India’s digital advancement has been continuously fueled by the growing proportion of women in the tech workforce. However, compared to the predicted percentage of males in the industry which stands at 36.1 lakh, there are significantly fewer women (20.5 lakh), as of 2024, a report has found. It adds that 24.3% growth is estimated in … Read more
HDFC Bank Vs ICICI Bank Vs Axis Bank FD Rates: Even as the RBI MPC has kept key policy rates unchanged for over a year, bank fixed deposit (FD) rates continue to hover at higher levels comfortably beating the current inflation rate. Here’s the comparison of the current fixed deposit (FD) interest rates offered by … Read more
CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. — A helicopter hovers over the Gee family farm, the noisy rattle echoing inside their home in this rural part of West Virginia. It’s holding surveyors who are eyeing space for yet another power line next to the property — a line that will take electricity generated from coal plants in the … Read more
Last fall the United Automobile Workers union won big pay increases from the Detroit automakers, and the impact rippled quickly through the nonunion auto plants scattered across the South. Afterward, Toyota, Honda, Volkswagen, Nissan, Hyundai and Tesla raised wages for their own hourly workers in the United States, none of whom are unionized. On production … Read more
In his office on one of the upper floors of the headquarters of the Paris Olympic organizing committee, Franz Regul has no doubt what is coming. “We will be attacked,” said Mr. Regul, who leads the team responsible for warding off cyberthreats against this year’s Summer Games in Paris. Companies and governments around the world … Read more
Delhi-NCR witnessed new supply of 3,614 residential units in the first quarter of 2024. Since 2023 proved to be an exceptional year, setting a high bar, Q1 2024 witnessed a 30 per cent decrease in launches from the preceding quarter and a 54 per cent drop on a y-o-y basis, according to a report by … Read more
An A.I. deal as a diplomatic weapon A relatively small deal — by Microsoft’s standards, anyway — is leading to big geopolitical ripples on Tuesday. The tech giant is investing $1.5 billion in G42, an Emirati artificial intelligence company. On its face, that may appear to be just another effort by the tech giant to … Read more
The Chinese economy grew more than expected in the first three months of the year, new data shows, as China built more factories and exported huge amounts of goods to counter a severe real estate crisis and sluggish spending at home. To stimulate growth, China, the world’s second-largest economy, turned to a familiar tactic: investing … Read more
Patti Astor, the downtown Manhattan “It” girl, indie film star and co-founder of Fun Gallery, the scruffy East Village storefront space that in the early 1980s nurtured young graffiti artists like Futura2000, Zephyr, Lee Quinones, Lady Pink and Fab 5 Freddy, as well as showcasing artists like Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf and Jean-Michel Basquiat, died … Read more
An uneasy calm Investors are breathing a sigh of relief on Monday. Global stocks are in the green and oil prices have retreated from last week’s gains after Iran’s unprecedented drone and missile attack on Israel was mostly neutralized in the skies. But the calm could be short lived, as world leaders and markets focus … Read more
