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Indian cricket team yesterday unveiled its fresh jersey ahead of the upcoming T20 World Cup 2024 in West Indies and US, adding to the fervor among fans. The new jersey reveals a vibrant design in the team's signature blue, courtesy of the official kit sponsor, Adidas.

According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics today (3 May), job gains were mainly registered in healthcare, social assistance, transportation and warehousing. The unemployment rate remained steady at 3.9%, slightly up from 3.8% in March. Daniel Casali, investment strategist at Evelyn Partners, said that despite the data coming in lower than expected, the US labour demand has remained «resilient» and continued to «reduce the risk of a US recession». Fed holds rates steady as 'lack of further progress' on inflation signals higher for longer stance He noted the April figur...

concert while you scroll through those reels on Instagram, be warned that you are at the risk of developing dementia. This is a condition that is generally associated with old age wherein individuals develop an impaired ability to think, make decisions or even lead day to day lives. The Mirror in the UK has reported on 13 habits that results in aging of the brain and its cells leading to an increased chance of developing dementia.

As we reported yesterday, a financial institutions group (FIG) associate has died at a major US bank in New York City. The cause of his death is unclear. There are unconfirmed suggestions that he worked long hours for weeks prior to his passing. There have also been unconfirmed suggestions on Instagram that he had existing health issues. Colleagues are understood to be devastated, and his family have requested space to grieve and to process his passing.

The cuts at Barclays came early yesterday. They were expected on May 8th, but manifested themselves on May 1st instead. The number of people affected extended to “a few hundred underperformers,” said Reuters, but insiders at Barclays say some teams seemed to suffer more than the rest. 

An associate at a US investment bank is understood to have passed away after allegedly working 120-hour weeks on a deal in the Financial Institutions Group (FIG) sector.

Germany said Monday it recalled its ambassador to Russia for a week of consultations in Berlin following an alleged hacker attack on Chancellor Olaf Scholz's party. Germany last week accused Russian military agents of hacking into the top echelons of Scholz's Social Democrats' party and other sensitive government and industrial targets. Berlin has joined NATO and fellow European countries in warning that Russia's cyberespionage would have consequences. The Foreign Office in Berlin said Monday that the government is taking the latest incident «seriously» and that Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock had decided to call back German Ambassador Alexander Lambsdorff. He would return to Moscow after a week, it said.

Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter, has stepped down from Bluesky’s board, the decentralized social media platform he originally envisioned and funded back in 2019 during his tenure as CEO of Twitter.

FIR has been lodged against BJP national president JP Nadda, Karnataka state BJP president BY Vijayendra, BJP social media in-charge Amit Malviya after Congress filed a complaint over BJP Karnataka's social media post allegedly intimidating members of SC, ST community. Congress had earlier filed a complaint against BJP officials over a video posted by BJP Karnataka on their social media for allegedly intimidating members of Schedule caste or tribe to not vote for a particular candidate with an intention to create feelings of enmity, hatred and ill-will against members of SC/ST community. BJP was also accused of violating model code of conduct by using animated video of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah by portraying Congress party as favouring a particular religion and suppressing members of SC/ST and OBC community.

Gujarat-based company has issued a clarification after a job hiring LinkedIn post associated with the firm received severe backlash for barring Marathi applicants for the role.. In its recent post on LinkedIn, the Surat-based company, ITCODE Infotech called the previous post targeting the Marathi people ‘hateful’ and clarified that the freelance HR, who shared the post on LinkedIn is not “affiliated with our company in any capacity" The company also rejected any association with the HR and mentioned that the freelance HR already apologised for the controversial post. Also Read: ‘Parents demanding 65% of salary’ sparks online debate, netizens say ‘unreasonable, learn to say NO’ “The HR simply utilized the company name on LinkedIn, a platform open to anyone.

Asaduddin Owaisi, has gone viral on the social media platforms. The visuals shows that Owaisi, surrounded by a large gathering, was honored with a saffron scarf by the priest. However, the AIMIM leader immediately removed the bhagwa dupatta from Owaisi's shoulders.

said at an election rally. TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee urged the people of West Bengal to vote against those trying to tarnish the state's reputation. The Diamond Harbour MP asked the public to reject anyone seeking to discredit Bengal just to gain a few votes.

Congress worker" during a roadshow in Haveri's Savanur town has gone viral on the social media platforms after the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) shared the visuals on its official X (formerly Twitter) handle. Shivakumar, in the video, was seen surrounded by a large number of Congress workers when he came out of the car in Savanur. He reached Haveri to campaign for Congress candidate Vinoda Asooti in the Lok Sabha elections 2024.

Wipro and HCL Tech are likely to follow suit in their upcoming management discussions. Cognizant said, “Our use of AI technologies may present business, financial, legal and reputational risks. As with many innovations, AI presents risks and challenges that could adversely impact our business." The company added, “Failure to appropriately conform to this evolving landscape may result in legal liability, regulatory action, or brand and reputational harm." French IT giant Capgemini also spoke about potential disruptive effects.

Kolhapur is one of a few seats in Maharashtra that Congress is confident of bagging in this election. BJP's decision to backtrack from claiming this seat from Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena too indicates that the going will not be easy for NDA this time. In the runup to the polls, BJP was pressurising Sena to hand over this seat in western Maharashtra to it. Shinde resisted the pressure as the Sena had a sitting MP, Sadashiv Mandlik. Yet BJP was relentless in seeking the seat, but then gave up the claim, the reason for which probably was the candidate Congress has fielded. Congress has managed to convince Shahu II Chhatrapati Maharaj, a descendant of Maratha warrior king Shivaji, to contest the polls. More importantly, he is the great grandson of Rajarshi Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj, a maharaja of the former princely state Kolhapur and a well-known social reformer. During his rule, he had encouraged Dalit children to study and provided 50% reservation for them, as well as offered scholarships for poor meritorious students from the community. He established schools for women and legalised widow remarriage and worked to abolish child marriage. Within a day of Congress announcing Shahu Maharaj as its candidate, Prakash Ambedkar's VBA, which was making its own plans to contest separately, announced it would support his candidature.

Four-Year Integrated course: The candidate should have passed Class 12th or equivalent exam in the desired stream with at least 50% marks in aggregate. There will be relaxation for reserved category candidates in the minimum marks required to be admitted to the above-mentioned programs. Six-Year Integrated Course: Candidates must have passed +2 / Hr.

NEET exam centre in Rajasthan on Sunday led to some candidates walking out with the papers, the National Testing Agency (NTA) said, claiming the integrity of the examination process was not compromised. The exam was later reconducted for the 120 affected candidates at the centre, said Sadhna Parashar, Senior Director, NTA. According to NTA sources, some candidates were distributed question papers in languages other than their choice of medium which prompted them to walk out of the centre. «During NEET-UG examination, it came to attention that at one exam centre, Girls Higher Secondary Model School, Mantown, Sawai Madhopur, there was an incident of incorrect distribution of question papers by the centre superintendent. Despite efforts by invigilators to prevent it, some candidates left the exam centre with the question papers,» Parashar said.

Arvind Kejriwal's wife Sunita on Sunday alleged he was put in jail before the elections to «stifle» his voice and urged people to vote against «dictatorship» when the national capital goes to polls on May 25. Sunita held her third roadshow in the national capital in south Delhi in support of AAP candidate Sahiram Pahalwan on Sunday. She said her husband was put in jail since he built good government schools, mohalla clinics and promised to give Rs 1,000 to every woman in Delhi. «He has put in jail just before polls to stifle his voice. Dictatorship is at its peak. Please save this country. Please cast your vote irrespective of the heat,» she added.

reservations and sexual harassment charges against JD(S) leader Prajwal Revanna concluded on Sunday evening in 92 seats spread over 11 states and Union Territories. The stakes are significant for the BJP in this round as the party had in 2019 won an overwhelming majority of these seats, including all in Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, that will go to polls on May 7. Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the BJP charge, asking the Congress to give in writing that it will not hand over the quota for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes to Muslims. The Congress and its allies accused the BJP of trying to tamper with the Constitution and do away with reservations. The principal opposition party, which has promised to remove the 50 per cent cap on reservations, also asked the BJP to clear its stance on the issue.

Rahul Gandhi always wear a white T-shirt? The Congress leader has not one but two reasons — it conveys "transparency" and "simplicity". Gandhi answers several such light-hearted questions in a more than two-minute video released by the Congress on its social media channels. In the video captioned «A day campaigning in Karnataka. Some light rapid fire questions and some very illustrious company», Gandhi also talks about his take on the importance of ideology. «In my view, you cannot go as a large organisation towards power without a clear understanding of the ideology. We have to convince the people of our ideology which is pro-poor, pro-women, plural, treating everybody equally,» he says.

Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, and Digvijaya Singh, ended on Sunday evening. More than 1.77 crore voters will decide the fate of 127 candidates in the fray amid intense campaigning by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah from the BJP, and Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra from Congress. The constituencies which will vote on Tuesday include Morena, Bhind (SC-reserved), Gwalior, Guna, Sagar, Vidisha, Bhopal, Rajgarh and Betul (ST-reserved) constituencies.