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I rarely get any physical mail anymore. In fact, if it weren’t for my weekly New Yorker magazine subscription, my mail carrier would have no reason to visit my front stoop. Over a decade ago, I switched all my bills (hydro, natural gas, home internet, credit cards, etc.) to email delivery, and this includes most tax slips, as well as correspondence from the Canada Revenue Agency.

Japan's largest labor union group said its workers secured the highest pay deal in more than three decades, supporting the case for further gradual interest rate hikes from the Bank of Japan. Labor unions under the federation known as Rengo have so far secured a pay gain of 5.46% on average in ongoing annual wage negotiations, according to its initial tally released on Friday. That's the highest level since 1991 when compared with past final tally figures, and exceeded last year's initial reading of 5.28%.

Balochistan Liberation Army militants, who ambushed a train in Balochistan, were army and paramilitary soldiers. Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Lieutenant Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, during a press conference with Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfaraz Bugti, said 26 hostages were killed by the terrorists before the start of the army operation. «The 26 hostages include 18 army and paramilitary soldiers, three other government officials and five civilians,» he said. He also said that five paramilitary soldiers of Frontier Corps were killed during the operation, including four Frontier Corps personnel killed by terrorists when they attacked the train. The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) terrorists ambushed the Jaffar Express carrying over 400 passengers on Tuesday in Bolan area of Balochistan and held the passengers hostage, prompting the security forces to initiate an operation that lasted until the next day evening. Security forces stormed the hijacked train on Wednesday, bringing a dramatic end to a 30-hour siege, killing all 33 terrorists, while successfully rescuing more than 300 passengers.

According to New York Post, Bortner had been feeling fatigued for a year but had no reason to suspect anything serious. However, while scratching a mosquito bite near her breast, she discovered a lump. Aware of stories about dogs detecting cancer through scent, she decided to get checked. A few days later, doctors diagnosed her with stage 2B triple-negative invasive ductal carcinoma—an aggressive form of breast cancer that does not respond to common hormonal treatments. “That’s how fast and aggressive this triple-negative breast cancer is,” Bortner said. “It went from non-feel-able, non-detectable to a physical lump within three months.”

eight-day variable rate repo (VRR) auction that the Reserve Bank of India conducted on Thursday got bids for less than one-tenth of the notified amount, with treasury executives citing the tenure of the operation as a likely reason for the weak demand. The RBI offered to infuse Rs 1 lakh crore in the banking system through the VRR auction that would reverse, or be repaid, on March 21, but it received bids for only Rs 9,860 crore. The central bank also conducts daily overnight VRR auctions. Treasury heads said the auction could have seen more demand if the maturity date were in April, in the new fiscal year. “There is no difference between borrowing overnight and borrowing for eight days. If I have the flexibility to borrow every day, I will borrow when the need arises and not for eight days,” Jana Small Finance Bank’s head of treasury Gopal Tripathi told ET. “Plus, this would mature within March; if the reversal date were crossing March, there would have been more demand.” The RBI has been conducting these auctions to inject liquidity in anticipation of outflows from the banking system due to advance quarterly tax and GST payments.

Treasury chief Rachel Reeves before a key statement about the state of the public finances later this month. Official figures Friday showed that the economy, the world's sixth-largest, saw output drop by 0.1% during the month, in contrast to expectations for a modest increase and December's solid 0.4% gain. The Office of National Statistics said the weak performance was largely due to bad weather affecting the manufacturing and construction sectors, despite a solid performance by the services sector, which accounts for around 80% of the British economy. Though monthly figures are notoriously volatile and prone to future revision, the decline puts in sharp relief the struggles the Labour government, elected last July after 14 years in opposition, is having in generating growth. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said raising the U.K.'s economic growth is his government's number one priority over the next five years. Since the global financial crisis in 2008-9, the British economy's growth performance has been historically lackluster.

Elon Musk appeared on the verge of tears during a recent Fox Business interview, visibly distressed as he discussed the mounting challenges facing his companies. Speaking with Larry Kudlow, Musk admitted that managing multiple businesses had become «extremely difficult», as Tesla's stock plunged 15.4%, marking its biggest drop since September 2020. Meanwhile, X (formerly Twitter) continued to struggle with technical and operational setbacks. The global slowdown in electric vehicle (EV) demand has further intensified Tesla’s troubles.

Treasury Department releases numbers on how much money the US government took in and paid out the previous one. You can get them straight from the source, or in simplified form at the Hamilton Project’s Tracking Federal Expenditures in Real Time site. What they show so far is that, despite all the noise from Washington about layoffs and canceled programs and other cutbacks, the federal government has been spending money faster since President Trump took office on Jan.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As businesses navigate the future of work in the post-pandemic era, the return to physical offices is being touted as essential for rebuilding culture and collaboration. At the heart of this shift lies an untapped asset—the silver generation of professionals aged 50 and above.

In the viral vide, Jones can be seen stepping out of her car at night in an undisclosed location in Australia. She crosses the road, picks up a baby wombat, and runs back toward her vehicle. The mother wombat is seen in distress, chasing after her as she takes the baby away. Another scene shows the mother wombat waiting near Jones’ car door, crying as long as she holds the baby in her hands. Criticizing the influencer, Prime Minister Albanese said, «Try taking a baby crocodile from its mother and see how you go there,» emphasizing that some animals wouldn’t tolerate such cruelty. Jones was earlier criticised by Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong who dubbed the video as «dreadful» while opposition leader Peter Dutton condemned the act, calling it «cruel». There was an online petition also which had over 30,000 signatures demanding Jones to be deported from the country.

Digital lenders, non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), and banks have collectively disbursed an impressive Rs 74,500 crore through the Account Aggregator (AA) framework in the first half of the current fiscal year, according to a report by Sahamati, the industry alliance supporting the AA ecosystem. Among these, the top eight lending institutions, which account for 62% of the consents, reported a total disbursement of Rs 46,200 crore. Since its inception in September 2021, the AA framework has enabled total disbursements of Rs 1.3 lakh crore, with the top lending institutions contributing Rs 88,700 crore of this amount, the report showed. In the first half of fiscal year 2025, lenders utilized the Account Aggregator framework to facilitate 5.47 million loans, bringing the total to 9.70 million loans since the launch of the ecosystem.

BEIJING — Chinese videostreaming platform iQiyi announced Thursday it plans later this year to open its first full-fledged theme park in China based on characters from its own shows.

In an interview with ETMarkets, Ramkumar said: “We also feel infrastructure and defence sectors are in for structural growth in India,” Edited excerpts:

Bullion climbed to $2,990.21 an ounce, eclipsing all-time highs set on Thursday and earlier Friday.

tariff threats. On Thursday, for the first time, the benchmark S&P 500 finished more than 10% below its most recent record high close, achieved on February 19.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has left hundreds of thousands of dead and injured, displaced millions of people, reduced towns to rubble and triggered the sharpest confrontation for decades between Moscow and the West. Putin's heavily qualified support for the U.S. ceasefire proposal looked designed to signal goodwill to Washington and open the door to further talks with U.S. President Donald Trump. But Putin said many crucial details needed to be sorted out and any agreement must address the root causes of the conflict. Russia called its 2022 invasion a «special military operation» designed to «denazify» Ukraine and halt an expansion of NATO. «We agree with the proposals to cease hostilities,» Putin told reporters at the Kremlin. «The idea itself is correct, and we certainly support it.»

G7 nations were set to negotiate late into the night over a joint statement to show a united front in Canada on Thursday after weeks of tension between U.S. allies and President Donald Trump over his upending of Western trade and security policy. The Group of Seven ministers from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States, along with the European Union, convened in the remote tourist town of La Malbaie, nestled in the Quebec hills, for meetings on Thursday and Friday that in the past have been broadly consensual. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio briefed his colleagues on talks on Tuesday with Ukraine in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where Kyiv said it was ready to support a 30-day ceasefire deal. But officials said ambiguous comments by Russian President Vladimir Putin left delegates unclear where things stood. In the run-up to the first G7 meeting of Canada's presidency, the crafting of an agreed all-encompassing final statement had been tough, but diplomats said the atmosphere since had been positive and candid.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Passenger vehicle sales in February held their head above water, but only just. Wholesale dispatches for the month climbed 1.9% from a year earlies to 377,689 units, according to data put out by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) on Thursday.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Ola Electric Mobility Ltd’s decision to renegotiate contracts with two of India’s largest vehicle registration agencies last month has resulted in prolonged delays in the deliveries of its scooters, according to store managers and complaints posted by buyers on social media. The waiting period for the company’s electric scooters increased to 20-45 days from 5-7 days before February, managers at seven Ola Electric stores across New Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru told Mint.

As many as 15,590 new companies were registered in UP between April 2024 and January 2025, compared with 12,759 in Delhi, data from the corporate affairs ministry showed. Maharashtra added about 21,000 new companies in this period. Company incorporations indicate investor confidence in the medium-to-long term growth prospects of a state, among other reasons. Strong economic growth in recent years, a vast and expanding consumer base, greater focus on ease of doing business and a large pool of affordable workers, on top of improved law and order situation, have drawn investors to UP, experts and a state government official said. The national capital’s proximity to Noida, a key industrial centre in UP, also helps draw investors there, the official said, given that real estate costs are lower there than in Delhi.

Reality TV star Gabby Windey won ‘The Traitors,’ but she has yet to receive her prize money, media reports said. She spoke about the issue on ‘Watch What Happens Live,’ revealing that she is still waiting for payment. The competition ended nearly a year ago, but the winners have not received their earnings.