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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sajeeb Wazed Joy has expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his government's quick action following the developments in the neighbouring country which led to her departure. Sheikh Hasina's son also dismissed media reports of a revocation of her visa stating that no one has revoked the visa of the Awami League leader and neither has she applied for political asylum anywhere. In an exclusive interview with ANI, Wazed said «No one has revoked her visa. She has not applied for political asylum anywhere. Those are all rumors.»

Vinhedo: An airplane carrying 57 passengers and four crew crashed Friday in Brazil's Sao Paulo state, killing everyone on board, the airline said. The aircraft, an ATR 72-500 operated by Voepass airline, was traveling from Cascavel in southern Parana state to Sao Paulo's Guarulhos international airport when it crashed in the city of Vinhedo. Voepass initially said the plane was carrying 58 passengers, but a statement on the airline's website later revised the figure to 57.

Adani bombshell last year, Hindenburg Research has hinted at another 'big' India reveal. Hindenburg Research on Saturday, in a post on X(formerly Twitter), said, «Something big soon India.» On January 24 last year, Hindenburg Research published a report sharply criticizing the Adani Group just before the planned share sale of Adani Enterprises. The report led to an $86 billion decline in the market value of Adani Group's stocks and triggered a significant sell-off of its overseas listed bonds.

Biden administration has decided to lift a ban on U.S. sales of offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia, the State Department said on Friday, reversing a three-year-old policy to pressure the kingdom to wind down the Yemen war. The State Department was lifting its suspension on certain transfers of air-to-ground munitions to Saudi Arabia, a senior department official confirmed. «We will consider new transfers on a typical case-by-case basis consistent with the Conventional Arms Transfer Policy,» the official said. Reuters was first to report the decision earlier, citing five sources.

tech world by storm in the US. A number of the top-tier leadership positions or CXOs in these companies are also held by Indians or those of Indian origin. While the spotlight is on the likes of Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, the second rung is also filled with Indian Americans who are likely to be the leaders of tomorrow at these companies. They include Apple senior vice president of operations Sabih Khan; Nvidia executive vice president of worldwide field operations Jay Puri and senior vice president of enterprise sales and business development Shanker Trivedi; Tesla chief financial officer Vaibhav Taneja and Google senior vice president Prabhakar Raghavan, who is widely considered to the second most important executive at the search giant. Other prominent executives include Meta vice president of machine learning Sandeep Pandey and vice president of product management Ragavan Srinivasan; storage major Micron’s chief business officer Sumit Sadana; Salesforce president and chief engineering officer Srini Tallapragada; Manish Sharma, chief executive officer, North America, Accenture; or Naga Chandrasekaran, who has been appointed chief global operations officer at global chip company Intel two weeks ago. He replaced company veteran Keyvan Esfarjani who retired after 30 years at Intel.

restructuring spree under new CEO Srini Pallia, IT major Wipro has elevated three veterans, as per an internal email seen by ET. Meanwhile, a senior executive who joined under ex-CEO Thierry Delaporte's watch has decided to exit the firm. Wipro has appointed Nanda Kishore, who has served the company for 30 years, as chief of delivery and operational excellence. He is currently the chief operating officer (COO) of Americas One. Dilip Dialani, who has been with Wipro for almost two decades, will take over from Nanda as COO of Americas One in Q3. Before he succeeded Delaporte as Wipro CEO, Srini had helmed Americas One as CEO. The firm is elevating the role of its chief information security officer Aathir Ahad, a Wipro veteran for over 21 years. Effective immediately, he will report to the company's COO Sanjeev Jain. Ahad will continue to shape the company's security strategy, ensuring compliance and safeguarding data, read the mail. Questions mailed to Wipro remained unanswered till the time of going to press.

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Steady employment levels in July mask “some warning signs” about the health of the Canadian labour market, with most economists expecting the latest figures will open the door for more interest rate cuts to come from the Bank of Canada.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt together? The question popped up after Pax Jolie-Pitt, the 20-year-old son of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, met with an accident last week and has been released, but needs further treatment, reports 'Blast'. Pax received a severe head injury from an electric bike accident in Los Angeles. According to the Los Angeles Police Department or LAPD, paramedics reached the accident site at Hobart and Los Feliz Boulevard after the e-bike rear-ended a vehicle that was stopped at a red light. Pax was immediately shifted to a local hospital with a severe head injury.

The new series, The Braxtons, is set to make its debut soon, promising a fresh look at the family's dynamics amidst recent changes.

swing states, the Republican candidate is losing ground in battleground states. The Cook Political Report has predicted that the former president would not win in Arizona, Georgia, and Nevada, reports the 'Independent'. It has moved these states from leaning Republican to “toss-ups.” Editor-in-chief Amy Walter wrote in the report on Thursday that Kamala Harris leads Trump by less than one point. He pointed out that Battleground state polls show similar results, the vice president is reducing the Republican's lead by two to five points.

Paris Olympics has seen its fair share of bizarre occurrences and incidents, and a recent one, revolving around a speed climber, is just like the icing on a cake. According to a Yahoo Sports report, Team USA's speed climber Sam Watson was not able grab a gold medal in the speed climbing event at the Paris Olympics 2024, even after setting a world record, by climbing a 49 ft wall within a matter of 4.74 seconds.

More than a fifth of American seniors are working in retirement age, with some states showing greater-than-average rates of over-65s still in the workforce, according to a recent analysis of federal data by LendingTree.

Blake Lively’s new film, “It Ends With Us,” has been banned in Qatar due to scenes involving kissing. The decision highlights the country's strict censorship laws that often affect Hollywood films.

JPMorgan Chase has become the latest firm to harness the potential of AI as it arms thousands of its employees with powerful new virtual assistant.

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India can set up 5-6 massive zones for manufacturing, similar to the Gift City for financial services, as it moves towards its $1 trillion goods exports target, PwC India chairperson Sanjeev Krishan said. He spoke to ET on a PwC India report released Friday that said India's $1 trillion goods export target can be achieved one year in advance by fiscal 2029 with appropriate measures. The report, 'VIKSIT: An approach for India to achieve $1 trillion exports', offers a six-pillar framework for achieving the target.

Cisco will cut thousands of jobs in a second round of layoffs this year as the U.S. networking equipment maker shifts focus to higher-growth areas, including cybersecurity and AI, people familiar with the matter said. The number of people affected could be similar to or slightly higher than the 4,000 employees Cisco laid off in February, and will likely be announced as early as Wednesday with the company's fourth-quarter results, said the sources, who were not authorized to speak publicly. Reuters exclusively reported the job cut that San Jose, California-based Cisco announced in February, prior to the company announcing it.

government on Friday made it clear that it is not going to introduce any provision of creamy layer in the SC and ST reservation, days after the Supreme Court had said that states have the power to sub-classify SC/STs and observed that they can also identify the creamy layer, even from the SC/STs, excluding them from the benefits. The Cabinet held wide discussions on the SC's order, Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told reporters after the meeting today. Today, under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi, wide discussions were held on this issue, Vaishnaw said. "...the well-thought opinion of the Cabinet is that the NDA government is committed and dedicated towards the provisions of the Constitution prepared by Baba Saheb Ambedkar. And as per the Constitution, there is no provision of creamy layer in SC and ST reservation. Cabinet's well-thought through decision is that the SC and ST reservation should be according to Baba Saheb's Constitution," Vaishnaw said.

Bangladeshis gathered across Sitalkuchi in West Bengal, seeking to cross over to India, and many more are moving towards the border amid reports of attacks on minorities, people aware of the matter told ET on Friday. Bangladeshis were seen trying to cross Kharpa river near Pathantuli village of Sitalkuchi block in Coochbehar district, they said. BSF is dealing with this «emerging challenge (that) is new to BSF». «Guwahati Frontier of Border Security Force successfully addressed a significant and different kind of challenge at the India-Bangladesh border in Coochbehar district. Approximately 1,000 individuals, reportedly Bangladeshi nationals, approached the international border, seeking refuge in India,» BSF said on Friday.