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Those affected include director-level officials and team leads at the company’s headquarters. (Image for representative purpose only) Samsung India Electronics has started laying off its workforce in phases as its core smartphone business faces pressure on sales and margins following a more than twofold increase in memory chip prices. Around 80-100 executives in the television...

Speaker JCD Prabhakar refused to accept DMK’s demand to expunge CM Vijay’s remark from assembly records DMK legislators were bundled out of the Tamil Nadu assembly on Tuesday following intense protests demanding the expunging of Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay’s remarks regarding former Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, late Union Minister Murasoli Maran, the Sarkaria Commission,...

Waving flags, “chanting” slogans and marching in circles: Waving flags, “chanting” slogans and marching in circles: around 30 robots took to the streets of Warsaw on Monday to campaign for AI regulation in front of the Polish digital affairs ministry. The protest was organised by Democratism, an initiative that, according to its website, aims to...

A man died after consuming poison following alleged pressure from local leaders. SANGRUR: A 46-year-old man died by suicide after consuming poison on Monday after local ruling-party leaders allegedly pressured him to apologise for questioning Punjab finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema over the supply of “chitta”, or synthetic drugs, in his village, his family said.Gulzar...

Hafiz Talha Saeed at Pakistan’s Sheikhupura (Image enhanced using AI) Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist Hafiz Talha Saeed, son of 26/11 mastermind and LeT chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, has once again resorted to proclaiming a jihadist anti-India rhetoric in a speech made at Pakistan’s Sheikhupura.In his speech, Saeed said he was among those who had taken an...

Chongtham Vikram Singh was a gifted guitarist who had spent decades making music his language. NEW DELHI: Chongtham Vikram Singh, a 55-year-old Manipuri musician, was allegedly beaten to death outside his Delhi home on Sunday night after he went downstairs to object to a group of men creating a ruckus.Who was Chongtham Vikram Singh?Singh was...

For decades, a concrete barrier on Virginia’s Appomattox River stood between migratory fish and more than 120 miles of upstream habitat. In 2014, its removal changed that. The Harvell Dam in Petersburg was taken out as part of a collaborative restoration effort, reconnecting roughly 127 miles of river for migratory and resident fish, according to...

Apple foldable iPhone (Representiave image) Apple will hold its “Surprise and Shine” event on Wednesday, September 9, at 10.30 pm IST at Apple Park in Cupertino, and this year the lineup breaks a pattern the company has followed for close to a decade. Three phones are expected on stage: the iPhone 18 Pro, the iPhone...

This would be the 18th summit of the grouping. (Photo: ANI) India will host the annual BRICS summit on September 12-13 at Bharat Mandapam, returning to the venue where it held the G20 summit in 2023. That gathering is remembered for the inclusion of the African Union in G20, marking a major step in efforts...

Singh, who lived near Ashram, had reportedly been frustrated by the shouting and commotion caused by workers and delivery personnel of the dhaba located opposite his home. NEW DELHI: A 55-year-old musician from Manipur was beaten to death allegedly by a group of dhaba workers in southeast Delhi’s Kilokari Village after he went downstairs late...