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For representative purposes. The story so far: In its report presented to Parliament on February 8, the Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology has raised concerns about the dominance of fintech apps owned by foreign entities in the Indian ecosystem and recommended that local players be promoted. It mentioned that the Unified Payments Interface…
We are learning about protein sequences three thousand times faster than we are learning about protein structures. We have this enormous gap in which certain things are very easy to measure like genetics and certain things are very hard to measure three-dimensional (3D) structures and we would love to close this gap, said John Jumper,…
TVS Mobility Group President and CEO Srinivasa Raghavan and Director R. Dinesh say new vertical has a potential to reach revenue of ₹15,000 crore in three years | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement TVS Mobility (TVSM) and Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi Corporation have formed a joint venture to establish a vehicle mobility ecosystem in India. The latter will…
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Singapore on Monday said travellers would need to bear the cost of the transition toward green jet fuel, announcing plans for a levy that would lift ticket prices on departing flights as the aviation industry searches for a viable funding model. Introduced by Singapore’s transport minister at an industry summit on the eve of the…
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War’s impact: Private spending, exports and investment in fixed assets have fallen in Israel, however, government spending jumped in 2023. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel’s economy took a deep dive in the fourth quarter due to its war with Hamas in Gaza, but 2023 still ended with positive growth, data showed on February 19….
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File. | Photo Credit: PTI Stock markets closed higher for the fifth consecutive day on February 19 with the benchmark Sensex rising 281 points and Nifty scaling its fresh lifetime high driven by gains in financial and FMCG shares. The 30-share BSE Sensex rose by 281.52 points or 0.39% to close at 72,708.16. As many…
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Satyendra Nath Bose appeared on the physics scene like a comet. The year was 1924. Physics was in the middle of the biggest upheaval in its history. The old foundations had crumbled in the face of new data. The picture of a new ‘quantum theory’ was emerging. But it was a fractured, disjointed picture with…
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Chanda Kochhar along with her husband Deepak Kochhar arrives to appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with a bank loan fraud and money laundering case probe in New Delhi. File | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar The arrest of ICICI Bank’s former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Chanda Kochhar and her…
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Once upon a time, in the 17th century, the governor of Malabar wrote a botanical treatise. Hortus Malabaricus (Garden of Malabar) is a series of 12 tomes that highlighted the flora in the Malabar Coast and its medicinal properties; it is considered an important book on India’s plant wealth. Today, this treatise finds space in…
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The 30-share Sensex on February 19, 2024, rose 23.96 points or 0.03% to 72,450.60 points, with 16 constituents trading in the green. | Photo Credit: Reuters Sensex and Nifty gained marginally in early trade on February 19 as investors seemed to be looking for firm cues amid mixed trends in the Asian markets. The 30-share…
