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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Last year, Arpita Akhanda found herself—quite literally—a stepping stone. During her residency at the Hampi Labs, Karnataka, the artist was quite fascinated by the river-like patterns on a rock in a granite mine.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. On the banks of the Kabini, about 250km southeast of Bengaluru, between Nagarahole Tiger Reserve and Bandipur National Park, the landscape is a mix of grassy shore, shrubbery and swathes of dense forest.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Quantinuum said it had achieved a milestone for the quantum computing sector after its system completed a number-generation task outside the reach of traditional computers, just weeks after D-Wave Quantum made similar claims of quantum supremacy.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. It wasn’t long ago—say, two months— that European governments and companies thought nothing of relying on Microsoft software for daily tasks or Amazon.com’s Amazon Web Services for data storage. Not so much anymore.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Nearly a dozen foundations and philanthropists including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his parents, Jackie and Miguel Bezos, the Gates Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, pledged more than $2 billion to address global child malnutrition at an event in Paris on Thursday evening. The financial commitments were announced at a Nutrition for Growth Summit event co-hosted by the Washington nonprofit Stronger Foundations for Nutrition—which works with philanthropies globally to direct funding to nutritional interventions—and the OECD Network of Foundations Working for Development.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. President Trump is using regulatory language crafted by his administration in his first term to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in grants for programs ranging from vaccine research to teacher training.

When Carol Geremia, president of Boston-based mutual fund company MFS, started in the business 40 years ago, the investing world was in a dark and different place.

The Nifty futures closed positively with gains of 0.31%, reaching 23,595 levels on Thursday. India VIX fell 1.2%, closing at 13.30 in the previous session.

Donald Trump revealed his intentions to reshape the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order on Thursday that targets funding to programmes with "divisive narratives" and "improper ideology". Trump said there has been a «concerted and widespread» effort over the past decade to rewrite American history by replacing «objective facts» with a «distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth». He signed an executive order putting Vice President J D Vance in charge of an effort to «remove improper ideology» from the Smithsonian Institution, including its museums, education and research centres and the National Zoo. Trump's order specifically names the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Women's History Museum, which is in development. «Museums in our nation's capital should be places where individuals go to learn — not to be subjected to ideological indoctrination or divisive narratives that distort our shared history,» the order said. Representatives for the Smithsonian did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.

Investors can check Shri Ahimsa Naturals IPO allotment status through NSE and also via the registrar's website.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: In a show of soft power, India is upgrading and expanding it vaccine storage infrastructure into an international centre to handhold other developing countries in harnessing the global immunization supply chain. The expansion of the National Cold Chain and Vaccine Management Resource Centre (NCCVMRC) into an International Centre for Excellence in Immunization and Supply Chain will be done in phases.

debt schemes, which invest in securities with shorter maturities of up to three years. Fund managers said investing in this product is a bet on profiting from the higher-than-normal difference between overnight interest rates and yields on corporate bonds with one- and two-year maturities. With interest rates likely to be cut and liquidity conditions easing, this spread is expected to narrow. When the central bank cuts interest rates, corporate bond yields fall. Bond yields and prices move in opposite directions.

Tata Motors tumbled more than 5% on Thursday after US President Donald Trump declared a 25% tariff on imports of cars and components effective April 2. The parent of British luxury carmaker Jaguar Land Rover slumped as much as 6.7% during the day, closing 5.5% lower at ₹669.5 apiece.

Wang Chuanfu, the founder and CEO of BYD, has made one of the world's largest electric vehicle manufacturing businesses, starting his journey when he was poor.

“I am concerned that pure politics could damage our prospects in future competitions,” admitted an executive at a leading US contractor. The fear? That Trump’s erratic foreign policy could leave allies exposed—or worse, that the US could remotely disable their aircraft if political relations soured.

On Wednesday, the BSE Bankex index closed 1% lower, having rallied 7.7% in the previous seven sessions. Meanwhile, the BSE Information Technology index also dropped by over 1% in the last session, following a 4.7% surge between March 17 and 25.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. For years, gold has been the go-to hedge in times of economic uncertainty. But now, another precious metal is stealing some of its lustre.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s cement sector is laying a solid foundation for growth, with stocks surging after a research report pointed to a sustained earnings upcycle. UltraTech Cement, the country’s largest producer, has been at the forefront of this rally, continuing its trend of outperformance.

Grand Continent Hotels will debut on the NSE SME platform on Thursday. Ahead of the listing, the GMP, at Rs 0, is not very inspiring for investors. The IPO, which was completely a fresh equity sale of 66 lakh shares, was subscribed just over 1x. The proceeds will be used for repayment of debt, expansion of hotel properties in India and other general corporate purposes.

OpenAI is close to finalizing a $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank Group — with investors including Magnetar Capital, Coatue Management, Founders Fund and Altimeter Capital Management in talks to participate, according to people familiar with the matter. Magnetar Capital — an Evanston, Illinois-based hedge fund — could contribute up to $1 billion, according to multiple people, all of whom asked not to be identified because the information is private. Representatives for OpenAI, Magnetar and Founders Fund declined to comment on the funding round. Coatue and Altimeter did not immediately respond to requests for comment.