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Leading Chinese planners have voiced confidence in the outlook for the world's second-largest economy, holding key interest rates steady amid signs of improvement in some areas such as services

Kuku FM on Wednesday said it has raised $25 million in a Series C funding round co-led by the Nandan Nilekani-founded Fundamentum Partnership and International Finance Corporation. Temasek-backed Vertex Ventures, which closed its fifth fund at $541 million last week, also participated in the funding, as per a statement.

Kai Koerber was a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when a gunman murdered 14 students and three staff members on Valentine’s Day in 2018

mobile apps for using his name, voice, signature, image or any other attribute which is exclusively identifiable with him for any commercial and/or personal gain without his consent.

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has proposed slashing entry fees for various licences by over 50%, a move aimed at promoting entry of new players in the sector. The authority, however, has proposed to continue with the practice of submitting bank guarantees (BG) for various licences, rejecting telcos' calls to scrap them. All the three private telecom operators wanted the BGs scrapped, so that more working capital could be freed for expansion of mobile broadband networks.

Reliance Jio on Tuesday launched its fixed wireless access (FWA) device — Jio AirFiber — in eight cities — Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune, just over a month after rival Bharti Airtel introduced its own device in two cities, as both telcos make initial attempts at monetising their 5G services. «Our extensive fiber-to-the-home service JioFiber, already serves over 10 million customers...With JioAirFiber, we are expanding our addressable market to rapidly cover every home in our country with similar quality of service,» Akash Ambani, chairman of Reliance Jio, said in a statement. A fixed wireless device uses radio frequencies instead of cables/fibres to provide fixed broadband access, using technologies like 5G. Simply put, these are portable broadband devices, much like dongles but with better coverage and speeds. The Jio AirFiber service has been launched with multiple plans ranging from 30 Mbps speeds to 1000 Mbps speeds, all available in blocks of six months and 12 months, the telco said in the statement. The plans are available in two buckets — Jio AirFiber and Jio AirFiber Max.

NEW DELHI : Developed countries can no longer afford to be cautious in providing financing for achieving sustainable development goals, the UN’s resident coordinator in India Shombi Sharp said in an interview. Sharp said the world faces a $4 trillion financing gap for the SDGs and called for greater political will to provide this funding. Sharp said India was uniquely placed between developed and developing countries, which allowed it to deliver a consensus at the G20.

India Global Capability Centres (GCCs) of New York-headquartered telecommunications conglomerate Verizon grew 15% last year, Sowmyanarayan Sampath, CEO of Verizon Consumer Group said on Tuesday at a press briefing. Verizon Consumer Group in 2022 contributed $105 billion in revenue to the company’s overall revenue of $136 billion. As per Investopedia, Verizon is the second largest provider of cellular service in the US that provides communications, information, and entertainment products and services worldwide to consumers, businesses, and government organizations through its consumer and business segments.

Narendra Modi accountable," Jagmeet Singh wrote on X (formerly Twitter). The post on the X comes after India and Canada expelled top diplomats from the country over the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

That India hosted one of the most successful G20 summits of all under its presidency, that too amid a difficult global geo-political and economic scenario, is commendable. Conducting a G20 summit is like an orchestra, where different ministries, departments and government bodies of the host country work seamlessly under the leadership of the concert-master—in our case, Prime Minister Narendra Modi. With the G20 success, India has shown its skills of coordination, planning and execution to the world.

G20 leaders in India, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday underscored that it is time for a «global compromise» as he told Heads of State and Government here that the world needs statesmanship and not gamesmanship to deal with current challenges. «Divides are widening within countries. Democracy is under threat. Authoritarianism is on the march.

women's reservation bill introduced in Lok Sabha on Tuesday, but some of them questioned the «delay» of nine years by the Modi government despite enjoying a majority in Parliament. Veerappa Moily and Kapil Sibal, who were Union law ministers during the UPA rule, attacked the BJP for not supporting the Congress earlier for passage of the bill. Ramakant Khalap and Ashwani Kumar said it was a long-due move to address the aspiration of the people of India that women get proper representation in legislatures. The bill is aimed at expanding women's participation in Lok Sabha and state assemblies across the country. Senior Congress leader Moily told PTI that introducing the Bill when the elections are approaching is «absolutely political» and the government does not have a legitimate interest in women as a class. Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal said if it was not a «political move» and was really for the empowerment of women, the Centre should have moved it in 2014 when the BJP-led government came to power.

Biden appealed to world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday to stand with Ukraine against Russian invaders, hoping Republicans in Congress will also take notice. «Russia believes that the world will grow weary and allow it to brutalize Ukraine without consequence,» Biden said in his speech to UNGA.

By Steve Holland

From picket lines in Hollywood to walkouts against Detroit automakers, it's already been a big year for labor organizing — and behind several major showdowns with enormous companies are some of America's largest unions

Canada has triggered new diplomatic tensions between Ottawa and New Delhi, withCanada saying it suspects India's involvement in the killing and India calling the allegations «absurd». Here is what is known about Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the man at the centre of the row. — Nijjar was born in 1977 in Jalandhar district in India's northern state of Punjab and moved to Canada in 1997, where he worked as a plumber, according to the Khalistan Extremism Monitor of the New Delhi-based independent Institute for Conflict Management. — He was initially associated with the Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) Sikh separatist group, according to India's counter-terrorist, National Investigation Agency.

By Greg Bensinger

Amazon's once-storied hardware division — responsible for popular devices like the Kindle reader and Echo voice-assistant — say morale within the division has suffered amid staff cutbacks and a pipeline of devices in development that they fear are unlikely to prove hits. The division, known as Lab126, was a focus for Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos, who portrayed it as an engine for future projects, but more recently it has been buffeted by mass layoffs and key executive departures, including leader Dave Limp, a 13-year veteran who has announced plans to step down later this year.

Apple has introduced an array of features in iOS 17 designed to make messaging a more engaging and streamlined experience. The update is touted to enhance daily communication by allowing users to express themselves in new ways, find messages faster, and share content in innovative methods. The tech giant has created a single platform within iMessage for all of the most commonly used apps.

Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that there is no time for focusing on smaller issues and the nation must move to bigger canvas now to reach its rightful place. He was addressing a gathering of MPs at the historic Central Hall of the old Parliament building during a function to commemorate the rich legacy of the Parliament of India. "In the 25 years of Amrit Kaal, India will have to work on a larger canvas. The time for us to get caught up in smaller issues is over," said the Prime Minister. «First of all, we will have to meet the goal of becoming Atmanirbhar Bharat.

critically injured with multiple bullet wounds inside a vehicle near the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara in Surrey, British Columbia, on the night of June 18. Despite emergency medical efforts, Nijjar succumbed to his injuries at the scene, as confirmed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Initially, investigators from the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) took over the case.