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Fundstrat analyst Tom Lee believes Bitcoin (BTC)’s price could reach $150,000 by the end of the year, rising 3X from its current value.

Malia Obama is stepping into the spotlight under a new name. As her Hollywood career gains momentum, the eldest daughter of Barack and Michelle Obama has opted to go by Malia Ann, shedding her last name for her latest film endeavor, The Heart.

Kylian Mbappé was 14 years old when Real Madrid first brought him in for a tryout—and the club was determined to impress him. Real sent Mbappé’s fellow Frenchman Zinédine Zidane to meet him at the airport. It introduced him to his idol, Cristiano Ronaldo.

BENGALURU : Daniel Dines, co-founder of enterprise automation software company UiPath, who stepped down as co-CEO to become the company’s chief innovation officer, insists that while generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) models can increase business productivity manifold, the world will need a bigger breakthrough for these models to develop human-like reasoning capability. In an interview during his visit to Bengaluru where the company set up its first office outside Romania, he spoke about how robotic process automation (RPA) is being used with GenAI to enhance customer experience, and why entrepreneurs will find it hard to survive if they simply build chatbots atop large language models (LLMs). Edited excerpts: I was lucky to find a great CEO (Rob Enslin) to do the go-to-market and day-to-day operations.

India and the US are looking into exciting joint science and technology projects to further expand their relationship under the guidance of the top leadership of the two countries, according to a top American scientist. Describing the US-India Partnership as a very important one for the Biden-Harris administration and also in Congress, Dr Sethuraman Panchanathan, Director of the National Science Foundation said there's total bipartisan support for a strong partnership between two great democracies, the US and India. Last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off his visit to Washington DC, for the historic State Visit, with a trip to the National Science Foundation headquarters in Alexandria wherein he interacted with the scientific community and the young scientist minds.

Mizuho Financial Group aims to stay in the top 10 of the global investment bank league table, its investment banking chief told Reuters, after it became the first Japanese bank to enter the table's upper echelons in more than a decade. Mizuho ranked 10th in LSEG's investment banking league table last year, benefiting from a lead underwriting role in chip designer Arm's initial public offering and the purchase of U.S. mergers-and-acquisitions (M&A) advisory Greenhill.

Trisha Goddard, former Dancing on Ice contestant has disclosed that she has been diagnosed with untreatable breast cancer. At the time of an interview in Hello magazine, the TV presenter made the explanation that she had got the news nearly 19 months ago, however currently has decided to speak out since she does not wish to be lying about her disease any longer. Goddard said she could not keep on lying and continue concocting stories. She further continued that it reaches a stage after a year and a half when secret keeping is more of a load than anything else. She also shared that she is anxious and it requires to be done.

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Marissa Mayer has long been an inspiration for innovative women battling to break through the gender barriers in the male-dominated technology industry

Nikki Haley mentions the “Beast of the Southeast" at virtually every campaign stop in her underdog effort to try to stop Donald Trump from winning the Republican presidential nomination. The phrase, which an industry trade publication used in 2013 to describe South Carolina’s robust economic development during her governorship, is a badge of honor for Haley as she explains how her state’s unemployment dropped from 10.8% to 4.4% under her watch. “By the time I left, we were building planes with Boeing, we were building more BMWs than any place in the world, we brought in Mercedes-Benz, we brought in Volvo," she said at a recent appearance ahead of the state’s Saturday GOP primary.

Gary Gensler is midway through his tenure leading the Securities and Exchange Commission through a shakeup of financial markets and middlemen, and amid historic changes in the players and what’s being traded. The SEC chair has completed just over half of his agenda. Here’s what Gensler has in mind for the rest.

Russia has never hurt India’s interests and everyone conducts a relationship based on their past experiences, was External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s straight reply to German economic daily, Handelsblatt. “…The relations of powers like Europe, the US, China or Japan with Russia, they have all seen ups and downs. We have had a stable and always very friendly relationship with Russia. And our relationship with Russia today is based on this experience. For others, things were different, and conflicts may have shaped the relationship. We, on the other hand, had a politically and militarily much more difficult relationship with China, for example,” Jaishankar said, adding,” My point is: just as I do not expect Europe to have a view of China that is identical to mine, Europe should understand that I cannot have a view of Russia that is identical to the European one. Let us accept that there are natural differences in relationships.” The interview was conducted during Jaishankar’s recent visit to Munich.

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Vikrant Massey, known for his recent success in the film '12th Fail,' has shed light on his family's diverse religious backgrounds and personal reflections in a candid interview with Unfiltered by Samdish. Massey disclosed that his elder brother, Moeen, made a significant decision to embrace Islam at the age of 17.

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bull run is likely to continue for a long time to come since the structural growth of the Indian economy will continue, believes Abhishek Tiwari, executive director and Chief Business Officer of PGIM India Mutual Fund. In a telephonic interview with MintGenie, he also sheds light on the scope of growth that some good quality small and mid-cap stocks can offer. Mr Tiwari also says healthcare and pharma are likely to do well in the immediate future, while financial services – as a sector – is a ‘good buy’ for the medium to long term.

cricket player endorses high returns from small investments. A particular video has spread rapidly across social media platforms, showing Kohli speaking in Hindi and allegedly supporting the betting app. To make the video look more credible, the creators manipulated footage to include a well-known TV journalist.

₹750 crore in FY22. The top quintile (one-fifth) of this set of companies reported a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15% or higher in revenue, while India’s nominal gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate averaged around 10%, McKinsey said. Based on the findings, McKinsey analysts said companies need to set aggressive growth targets to outperform both peers and the economy.

Almost 30 years ago, Gail Bocknek turned on the evening news and watched dumbfounded as a man who had worked for her family for decades was identified as a Nazi war criminal.

India requires long-term effort, a senior US scientist has said and noted cost-intensive technologies such as smog towers and cloud seeding are not sustainable solutions to the pollution problem plaguing the country. In an interview with PTI, Richard Peltier, a member of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Global Air Pollution and Health Technical Advisory Group, said there is a good understanding that air pollution is «really quite bad» across India but precision is lacking due to the limited distribution of air pollution monitors. When asked how much time is needed to control air pollution in cities such as Delhi, he cited the example of the US. The US implemented the Clean Air Act in the 1960s, Peltier said and added only recently has the country developed air quality that is generally considered good.