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Meta has worked with Vodafone to free up capacity on 11 of its European mobile networks by optimising the delivery of short-form video without noticeably compromising the viewing experience. Demand for video on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube is driving relentless growth in data usage on mobile networks.

jazz LPs that my father played — but when I started hanging out with fellows a little older than me, the compact music cassettes that they played in their dens. It was a transactional thing. I was still in school. They were already in college. As the youngest in the group, I had a price to pay for being allowed to be around. It was a task, really. I was given a pencil and a bunch of cassettes and my task was simple: I had to spin each cassette like a Buddhist prayer wheel till they got fully rewound and ready to play. No one wanted to waste their sessions rewinding cassettes on the tape deck. Hence, the deployment of a slave.

Congress is a «parasite» that feeds off its allies and mocked Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi for his «juvenile behaviour». Replying to motion of thanks on the President's address in Lok Sabha, Modi said, «After 2024 elections, Congress will be termed a parasite. It won 99 seats by living off the vote share of its allies. A parasite feeds on the body it inhabits and, similarly, Congress consumes the votes of its allies. It flourishes at the expense of its partners.» He said 2024 was the third consecutive defeat of Congress when it failed to breach the 100 mark. «But they are busy doing 'Sheershasana' (headstand) and trying to establish in the minds of people that they have defeated us… This is like trying to pacify a child.»

Kapil Wadhawan, erstwhile promoter of Dewan Housing Finance (DHFL), has moved the appellate tribunal NCLAT to challenge the NCLT order to initiate personal insolvency proceedings against him. Wadhawan has challenged an earlier order passed by the Mumbai bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), which on April 2, directed to initiate of personal insolvency proceedings against him over the Union Bank plea. The matter was listed before a two-member bench of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), which has been adjourned to July 18 for the hearing.

heat wave to high humidity and now the monsoon, all within days. And as many retreated indoors, it was left to gig workers to brave the elements as they delivered food and myriad essentials on their two-wheelers. Heat, humidity, hail, or heavy rain, when the weather gets tough, theirs is the band that gets going, working harder and for longer hours than earlier. It's a job that has been getting increasingly tough with extreme weather events becoming more commonplace and frequent. Weaving in and out of lanes as they whiz through traffic, Vimlesh Kumar is amongst the thousands of gig workers in Delhi-NCR. Waiting outside a bakery in Ghaziabad for the rain to stop one day last week, the 27-year-old said he has mixed emotions on such days — worried that he might get sick, glad it will pay him more.

Som Distilleries at Sehatganj village in Raisen, Madhya Pradesh. He calls his work “pauwa jamana”— setting the bottles upright so that alcohol falls into them. He did that for nine hours a day. Wearing jeans and tee shirt, Vineet sits with a slight stoop at his home. He says he dropped out of school. Instead of going to class, the thin boy would reach the distillery at 8 am and work till 5 pm. After a long day of strenuous, hazardous work, he would go home with Rs 350. He saw the hands of his friends had turned white, the skin had peeled. “It could have been the chemicals,” he says. He worked there only for a fortnight. Before he had to spend more days in that reeking plant, before his hands too got scalded, he was rescued. On June 15, a team of officials of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) and Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA), a nonprofit founded by Kailash Satyarthi, rescued 59 children—39 boys and 20 girls—from the distillery, in the biggest busting of child labour racket in the liquor industry in the past several years. About 40 other children “escaped” during the raid, according to officials at the rescue operation.

artificial intelligence to enhance its processes across the project life cycle, company's chairman and managing director S N Subrahmanyan said on Thursday. To fuel this innovation, the company has launched a collaborative platform connecting aspiring data scientists with domain experts and technology champions to develop cutting-edge, future-proof solutions, Subrahmanyan said during 79th Annual General Meeting. «Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has emerged as a game-changer, and the company is leveraging its power to enhance its processes across the project life cycle — from tendering to contract management to design, execution, and operation & amp;maintenance,» he said.

healthcare startup Cloudphysician said it has appointed Mandar Vaidya as its India chief executive officer from June. Bengaluru-based Cloudphysician is a full-stack tech and operations company that partners with hospitals to manage patients in their intensive care unit and emergency departments.

Rahul Malani, Equity Research Analyst, Sharekhan, says PSU banks are reporting strong loan growth versus their private peers right now. In terms of PNB has reported a sequential pickup in the loan growth versus the numbers also. So, Sharekhan continues to believe that the journey for PSBs will continue to ride on strong loan growth as well as a benign credit cycle for FY25. Weak numbers reported as opposed to what the market, I guess, was anticipating or do you think it was well in the price or not quite? Rahul Malani: In the last one month. HDFC Bank has already outperformed. A modest expectation was built in HDFC Bank around 1% to 2% deposit growth because Q1 is a weak quarter especially if we look at the flows perspective, as well as the system growth and deposit growth has also been muted. So, already expectation was that the deposits would grow around 1% to 2% but the numbers which overall deposits were flat mainly due to CASA de-grew by around 5%, which was below expectation.

IT outsourcing firms including Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. and HCL Technologies Ltd. will reveal how the much-awaited recovery is shaping up. With US and European companies remain weary of spending on new projects, TCS and HCL have clung to outsourcing projects aimed at offering cost savings. TCS results next week should show revenue growth picked up sequentially in the April-June quarter, consensus estimates show.

Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader Champai Soren's appointment as the state chief minister in February to replace Hemant Soren was as dramatic as his exit from the post five months later. Champai Soren, who once tilled fields with his father in a remote village in Jharkhand's Saraikela-Kharsawan district, took oath as the chief minister on February 2, days after his predecessor Hemant Soren resigned, just before he was arrested by the ED in a money laundering case. Hemant was released from jail on June 28 after the high court granted him bail, and on Wednesday, he was elected the party's legislature party leader. Champai submitted his resignation letter to the governor as chief minister to pave the way for Hemant Soren, who was sworn in as the chief minister for the third time. Sixty-seven-year-old tribal leader Champai Soren has earned the sobriquet 'Jharkhand's Tiger' for his contribution to the long fight for the creation of a separate state in the 1990s. Jharkhand was created from the southern part of Bihar in 2000.

Investments in artificial intelligence (AI) startups surged to $24 billion from April to June, more than doubling from the previous quarter, according to data from Crunchbase, highlighting the growing appetite for the new technology. Overall startup funding grew 16% sequentially to touch $79 billion in the last quarter, primarily driven by investments in AI, which became the largest sector for the first time, followed by healthcare and biotech.

Amazon.com said on Wednesday it would discontinue its security robot, Astro for Business, for small- and medium-sized businesses as it shifts its focus to household robots. The e-commerce giant initially launched the canine-like robot for household use in 2021. Astro for Business was launched last November for a range of customers including retail, manufacturing, health and wellness.

Mint for a new podcast series called Founder Diaries, where we take you through the entrepreneurial journeys of some of India’s most high-profile founders, and a peek into what it takes to build successful enterprises. Edited excerpts: I was the first entrepreneur from my family. Business was not seen as a very good thing to do.

‘Minor Detail’: A group show interprets the meaning of home She goes on to describe how Paniker’s pedagogy opened avenues for technical and creative explorations that became a hallmark of the school, contributing towards the development of the art movement in Madras (now Chennai). Though the movement was named after the city, its fabric was determined by artists coming in from the four southern states—Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka that made up the erstwhile Madras Presidency—thus bringing in different approaches and visual vocabularies.

Consumer-facing fintechs, which worked with lending platforms like Liquiloans, LenDenClub, Lendbox and Faircent to source credit for their users, have also become cautious with their product strategies, said people in the know.

Accenture announced its third acquisition in the semiconductor silicon design and engineering services space with US-headquartered Cientra. Accenture will absorb Cientra's approximately 530 engineers and practitioners entirely to Accenture’s Advanced Technology Centers in India, Accenture said in a statement.

Rahul Gandhi on Monday visited relief camps in Manipur's Jiribam and Churachandpur districts and interacted with the inmates. People displaced by the ethnic violence in the northeastern state, which claimed over 200 lives since May last year, are staying in those relief camps. Gandhi, who is accompanied by senior Congress leaders, is visiting Manipur for the first time after the Congress won both Lok Sabha seats in the state. «His third visit to Manipur post-violence shows his unwavering commitment to the people's cause,» the Congress said in a post on X.

«Global markets are quite solid. India VIX is relaxed. Momentum, participation, smallcaps coming back yesterday. So, it is a kind of an environment where one should participate, just stick to quality and have risk management in place,» says Gautam Shah, Goldilocks Premium Research. 24,200 on the screen, are you guys riding the rally or are you asking your clients to keep taking profits wherever it is getting way beyond your expectations? Gautam Shah: Well, I think that is the beauty of having some experience, having seen the 2003-2007 bull market and I think with what is happening currently, something similar happened in 2007, which was also a rally of disbelief and the market just carried on to a point where everybody just gave up and felt that the market cannot fall. We are in some sense in that period. But domestic liquidity has really changed the game, the point that I keep making and it has changed the way we look at technical analysis. Honestly, we have been riding the rally right from 5th of June because post the political mandate, it was very clear that the bulls will be back, liquidity will keep pumping in and will keep taking this market higher.

hiring prospects in the space by around 15% when recruitment in general continues to remain soft in India’s $250 billion IT services industry. According to data from staffing firms, technology services providers are poised to ramp up ER&D recruitments to sustain and enhance their global competitive edge.

Paytm brand, laid off an undisclosed number of employees in June and claimed that it was providing outplacement support for their smooth transition. During an event, Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma on Saturday when asked why senior-level employees are leaving Paytm, said, «All is well and all is rocking.»