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Ujammiugaq Engell, like many Greenlanders, flaunts her rediscovered cultural identity, which US President Donald Trump's expansionist ambitions have only spurred further. «I'm a whole lot of person. I carry my Greenlandic and Danish sides with pride,» said the smiling 30-some-year-old, the daughter of a mixed Danish and Greenlandic couple. After moving to Copenhagen for university, she returned to live in Nuuk, the capital of the vast Arctic island, where she now works as a museum curator.

Tariq Anwar on Sunday charged the BJP-led NDA in Bihar with making «political use» of religious leaders like Acharya Dhirendra Shastri alias Bageshwar Baba ahead of the assembly polls later this year. Anwar, who addressed a press conference in his Lok Sabha constituency of Katihar, was asked about Shastri's tour of Gopalganj where he is likely to stay till Monday. The former Union minister, in a sarcastic tone, said, «I have no problem with these religious leaders going anywhere. But, I wonder why they are made to always take the trouble of visiting poll-bound areas.» «It appears the NDA is making political use of these 'babas', since it is wary of facing the people in elections with its dismal track record on governance,» alleged Anwar.

Granules India for failing to maintain buildings for drug storage and avoiding adequate procedures regarding cleaning and maintenance of equipment at its Telangana-based formulations plant. In a warning letter to the company's Chairman and Managing Director Krishna Prasad Chigurupati, the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) stated that the company failed to establish and follow adequate written procedures for maintaining equipment at the Medchal-Malkajgiri-based manufacturing facility. The USFDA inspected the facility from August 26 to September 6, 2024. «Our investigators observed significant contamination in multiple ducts of non-dedicated use in the preparation of finished drug products manufactured at your facility,» the USFDA stated.

Danish constitution with legislation already in place outlining how to make it happen. All of Greenland's main political parties back independence, so debate has largely centred on when — not if — to cut ties with Denmark. The roadmap is already laid out.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. China’s consumer prices nosedived in February, in a sign of stubborn disinflationary pressures, ending a year’s run of tepid price growth and underscoring the challenges policymakers face in stimulating domestic demand as trade tensions intensify.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. SCIENTISTS LOOKING to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air cleanly and cheaply have long been interested in metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs: gigantic, sponge-like molecules that can be precisely engineered to capture the gas and then release it on command. Made of metal ions held together by compounds containing carbon, MOFs come in a dizzying array of structures, each with its own distinct properties.

export prices from India extended declines this week to their lowest level since June 2023 due to weak demand and abundant supplies, while Vietnam rice saw increased demand. India's 5% broken parboiled variety was quoted at $409-$415 per tonne, down from last week's $413-$420. Indian 5% broken white rice was priced at $390-$400 per ton this week. Vietnam has been aggressively selling rice in the world market, which has put pressure on prices in other countries, said a New Delhi-based dealer with a global trade house.

Ultraviolette plans to invest up to USD 100 million (nearly Rs 870 crore) in the next three to four years to fuel growth, including expansion of product portfolio, manufacturing and network, according to its founders. The company, which announced plans to bring ten new products, including scooters and long-range cruiser bikes, in the next three years, is targetting annual sales of 1 lakh units in this period, with presence not just in India but also in Europe and South East Asia, Ultraviolette CEO & Co-founder Narayan Subramaniam, and CTO & Co-founder Niraj Rajmohan told PTI. Rajmohan said the company has already made investments on R&D to build the fundamental building blocks, including charging systems, battery systems, motor control and vehicle control electronics, smart connected systems and advanced sensing systems. «We are in discussions from a larger investment point of view in the order of the USD 70-100 million that is meant to scale across product portfolio expansion, geographic expansion and growth,» he said when asked about planned future investments in the next three to four years.

crypto scandal that’s ensnared the president of one of South America’s biggest countries wasn’t the first time that members of the Davis family found themselves at the center of controversy. Long before Hayden Davis became famous for getting Argentine President Javier Milei to promote a memecoin, his father told tales of counterfeiting checks and assuming fake identities as a young man, eventually ending up in prison. Further up the family tree, the tales get even wilder: Hayden’s grandfather was murdered by followers of his great-grandfather, the head of a polygamist cult that practiced blood sacrifice. Hayden is the 28-year-old chief executive officer of Kelsier Ventures, an obscure investment firm which he runs with his brother Gideon, 25, and father Tom, 54. The company and Hayden’s memecoin Libra are at the heart of a scandal that’s rattled investors in Argentina after Milei promoted the token with the promise that it would raise money for small businesses in the nation.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. KFin Technology is a leading registrar and transfer agent (RTA) in India's mutual fund industry, operating in a duopoly market. Its business is cyclical as it depends on the capital market's performance.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Ahead of the summer season, India's two leading airlines are ramping up their international presence. IndiGo, the market leader in the Indian international segment, has announced four new destinations—Mauritius, Langkawi, Penang and Medinah.

API.market, runs a marketplace for artificial intelligence (AI) model application programming interfaces, with 3,100 customers across the world, and makes an annual recurring revenue (ARR) of $200,000. He is also building Noveum.ai, an evaluator of large language models for enterprise use, which is currently in beta stage. Till October 2024, Agarwal was building the marketplace alone. His team has grown since—by all of two people, another co-founder and engineer, and he is now looking to hire three more engineers. He added that it is quite common for a small team of up to 20 people in an AI startup to get to $5-10 million ARR. Agarwal is part of an emerging crop of startups that are focusing on leaner teams by leveraging AI across their operations to cut costs and stay the course. Many such companies are borrowing from the playbook of Silicon Valley startups that are clocking millions in revenues with bare-bones teams. For instance, coding assistant Cursor hit a $100 million ARR with a team of 20 people.

India is examining its import basket to finalise the list of items for which it could build a bespoke — and lower — tariff structure for the US, while it also explores areas where further levy reductions are possible through an extension of the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) approach. The Centre has discussed the minute details of preferential tariff reductions for the US through both a trade pact and on an MFN basis for sectors including agriculture and automobiles — areas that would benefit US exporters were India to reduce tariffs further. To be sure, countries can grant duty cuts to one another’s imports on a preferential basis in a free trade agreement (FTA). “There have been discussions on giving concessions on the MFN and FTA basis,” said an official, as India and the US aim to conclude the first tranche of their Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) by fall this year.

AI literacy’ driven by the government and industry will be essential to make the most of India’s demographic dividend. “AI is something where everybody’s trying to figure out what is next,” said Sangeeta Gupta, SVP and chief strategy officer, Nasscom. “Nobody has a perfect playbook. Everybody is looking for expertise and you will find that expertise with partners, whether it’s with startups, Big Tech, or IT.” “I would have loved for a DeepSeek to happen in India,” said Rohini Srivathsa, CTO, Microsoft India & South Asia, adding that India needs to take bold calls and invest in R&D to push the envelope on innovation.

Nirmala Sitharaman said India is close to taking a final call on reducing goods and services tax (GST) rates further and reviewing the levy’s slabs. The revenue neutral rate had dropped from 15.8% when GST was introduced in 2017, to 11.4% by 2023, she said at the 25th ET Awards for Corporate Excellence on Saturday. “Let me dispel any (notion) that GST has made life costlier. Item by item, I would challenge anyone to tell me if there is any one item for which tax rate has gone up after introduction of GST… So, the clue is, it will come down even further,” she told an audience that represented the best of India Inc at the stately National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai. A group of ministers on GST rationalisation has been set up under Bihar deputy CM Samrat Chaudhary.

Real Time With Bill Maher, the 69-year-old comedian quipped about the pop sensation’s unexpected streak of relationship stability, saying, “This world is so upside down now. It took [President] Trump three weeks to break up with Ukraine, Mexico, and Canada. And yet, Taylor Swift has the same boyfriend for over a year.” The joke, a clear dig at Swift’s relationship with NFL star Travis Kelce, is just the latest in a long line of public figures making her love life the punchline. But at this point, are these cracks about her dating history just lazy, outdated, and—dare we say—boring?

independent directors as they gear up to tap the public markets in the next one to two years. The credibility and strength of the top deck becomes critical for firms preparing for an initial public offering (IPO), said experts. Apart from meeting regulatory requirements, a well-picked board with experienced and independent voices as directors can help inspire confidence among prospective investors as raising public money comes with far greater transparency and accountability. Executive search firms, including Korn Ferry and Transearch, said they are seeing a minimum 25% increase in independent director mandates, and are running anywhere between three and six such searches at any given time.

Japan recently opened up about the racism he has faced, sparking a wider discussion about discrimination in different parts of the world. His revelations come shortly after an Indian-origin woman in the UK became a target of racial abuse while traveling from London to Manchester by train. The man, identified as Nikhil Tripathi, shared his experiences in a viral video after being interviewed by a Japanese vlogger known as Riki With Japan Mates.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday said he aspires to see Araku coffee reach the status of a global brand like Starbucks in the future. While celebrating International Women's Day here, Naidu noted that Araku Coffee, grown by tribal farmers, has already gained international recognition. «One day, our Araku Coffee should emerge as another Starbucks. It should become an international brand. To achieve this, set up 100 pilot outlets,» said Naidu, addressing a large gathering of Women's Day celebrants. He emphasised that he had found a partner to promote and establish Araku Coffee centres and called for their expansion into every village and major panchayat, encouraging women to take the lead.

That was the reaction of many who witnessed the televised spat between US President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Oval Office last week. Beyond the memes and the jokes, it was the clearest sign that there is a new world order in the making. Of new friendships being forged, old ones being discarded. Some existing alliances slayed it for eight decades after World War II. But it is in the nature of relationships that things turn. The Soviet Union and the US had fought as allies against Germany, Japan and Italy up until 1945. It didn’t take long for that relationship to become salty, resulting in the Cold War.