Silver offers a viable alternative for those who missed the recent gold surge. (AI image) Time for silver after the gold price rally? Silver may be ready for a significant price increase to match gold’s performance. The current gold-to-silver ratio of 100, calculated by dividing gold prices by silver, has reached its highest point since…
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens (Image: AP) ATLANTA: After leading Atlanta out of the COVID-19 pandemic and a coinciding crime spike, Mayor Andre Dickens believes he deserves a second term as the city soon hosts its most high-profile event since the 1996 Olympics. Dickens recently launched his reelection campaign with $1.4 million in the bank and…
File photo: Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis (Picture credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: The much-awaited Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project will be ready for operations by 2028, Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis announced on Monday, while also revealing that the state aims to raise $50 billion from international investors to accelerate infrastructure development.“By 2028, we will be able…
<p>Representative Image<br></p> GAZA CITY: The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, on Tuesday said more than 50 of its staff in Gaza were abused and used as human shields while in Israeli military detention.“Since the start of the war in October 2023, over 50 UNRWA staff among them teachers, doctors, social workers, have been detained…
FPIs invested approximately $4.11 billion in Indian stocks across nine consecutive sessions. (AI image) Foreign investorsmaintained their longest purchasing streak since July 2023 on Monday, driven by optimistic prospects regarding US trade agreements, attractive company valuations, and India’s stability amidst global uncertainties.This trend persisted despite tensions between India and Pakistan.Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) invested approximately…
Mark Carney‘s Liberal Party has won Canada’s federal election, fueled by voter backlash against US President Donald Trump’s trade war. The campaign centered on Trump’s tariffs and threats to Canadian sovereignty, with Carney pledging a fresh direction in a world reshaped by a more hostile US stance on free trade. “We are over the shock…
Infosys has established partnerships with NIIT and UpGrad for complimentary upskilling programmes available to trainees who departed since February. (AI image) Infosys has dismissed an additional 195 trainees who did not pass their internal assessment examinations. The number of trainees who have not passed the assessment test since February has now exceeded 800.Sources familiar with…
HANOI: A court in Vietnam jailed a former deputy minister of industry and trade for six years on Tuesday after finding him guilty of “power abuse” in a solar energy development plan.The Southeast Asian country has committed to reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and is trying to increase wind and solar production to meet…
File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: AP) US President Donald Trump is set to ease the impact of automotive tariffs, a move designed to support US carmakers by removing overlapping import duties on parts used in domestically assembled vehicles and reimbursing levies already paid, according to the news agency Reuters.The decision, which will…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order recently requiring all commercial truck drivers in the United States to be proficient in English, for reasons of public safety and national security. The action has elicited intense responses from Sikh advocacy communities, which warn that it will have a disproportionate impact on Sikh-American drivers and present a…
