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Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday said that the upcoming assembly election in Jharkhand was for saving 'Sanatan' in the state. He claimed that the Hindu population in Jharkhand's Santhal Pargana region has declined from 90 per cent in 1951 to 67 per cent in 2011. Sarma, also the BJP's Jharkhand election co-incharge, was addressing an election rally in Deoghar district in favour of BJP nominee Randhir Singh, who filed his nomination from Sarath assembly constituency. «The election this time is not for JMM or Congress but for saving the Sanatan in Jharkhand,» he said.

e-commerce giants Google, Meta, Amazon, and Flipkart collectively generated over Rs 60,000 crore in advertising revenue in FY24, a 9% increase from Rs 55,053 crore in FY23, according to Registrar of Companies (RoC) filings. For the first time, the Indian arms of Google and Meta surpassed Rs 50,000 crore in combined gross revenue. The marketplace arms of Flipkart and Amazon garnered over Rs 10,000 crore in cumulative ad revenue, with Flipkart Internet alone raking in close to Rs 5,000 crore. Amazon Seller Services, which generated Rs 5,380 crore in ad revenue in FY23, has yet to publish its annual report. However, sources indicate that the company is likely to report strong ad revenue earnings in line with industry trends.

OpenAI on Thursday beefed up its ChatGPT generative AI chatbot with search engine capabilities, as the startup takes on Google's decades-long dominance of web search. The upgrade enables users to receive «fast, timely answers» with links to relevant web sources — information that previously required using a traditional search engine, the company said. The significant upgrade to ChatGPT enables the AI chatbot to provide real-time information from across the web.

Ratan Tata’s will to ensure ‘unlimited’ care for his pet dog Tito is likely to trigger a ‘pawsome’ trend — more and more pet parents making provisions for their furry companions on their posthumous wish lists. While queries on these lines have been coming in for a while now, the trend is still at a nascent stage in India. Tata’s move, say lawyers, will generate much more awareness about the issue, prompting more people to follow suit. Pets are not recognised as people capable of holding property or inheriting the estate of another person — they are deemed personal property. Therefore, while many Indians see their pets as their children, Indian law still doesn’t.

OpenAI is launching a ChatGPT-powered search engine that could put the artificial intelligence company in direct competition with search giant Google and affect the flow of internet traffic seeking news and other timely information

Google Maps is heading down a new road steered by artificial intelligence

Google' clash with Russia is not a very old story, as the tussle keeps reviving over time, and in this instance, a Russian court has surprised everyone by declaring a $20 decillion fine on the tech giants for violating laws, when they blocked pro-Kremlin media outlets. The fine has been compounded with other penalties imposed on Google, after it blocked 17 Russian TV channels as a result of international sanctions. These TV channels were all speaking in favor of the Kremlin, and in support of the Russian aggression on Ukraine, among other things.

Indian banks' loan growth moderated this September, compared with the same month a year ago, central bank data showed on Thursday, as the impact of the Reserve Bank of India's clampdown on «exuberance» in retail lending continued. Banks' credit grew at 14.4% year-on-year last month, slower than the 15.3% increase in September 2023, excluding the impact of HDFC Bank merging with parent Housing Development Finance Corp (HDFC), the RBI said. Including the impact of the merger, banks' loans grew 13% last month, compared with 20% a year ago.

B R Naidu, recently appointed chairman of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) Board, announced his intention to establish a Hindu-only workforce at Tirumala, the sacred temple of Lord Venkateswara. «Everyone who works at Tirumala should be Hindu,» Naidu said in a statement on Thursday. «That would be my first effort. There are many issues in this. We have to look into that,» he continued, emphasizing the importance of maintaining the religious integrity of Tirumala’s operations. Naidu plans to consult with the Andhra Pradesh government to determine the next steps, which could involve reassigning non-Hindu employees to other government roles or offering them a Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS).

Housing society management app Mygate saw its operating revenue rise 35% to Rs 96 crore in the financial year ended March 31 from Rs 71 crore in 2022-23. The Bengaluru-based company's consolidated net loss narrowed significantly by 82% to Rs 40 crore from Rs 227 crore a year ago. This sharp cut in losses was driven by a 51% reduction in its total expenses, which came down to Rs 149 crore in 2023-24 from Rs 304 crore in the previous year. In 2023-24, the company spent Rs 82 crore on employee benefits while incurring other expenses of Rs 61 crore.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Microsoft reported strong quarterly growth in its cloud-computing business that indicated its heavy investment in artificial intelligence is paying off. Revenue for the tech giant’s Azure cloud business—a core of its AI offering—rose 33% in the quarter through September, beating analysts’ expectations.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. That artificial intelligence (AI) would start taking over software coding was anticipated. Sundar Pichai, chief of Google’s parent Alphabet, has put out a figure that offers us a sense of its speed.

Asset Reconstruction Company (ARC), a joint venture between Aditya Birla Capital and Varde Partners, is winding down its India operations, marking the latest in a series of fund-backed ARCs exiting the country. The move follows recent exits by Arcion Revitalization — a JV between Apollo Global and ICICI Bank — and Lone Star India, underscoring the increasing challenges in India's ARC sector as non-performing loans (NPLs) hit a 12-year low. This decline is largely credited to India's 2016 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) and the rise of the government-backed National Asset Reconstruction Company (NARCL).

For the first time in its nearly 20-year history, Reddit is turning a profit

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. KKR and Energy Capital Partners have agreed to invest a combined $50 billion in data-center and power-generation projects to support the development of artificial intelligence. The investment is a bet on AI’s huge energy needs and the mounting stress it is putting on the U.S.

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Sebi) has released a consultation paper specifying the timelines for deployment of funds collected by asset management companies (AMCs) in new fund offer (NFO) as per asset allocation of the scheme within 30 business days. According to Sebi, the AMCs should specify achievable timelines in the SID regarding the deployment of the funds as per the specified asset allocation of the scheme and should garner funds during the NFO accordingly. The AMCs may be mandated to deploy the funds garnered in NFO within the said period from the date of allotment of units. In case if an AMC is not able to deploy the funds in 30 business days, it has to give the reasons in writing, including details of efforts taken to deploy the funds, and this should be placed before the Investment Committee.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Google might be the largest company in the world whose fate seems completely out of its hands these days, but the $2 trillion internet giant still has a few cards it can play. Some of them were on display in the third-quarter report from Alphabet, the parent company, late Tuesday.

Subscription growth was driven by offerings like YouTube TV, NFL Sunday Ticket and YouTube Music Premium. “We're also focusing on enhancing the living room experience with features like multiview and a new option for creators to organize their content into episodes and seasons, much like traditional TV,” the company said in a blog post.

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The company's stock rose 5.5% in premarket trading on Wednesday, a day after Alphabet posted a 35% surge in Google Cloud revenue, the fastest pace of growth in eight quarters. Analysts expected a 29% rise, according to LSEG. The company's mainstay ad sales business rose 10%.