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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. "What is love of art?" says Krishen Khanna. “That I must be painting all the time." One of the founders of the Progressive Artists’ Group, the Mumbai-based artists who shaped the post-independence art scene in India, Khanna is the last surviving member of the iconic group of modernists.

The union representing Boeing’s striking factory workers in the Pacific Northwest says it expects to resume negotiations with the company on Friday

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. They say if there’s ever a Silicon Valley Mount Rushmore, the first face to be chiselled into stone would be that of Gordon Moore. The Intel co-founder’s famous prediction about the rate at which semiconductors would improve has been the bedrock of US technology leadership.

Pakistani officials say the executive board of the International Fund has approved a new $7 billion loan for the country

Uttar Pradesh government has undertaken a special campaign for the fast verification of the labourers registered on the e-shram portal for issuance of ration cards. The campaign is being run by the state’s food and civil supplies departments on the directives of the CM Yogi Adityanath in this regard. As per the latest data available with the food and civil supplies department, around 8.31 crore labourers have been registered. According to a press release, out of the 8.31 crore registered labourers, around 6.73 labourers have already been receiving benefits of the government ration. The state government claimed that the verification process is progressing rapidly to provide ration cards to workers registered on e-shram portals. The total number of labourers for verification is around 1.58 crore and out of it, the verification of around 1.49 crore labourers is completed. As per the release, total 26.47 lakh labourers were found eligible and 2.37 lakh labourers of them are already receiving benefits of ration. During the verification process, 122.92 lakh have been found ineligible.

State Bank of India (SBI), ICICI Bank, pharmaceutical major Famy Care, family offices and high networth individuals (HNIs). Over Rs 300 crore of the funds raised to date have already been committed towards five projects of the Rustomjee Group in some of Mumbai's prime locations and the fund is now exercising its green shoe option with a target of a final close shortly. The identified projects for investments include projects in Bandra West’s Pali Hill and Mt Mary Road, Versova Beach in Andheri West, Dhuruvadi in Prabhadevi and one more in Pali Hill. The Versova Beach and one Pali Hill project have already secured the necessary approvals, with construction in progress and active upward sales.

FLOCKERZ, a newly launched decentralized project, is redefining the meme coin sector with its Vote-to-Earn mechanism. The project has gained attention during its presale phase, raising over $260,000.

Sheikh Hasina government, external affairs minister S Jaishankar met Bangladesh's foreign affairs adviser Touhid Hossain and discussed bilateral ties between the two countries. The meeting between Jaishankar and his Bangladeshi counterpart of the interim government on Monday evening came on the sidelines of the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly. This was the Indian external affairs minister's first meeting with his Bangladeshi counterpart after an interim government led by Muhammad Yunus Khan took charge following the ouster of Hasina on August 5. Yunus, 84, took oath as the head of the interim government on August 8.

Known for its historical and strategic significance, Suchetgarh is poised for a triangular contest between the BJP, Congress and Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP). Karan Singh from the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and Bishan Dass from the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), including two women are also among the total 11 candidates in the fray.

safety culture improvements at Boeing may take three to five years to complete. «It is not a six-month program — it is a three-year to five-year program,» FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker said, adding he has spoken to Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg and the company's board of directors about the need for safety culture reforms. He said Boeing has made significant improvement in the short term. «On culture it is a long-term project… There is progress but they are not where they need to be.» Congress is holding two days of hearings on Boeing and the company's safety turnaround efforts.

NetApp president and chief executive officer, George Kurian said. “It (AI) is expected to transform and deliver 50% of the automation and efficiency improvements for large parts of the work we do. It is expected to transform the way we interact with each other. To put that in perspective, $7 trillion of annual labour productivity improvements will happen over the next decade,” Kurian, who is also a member of the board, said in his keynote address at the NetApp Insight 2024. There has been significant progress in AI’s capability to understand and analyse data over the last year, which has come a long way from the technology’s ability to understand handwriting, followed by speech, image and object recognition. However, this has transformed multi-fold over the last few years as AI can now understand without human involvement the domains in which it operates and switch domains as well, he said.

Narendra Modi on Sunday announced plans to open two new Indian consulates in the US — in Boston and Los Angeles — and a Thiruvalluvar Chair of Tamil studies in the University of Houston, as he addressed a huge gathering of the Indian diaspora in New York where he hailed the American-Indian spirit, or AI. These initiatives, according to the PM, would further strengthen the living bridge between India and its diaspora in the US. He expressed hope that the Indian diaspora, with its strong convening strength, would continue to play a crucial role in fostering closer ties between the two countries. «For the world, AI means artificial intelligence, but for me, AI also means American-Indian spirit. This is the new 'AI' power of the world...I salute the Indian diaspora here,» Modi said.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Climate optimism is fading. Higher costs, pushback from businesses and consumers, and the slow rollout of technology are delaying the transition from fossil fuels.

Kate, the Princess of Wales, made her first public appearance Sunday since she announced she had completed chemotherapy and would return to some public duties.Kate and her husband, Prince William, were seen Sunday attending church with King Charles III and Queen Camilla near their royal Balmoral estate in Scotland.Kate, 42, announced on Sept. 9 that she had completed treatment six months after revealing she had an undisclosed type of cancer.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: For years, Indian advertising has followed a narrow set of beauty standards—fair skin, conventional looks and a certain body type. But as society evolves, brands are under pressure to become more inclusive.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (MW3) and Warzone introduces new features for players. The Battle Pass brings new weapons, operators and skins.

Abhijit Chakraborty, founder of Alphanumero, has introduced a progressive leave policy designed to celebrate personal milestones. The «Birthday Plus One» initiative allows employees to take two extra days off each year: one for their birthday and another for a close family member or friend's birthday. This policy, shared in a heartfelt LinkedIn post, aims to promote a healthier work-life balance in a corporate environment often dominated by professional demands. Chakraborty’s decision comes against the backdrop of increasing conversations about workplace toxicity and the stress associated with rigid corporate cultures. Reflecting on his own experiences, he recalled a time when he faced disapproval from a superior for requesting a day off to celebrate his birthday. «If it’s someone’s birthday, they deserve a gift, not a leave deduction and negative reactions,» he stated. His candid acknowledgment of past challenges emphasizes the importance of recognizing personal celebrations without guilt.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The unnamed narrator of Geetanjali Shree’s novel Our City That Year (recently translated by Daisy Rockwell from the original Hindi, Hamara Sheher Us Baras, 1998) tells us the story of three young people—writer Shruti, her sociologist husband Hanif and their friend/landlord Sharad, who is also Hanif’s colleague—struggling to respond to communal violence in their unnamed city. The book’s fourth principal character is Daddu, Sharad’s retired father, a genteel, progressive, profoundly moral figure.

“I am the enemy you killed, my friend. I knew you in this dark: for so you frowned Yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed. I parried; but my hands were loath and cold. Let us sleep now... .” — “Strange Meeting” by Wilfred Owen In 1845, the German philosopher, political theorist and economist Karl Marx wrote about his theory of historical materialism in Theses on Feuerbach. It states that the direction of history is determined by material forces and that the ultimate result will be a communist utopia. With the proletariat (workers) emerging as victors, and that it would be the “end of history”. Exactly 144 years later, two events happened. In the summer of 1989, the American magazine The National Interest published an essay, “The End of History?”. Its author, the political scientist Francis Fukuyama, said that the ideological battles between East and West were over. Western liberal democracy had triumphed. At that time, anti-communist protests were breaking out across the former Soviet Union. Fukuyama had put his neck on the line with that essay.

Rings of Power Season 2 continues with Episode 7. It will be released on Thursday, September 26, 2024, at 12 a.m. PT/3 a.m. ET. Here are all the details.