New Delhi: India needs to impose a 2 per cent tax on net wealth exceeding Rs 10 crore and a 33 per cent inheritance tax to deal with the problem of rising inequality in the country, a new research paper co-authored by economist Thomas Piketty...
New Delhi: Information Technology (IT) sector jobs have witnessed a significant rise across tech hubs from April 2023 to April 2024 period, despite a national shift in job postings, a new report said Friday. According to the job matching and hiring platform Indeed, job postings...
New Delhi: Innovations like deepfake detection tools by several startups such as OpenAI, Sensity AI, and others are enhancing the detection of manipulated content and enabling more secure digital environments, a new report said Friday. According to the data and analytics company GlobalData, in the...
New Delhi: NHAI has a monetisation potential of Rs 53,000 to 60,000 crore from the sale of 33 road assets through the toll-operate-transfer and Infrastructure Investment Trust mode that it has lined up for the financial year 2024-25, according to an ICRA report released Thursday....
New Delhi: About 85 per cent of Indian professionals are optimistic about promotions, career changes and salary hikes in 2024, a new report showed Thursday. According to the online boot camp for digital skills Simplilearn, about 45 per cent of professionals said that they need...
Mumbai: Indian equity indices were in an uptrend Thursday following strong domestic cues. At 1:00 p.m., Sensex was up 800 points, or 1.08 per cent at 75,023 and Nifty was up 246 points, or 1.09 per cent, at 22,843 points. This is the first time...
Seoul: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said Thursday that the country will introduce a chip industry support package worth 26 trillion won ($19 billion) to bolster the critical industry amid intensifying global competition. The comprehensive plan was unveiled during an interagency meeting on economic...
Bhubaneswar: Manipal Hospitals Wednesday announced the successful brand integration of 400-bed AMRI hospital in Bhubaneswar, which was acquired in September 2023. Starting from May 22, the service excellence at these facilities will be aligned with Manipal Hospitals' standards, marking a significant milestone in healthcare transformation...
New Delhi: Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal Wednesday said the ride-hailing platform's entire workload has now been shifted from Microsoft Azure cloud service to his own Cloud 'Krutrim'. This comes after Aggarwal had a frustrating experience with the Microsoft-owned professional network LinkedIn. "Done. As committed, Azure...
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank Wednesday approved the highest-ever dividend payout of Rs 2.11 lakh crore to the central government for 2023-24, a decision which will help better manage the fiscal deficit. The dividend or surplus transfer by the RBI to the Centre was Rs 87,416...
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has taken two very different stands in handling police appointments in the poll-bound states...
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On paper the BRICS summit being held in Kazan, Russia, from 22 October to 24 October aims at strengthening multilateralism...
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In electoral politics the ruling dispensation often tries to offset the anti-incumbency mood of the electorate by changing the head...
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A Bangladeshi court ordering an arrest warrant against Sheikh Hasina on 17 October has only aggravated New Delhi’s predicament vis-à-vis...
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