It’s a level that held for 48 days before collapsing on March 9. After a 16-hour negative 8.6% price movement, the indicator fell to $914 billion, its lowest level since Jan.13.

If 2022 was any kind of template for gauging what the crypto market might offer for investors going forward, it proved to be terribly difficult to predict. The space saw a brutal shock to the global crypto market capitalization, which fell just over 60% from $2.2 trillion to about $797 billion year to date. It also saw the two largest cryptocurrencies by market cap, BTC and ETH, fall by 64% and 67%, respectively, during the same time frame, with the concurrent slide in the alt market too.

After a sell-out launch that pocketed roughly $4.45 million from primary sales, former United States president Donald Trump’s NFT collection is already on a crash course towards earth.

Arthur Hayes, the former CEO of crypto derivatives platform BitMEX, thinks the worst might be over for Bitcoin (BTC) this cycle as the "largest most irresponsible entities" have run out of BTC to sell.