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Corporate bond research firm Gimme Credit downgraded Macy's (NYSE:M) to Stable from Improving in a note Thursday.

Mint, India’s fifth-largest IT services company said that employees were yearning for “spontaneous interactions, collaborative environments", and a deeper “desire for human connection" that was echoing across industries. “With this in mind, I am pleased to announce that Tech Mahindra is preparing to welcome you back to office. We recognize the value of face-to-face interaction and the benefits it brings to our team dynamics.

Green job surge in India India's aim to achieve net-zero emissions by 2070 has led to a surge in green jobs- jobs that contribute to preserve or restore the environment. According to Teamlease, at the end of 2023, approximately 18.5 million green jobs were created across various industries, with projections indicating a doubling of this number by 2047.

Bank of Baroda. First crop advance estimates show a 4.6% decrease in major kharif crop production for the 2023-24 season to 148.5 million tonne. Although the rabi sowing season ended on 23 February with a slight increase in total acreage, there are concerns over a 6.5% decline in cereal cultivation.

Sanderson will lead the firm's UK intermediary and distribution efforts from London and report to head of EMEA and LatAm client group Ignacio De La Maza. He joins from Ninety One, where he was head of UK business development, leading sales and client management in the institutional and wholesale teams, as well as consultant relations. Janus Henderson taps ex-Fidelity head of APAC equities research for China role Before that, he spent over four years heading UK and Ireland sales and relationship management teams at Royal Bank of Canada. He has also held positions at JP Morgan, Citib...

India has conducted two successful flight tests of a very short-range air defence missile off the coast of Odisha. The tests were carried out on Wednesday and Thursday. «The DRDO conducted two successful flight tests of Very Short-Range Air Defence System (VSHORADS) missiles on February 28 and 29 from a ground-based portable launcher off the coast of Odisha from integrated test range, Chandipur,» the defence ministry said. It said the tests were carried out against high-speed unmanned aerial targets under different interception scenarios. «During all the test flights, the targets were intercepted and destroyed by the missiles, meeting the mission objectives,» the ministry said.

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is looking to fuse its artificial intelligence systems into the bodies of humanoid robots as part of a new deal with robotics startup Figure

The S&P BSE Sensex rose nearly 200 points while the Nifty50 closed higher but failed to hold above the 22,000 mark on Thursday.

Silence Laboratories, which builds products to help enterprises and companies ensure data privacy through technologies like multiparty computation (MPC), has raised $4.1 million in a funding round. The round was led by Pi Ventures and Kira Studio, along with other angel investors. The newly-acquired funds are earmarked for scaling up its tech and business team, and to invest in research and development initiatives, the company said.

suicide rates, according to a study conducted in China. Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, estimate that China's efforts to reduce air pollution have prevented 46,000 suicide deaths in the country over just five years. The team used weather conditions to tease apart confounding factors affecting pollution and suicide rates, arriving at what they consider to be a truly causal connection. The results, published in the journal Nature Sustainability, unearth air quality as a key factor influencing mental health.

Nifty Bank index bounced back on Thursday to close above 46,100 levels tracking the positive trend seen in benchmark indices. It rose 157 points to close at 46,120 while the Nifty50 rose 31 points to close at 21,982. IndusInd Bank, Bank of Baroda, PNB, SBI, and ICICI Bank were top gainers while selling was seen in Bandhan Bank, HDFC Bank, and AU Small Finance Bank.

Nifty ended 32 points higher just above the 21-day Exponential Moving Average (21EMA). However, the prevailing sentiment appears somewhat negative from the current level. At the lower end, crucial support is positioned at 21,950; as long as the index maintains a position above 21,950, there is a possibility of witnessing a recovery. Nevertheless, a decline below 21,950 could potentially lead the index towards 21,800, said Rupak De of LKP Securities.

Centre has expressed strong concerns about five states not signing MoUs with the education ministry for PM SHRI schools and Punjab not implementing it despite continuing to take funds under the Samagra Shiksha scheme, sources said on Thursday. Odisha, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Delhi have not yet signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Union Ministry of Education, while 30 states and union territories (UTs) have done so. The scheme targets to upgrade 14,500 schools and is expected to benefit 1.8 million students. It also aims to ensure these schools serve as model institutes and encapsulate the spirit of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. The government has already selected 6,448 schools from 28 states and UTs for the upgrade in the first round.

She will take on the role from 1 July 2024 for a five-year term, succeeding Broadbent's ten years in the role. Andrew Bailey: No need for inflation to come back to 2% target before cutting rates Lombardelli will be responsible for overseeing the formulation and implementation of UK monetary policy and lead the BoE's research, data and analytics.  She will also become a member of the Monetary Policy Committee and will lead the central bank's response to the publication of Ben Bernanke's review of the BoE's forecasting process, alongside the creation of a new data and analytics strat...

attention and eye movements are linked, while unveiling how the brain coordinates the two processes. Attention is a unique phenomenon that allows us to focus on a specific object in our visual world, and ignore distractions. When we pay attention to an object, we tend to gaze towards it. Therefore, scientists have long suspected that attention is tightly coupled to rapid eye movements, called saccades. In fact, even before our eyes move towards an object, our attention focuses on it, allowing us to perceive it more clearly – a well-known phenomenon called pre-saccadic attention, IISc said in a press release. However, in a new study published in PLOS Biology, the researchers at CNS show that this perceptual advantage is lost when the object changes suddenly, a split second before our gaze falls upon it, making it harder for us to process what changed.

Rajeev Gautam, a former senior executive at US conglomerate Honeywell, has contributed $250,000, or about Rs 2 crore, to his alma mater Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) to establish three endowed programmes in the department of chemical engineering. The contribution is part of a tripartite memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between IITK, IIT Kanpur Foundation, and Gautam. The sum would be utilised towards the institution of an endowed faculty chair, a faculty fellowship and a travel grant programme for students, the institute said.

AI-powered innovation seems to emerge with every passing day, and in the latest iteration of this sequence, Adobe announced on Wednesday that it is working on a new proprietary tool called Project Music GenAI Control, which will allow users to create music using only text prompts and also edit these clips without having to use dedicated software. Explaining the idea behind the new AI tool, Adobe's head of audio and video AI research, Gautham Mysore said (as quoted by TechCrunch), “So this really gets the idea of, AI is generating music with you in the director’s seat and there’s a bunch of things you can do with it…[The tool is] generating music, but it’s [also] giving you these various forms of control so you can try things out.

BSE and NSE at around 16 percent premium against the issue price of ₹177 to ₹186 apiece. On BSE, GPT Healthcare share price opened at ₹216.15 per share level and went on touch an intraday high of ₹219.70 apiece. On NSE, GPT Healthcare share price was listed at ₹215 apiece and went on to touch an intraday high of ₹219.90 per share.

Sometimes studying nature gets voyeuristic — but whale watchers off the coast of Hawaii got more than they bargained for when they observed two male humpback whales getting freaky in the wild.The encounter made waves in the scientific marine community, as this was both the first recorded evidence of penetrative sex in the species and the first witnessed homosexual activity between two humpback whales.A study documenting the unprecedented moment, as well as the accompanying photographs, was published in the journal Marine Mammal Science on Tuesday.Two photographers opportunistically captured the historic moment west of Maui in January 2022. Whether they wanted to or not, Lyle Krannichfeld and Brandi Romano got rare front-row seats to the action when the two male humpbacks initiated sex only three to five feet below their boat.The occurrence was then studied and validated by scientists.The study says despite the decades-long efforts of researchers, the sexual behaviour of humpback whales “remains largely undescribed.”According to the study, the two male humpback whales approached the boat and circled one another several times.

Exicom Tele Systems IPO: The initial public offering (IPO) of Exicom Tele Systems Limited opened on 27th February 2024 and will remain open till 29th February 2024. As per the Exicom Tele Systems IPO subscription status, the public issue has been booked 27.78 times after two days of bidding. Meanwhile, on the last date of bidding, the grey market continues to remain bullish regarding Exicom Tele Systems IPO.