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artificial intelligence and becomes a beacon for the world amid a tough geopolitical scenario, a panel consisting of Bill Winters, chief executive officer, Standard Chartered Bank, Ravi Kumar S, CEO, Cognizant, Jenny Johnson, president and CEO, Franklin Templeton and Rizwan Sajan, founder and chairman of Danube Group said Friday. Speaking at a panel discussion on ‘Fissures, Faultlines and Future – In Search of an Equilibrium’, they observed that the next few decades were India’s to take the lead as the economic driver of the world.

loyalty programmes and co-curating unique itineraries, hotel chains and travel companies are tailoring offerings and services to see how they can better manage the expectations of their increasingly younger guests. The average age of the customer, said some of India's travel and hospitality companies, has reduced by a decade in the past five to 10 years. Vishal Suri, managing director of SOTC Travel, said the digital focus of the company has helped attract young customers. «To cater to the unique preferences of this younger and more enthusiastic segment, we are offering co-curated holidays across destinations,» said Suri.

US inflation likely continued to slow at the start of the year, helping to feed expectations that the Federal Reserve will find interest-rate cuts more palatable in the coming months. The core consumer price index, a measure that excludes food and fuel for a better picture of underlying inflation, is seen increasing 3.7% in January from a year earlier. That would mark the smallest year-over-year advance since April 2021, and underscore the inroads Fed Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues have made in beating back inflation.

While the main event will take place on February 18, Sunday, Daytona 500 will commence on Wednesday, February 14. On Wednesday, February 14, Daytona 500 qualifying will begin at 8.15 pm (ET), as per a report in Autosport.

young workers prioritise work-life-balance over being a chief executive, said Tapan Singhel, chief executive, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance at the summit on Saturday during a panel discussion on «Power Shifts to Profits: The Age of Meritocracy». «Being a CEO is not their (young people's) life anymore,» he added, and there has been a generational transition from the concept of "work is worship" towards work-life balance. He mentioned Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy's comments on working 70 hours a week, while pointing out that developed countries like Germany are experimenting with a four-day work week. «Most young workers consider work life balance important, » Singhel said.

One Nation, One Election' on Saturday reviewed the progress made by it after it was set up in September last year. The committee under former president Ram Nath Kovind also evaluated the consultation process it is holding with political parties, former judges and state election commissions. Separately, the panel held interactions with a delegation from the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) led by P Wilson, an official statement said. The DMK presented its views on the issue of holding simultaneous elections in the country.

Follow Pakistan Election Results 2024 Live here "EVM had paper ballots that could be counted separately by hand (like it is being done today) BUT it also had a simple electronic calculator/counter of each vote button pressed. Totals of every candidate would have been available & printed within five minutes of the closing of the poll. The entire effort that included more than 50 meetings at the Presidency alone was scuttled," Arif Alvi tweeted.

Tipra Indigenous Students Federation (TISF) is planning a blockade of National Highway-8 and rail routes for an indefinite period from Monday. TISF is the student wing of the Opposition Tipra Motha Party (TMP). The blockade is part of the students’ protest against the Tripura Board of Secondary Education’s (TBSE) decision not to allow tribal students appearing for ‘Kokborak’ language to write answers in the Roman script. Kokborak is the language of Borok people who are geographically known as Tripuris.

Amit Shah as saying in Lok Sabha. “Our leadership displayed resolve and not an inch of India's land was lost," he added. Congress-led Opposition parties have attacked the PM Modi-led Union government on the issue and claimed that Chinese troops have encroached on India's territory.

California voters who own cryptocurrencies are expected to have a significant impact on the 2024 elections.

Voya Financial has expanded its advisory offerings with the introduction of a new dual qualified default investment alternative for retirement plan participants.

Pakistan elections on Saturday highlighted various grey areas in the recently held polls, noting the failure of presiding officers in providing Form 45 to observers at 29 per cent of the polling stations. Form 45, commonly referred to as the «Result of the Count» form, is a crucial record in the Pakistani electoral process which is intended to uphold openness and accountability by documenting and disclosing the outcomes of the voting procedure at a particular polling place. Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) spokesperson Musarrat Qadeem, quoting the initial report on the election, in a press conference said: «The failure to display copies of Form 45, as required, in 29 per cent of polling stations was a notable oversight.»

OpenAI will continue investing in the developer community in India and will hold several developer summits in the country this year, the company’s chief strategy officer, Jason Kwon said on Saturday. “India has the key ingredients of being one of the world's leaders in AI. It has the largest developer community in the world, with some of the most impressive talent in the field, a track record of developing extraordinary technology businesses and a relentless focus on competing on the world stage," said Kwon at the ET Now Global Business Summit in New Delhi.

Uddhav faction leader Abhishek Ghosalkar shot dead during Facebook live Ghosalkar, 40, son of Sena (UBT) leader Vinod Ghosalkar, was shot dead during a Facebook Live by local businessman and social activist Mauris Noronha on Thursday evening. Noronha later killed himself, police said.

In August, Ali Bongo, then-president of the Central African nation of Gabon, made a startling revelation to a top White House aide: During a meeting at his presidential palace, Bongo admitted he had secretly promised Chinese leader Xi Jinping that Beijing could station military forces on Gabon’s Atlantic Ocean coast. Alarmed, U.S. principal deputy national security adviser Jon Finer urged Bongo to retract the offer, according to an American national security official.

RLD joining BJP-led NDA ahead of the general elections, the regional party leader Jayant Singh on Saturday praised the Modi government for honouring his grandfather and former prime minister Chaudhary Charan Singh with Bharat Ratna. He said that only a government «rooted to ground realties» could have taken such a decision. As soon as Singh started thanking the government for the honour in Rajya Sabha, Congress members objected and Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge wanted to know the rule under which the RLD leader was allowed to speak. Kharge said it is a matter of pride and he «salutes» former prime ministers P V Narasimha Rao and Charan Singh and agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan, all of whom are being conferred with Bharat Ratna.

Read more The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) on Thursday decided to keep its key policy rates unchanged for a sixth straight meeting. Shaktikanta Das-headed six-member MPC maintained the repo rate at 6.5% with five out of six members voting in favour of the rate decision. Read more The RBI projects a 7% real GDP growth for the upcoming financial year 2024–25 from the previous projection of 6.6%.

congressional Republicans have held up further support for Kyiv, mindful of the presidential election this November and Donald Trump’s candidacy in it. A Trumpist provocateur and host on Fox News until he was sacked last year, Mr Carlson gave Mr Putin lots of chances to stir up American politics. For a supposed sorcerer of electoral interference, the president did a poor job.

Sandeshkhali area of North 24 Parganas district. Meanwhile, Section 144 has also been imposed to maintain law and order in the area. Locals staged a massive protest on Friday, demanding the arrest of absconding Trinamool Congress leader Sheikh Shajahan and his associates. As the protests turned violent, a house was being vandalized and poultry farms were set on fire. Carrying sticks and other objects, locals took out processions in different areas of the area as protests intensified on the third day of the agitation. In the afternoon, the house of Shajahan’s aide, Shibu Prasad Hazra was vandalised, police said. Also, three poultry farms in Zeliakhali belonging to Hazra were set ablaze, it is learned.

Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the army to prepare to «evacuate» hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza's Rafah, his office said Friday, after Washington warned it would not support any ground assault on the city. The show of defiance against Israel's main ally came after President Joe Biden issued his strongest criticism yet of Netanyahu's conduct of the war, warning the response to Hamas's October 7 attack had been «over the top». Netanyahu told military and security officials to «submit to the cabinet a combined plan for evacuating the population and destroying the battalions» of Palestinian militant group Hamas holed up in Rafah, a statement from his office said.

Rahul Gandhi that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not an OBC as he was born into the general category, former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday said the latter's caste was not included in Other Backward Classes (OBC) list as per the recommendations made by Mandal Commission and Bakshi Committee. In a post on X, Ashok Gehlot said, «Rahul Gandhi has spoken the truth on the issue of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's inclusion in OBC because Modi/Ghanchi caste was not included in OBC list in the recommendations of Mandal Commission and Bakshi Committee, which was formed in 1978 for backward classes in Gujarat. His caste was that of a business community in the entire country. People from Jain, Maheshwari, and Agarwal communities commonly use the Modi surname.» Gehlot further said if PM Modi considers himself as the biggest supporter of the OBC community, then he shoudl have a nationwide caste census conducted at the earliest.