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Global investors are rapidly retreating from Indian equities, potentially driving the largest foreign outflows in history this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Net foreign investment in Indian shares has already
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Months before Electronic Arts Inc. and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) agreed to a record-breaking $55 billion buyout, Jared Kushner played a key role in connecting the parties, Bloomberg reports. According
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By mid-2025, U.S. homicide rates were lower than pre-pandemic levels, according to the Council on Criminal Justice. It is a welcome sign, though the decline has been uneven across the country, and wider trends
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A Chinese court has sentenced 11 members of one of the region’s most notorious crime families to death for running large-scale scam operations across Myanmar, according to The Times UK. The Ming
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Across the globe, adults-only spaces are on the rise. In South Korea, hundreds of cafés have declared themselves “no-kids zones.” In Japan, websites map districts where noisy children are unwelcome. Spain’s adults-only
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Scientists have taken a major step toward a fertility breakthrough that could one day allow infertile women and gay men to have genetically related children. In a study reported by The Times
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Artificial intelligence and cloud startup Vercel has raised $300 million in a new funding round led by Accel and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC Pte, boosting its valuation to $9.3 billion, the
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CoreWeave Inc., an emerging “neocloud” provider of AI computing power, has signed a deal to supply Meta Platforms Inc. with up to $14.2 billion in computing resources, highlighting the escalating costs of
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Global trading of the Chinese yuan has surged to $817 billion a day, continuing a decade-long trend and bringing volumes closer to those of the British pound, according to the Bank for
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The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) has issued urgent new guidance, emphasizing that climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution are already undermining fundamental human rights and threatening
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When US President Trump announced that a 50% tariff would be imposed on most goods exported from India to the United States, it sent shockwaves through India. The situation worsened when he
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“Youth is the seed of tomorrow—but a poisoned seed bears only thorns.” – Adapted from Khalil Gibran Bangladesh today faces a crisis far more insidious than politics or economics: the moral collapse
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China’s state-run iron ore buyer, China Mineral Resources Group Co. (CMRG), has instructed domestic steelmakers and traders to temporarily halt purchases of all new BHP Group cargoes, escalating a pricing dispute that
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Recent reports have sparked serious concerns about Sri Lanka’s economic future. The country continues to struggle to recover from its lowest point, and prospects for economic stability remain uncertain. As the National
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