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Over the past week, gold prices have dropped by Rs 1,900 per 10 grams, while silver has seen a larger decline of Rs 4,900 per kg.

The resignation of federal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland was met with shock and concern in Canada’s business community Monday, with some leaders worried that political infighting at the highest levels of the Liberal government could distract from the country’s economic problems and preparation for a potential trade battle with the United States.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Apple is preparing a series of major design and format changes to its lineup of iPhones and potentially other products, a bid to revive growth after years of offering largely incremental upgrades. Starting next year, Apple plans to introduce an iPhone that will be thinner than the approximately 8-millimeter profile of current models, said people familiar with the company’s plans.

The new year will usher in the bitcoin-friendly administration of President-elect Donald Trump and an expanding lobbying effort in statehouses

Chakri Lokapriya, Managing Partner, RSB LLP, says the technology sector, especially large-cap and mid-cap companies, is poised to benefit from the US economic recovery starting in January, driven by the new Trump administration's tax cuts that are expected to boost discretionary spending. Indian IT firms like KPIT, Mindtree, and Cyient may gain from increased engineering research and development spending, which has been stagnant. The cloud computing sector is also set to grow by 35-40%, benefiting major players like Infosys, TCS, and HCL Technology. Lokapriya says he would be ready to invest in Infosys, TCS, HCL Technology, Cyient, KPIT, and Mindtree. What is your take on the entire banking and financial space, especially after that brokerage note from UBS?.. It was quite a bearish note. While the private banks seem to be holding up rather steady in Friday’s trade, it is the PSU banks and the broader financials that seem to be taking it on the chin, the likes of Shriram Finance, IOB, Canara Bank, all these banks are not doing well right now. How would you like to play this banking space and do you believe that private banks can outperform the PSU banks going ahead? Chakri Lokapriya: The note kind of talks about everything that was already largely known in terms of the loan growth slowing down.

BITS Pilani and Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) Delhi, Madras and Kanpur, among others, are looking to fill their coffers through efforts such as donation campaigns, encouraging collective donations through chapters or batches, organising leadership delegations to countries where alumni reside, increased reunions and alumni get-togethers, encouraging high net-worth donors to set up centres of excellence, forging close connections with companies for corporate social responsibility (CSR) funding and setting up alumni chairs. Aiming high

Right now chestnut enthusiasts are cozying up next to their open fires (or toaster ovens) to roast a holiday snack that has long roots in North America

mass elephant die-off in Botswana in 2020. A new study published in -Science of the Total Environment- confirms toxic cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, poisoned over 350 elephants near the Okavango Delta. The first elephant carcasses were discovered in May 2020, sparking international concern. Researchers initially ruled out poaching, starvation, and common infections. The presence of some elephants found face down hinted at a swift collapse.

The benchmark BSE Sensex gained 843.16 points or 1.04% to settle at 82,133.12, while the broader Nifty 50 index closed at 24,768.30, higher by 219.60 points or 0.89%.

Automotive Research Association of India) is the organisation mandated with making sure the vehicles you buy in India meet standards. From Bharat NCAP (New Car Assessment Program) safety standards, to fuel efficiency figures under test conditions, to ensuring homologation of vehicles, this is the entity that tests and certifies automobiles sold in the country. It does all of this out of its 260 acre base in Pune, equipped with a large number of testing facilities. Incorporated in 1966, the cooperative industrial research association under the Ministry of Heavy Industries has had quite the journey thus far. But what is happening now is clearly new. It, along with the entire automotive industry, is now in the middle of the big energy transition, from fossil fuels to electric and other alternative sources of energy.

As per Time, Ibrahim, who had over two decades of experience in tech, noted that the job involved responsibilities that stretched far beyond the typical scope. «It’s such a powerful technology. Am I the right person? And is this the right place?» Ibrahim recalled asking herself during the process. Her decision to join DeepMind was not made lightly. DeepMind, which had already been acquired by Google in 2014, was at the forefront of artificial intelligence research, and the weight of her potential impact on the future of AI weighed heavily on her mind. Her long interview process was a mix of conversations with DeepMind’s leadership team and personal reflection. Ibrahim described it as an essential part of the decision-making process, saying that she needed to have deep conversations with her family about the long-term implications of joining such a transformative field.

secondhand. “I love the thrill of finding something unique and special that I can’t get anywhere else,” she says. She looks for vintage glass and kitchenware, Christmas cards and puzzles — all things unavailable in conventional stores. This Christmas, about half of the gifts she’s purchased so far have come from thrift stores run by UK charities. The trend is catching on across the globe. Gifting secondhand used to have a bad rap (think last year’s candle or dusty bath set), but it doesn’t carry the taboo it once did. In the UK, some 84% of people say they plan to buy at least one pre-owned Christmas gift this year, according to research by the resale app Vinted and the market researcher Retail Economics. In the US, three in four people believe secondhand gifting has become more socially acceptable over the past year, according to a survey by the resale app OfferUp. The British Heart Foundation charity — with 680 secondhand shops in the UK — says demand has surged.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A colleague said during breakfast one day that he wanted to start working out because he had just turned 40-years-old and had started seeing visible decline in muscle-mass. This is someone who had hardly worked out in the past, so a decline must have felt more jarring than amongst those who do workout.

owner-managed companies are leaders of value creation. In FY23 and FY24, 169 companies listed on the NSE (NSE) after successful IPOs, raising a massive Rs 94,204 crores. Of these, an overwhelming 99.82% (167 firms) were owner-managed enterprises—businesses helmed by their founder-promoters.

OpenAI researcher, Suchir Balaji, who recently raised concerns about OpenAI breaking copyright law, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment. Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who is currently in a legal battle with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, responded to the news with a cryptic 'hmm' post on X.

Suchir Balaji, a 26-year-old former researcher at OpenAI, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on November 26, 2024, a day after Thanksgiving. The San Francisco Police Department confirmed that the cause of death was suicide, with no foul play suspected. Balaji’s tragic death has left the tech community in shock, especially given his high-profile departure from OpenAI earlier in the year due to his ethical concerns about the company’s AI practices.

China. The Biden administration was considering cutting off the sales of equipment used to manufacture semiconductors to three Chinese companies that the government had linked to Huawei, a technology giant that is sanctioned by the United States and is central to China's efforts to develop advanced chips. Applied Materials, KLA Corp. and Lam Research, which make semiconductor equipment, argued that the three Chinese companies were a major source of revenue. The U.S. firms said that they had already earned $6 billion by selling equipment to those Chinese companies and that they planned to sell billions more, two government officials said.

Indian capital markets have experienced phenomenal growth over the past five years, highlighted by a 4.4x surge in demat accounts to 179 million and a 3.2x increase in SIP flows to ₹253 billion as of October 2024. Despite this growth, penetration remains relatively low, with demat account penetration at just 12% compared to 62% in the U.S., and mutual fund (MF) AUM-to-GDP at 17% versus the global average of 65%. This highlights immense potential for further expansion.

His name is Claude. He's an AI chatbot. And he may be San Francisco's most eligible bachelor. Claude, a creation of artificial intelligence company Anthropic, is not the best-known AI chatbot on the market. (That would be OpenAI's ChatGPT, which has more than 300 million weekly users and a spot in the bookmark bar of every high school student in America.) Claude also is not designed to draw users into relationships with lifelike AI companions, the way apps like Character. AI and Replika are.

China. The Biden administration was considering cutting off the sales of equipment used to manufacture semiconductors to three Chinese companies that the government had linked to Huawei, a technology giant that is sanctioned by the United States and is central to China's efforts to develop advanced chips. Applied Materials, KLA Corp. and Lam Research, which make semiconductor equipment, argued that the three Chinese companies were a major source of revenue. The U.S. firms said that they had already earned $6 billion by selling equipment to those Chinese companies and that they planned to sell billions more, two government officials said.

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