Google parent Alphabet reports 12% revenue surge in Q1, $34.5 billion profit driven by Cloud and AI growth
Google parent Alphabet releases Q1 earnings report Alphabet, the parent company of Google, reported a…
India-UK trade deal: From 99% duty-free access to benefits for Indian professionals – Here’s the FTA in 10 big numbers
Key labour-intensive sectors—marine, textiles, chemicals, base metals—will now enjoy zero duties, down from rates as high as 20%. (AI image) India-UK trade deal: The India-UK trade deal is being seen as a historic milestone in the trade relations between the two countries. The most significant number that jumps out is – 99% of India’s exports…
From Epstein to Obama: Is Donald Trump using Russiagate as a smokescreen? And how Tulsi Gabbard is changing the conversation… | World News
In Mad Men, the fictional adman Don Draper was given a unique problem: sell Madison Square Garden to the public. The plot was based on real-life developers tearing down Penn Station to make way for MSG, prompting an outcry that—this being the 1960s—manifested not in tweets, but in New York Times op-eds. Draper, ever the…
India-UK trade deal sealed, but scotch prices to come down only by next year
NEW DELHI : Scotch prices — including brands like Glenlivet, Black Label, Glenmorangie, and Chivas Regal — won’t drop just yet, despite the India-UK trade deal halving the steep 150% import duty. The agreement still awaits ratification by the UK Parliament before the changes come into effect.Even when they come down, the reduction in prices…
US flight attendant sentenced to prison: Estes Carter Thompson filmed underage girls in aircraft lavatory, taped phone under toilet seat
An American Airlines flight attendant was sentenced to 18 1/2 years in prison on Wednesday for filming girls inside the airplane’s toilet.Estes Carter Thompson, 37, had confessed in March to taping his phone to the airplane’s toilet lid, according to the New York Post. He filmed about five underage girls as young as seven years…
US market today: Dow slips on Tesla drag, Nasdaq lifted by Alphabet; trade deal hopes support sentiment
US markets traded mixed on Thursday as investors weighed a raft of second-quarter corporate earnings while looking ahead to possible trade deals from President Donald Trump before the August 1 tariff deadline.The Nasdaq Composite gained 0.3% to 21,081.49 in early trade, led by a nearly 3% rise in Google-parent Alphabet. The company posted a better-than-expected…
Sex trafficking ring busted: Kids as young as 2 held captive in Alabama storm bunker for three years; 7 arrested
Alabama storm bunker where the sex trafficking ring was operated (Image: X @Dapper_Det) A sex trafficking ring was busted in Alabama where at least 10 children, some as young as 2, were held captive and sexually tortured for three years in a storm bunker, organised by some of the children’s own parents.According to the Bibb…
Railroad merger buzz: Union Pacific posts $1.8 billion Q2 profit, Norfolk Southern deal talk lifts stocks
Union Pacific reported a robust second-quarter adjusted profit of $1.8 billion, or $3.03 per share, exceeding Wall Street’s expectations amid ongoing merger speculation with rival Norfolk Southern, the smallest of the six major US freight railroads.The Omaha-based rail giant said its operating revenue grew 2% year-on-year to $6.2 billion. Analysts had expected earnings of $2.91…
‘Neha Gupta, come to the front door’: New bodycam video shows how Indian-origin doctor was hiding in laundry room after ‘drowning’ daughter
Indian-origin Oklahoma doctor Neha Gupta was hiding in the laundry room, new bodycam footage shows. A new bodycam footage has been released showing the arrest of Indian-origin Oklahoma pediatrician Neha Gupta, accused of drowning her four-year-old daughter in Florida. She was arrested on July 1 and the footage shows how the Oklahoma City Police Department…
Edible oils oversight: Govt to issue new vegetable oil regulation order next week, aims to enhance transparency and tracking
The Centre will issue a new regulation next week to improve oversight and transparency in India’s vegetable oil sector, Food Secretary Sanjeev Chopra said on Thursday.The new framework, titled the 2025 Vegetable Oil Products, Production and Availability (VOPPA) Regulation Order, will replace the existing 2011 order, PTI reported. It introduces mandatory digital reporting of edible…
Why Columbia University is paying $200 million to Trump administration | World News
Columbia University has agreed to pay over $200 million to settle allegations made by the Trump administration that it failed to adequately protect Jewish students from antisemitic harassment on campus. The settlement ends a federal investigation triggered by incidents of verbal abuse, ostracism, and hostile behavior directed at Jewish students during pro-Palestinian protests linked to…