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Florida will have one of the country’s most restrictive social media bans for minors — if it withstands expected legal challenges

Google will continue to defend the way it complies with the Digital Markets Act in the coming months, the Alphabet unit said on Monday, after EU antitrust regulators started an investigation into potential breaches of the EU tech rules. «To comply with the Digital Markets Act, we have made significant changes to the way our services operate in Europe,» Google's competition director Oliver Bethell said in an email.

Nikhil Kamath in an interview with The Print shared his thoughts on being a school dropout. He also noted the societal stigma associated with low-barrier jobs regardless of the monetary success. When asked how the reactions were after his dropping out Kamath said his parents took the news better than expected.

As global warming raises temperatures, a California work safety board has approved standards that would require companies to protect employees from excessive indoor heat, particularly in warehouses

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jane Fonda are calling on voters to keep a law banning new oil and gas wells near homes, schools and hospitals as the oil industry fights to overturn it

Senior doctors at dozens of hospitals in South Korea plan to submit their resignations in support of medical interns and residents who have been on a strike over the government’s push to sharply increase medical school admissions

South Korea said they will cut back on the hours they spend in practice starting on Monday to support trainee doctors on strike for more than a month over a government plan to boost medical school admissions. «It is clear that increasing medical school admissions will not only ruin medical school education but cause our country's healthcare system to collapse,» Kim Chang-soo, the president of the Medical Professors Association of Korea, told reporters.

Kalpen Parekh, MD & CEO, DSP Mutual Fund, says “we felt that prices are maybe a year ahead of what they should be and part correction has happened, let us say, in the last two-three weeks, but we do feel that even today when we look at our portfolios, we would be happy with some more consolidation either in terms of time or if there is some more price fall, our conviction to buy the same set of good companies with the next five-year horizon would go up significantly. But we would still say it is time to be cautious, time to be more diversified and time to be more asset allocated rather than chasing only one bucket.” You and your team are putting out some great data. In fact, it is just not garnering assets but also educating the ecosystem and learning which I really appreciate about your house. You called out on the froth in small and midcaps very early on. In fact, the buzz may have gotten louder in the last two weeks, but the melting of the indices started in the first or second week of February. Do you think the adjustment is done or not entirely?

“One of the important risks to the macro environment this year is rupee depreciation and consequently its impact on CAD,” says Dr. Poonam Tandon, Chief Investment Officer at IndiaFirst Life. In an interview with ETMarkets, Tandon said: “Another challenge is the monsoon (if it's going to be a normal one with good spatial distribution) as food prices are already at elevated levels,” Edited excerpts: It has been a volatile month so far – what is fueling volatility in the markets? Dr Poonam Tandon: This month has been volatile for equity markets as a few announcements by the regulators caught the market by surprise – be it restricting IIFL Finance to disburse fresh gold loans followed by restriction on JM Financials for IPO financing and later the ED raids as reported in the media.

NPCI Bharat Billpay (NBBL), banks and fintech firms are in talks to implement banking interoperability, following central bank approval for the project, said two senior bankers with knowledge of the matter. NBBL could start work on the pipelines to enable such transactions in April, they said. “Currently, conversations are happening with the large participants in the net banking ecosystem to find the right implementation strategy,” one of the bankers said. “The top banks like HDFC Bank, SBI, ICICI Bank are the largest players in this space.”

Physics Wallah will open “as many offline centres as it can” in FY25 even if it erodes profits, founder and chief executive Alakh Pandey told ET. The Noida-based company’s aggressive approach to opening offline centres has not been dampened by the sharp drop in its net profit to Rs 16 crore in FY23 from Rs 98 crore in the previous year.

self-regulatory body for online gaming, it may be looking at incorporating an independent regulator that will allow only registered entities to offer e-gaming services in India. The National Law University (NLU) Delhi, along with industry body E-Gaming Federation (EGF), is consulting with industry stakeholders to determine the direction that gaming regulations should take henceforth, people aware of the development told ET.

Harsh Jain and Haptik CEO Aakrit Vaish to chair its eight-member governing council in its inaugural elections starting from April 1 for a two-year term. Other members of the newly elected governing council include Vishal Gondal, cofounder and CEO of GOQii; Dhruvil Sanghvi, founder and CEO of LogiNext; Akanksha Hazari, founder and CEO of LoveLocal; Mayank Kumar, cofounder and MD of upGrad; Naiyya Saggi, cofounder of The Good Glamm Group; and Vivek Khemani, cofounder of Quantiphi.

From 2014 to 2023, the education sector in India has witnessed notable strides in student enrolment and retention, with the gross enrolment ratio (GER) for secondary education increasing from 75.7% to 79.2%, and for higher secondary from 46.3% to 56.8%. Retention rates at the elementary level rose from 67.4% to 75.8%, and at the secondary level from 57.2% to 65.5%, signalling advances in educational engagement and policy efficacy.

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Sarma's statement came after the Centre implemented the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) last month. "Whether 'Miyas' are indigenous or not is a different matter. What we are saying is that if they try to be 'indigenous', we have no problem.

Interfax reported. Islamist groups have targeted Russia in the past citing what they call anti-Muslim policies by the Kremlin. The seizure of a school in Beslan in the south of the country led to more than 330 fatalities, many of them children, in 2004.

Congress candidate for Sontipur Lok Sabha seat in Assam, Premlal Ganju, has just Rs 1 lakh cash in hand along with Rs 50,000 of his wife, according to the affidavit submitted to the Election Commission of India. Apart from the cash in hand, Ganju has Rs 5,06,995 and his wife Rs 1,77,453 in their respective bank accounts. The Congress nominee, who will contest in the general elections for the first time, in his affidavit submitted along with the nomination papers said that he has Rs 1,00,000 in cash with him and Rs 50,000 with his wife. The total movable assets including automobile and jewellery under his name are valued at Rs 21,00,310, while the same under his wife is Rs 5,62,453, making it Rs 26,62,763 worth of movable assets in the family.

Tech Mahindra said it plans to merge its two wholly-owned subsidiaries, Born Group and Tech Mahindra (Americas), to synergise business operations, optimise operational cost, and reduce compliance risks. The merger is subject to regulatory approvals in the country of incorporation. According to a regulatory filing, the appointed date of the plan of merger is April 1, 2024. «A Plan of Merger of Born Group, Inc., a wholly-owned step-down subsidiary of the Company with its parent company viz. Tech Mahindra (Americas) Inc., a wholly-owned material subsidiary of the Company, has been approved by the respective companies on Friday, 22nd March 2024,» the company said.

Penalty provisions can act as a deterrent to the development and dissemination of deepfakes and misinformation, a senior official of global think tank Cuts International said while calling for the deployment of technology interventions to check misuse of AI-generated content. CUTS International, Director, Research, Amol Kulkarni told PTI that internet users would require adequate opportunities to verify the genuineness of content and it becomes important during the election season while the role of credible fact-checkers and trusted flaggers becomes crucial.

Muntingia calabura) and was useful for growing fast. It would give green volume and shade while slower-growing plants came up. It seemed a stopgap tree, not worth taking that seriously. Within two years it was full-sized, with abundant leaves and, soon, small white-petalled flowers. The surprise was the small red fruits that followed, really like tiny cherries. The tree produces almost continuously, but only a few ripen every day. We find them shaken off by the wind on the ground below. When I was told they were edible, I had little expectation. Many plants have edible fruit, in that they won’t poison you, but that doesn’t really make them worth eating. The fruits tend to have wincingly bitter notes or tannic aftertastes that leave your mouth puckered. Some, like wax or rose apples (Syzygium samarangense) have pleasantly crunchy textures, but little taste. And then there are the sour fruits beloved of Indian school kids, like starberries (Phyllanthus acidus) or bilimbi (Averrhoa bilimbi), which are refreshing on a hot summer day, eaten with salt and washed down with lots of water, or made into a pickle, but that’s about it.