Wall Street held steady in early trading on Wednesday as investors awaited the US Federal Reserve’s policy decision, with the S&P 500 flat, the Dow Jones Industrial Average unmoved, and the Nasdaq composite edging up 0.1%.Around 20 minutes into trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ticked up 0.2 percent to 42,277.37, as did the broad-based…
India’s Arya Borse and Arjun Babuta (Photo Credit: X) Indian shooters Arya Borse and Arjun Babuta clinched the gold medal in the 10m air rifle mixed team event at the ISSF World Cup on Saturday, defeating Chinese Olympic and world champions Zifei Wang and Lihao Sheng with a commanding 17-7 score.The Indian pair qualified for…
US President Donald Trump (Image: AP) The Trump administration is continuing to release illegal migrants to non-government shelters along the US-Mexico border. This move comes after warning those same organizations that offering temporary housing and any assistance could violate a law that is used to prosecute smugglers.In a letter dated March 11, the Federal Emergency…
As much as Amazon may have wanted to dodge the spotlight in President Trump’s trade war, there was no avoiding it for America’s largest online retailer. First, the e-commerce company was entangled in the fleeting spat Tuesday with the White House over a faulty report that Amazon was going to show shoppers the costs of…
This is an AI generated image (credit: Bing image creator) US stocks are witnessing mixed investor sentiments on Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average inching up by 66.28 points, or 0.16%, to 40,293.87. In contrast, the Nasdaq Composite slipped 90.44 points, or 0.52%, to 17,275.69, while the S&P 500 fell 18.94 points, or 0.34%,…
This month in the White House’s Rose Garden, as he held up a placard showing the global wave of tariffs he wanted to impose, President Trump paused to fondly recall a fallen friend. “The prime minister of Japan, Shinzo, was — Shinzo Abe — he was a fantastic man,” Mr. Trump said during the tariff…
The head of the United Automobile Workers union voiced partial support on Thursday for the Trump administration’s tariffs, saying targeted duties on other countries could help bring some manufacturing jobs back to the United States. But the union’s president, Shawn Fain, described President Trump’s across-the-board global tariffs as “reckless.” In an address to U.A.W. members…
NEW DELHI: India’s unemployment rate among people aged 15 years and above fell marginally to 4.9% in 2024, from 5.0% in 2023, according to the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) released on Wednesday by the ministry of statistics and programme implementation. The data suggest slight improvements in employment opportunities across the country.Rural vs urban trendsThe…
BENGALURU: Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed an innovative solution to a persistent challenge in Mixed Reality (MR) technology for industrial applications: the need for extensive image datasets to train AI systems.The team from IISc’s Department of Design and Manufacturing, led by Pradipta Biswas, has demonstrated that diffusion models — a…
Andrew Thompson, a senior at the University of Maryland, woke up on Wednesday to the news that his commencement speaker would not be a politician, tech executive or astronaut. Rather, he would be sent off into the work force by a cheery, fleece puppet the color of pea shoots: the “Muppet Show” star Kermit the…