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<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130959753,imgsize-1250220,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/air-india-file-photo.jpg" alt="Middle East crisis: Air India says no layoffs planned, asks staff to cut discretionary spending" title=" Air India (File Photo) ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> Air India (File Photo) Air India has told employees that it does not anticipate layoffs despite mounting financial pressures linked to the Middle East conflict, while also directing teams to...

NEW DELHI: You can choose your friends, but not your neighbours. In India’s case, the neighbour it inherited after Partition was Pakistan, a country with which its ties have been defined by wars, mistrust and recurring conflict ever since Independence.Whenever the two countries have entered direct military confrontation, the outcome has largely remained the same:...

Norbert Wiener was one of the most unusual mathematicians of the 20th century: a child prodigy who graduated from Tufts at 14, earned a Harvard PhD at 18, and spent most of his career at MIT. During World War II, his work on anti-aircraft fire-control problems helped lead him to the idea of cybernetics, the...

Amit Shah with Suvendu Adhikari (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: In what seemed largely impossible in 2021, became exhaustively debatable five years later. Can Suvendu Adhikari defeat Mamata in home turf Bhabanipur? The question gained political legitimacy in 2026 given the nail-biting contest in 2021 Nandigram battle, where Mamata had challenged her ex-protege.Taking the battle to...

A small-town boss in the US state of Louisiana has handed his 540 full-time employees a combined $240 million after selling his family’s company, with the average worker walking away with around $443,000.Graham Walker, former CEO of Fibrebond Corp. in Minden, sold the electrical-equipment enclosure maker to power-management giant Eaton for $1.7 billion last year....

Sunil Gavaskar (PTI Photo) The balance between bat and ball in modern-day cricket has once again come under the spotlight, with Sunil Gavaskar voicing strong concerns over how heavily the game now favours batters in the T20 era.With massive scores becoming routine in the ongoing IPL 2026 season and totals above 250 no longer considered...

India’s labour market is changing, but the transition is not uniform. Over the years, employment has moved away from the agriculture sector towards non-farm activities and larger enterprises. Yet, agriculture continues to account for a major share of jobs, highlighting how it is still India’s job market backbone.The latest PLFS 2025 unit-level data by SBI...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130958075,imgsize-100130,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/stock-market-holiday-2024_-are-nse-bse-open-on-may-1-wednesday_-check-mcx-holiday-list.jpg" alt="Stock market today: Which are top 10 gainers and losers on NSE & BSE on May 8? Check list" title=" File photo ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> File photo Domestic equity markets ended the week under pressure on Friday as renewed military actions near the Strait of Hormuz weighed on investor sentiment, dragging both benchmark...

A localised cooling failure at an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centre is claimed to have sparked disruption, crippling services for cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and derivatives giant CME Group. According to a report by news agency Reuters, the issue, which AWS attributed to “increased temperatures” in the AWS Health Dashboard within a single data centre...

TVK chief Vijay NEW DELHI: Actor-politician Vijay is set to meet Tamil Nadu governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar for the third time to stake claim to form government, after the May 4 verdict placed his TVK as the single-largest party in the state.From silver-screen superstardom to the edge of Chennai’s Fort St George, Vijay has caused...