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Iran's clerical leaders, engaging with the «Great Satan» to hammer out a nuclear deal and ease crippling sanctions may for once be the lesser of two evils. Though it harbours deep mistrust of the United States, and President Donald Trump in particular, Tehran is increasingly concerned that mounting public anger over economic hardships could erupt into mass protests, four Iranian officials said. That's why, despite the unyielding stance and defiant rhetoric of Iran's clerical leaders in public, there is a pragmatic willingness within Tehran's corridors of power to strike a deal with Washington, the people said. Tehran's concerns were exacerbated by Trump's speedy revival of his first term's «maximum pressure» campaign to drive Iran's oil exports towards zero with more sanctions and bring the country's already fragile economy to its knees, they said. President Masoud Pezeshkian has repeatedly highlighted the severity of the economic situation in the Islamic Republic, stating that it is more challenging than during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, and pointing this month to the latest round of U.S. sanctions targeting tankers carrying Iranian oil.

iPhone SE released a few years ago, but won’t be enough to reverse a China slide, according to analyst firm IDC. The market tracker found sales of the iPhone 16e were 60% stronger in its opening three days versus the iPhone SE from 2022. But that won’t be enough to alter the forecast that Apple’s sales in China will decline about 2% overall this year. “The competition from Android will be even stronger, strengthened by the national China subsidies which will benefit Android significantly more than Apple,” said Nabila Popal, IDC senior director. The new $599 iPhone 16e replaces the $429 iPhone SE, making the challenge in China tougher when it comes to fending off budget Android alternatives. The device includes only one rear camera, limited base storage and insufficient AI features, making it a tougher sell in the region. The Chinese government has set aside 300 billion yuan (in excess of $41 billion) for subsidies to stimulate the consumer economy. Those extended to smartphones in recent months and have helped the likes of Xiaomi Corp. and Vivo expand their sales. Apple is working on bringing its Apple Intelligence suite to Chinese consumers as early as the middle of this year, Bloomberg News has reported. Still,Apple could make up for the sales weakness via other models in the region. “We need to keep in mind that these would likely still be only a small portion of Apple’s volumes given that many consumers in China place an emphasis on ‘face’ — not wanting to be seen as having a lower-priced iPhone,” IDC’s Bryan Ma said. Looking beyond China, he expects the 16e to make up as much as a fifth of iPhone sales in India in the second half of the year.

Over the past decade, auto fares have been revised twice. The last revision was in November 2021, when the base fare was set at ₹30 for the first 1.9 km and ₹15 per kilometre thereafter. Before that, fares were last revised in 2013.

Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan made headlines by introducing his new partner, Gauri Spratt, during a candid media interaction in Mumbai. The actor, known for keeping his personal life under wraps, confirmed that he and Gauri have been together for over a year and a half. Gauri, who reportedly hails from Bengaluru, has now become a topic of intrigue among fans. Following Aamir’s revelation, social media was abuzz with discussions, with many users even unearthing and sharing photos of her online.

In the viral vide, Jones can be seen stepping out of her car at night in an undisclosed location in Australia. She crosses the road, picks up a baby wombat, and runs back toward her vehicle. The mother wombat is seen in distress, chasing after her as she takes the baby away. Another scene shows the mother wombat waiting near Jones’ car door, crying as long as she holds the baby in her hands. Criticizing the influencer, Prime Minister Albanese said, «Try taking a baby crocodile from its mother and see how you go there,» emphasizing that some animals wouldn’t tolerate such cruelty. Jones was earlier criticised by Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong who dubbed the video as «dreadful» while opposition leader Peter Dutton condemned the act, calling it «cruel». There was an online petition also which had over 30,000 signatures demanding Jones to be deported from the country.

Digital lenders, non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), and banks have collectively disbursed an impressive Rs 74,500 crore through the Account Aggregator (AA) framework in the first half of the current fiscal year, according to a report by Sahamati, the industry alliance supporting the AA ecosystem. Among these, the top eight lending institutions, which account for 62% of the consents, reported a total disbursement of Rs 46,200 crore. Since its inception in September 2021, the AA framework has enabled total disbursements of Rs 1.3 lakh crore, with the top lending institutions contributing Rs 88,700 crore of this amount, the report showed. In the first half of fiscal year 2025, lenders utilized the Account Aggregator framework to facilitate 5.47 million loans, bringing the total to 9.70 million loans since the launch of the ecosystem.

compressor shortage seems to have been well managed. The industry faced a shortage of high-value intermediaries, i.e., compressors and copper during 3QFY25 which came as a surprise to the manufacturers as BIS certifications for certain players were not extended and imports got impacted.

Russia is using cryptocurrencies in its oil trade with China and India to skirt Western sanctions, according to four sources with direct knowledge of the matter. While Russia has publicly encouraged the use of crypto and last summer passed a law to allow digital currency payments in international trade, its use in the country's oil trade has not previously been reported. Some Russian oil companies are using bitcoin, ether and stablecoins such as Tether to smooth the conversion of Chinese yuan and Indian rupees to Russian roubles, the sources said, adding that it is a small but growing part of Russia's overall oil trade, which according to the International Energy Agency was worth $192 billion last year. All the sources declined to be identified due to the sensitivity of the matter. Cryptocurrencies have already helped enable countries under U.S. sanctions such as Iran and Venezuela to keep their economies running while avoiding use of the dollar, the preferred currency for transactions in the global oil market.

The American Airlines Flight 1006 en route from Colorado Springs to Dallas was forced to divert to Denver after the crew reported engine vibrations, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Upon landing at 5:15 p.m. (2315 GMT), one of the aircraft's engines caught fire, prompting an emergency evacuation. The airline confirmed that all 172 passengers and six crew members exited safely, though 12 individuals sustained minor injuries and were transported to local hospitals. Several videos circulating on social media show passengers standing on the wing of the Boeing 737-800 as thick smoke billows from the engine. The aircraft, 13 years old, is equipped with CFM56 engines manufactured by CFM International, a joint venture between GE and Safran.

Consumer price index (CPI) or retail inflation is likely to undershoot the Reserve Bank's target in the January-March 2025 quarter, opening more policy space for easing the policy rate, Bank of Baroda said. India's retail inflation significantly improved in February 2025, as the year-on-year Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation rate stood at 3.61 percent, a decline of 65 basis points from the previous month. The retail inflation print fell below 4 per cent in February for the first time in six months, mainly due to a decline in vegetable prices. «We do not see major risks lurking for food inflation. However, one needs to be vigilant on account of hotter than expected summer, stickier international edible oil prices and risks from global inflationary policies,» said Dipanwita Mazumdar, an economist at Bank of Baroda. As of now, the tide is in favour of a lower headline print emanating from a better Rabi harvest, better supply management strategies of the government, rangebound commodity prices, benign energy price outlook and lesser dependence of the CPI basket in terms of imported commodities.

Intel surged nearly 15% on Thursday, as Wall Street cheered its decision to name former board member Lip-Bu Tan as CEO, who left in August over differences about the chipmaker's direction, after several years of market underperformance. Tan will be tasked with reviving the company's fortunes after it missed out on the artificial intelligence-driven semiconductor boom while plowing billions of dollars into building out its chip-making business. Intel has posted several quarters of market share losses in data centers and PCs, as well as billion-dollar losses in its manufacturing business, and over the past five years, the stock has lost about 60% of its value, a period of time when the Nasdaq Composite Index and S&P 500 have both more than doubled. «Tan in as CEO at Intel was as good as stakeholders could have hoped for,» said TD Cowen analysts, noting that he has «deep relationships» across the chip ecosystem that could draw customers to the company's contract manufacturing business. Tan will take the helm next week — three months after Intel ousted CEO Pat Gelsinger. Tan had been brought into the board two years earlier to help turn the company around, but left due to disagreements over the size of the company's workforce and its culture. Skepticism about Intel's future has deepened in recent months amid reports that rivals, including Broadcom, were evaluating the chip design and marketing business, while TSMC has separately studied controlling some or all of its plants.

Donald Trump's press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked a seemingly simple question about the White House dress code. A reporter pointed out that administration officials were «miffed» that the Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, had not worn a suit to the Oval Office. And yet, the reporter said, "Elon Musk never wears a suit in there. So what is the dress code?" As with all things in Washington, this was really a question about power. Musk flexes his by dressing down where all others must dress up. He wears his «tech support» T-shirt around town and to meetings with the president. So when the tech mogul wore a suit and tie twice last week, just like any other working stiff in Washington, it seemed like a sign that maybe some of the old rules of this place — and the ones about fashion and etiquette are among the oldest — were suddenly being applied to this most special of government employees.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has left hundreds of thousands of dead and injured, displaced millions of people, reduced towns to rubble and triggered the sharpest confrontation for decades between Moscow and the West. Putin's heavily qualified support for the U.S. ceasefire proposal looked designed to signal goodwill to Washington and open the door to further talks with U.S. President Donald Trump. But Putin said many crucial details needed to be sorted out and any agreement must address the root causes of the conflict. Russia called its 2022 invasion a «special military operation» designed to «denazify» Ukraine and halt an expansion of NATO. «We agree with the proposals to cease hostilities,» Putin told reporters at the Kremlin. «The idea itself is correct, and we certainly support it.»

Delhi Capitals Captain Announcement LIVE Updates: Delhi Captilas have confirmed in a new video that they will be announcing their skipper for IPL 2025 season on Friday at 9:30AM. The IPL franchise were led by Rishabh Pant for the last few years and decision could potentially impact future of franchise for the next 3 years.

Donald Trump launched a scathing critique of the Wall Street Journal, accusing the publication of promoting “globalist” and “antiquated” agendas after it reported on his family’s alleged negotiations with crypto exchange Binance, as per Daily Mail UK. The report revealed discussions involving the Trump Organization potentially acquiring a stake in Binance, whose founder, Changpeng Zhao, recently served prison time for money laundering violations and sought a presidential pardon.

Indian FMCG companies are grappling with a shortage of salesmen. Companies selling daily essentials are finding recruiting the famed ‘feet on the street’ difficult in the face of intimidating sales targets amid a slowdown and more attractive gig workforce opportunities, executives said. This comes at a time when companies are looking to hire incremental sales force and direct distribution roles to penetrate newer tier-2 and tier-3 markets and the hinterland in expectation of demand recovery in the new fiscal. “It is progressively getting harder to find salesmen across FMCG. These are hard jobs, you’ve to pound the pavement and get the sales, when eight months of the year it's extremely hot or the weather is harsh,” said Dinkar Ayilavarapu, head of Flipkart Wholesale, the B2B marketplace owned by the Flipkart Group.

“With the solar maximum creating the most vibrant Northern Lights displays in decades, what is noteworthy is the clear expansion beyond traditional Scandinavian favourites to Murmansk in Russian Lapland, where travellers can now pair their aurora sightings with immersive Arctic experiences, from icebreaker expeditions to luxe stays in glass-domed igloos,” said Rajeev Kale, president and country head, for holidays, MICE and visa, Thomas Cook (India). He said another celestial wonder seeing an uptick in bookings is the White Nights phenomenon, where nearly 24 hours of daylight transforms cities like St Petersburg into vibrant cultural hubs with midnight festivals and illuminated river cruises.

U.S. President Donald Trump threw a curve ball at China by linking the fentanyl issue to his tariffs on imports

Sydney Sweeney and Jonathan Davino are having relationship problems, resulting in a postponed wedding and separate living arrangements. Insiders say Sweeney's rising Hollywood career is a major factor, as she prioritizes work while Davino is ready to settle down. While they have not officially ended their relationship, friends are concerned that it will not last. Insiders reveal that Sydney Sweeney and Jonathan Davino are «on the rocks» following the postponement of their wedding.

IQAir states that air pollution is the biggest environmental threat to human health. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that 99% of people live in areas with unsafe air quality levels. Air pollution is the second leading cause of death globally. It also poses serious health risks to children under five, second only to malnutrition. Also Read: Duke Vs Georgia Tech: Cooper Flagg and Maliq Brown get injured in ACC tournament game. Here’s what happened

Hedge funds are making extreme moves that are beginning to look similar to the opening phases of the COVID-19 crisis, as per a report.