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Reducing commissions may help curb mis-selling of insurance products; IRDAI’s role remains crucialThe Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India has announced new proposals to limit commission rates for insurance distributor...- The business case for climate actionThe former IKEA CEO and Earthshot Prize chair argues that climate change and nature loss have become immediate business risks, not future c...
- JioStar seeks immediate restoration of BARC ratings, regulatory roadmap for linear TVJioStar CEO Kevin Vaz emphasized the urgent need for the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to restore BARC audience ratings. This ab...
- Mumbai student who studied on terrace & used neighbour’s Wi-Fi cracks JEE Advanced, gets IIT Delhi seatAbhishek Sujit Sharma, a student from Mumbai’s Harad Chawl, secured admission to IIT Delhi after scoring 199 marks in JEE Advanced and an A...
- Science says a dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem for decades, what happens after it reaches the seafloor is extraordinaryThe massive bones of a whale can hold significant amounts of lipid-rich material. In the low-oxygen environment around a whale fall, microo...
- In just decades, the world's fourth-largest lake vanished and became a 23,000-sq-mile desert. Now millions of shrubs are bringing hope backThe Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth-largest lake, dramatically shrank after Soviet irrigation diverted its rivers. Today, Kazakhstan is r...
- Spanish PM Sanchez says AI industry cannot be self-regulatedGovernments worldwide are racing to set rules for AI as concerns grow over privacy, discrimination, job losses, misinformation and the conc...
- Quote of the day by Steve Martin: ‘If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread…’ – American comedian on money, perspective and the absurdity of wealthSteve Martin's insightful bread quote reflects the nuances of financial security and how it alters one's perception of value. Spending twen...
- Nike co-founder Phil Knight and wife Penny, worth $25 billion, have donated over $9 billion in two decades. Now they’re giving $1.1 billion for Oregon’s first women’s hospitalPhil Knight, the co-founder of Nike, alongside his wife Penny, has made an extraordinary donation of $1.1 billion to launch Oregon's inaugu...
- Houthi advance in Yemen puts U.S. in a new bindA Houthi advance along Yemen’s coast and seizure of Perim island have increased the group’s ability to threaten the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, r...
- India's private sector securing critical minerals abroad is need of the hour: G Kishan ReddyFacilitating the domestic private sector to secure critical mineral assets abroad and transport them back home serves as the need of the ho...
- Warren Buffett and IBM: Praying the stock price goes nowhere. The maths explains whyHe is not being clever. He does the arithmetic and shows you exactly how much a falling price would be worth to him. Then he turns on the a...
- Nepal’s farmers carved farms into the Himalayas, but now this growing problem is destroying their harvests and triggering a wildlife crisisNepal’s farmers are increasingly struggling with crop damage caused by rhesus macaques and other wildlife. Rural migration has left fewer p...
- Psychology says people who prefer takeout over dining in may be valuing one thing more than foodSomeone might enjoy dining at an elegant restaurant for a birthday or special occasion but still opt for takeout on an ordinary Tuesday. Th...
- AI's left hand begins to take away jobs before its right hand canIn response to soaring chip prices, Samsung India is downsizing its electronics division. The burgeoning demand for specialized chips fuele...
- The next wars may not be about oil or borders: Climate change is turning food, water and farmland into new sources of conflict across the worldClimate change is reshaping global agriculture and resource availability. This shift could increasingly drive future conflicts and instabil...
- Telco operators reject quality of service norms for 5G slicingTelecom operators oppose Trai's draft quality of service norms for 5G network slicing. They argue proposed resource utilization benchmarks ...
- Just Join the Paani Points: India’s data centre boom puts water use and local security under scrutinyData centres' rapid expansion raises concerns about water stress in Indian cities. Existing regulations struggle to manage the sector's sig...
- AI offers India big opportunities to boost jobs, living standards: World Bank MD Paschal DonohoeThe global economy shows resilience despite recent shocks and continues growing. Artificial intelligence offers significant opportunities f...
- Australia data centre firm NextDC reports rising water, energy use with profit beatThe company's water usage effectiveness (WUE) ratio climbed to 2.40 litres per kilowatt-hour in the year to June, from 2.25 the prior year,...
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