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Washington: Plunged into a government shutdown, the US is confronting a fresh cycle of uncertainty after President Donald Trump and Congress failed to strike an agreement to keep government programmes and services running by Wednesday's deadline. Roughly 7,50,000 federal workers are expected to be furloughed,...

Chennai/Bhubaneswar: Zoho Corporation is planning a new data centre in Odisha as it scales up its homegrown messaging app ‘Arattai’, Chief Scientist and Co-founder Sridhar Vembu said Tuesday. Launched in 2021, Arattai is a privacy-first messaging app. Voice and video calls are end-to-end encrypted, and...

New Delhi: Zoho Corporation will make its homegrown messaging app Arattai interoperable like UPI and email, as the platform witnesses an unprecedented surge in downloads, Chief Scientist and Co-founder, Sridhar Vembu said Tuesday. Vembu said the company does not want Arattai to be a closed...

Bhubaneswar: Opposition BJD in Odisha Tuesday expressed concern over the safety of women working during night shifts, and said the BJP government's steps to bring labour reforms must empower farmers and workers. The BJD's comment comes a day after the state Cabinet approved proposals to...

New Delhi: VerSe Innovation, India’s one of the leading local-language technology and AI-driven platforms, has reported strong financial and operational performance for FY25. According to the company, it achieved 88% year-on-year consolidated growth in revenue from operations, alongside a 20% reduction in EBITDA burn, while...

New Delhi: The free trade agreement between India and the four-nation European bloc EFTA will come into force from Wednesday under which New Delhi has received an investment commitment of $100 billion in 15 years from the grouping while allowing several products such as Swiss...

New Delhi: Jindal Steel on Tuesday announced commissioning a basic oxygen furnace (BoF) of 3MTPA capacity as part of its ongoing over Rs 20,000 crore expansion project at Angul in Odisha. With the installation of the new BoF, the plant's crude steel making capacity has...

Hong Kong: China's factory activity shrank for a sixth straight month in September, the longest slump since 2019, an official report said Tuesday. The official manufacturing purchasing managers index, or PMI, improved to 49.8 from 49.4 in August. But it remained below the 50-cutoff level...

New Delhi: India's industrial production grew at 4 per cent in August, mainly due to better performance by the mining sector, according to government data released Monday. The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growth rate for July has been revised upwards to 4.3 per cent...

New Delhi: India is in discussions with the US, the EU, New Zealand, Oman, Peru and Chile for free trade agreements (FTAs), while Qatar and Bahrain have also expressed interest, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said  Monday. The FTA with the EFTA countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway,...