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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Automakers are gearing up to launch a range of flex-fuel vehicles (FFVs), which can run on a variety of fuels, starting this year-end as the government aggressively promotes biofuels to cut emissions and reduce the country's dependence on costly oil imports.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s top information technology services companies managed to keep a tight control over people costs in the September quarter even as global capability centres—the India-based IT wings of multinational companies—emerged as attractive alternatives for their employees. Unperturbed, IT services companies are replacing their middle and senior executives with junior employees and investing in upskilling them—which accounts for 5-7% of employee costs.

Donald Trump may have finally got the oxygen to race ahead of Kamala Harris in the US elections this November as there are reports that he is slowly pulling ahead of his Democrat rival in the latest polls. Will he be able to edge out a victory in the end? Kamala Harris may have been leading steadily in the US election race ever since she joined the Presidential ticket after Joe Biden's exit, but things are finally starting to change as the election trend is now portraying that everything is not going the Democrats way, as the reigning VP is slowly falling behind in the poll race.

U.S. stocks rose to more records and closed out their longest weekly winning streak of the year

A federal judge has delayed an order requiring Google to open up its Android app store to more competition

orthopaedic surgeon Sharan Shivaraj Patil, will make investments in new hospitals and an R&D centre, and is considering raising funds through equity. The hospital chain will look at an initial public offering or a sale of shares to private equity firms among other options once it completes the investments in new hospitals and R&D, Patil said in an interview to ET. «We would like to start the process for fundraising in the last quarter (January-March) of fiscal 2026.» In an industry flush with PE money, Sparsh is among a few doctor-driven regional chains that have stayed out.

Donald Trump has suddenly taken a slight lead over Democrat candidate Kamala Harris in Nate Silver's prediction model. This comes as a massive alarm for the Democrat party and Kamala Harris' campaign team, as she was earlier leading in this particular prediction model that was going as far as claiming that the reigning VP would emerge victorious in the upcoming US elections.

One of the largest solar projects in the U.S. opened in Texas on Friday backed by what Google said is the largest solar electricity purchase it has ever made

Russia is testing the readiness of a missile unit that forms part of its strategic nuclear forces, the defence ministry said on Friday, in the latest of a series of warning signals to Ukraine and the West. The test is taking place in the Tver region, northwest of Moscow, in the same week that NATO conducted its annual nuclear exercise and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy unveiled his «victory plan», The inspection involves a unit equipped with Yars missiles, with a range of 11,000 km, far enough to strike US cities, and are capable of delivering multiple nuclear warheads.

John Gray makes a bracing assertion in his book «Straw Dogs»: «Technology is not something that humankind can control. It is an event that has befallen the world. Once a technology enters human life-whether it be fire, the wheel, the automobile, radio, television or the internet-it changes it in ways we can never fully understand.» It's an observation brought to mind by the new point-and-click computer game Phoenix Springs, an eye-catching, thought-provoking exploration of the unintended consequences that follow a society-wide embrace of biohacking. Players fall into the role of Iris, a veteran reporter, as she sits on a train with a desert looming through a window. The opening seconds, and an arresting dissolve from the sun-flooded train to a shadowy apartment, sets the tone for what follows-a slippery exploration of memory, time and space grounded in Iris' quest to uncover the mystery of what happened to her brother.

Lady Justice and the Debate The new statue of 'Lady Justice' — without the traditional blindfold and holding a copy of the Constitution — unveiled by the Supreme Court this week generated much debate online and offline. However, a precedent had already been sent in the Uttarakhand Uniform Civil Code report, featuring a similar version of Lady Justice, without a blindfold and holding law books instead of scales. Monitoring Progress on PM Projects Centre's Monitoring Group has been recast for NDA 3.0, this time under the chairmanship of agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. The last such group, set up in 2019-2020, was headed by Mansukh Mandaviya and Jitendra Singh. The newly-set up group held its first meeting on Friday and on the agenda was progress on all announcements made by the PM, including budget announcements, projects for which foundation stone was laid by the PM besides expectations of all ministries/ departments.

home loans to spur demand for their primary retail product during the festive season. Banks, including Central Bank of India, Canara Bank, Indian Overseas Bank, Bank of Baroda and Punjab National Bank, have fully waived processing fee for the period ranging from December 2024 till March 2025, according to information on their websites. Indian Overseas Bank, which waived the processing fee for home loans, saw a 19% quarter-on-quarter increase in disbursals to Rs 1,849.67 crore in the second quarter of this financial year.

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On Tuesday, the International Monetary Fund issues its semi-annual World Economic Outlook and General Motors reports its third-quarter financial results

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: The Nifty snapped a three-day losing streak on Friday, but posted the longest weekly losing streak of this year on relentless selling by foreign institutional investors (FIIs), who have flocked to China beginning late last month chasing a stimulus-led recovery in the world's second -biggest economy. Analysts expect the intense battle between bulls and bears to continue amid tepid earnings and muted sentiment among direct retail investors.

STOXX 600 ended higher on Friday, as tech stocks made a strong comeback at the end of a bumpy week, while the European Central Bank's rate cut and a flurry of corporate earnings helped the index deliver a second straight week of gains. The STOXX 600 closed up 0.2% as the tech sector led gains with a 2% jump.

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