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After notching their biggest daily percentage gains since mid-August, major averages were subdued for most of the session, but managed to secure weekly gains of at least 1%.

Qualcomm has approached its rival Intel in recent days about the possibility of acquiring the slumping Silicon Valley giant, two people familiar with the matter said Friday, requesting anonymity because the talks were confidential. Qualcomm has not yet made an official offer for Intel, one of the people said, and the obstacles to a deal remain steep. Any deal would likely draw significant regulatory scrutiny, given the mammoth size and national security importance of both chip companies. It is unclear whether regulators would allow Qualcomm to buy Intel without taking on its struggling foundry business, and it remains equally unclear whether Qualcomm would want to take on that complex endeavor. A deal would also be costly. Intel, which has seen its shares fall nearly 40% over the last year, has a market capitalization of $93 billion. Qualcomm, which has seen its shares rise 55%, has a market value of $169 billion.

Summit of the Future' during the UN General Assembly (UNGA). This visit seeks to enhance diplomatic ties and collaborative efforts between India and the US. Here are key agendas of PM Modi's visit to the states:

The Summit of the Furture is an important milestone in the history of UN as it enters the 80th year of its establishment in 2025. A Pact for the Future, with its two annexes Global Digital Compact and Declaration on Future Generations, will be the outcome document of the Summit. PM Narendra Modi will also address the Summit of the Future. Summit of the Future, director Michele Griffin says India is a major voice for pushing for the change that the Summit envisages.

National Conference’s manifesto promise to restore Article 370 if voted to power, alleging that there was in fact a “jugalbandi (coordination)” between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Pakistan defence minister Khwaja Asif as the latter made his controversial remarks on a day the PM was campaigning in Jammu and Kashmir. The main opposition also raked up the Pulwama terrorist attack and Modi’s surprise visit to then Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif’s home to attend a family function in December 2015. Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member Pramod Tiwari countered the BJP attack that Pakistan has welcomed the NC’s manifesto promise of restoring Article 370 that gave special status to J&K and that this promise has caused a lot of enthusiasm in the neighbouring country.

SEBI's refusal to disclose instances when its chairperson Madhabi Buch recused herself due to conflict of interest and said that this makes a «mockery» of public accountability and transparency. The cases where Buch recused herself due to potential conflict of interest is not «readily» available and collating them would «disproportionately divert» its resources, the securities market regulator said in an RTI response on Friday. In the response furnished to transparency activist Commodore Lokesh Batra (retd), the regulator also refused to provide copies of Buch's declarations to the government and SEBI Board on the financial assets and equities held by her and her family members on the grounds of these being «personal information» and that their disclosure may «endanger» personal safety. Reacting to the development, Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said, «The multiple conflicts of interest of the SEBI Chairperson that have been revealed so far are shocking in themselves. Now in a move that adds more fuel to the raging fire, SEBI has simply refused to divulge information to a RTI activist on instances of the SEBI Chairperson recusing herself on issues where there have been potential conflicts of interest.»

Shikari area of Reasi district in Jammu and Kashmir after an encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists on Friday. Based on specific intelligence about the presence of terrorists, a joint search operation was launched by Security forces in the district, said authorities. Contact has been established and a few rounds have been fired from both sides, they added.

Boeing said on Friday the head of its troubled space and defense unit is leaving the company immediately, in the first management change under new CEO Kelly Ortberg. Ortberg who took over in August said Ted Colbert would be leaving and Steve Parker, the unit's chief operating officer, would assume Colbert's responsibilities until a replacement is named at a later date. «At this critical juncture, our priority is to restore the trust of our customers and meet the high standards they expect of us to enable their critical missions around the world,» Ortberg wrote in an email to employees. «Working together we can and will improve our performance and ensure we deliver on our commitments.»

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. On the 40th anniversary this year of the Center for Development of Telematics (C-DOT), the pioneering Indian telecom institution, spare a thought for its zesty founder who is still making waves, though perhaps not quite in the way he would like to. In the evolutionary history of Indian technology and innovation, Satyanarayan (Sam) Gangaram Pitroda’s status as India’s original tech guru is secure, though he doesn’t get enough credit for the telecom revolution that has seen the country’s teledensity jump from around 2% in the 1980s to over 90% today.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Friday its intent to pursue sanctions against Elon Musk.

US Secret Service which was responsible for the safeguard of former US president Donald Trump during his campaign rally, accepted today that because of the failed communication and the lack of intelligence by its agents, Donald Trump was shoot during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Aleksander Gorbunov will be the two eminent and lucky people who will be present inside the Dragon spacecraft with two more seats staying vacant in the aircraft for an utmost important reason. FoxWeather reported that the Crew 9 mission is leaving two seats vacant in the Dragon spacecraft, so that Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore who are stranded at the International Space Station for a pretty long time can be brought back to earth with safety and security and as soon as possible. Also Read :Is divorce on? After Sunday brunch, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck reunite for kids school event

Quad summit this weekend, Australian PM Anthony Albanese appears to have broken ranks with the US and Canada, co-members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, on the issue of Indian «spies» in Australia by pointing out that such matters are raised privately. Responding to media queries during his ongoing US trip on the «nest of Indian spies» in Australia, Albanese said, «Well, what I do is act diplomatically and have those discussions, and that will, no doubt, be something that is raised.

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Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander in an airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Friday, the Israeli military and two security sources in Lebanon said, sharply escalating the year-long conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed group.

Shares of Trump Media have slumped to new lows on the first trading day that its biggest shareholder, former President Donald Trump, is free to sell his stake in the company behind the Truth Social platform

Ibrahim Aqil, the Hezbollah operations commander killed in an Israeli strike on Friday, had a $7 million bounty on his head for two 1983 Beirut truck bombings that killed more than 300 people at the American embassy and a U.S. Marines barracks. Two security sources in Lebanon confirmed the veteran fighter was killed in an airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs during a meeting of the elite Radwan unit of the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group. Aqil, who has also used the aliases Tahsin and Abdelqader, was the second member of Hezbollah's top military body, the Jihad Council, to be killed in two months after an Israeli strike in the same area targeted Fuad Shukr in July.

India's position in the global financial ecosystem and is committed to advancing digital payment solutions that are secure, scalable, and inclusive, the finance ministry said in a statement on Friday. «India is rapidly emerging as a global leader in digital payments. With UPI’s global expansion and the continued rise of digital transactions, India is setting new benchmarks for financial inclusion and economic empowerment of common citizens,» it said, noting that as per the ACI Worldwide Report 2024, in 2023 around 49% of the global real-time payment transactions are happening in India. In its statement the ministry noted that digital payments transactions volume reached to 8,659 crore for the last five months (April-August) of FY25, the finance ministry said in a statement adding that in the last six years, transaction volume increased at a 44% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2,071 crore in FY18 to 18,737 crore in FY 24.