Rio de Janeiro: Prime Minister Narendra Modi met leaders of several countries, including those from Italy, Indonesia, Norway, Portugal, Egypt and South Korea on the sidelines of the G20 Summit and discussed ways to improve and strengthen bilateral ties.Modi also met International Monetary Fund (IMF) Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath and European Union (EU) President … Read more
LONDON: With banners, bullhorns, toy tractors and an angry message, British farmers are descending on Parliament on Tuesday to protest a hike in inheritance tax that they say will deal a “hammer blow” to struggling family farms. U.K. farmers are rarely as militant as their European neighbors, and Britain has not seen large-scale protests like … Read more
By replacing some of what clinicians do today, generative AI can free up time for them to delve deeper into the socioeconomic and psychological determinants of health and expand the doctor-patient relationship. Image: Shutterstock Every year, an estimated 800,000 Americans die or are permanently disabled after a medical misdiagnosis. More than a million die as … Read more
Top Justice Department antitrust officials have decided to ask a judge to force Alphabet Inc.’s Google to sell off its Chrome browser in what would be a historic crackdown on one of the world’s biggest tech companies. The department will ask the judge, who ruled in August that Google illegally monopolized the search market, to … Read more
The US has been working on a ceasefire proposal that would remove Israeli ground forces from Lebanon and push Hezbollah forces far from the Israeli border. An Israeli airstrike slammed into a densely populated residential area in Lebanon’s capital near key government and diplomatic buildings late on Monday, killing at least five people as the … Read more
Hyderabad: Two legendary Hindustani classical instrumentalists took Hyderabadi audience in the palm of their hands with their virtuoso renditions. Exclusive interactions with them provided insights on the connection between life and music. Grammy-nominated flautist Ronu Majumdar and Grammy-winning slide guitarist Vishwa Mohan Bhatt are highly acclaimed musicians (both are recipients of Padma Bhushan and Sangeet … Read more
Pegatron facility near Chennai, India. Image: Reuters/Praveen Paramasivam Tata buys control of Pegatron iPhone plant in Tamil Nadu Tata Electronics has finalised a deal to buy a majority stake in a plant in Tamil Nadu from Apple contract manufacturer Taiwan’s Pegatron, which will advance Indian conglomerate Tata’s partnership with the iPhone maker, Forbes India … Read more
Fergus Falls, Minn.: Two men put financial profit over human life when they attempted to smuggle a couple from India and their two young children across the U.S.-Canada border in heavy snow and bone-chilling winds, leading to the family freezing to death , prosecutors said Monday. Prosecutors allege Indian national Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 29, ran … Read more
David Marriott, chairman, Marriott International. Photo by Neha Mithbawkar for Forbes India At 15, David Marriott’s first summer job was washing dishes at his family hotel in Bethesda, Maryland. Over the next few summers, he immersed himself in every facet of the hospitality business—learning hot and cold prep in the kitchen, cooking on the line, … Read more