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The Washington Post has announced what it described as “significant restructuring,” at the organisation which includes shutting down its current Sports Desk and scaling back its international reportage footprint. According to Fox News, about a third of the organisation’s workforce has been affected, close to 300 people.Ishaan Tharoor, foreign affairs columnist at The Post and…

Stock market today (AI image) Stock market today: Nifty50 and BSE Sensex, the Indian equity benchmark indices, opened in red on Thursday. While Nifty50 went below 25,750, BSE Sensex was down over 150 points. At 9:16 AM, Nifty50 was trading at 25,723.25, down 53 points or 0.20%. BSE Sensex was at 83,666.28, down 151 points…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will undertake a two-day visit to Malaysia beginning Saturday to shore up bilateral ties in areas of trade, investment, energy, and maritime security. It would be Prime Minister Modi’s third visit to Malaysia, and the first after the elevation of the India-Malaysia bilateral relationship to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in August…

Sriharsha Majety, group CEO, Swiggy Swiggy MD & group CEO Sriharsha Majety has said that budget’s announcement to introduce City Economic Regions, will accelerate urbanisation and formalisation beyond the metros, while expansion of organised economic activity into Tier-II and Tier-III centres will be a key driver of incremental GDP creation over medium term.“Targeted investments in…

NEW DELHI: Election Commission of India will hold a conference of all state election commissioners (SECs) here on Feb 24, to discuss issues which include the sharing of ECI electronic voting machines (EVMs), electoral rolls and technological innovations like ECINet for smoother conduct of panchayat and municipal polls by state election commissions.While ECI conducts Lok…

MUMBAI: A tech sell-off on Dalal Street on Wednesday—that came on the back of Anthropic’s launch of a new AI-led app that could potentially challenge existing business models of Indian software exporters—wiped off about Rs 1.75 lakh crore worth of market value. The sharp slide in sector leaders like TCS, Infosys and Wipro, also left…

NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha, already deadlocked over Rahul Gandhi’s insistence on referring to an unpublished book, was plunged into deeper impasse on Wednesday as BJP MP Nishikant Dubey turned to a pile of books with uncharitable references to members of the Nehru-Gandhi family to “expose” Congress.PM Modi’s reply to the motion of thanks on the…

MUMBAI: The rupee slipped 17 paise to close at 90.44 against the dollar on Wednesday, retreating after a sharp 124-paise surge in the previous session that followed news of a trade deal being finalised between India and US.Dealers said the rally lost momentum as the market failed to see follow-through demand, particularly from foreign institutional…

Election Commission and Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee locked horns over the legality of engaging micro-observers by the poll panel for SIR work, the issue of spelling errors in names leading to categorisation of voters under ‘logical discrepancy’ and issuance of notices to them, and the “hurried manner” of scrutiny of voters’ identity.Mamata alleged EC was…

MUMBAI: Marico has snapped up a 60% majority stake in D2C wellness brand Cosmix for Rs 226 crore, ramping up acquisitions of new-age startups as consumers seek better choices and varied options catering to specific needs, increasingly shunning run-of-the-mill products.Cosmix sells a range of plant-based protein powders and functional superfood blends. The development comes days…