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Google said on Monday it would make it mandatory for advertisers to disclose election ads that use digitally altered content to depict real or realistic-looking people or events, its latest step to battle election misinformation. The update to the disclosure requirements under the political content policy requires marketers to select a checkbox in the «altered or synthetic content» section of their campaign settings.

Al-Nuseirat in central Gaza on Saturday, the territory's health ministry and the official Palestinian news agency said. The Israeli military said it was looking into the report. The health ministry said the attack on the school killed at least 16 people and wounded more than 50.

A U.S. appeals court in Philadelphia has ruled that some college athletes may qualify as employees under federal wage-and-hour laws

Rahul Gandhi, who is Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Lok Sabha, on Monday met people in relief camps in Churachandpur in Manipur and offered them support. The inmates staying in relief camps highlighted their problems due to ethnic violence in the state. Speaking to ANI, a youth who has been staying in the camp after ethnic violence erupted in the state, said they are happy over the visit of Rahul Gandhi and hoped that the Congress leader will highlight their issues.

«These were the valuations at which this company was trading and you could have hit a dart and picked a stock in this space and it would be trading at 2-3 times, 4 times price to earnings,» says Anshul Saigal, Founder, Saigal Capital. Is the Street making too much of the earnings from TCS or do you think this was long overdue? Anshul Saigal: So, as regards the IT space in general and TCS numbers, clearly the numbers are a slight beat over street expectations. Since 2021 December, this sector has consolidated by and large, particularly for the largecaps. Even for this frontline name, if you look at the stock price, you will notice that it is about the same level that it was at till about two-and-a-half years back.

US Independence Day 2024 on July 4 is federal holiday with government offices, schools, stock market remaining closed. Americans tend to celebrate the Fourth of July with a true sense of patriotism. Generally, people hoist American flags at their houses, parades are being organised in big cities. July 4th also witnesses travelling rush every year. 4th July US Independence Day commemorates history, heritage and people of United States of America. In 1775, the people in the thirteen American colonies commenced their struggle for independence from British rule under King George III. This conflict marked the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, a fight driven by the colonists' desire for self-governance and freedom from oppressive British policies. The momentum for independence culminated on July 2, 1776, when Congress secretly voted in favor of breaking away from Great Britain, setting the stage for a historic declaration.

global investments from April to June, marking a third consecutive quarter of growth in funding, according to British investment firm Seraphim Space. WHY IT'S IMPORTANT This positive trend follows a period of high interest rates that had deterred investors from funding companies involved in rockets, satellites and space-based data services.

financial services major Capital Group, and asset management companies T Rowe Price, Fidelity and Vanguard have all acquired stakes in PB Fintech, which runs insurance marketplace Policybazaar and credit marketplace Paisabazaar, people in the know said. “Capital Group through various of its investment vehicles now owns around 10% in the company,” said a person with knowledge of the matter.

Netflix anime library seems to be getting bigger and bigger. The OTT streaming giant is once again adding more and more anime content. Here are anime shows that will be released on Netflix throughout the month of July, as per WhatsOnNetflix. One Piece Season 21 has been released on July 1. Ouran High School Host Club Season 1 has been dropped on Netflix July 1. «The Rising of the Shield Hero» season 1 was released on July 1.

consolidation in the edtech sector, Housing.com cofounder Advitiya Sharma's startup Genius Teacher has been acquired by Schoolnet – an edtech firm that provides digital classroom services to government schools. Multiple deals in the space have closed over the last six to eight months including Google-backed edtech startup Adda247 acquiring testprep player Ekagrata Eduserv, Allen Career Institute buying Peak XV-backed Doubtnut and mid-tier IT services firm Happiest Minds acquiring Macmillan Learning India.

Blessed Carlo Acutis has become the first Millenial to be canonized as a saint, reports 'USA Today'. He died of Cancer at the age of 15. According to the Catholic News Agency, the College of Cardinals voted for his canonization and he will become a saint in 2025. Declaring his canonization, Bishop of Assisi, Domenico Sorrentino said that Carlo Acutis was an ordinary boy, who lived his childhood and youth between family, school, and the games children play.

Ajay Kejriwal, CEO, Choice Equity Broking, says that from the investor's perspective, it is going to have an impact, more so from a trader’s perspective, because some traders had that benefit and some did not. Now all will be at par. And though it is minuscule on the client end, it will benefit the traders. Differential offering was the norm. The regulator, Sebi, came out and said no preferential rates, it should be uniform and now some of the biggest voices in technology-backed low-cost broking are coming out and saying that we may have to hike charges. What is the future? Is the zero broking era over and now, even if it is low, charges would have to be levied?

Most medical students at Johns Hopkins University will no longer pay tuition thanks to a $1 billion gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies

Stanford University student, who was enrolled in 1936, has returned after over eight decades to get her graduate degree at the age of 105, as per a report on Fox News. Virginia Hislop was awarded the master's degree in education 83 years after her enrolment after checking her eligibility. Stanford's Graduate School of Education dean Daniel Schwartz revealed that Hislop was granted the degree after met current graduation requirements, as per the Fox News.

Rakesh Sharma, ED, Bajaj Auto, explains the logic behind launching a CNG motorcycle. He says the company expects this to be a pivotal point in the development of the two-wheeler industry in the country. And if we have to take the government at face value, which there is no reason to disbelieve, the CNG network is going to grow even further and faster, every month 100 new pumps are being added. That means CNG will have ubiquitous availability. At this point, their estimate is only 60%, but it will go to 80%. Let us begin with this CNG bike launch. What is the value proposition of this model versus the EV and the ICE models? Rakesh Sharma: Well, for the full lowdown you will have to come to Pune on 5th; by 2 pm we are unveiling the new bike. For now, suffice to say that it is the outcome of a very intense exercise over the last two to three years. We will be showcasing through this, the power of innovation at Bajaj Auto. It addresses a very large market size. Almost 70% of the one million per month market of motorcycles has some level of sensitivity to fuel economy.

India’s technology sector will need more than 1 million engineers with advanced skills in artificial intelligence and other capabilities over the next 2-3 years, an industry body estimates, a demand that won’t be met unless the government significantly beefs up education and training in the country. The sector will need to reskill more than half of its existing workforce to take up jobs in fields such as AI, big data analytics and cyber-security, said Sangeeta Gupta, senior vice president and chief strategy officer at the National Association of Software and Service Companies, based in Bengaluru. New college graduates will only be able to fill a quarter of the advanced tech jobs needed, she said. “Employability of the workforce is a huge challenge and will require a fair amount of work,” Gupta said in an interview Monday. “The industry can’t do with a one-time up-skilling, it has to be a continuous journey amid a fast changing digital landscape.”

Companies making smartphones, refrigerators, wearables and twowheelers said they are producing up to 20% more inventory than last year for the upcoming festive season. They expect a demand revival during the country’s largest consumption period on the back of a good monsoon and stable inflation. “There’s pent-up demand in rural India, which will be unleashed by the monsoon. People there have not bought much in the past five years, which is Covid onwards, while the premiumisation trend is continuing strong in urban India,” said Kamal Nandi, business head at Godrej Appliances.

students were killed on Friday when a school in central Nigeria collapsed on pupils taking exams, according to an AFP correspondent. Trapped students were heard crying for help under the rubble after the Saint Academy school in Jos North district of Plateau State fell in on classrooms. Mechanical diggers tried to rescue the victims while parents desperately looked for their children.

Consider a country whose economy has suffered due to years of lower productivity growth than its peers, high inequality and low private investment. To compound its problems, it is not part of dynamic free-trade zones, which would lower its tariffs, push its industry to be more competitive and reduce friction for goods crossing borders. This is the huge to-do-list that Keir Starmer faces as the new Prime Minister of UK, but it is also more or less the challenge that New Delhi confronts.

Tata Trusts has set up an executive committee (EC) comprising chairman Ratan Tata, vice chairmen Venu Srinivasan and Vijay Singh, and trustee Mehli Mistry, said people with knowledge of the matter. The move is aimed at expediting decision making on a day-to-day basis without having to go to the entire board for approvals and ratification, given that there are over 18 trustees across all trusts. Tata Trusts is the controlling shareholder of Tata Sons, the Tata Group’s holding company, Separately, Aparna Uppaluri has stepped down from her role as COO of Tata Trusts citing personal reasons. Uppaluri was appointed in April 2023, and was the first to hold that role in Tata Trusts. Siddharth Sharma, who was appointed CEO of Tata Trusts at the same time, remains in his position. Tata Trusts is understood to be looking for a successor to Uppaluri, executives close to the matter said.

Indic languages, Indian Institute of Science’s AI and Robotics Technology Park (IISc-ARTPARK) plans to open-source 16,000 hours of spontaneous speech from 80 districts as part of Project Vaani in collaboration with American technology company Google. IISc-ARTPARK is curating datasets of 150,000 hours of natural speech and text from around one million people across 773 districts of India, and the first phase of the project, launched at the end of 2022, is nearing completion.