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Slack faced another round of issues, marking the second outage in a week. Users encountered problems with viewing images, and some even reported being unable to access the app altogether. This outage could prove disruptive for numerous workplaces relying on Slack to communicate with colleagues, especially as remote working continues to gain popularity. The technical difficulties occurred during the working day in both the UK and the US, according to a report. Just days ago, there was another major outage that affected users worldwide, preventing them from signing in or sending messages. In contrast to the previous outage, the current problems did not appear to affect all users universally; instead, they seemed more confined in scope. On Wednesday, Slack's official status page acknowledged the issue, stating that users might experience difficulties loading threads, admin pages, and images. The company said that it was actively investigating the matter, as per Independent report. The outage resulted in a considerable surge of users reporting issues, as shown on the tracking website Down Detector. However, it remained uncertain whether the problems were limited to specific platforms or regions. Slack boasts over 200,000 paid customers, including 77 of the Fortune 100 companies. Notable among its clientele are major US firms like Target, Uber, Expedia, and Airbnb. The app's widespread use among such significant enterprises underscores the impact of any service interruptions.

Russian drones have hit a Ukrainian port city along the border with Romania, causing significant damage and a huge fire at facilities that are key to Ukrainian grain exports

Equitable Bank reported its best ever quarterly earnings per share in the second quarter as high interest rates push Canadians to look for alternatives to traditional banking.

Ukraine said Wednesday that Russia had struck port infrastructure in Ukraine's southern region of Odesa, targeting facilities used to export grain since the collapse of the deal allowing shipments from the Black Sea. «On the night of August 2, Russian armed forces carried out a drone attack on Odesa,» the general prosecutor's office said in a statement.

New Delhi: The central government is set to auction around 90 mines containing critical minerals, such as lithium, which had not been put under the hammer by states for almost four years, a senior government official said on Wednesday. The change in the auction process was initiated soon after the Rajya Sabha passed the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2023, earlier in the day.

Railway engineering and consulting company Rites Ltd is close to signing international contracts to supply locomotives and wagons, even as it explores consulting services abroad, chairman and managing director Rahul Mithal said. The state-run company has emerged as the lowest-cost bidder for contracts worth Rs1,000 crore to supply locomotives and wagons to Zimbabwe and Mozambique, Mithal said in an interview.

₹7,000 crore in this financial year, a more than 16% rise from the previous year, said Anil Sardana, the company’s managing director and chief executive, in an interview. The company is planning to increase its capital expenditure outlay by about 10% every year, he added. “We are sitting with a huge order book.

PNB Housing Finance expects a 22 per cent growth in fresh loan sales this fiscal, according to a top executive. The company, promoted by Punjab National Bank, has an aggressive growth plan and has set an internal target of crossing the Rs 1 lakh crore-mark on the assets side in the next three to three-and-a-half years. In the June quarter, PNB Housing Finance saw its retail loans, which is 94 per cent of its assets, growing 11 per cent to Rs 56,978 crore.

₹124.94 crore for the first quarter of this fiscal, while sale bookings fell 11 per cent annually in April-June period to ₹2,254 crore. The company also plans to raise ₹2,000 crore, in one or more tranche, through issue of non-convertible debentures (NCDs) and bonds on private placement basis. Its net profit stood at ₹45.55 crore in the year-ago period.

Ensuring all children in India get good education requires ensuring children have access to schools and that schools are delivering quality education. Our education system prioritized access to education and the quality of what is delivered in classrooms got overlooked. In order to achieve the goal of universal access, driven by the values of equity and inclusion, the system has put its effort behind building schools, making sure that teachers are deployed, equipping classrooms, etc.

NEW DELHI : Morgan Stanley on Wednesday said it expects India’s retail inflation to leap to 6.2% at the end of the quarter ending September, against its previous forecast of 5.5%, due to higher prices of food. However, the consumer price index (CPI) is expected to moderate to 5-6% in the second half of FY24. The investment bank said despite its core inflation forecast for India remaining unchanged, it maintains the base case of a shallow rate cut cycle from Jan-March 2024.

Advanced Micro Devices plans to end its year with a banger. Investors couldn’t wait that long to celebrate. The chip maker more commonly known as AMD has been the second-hottest semiconductor stock this year next to Nvidia.

The soaring cost of Canada’s housing has become a major political problem for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as his chief rival zeros in on generational grievances over affordability.

LONDON (Reuters) — The British public's expectations for future inflation fell in July, U.S. bank Citi said on Wednesday, offering some relief to the Bank of England which is expected to announce its 14th back-to-back interest rate increase on Thursday.

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Nifty ended weaker by 207 points but above the support at 19,500 a long negative candle was formed on the daily chart with minor lower shadow. Chart readers said this pattern indicates a sharp negative reversal in the market as the index has ended below the 20-DMA of 19,622, which was holding on as support since the up move started in April 2023. The daily momentum indicator has a negative crossover which is a sell signal, and the indicator is still away from the equilibrium line indicating that the weakness can continue.

Donald Trump's desperate effort to cling to power after his defeat in the 2020 election is at the center of a four-count indictment released against the former president Tuesday. The third criminal case into Trump details, among other charges, what prosecutors say was a massive and monthslong effort to «impair, obstruct, and defeat» the federal process for certifying the results of a presidential election, culminating in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The 45-page indictment states that when Trump could not persuade state officials to illegally swing the election in his favor, he and his Republican allies began recruiting a slate of fake electors in seven battleground states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — to sign certificates falsely stating that he, not Democrat Joe Biden, had won their states. While those certificates were ultimately ignored by lawmakers, federal prosecutors say it was all part of «a corrupt plan to subvert the federal government function by stopping Biden electors' votes from being counted and certified.» Here's a deeper look at how the scheme unfolded, according to the indictment:

inflation is getting tougher. While concerns over the monsoon seem to dispel, food inflation might yet remain high. The RBI has recently said that the fight is far from over and monetary policy has to stay the course to align inflation with the target in this last leg of a strenuous journey. India's retail inflation rate is likely to breach the central bank's 6% tolerance ceiling again due to sticky pulses and cereal prices even as vegetable price pressures ease, pushing policymakers to raise inflation target in August meeting, Nomura has said in a report. Factors other than the monsoon have been increasingly shaping food inflation. A case in point is the 6%+ inflation print in three of the past four normal monsoon years, argues a Crisil report. Monsoon has been normal/above-normal at an all-India level over the past four years. Predictably, foodgrain production has risen in these years. Even then, food inflation, as measured by CPI, remained above 6% in three of these four years. The southwest monsoon started with a delay and stayed in deficit in June. However, it caught up well in July, and currently stands at normal (4% above long-period average, or LPA) as of August 1.

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Some advertising holding companies have been reporting weaker-than-expected organic revenue results, raising questions about what that could mean for marketers’ spending with agencies in the quarters ahead. Some experts say the results don’t signal major problems ahead for ad companies such as Interpublic Group, Omnicom Group, WPP and Publicis Group, which own creative and media-planning and buying shops among other specialties.